The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-01-08
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Letter from tho al III sud get 9
spent 8 day and night at Wichita,
Kan. The old hpllen saloon still
stands but the. famous dance house
y Bloodfooto has dis5ap peareds I was
il Wichita il 1873 hen that terrible
|Iaght oesseau1rred betssg A ellie Diamond
and Joe Bun, Tie Taslas RAM 81. Nellie.
withsa number Of girls, was serv-.
ing The beer to the #mblers and greas-
sers. Joe Bull ordera q N llie's sick Sis
Ter to bring him glass Of whiskey.
The girl ,byS mistak thought him glass
OF beer; be struck; thk child q blow on
the mouth and cursef her in the most
terrible manner. Nellie, who never
comp at harsh reatment herself,
was thoroughly saroussd, and turning to
the desperate she saAd You are no
gentleman, sir. IA }man who would
strike q sick child as you struck my Sis
ter is coward" ~ 81
This was 9 bold speech for Q little
girl Of seventeen mAners and ninety
one pounds in weight Butshe feared
nothing. Her sister had been insulted.
Fire was in her eie, revenge in her
heart. She had spo4en as no one had
! ever dared to speak tott the most danger
GUS desperate of thb Arkansas. Joe
Bull had been the. t4sror of the plains
|, for years; he had M more regard for
women than for mel. He was dead
shot, q cruel fiend, aid o bloody MUIR
Sderer.s It was said iii hose who knew
i Of his doings that he bad dropped his :.
man IN every county I'd pm Pecos on the
u Rio Grande tc N Oft 9eaVenworth IN
Kansas. The scathinE words of this
I little Vermont giirl, tfo7 Nellie Diamond
was from Vermont, not far from Wells
river were more than he could s tand.
Drawing al heavy isixssho oter from his
boot be fred at the heart of the little
waiter, hut being under the influence OF
liquor his aim was inaccurate. The
1Fball girl lodged the pistol shot, and the
pierced the thigh Y Of Has comrade. As
A quick as fash, drawing,a dagger from
Eher bosom, Nellie sprang Of the desper-
ado. Her stroke was well aimed, for
she thrust her two edged knife between
his ribs, burying tothe hilt ID the heart
of bloody Soe. Az The reeled and fell,
she grasped his revolver from his hand
and another from his belt. By this
time the followers of Joe Bull had
turned upon the young heroine with
4 their deadly missless But, as If in, the
ands of Q sorceress, no bullet hit her,
though her lothing was riddled, but il
less than thirty seconds she had piled
in death four of sthe desperate s upon
4 the bleeding body Of their dead leader.
/ Now the; gathering ovid sided with
/ the little victor, and Joe Bulls follow
ers took to the plains. Mullen's saloon
was riddled with bullets and Mullen
i himself received an injury from which he
afterwards died. This bloody battle was
the last of o series Of duels and blood,
shed. It broke up the dance house the
/ hell of the Arkansaw. The gamblers
i moved further West. Nellie married {
wealthy banker and has been happily
situated to this day, q new class Of peo-
Il pie moved into Wichita, civilization
spread her wings, and to-day Wichits
is townof IL, 600 inhabitants in
telligent, prosperous. and thrifty as any
in New England; and Nellie Diamond
did more to ciyilizes Southern Kansa.
than oil others. Wichita is a wholesal,
as well as 9 retail city, manufacturing
town, and town of schools, of gardens
: parks and fountains. The surrounding
country is the Egypt of the new West
y producing eighty bushels of corn O.
y forty bushels OF sheat ( per- acre ami
other products in proportion. r.