Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-10-11
FRONTIER WEAPONS.
The Cowboys Taste for First-Class
Pocket Artillery.
A Dazzling Trick with the Trigger
Nothing Lees Than Csliber
Forty-Five-Tbe Sheriff.
SHOTGUN.
New Mexico Cor. Globe-Democrat. !

New Mexico Cor Globe Democrat
was in FL Paso the other day, having
gone up in the stage, as the line between Las
Cruces and Fl Paso is washed out While in
town dropped into a large store ON FL
Paso street, which enjoys the reputation Of
selling more arms than any other house in
the city.
While your correspondent WAS inspecting
the glittering array Of pistols of all kinds
which filled half a dozen showcases, a young
fellow Of about % entered He was dressed
in approved frontier STYLE sombrero it would
take three days to walk round the rim Of,
white handkerchief tied loosely round the
neck, blue shirt, pants stuck in his boots, and
large Mexican spurs upon his heels, jngling
as he walked. He wished to buy a gun
In the expressiveness and laconic tongue of
the frontier gun is revolver, "A rife is
called by the name of the maker and the
weapon Of the sportsman, uncurtailed Of It's
fair proportions, is known as shotgun.
Selecting from a case a handsomely
mounted 45-calibcr revolver the clerk said:
"How would you like this, It is the newest
thing out-a double-action forty-fve"
"Aint worth row of leans No man
'cept tenderfoot wants that kind Of thing.
Give me an old reliable all the time. Ye sec
a man that's used to the old style is apt 10
get fooled-not pull her off in time-and then
he'll be laid ont colder'n wedge"
He was handed out a sjngle-action Of the
same model, which, after carefully exam
lining, he proceeded to cock and fire, twrling
the pistol around his forefinger and cooking
and pressing the trigger the moment the butt
came into the palm of his hand. After some
little kick" about the price the weapon was
paid for and the customer left the store.
There are few men," observed the clerk
as bis customer left, that can do that trick,
! have been ten years on the southwest from
tier, among the worst classes. and don't know
more than half dozen Bill the kid could
do il, so can Pat Carrot former sheriff of Lin
coin county; so can Dan Tucker. deputy
sheriff Of Dcrning. Curly Bill could d. it best
of the lot, and that's how he killed Sheriy-
White at Tombstone"
TREACHERoUs TRICK.
SLOW was that" gaeried the core pond
ent
well, you see Curly Bill was trying to
paint the town red, and White heard of it,
and going up TO him covered him with his
six-shooter and told him he had get TO give
up his gun Bill handed the gun out butt
first. but kept his finger inside the guard and
as the sheriff reached for it he gave il that
twist you've seen. turned her loose, and the
sheriff passed in his checks"
"Do you sell many of the bulldog pistols.'
Yes. They are chiefly bought by railroad
laborers. tramls and boys. Men who are
used TO the country either buy a caliber I'll or
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