White Oaks golden era. (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 188?-18??, 1884-02-21
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Special CORES ponlence of the Era.
Last week, just as the train carrying
the territorial prisoners was pulling
into the supper station AT Coolidge,
Kansas, there appeared upon the sceue
IL wild aud wooly specimen OF tho
Kansas COW boy, attrod in sombrero,
CHAPS and siX-shootcr, ana brimful
Of bug juice and war Onr deputies,
Brent and Hudg gems, hal finished their
supper at the cating-house, and unsIs-
picious'of any trouble, were returning
to their places urar the prisoners, when
they first saw the position of things,
and found the wild ard .woOliy hold
iug the fort, in spite Of the mild ad-
vice of the Grant county guards (wbo.
tholgh fine fellows, We're perhaps not
thoroughly used TO meeting the fiery
nntaned On his native heath) that he
really ought not to act so, and that it
was wrong ndred, and that he ought
not to abuse the prisoners, &C., sc.
Bill Logwood. the negro nun and
brother who failed in his attempt, in
con Junction with House, 10 start large
wool factory expressed his willingness
to lick Il house and lot full of them
id COW boys : but he was tied, aud
it would have laken too long TO turn
| him l0os.', SO the wild and wooily
raided up and down The car, and tie
clarcd that he was a son of u - from
Texas that he was "ouSy aud full of
tleas that he could lick the whole
set Of prisoners that he could shoot
the hand cuffs of of 'em, and then lick
cm f; that he could shoot he lights Of
the car plum out the first round, aut
otherwise inauguratc sudden epoch
of death and dcstruclion--in fact "a
new era Of Grim )" to use the words of
al authority on sIch matters.
1t was thus, then, that matters stood
as Jim and Jolnni' quietl stepped into
the car. In about a fraction of sec
ond they grasprd the situation in q
similar period of time thoy grasped
the COW boy, and without any consul
tation with each other or anybody else,
they fired him unromantically forth.
AS Jecms gently bat firmly clasped the
bad nan's slender form, hc breathed
into his too, too willing ear such words
Of wisdom ~ altogether cooled hiS
desire for Z re. lie came down of hi.
ranpa 70. lie subsidized A more mou.
est unasSnming, unpretonlious, unof-
feusive, quiet aud peaceful cowboy
wa urtcr sren than was this one all
that night aud all the next day. Ile
hadn't lost any more gore. lilo had
; struck men who we're brought up in u
country where rustlers grow on trees.
Oh, no. The Lincoln county officers
don't amount to very much. They
cent keep down violence very well.
They cant prevent n new era of crime.
Il Is too bad about us; too bad that
we cant have some real, good, deter
mined men, who have got little nerve,
aud who can stand in the blazing light
: of criticism Of the great "Boreali3
tace' who make our northern lights.
Yet, when it CORES to catching horse
thief, under the very shadow, as il
were, of the pale which hears the cleo.
! tric light of metropolitan journalism,
5 our men are there. When Il comes to
: the prompt suppression Of M incipient
$ row, our lncn are there. Whcn II comes
. to any strait wherein coolncss aud dc.
I cision are necessary. our men are there,
] and always have been there, aud
. always viii be. as long as they live.
;, We ARE sorry they don't sui everybody;
: and sure that they do snil us
u OScE AGAIN.