Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-02-22
A COWBOY FIGHT.
Tho Bad Lands Terror is Met by an
Aged Man With Science.
After Taking Out His False Teeth and Ne
moving His Wig He Gets in Five
Blows to the TeroTs 0ae
Rather a DfaWa
Battle.

DeApwoop, February I6.-Since the re-
turn of the local sports from the Niobrara
country, ~pugilstic matters have been quiet
here until last evening, when Tim from
son. the Bad Lands boy. arrived in town
and announced that he had come up to see
isthe report that the Deadwood contingent
we're dissatisfied with his recent exploit
on the N:obrara was true Everybody hast
ened TO convince him that his conduct was
all that could have been wished, and TO as
sure him that he was most welcome TO
Deadwood. As the night was stormy the
whole population kept within doors, n the
sports were c~ongregated in the La Belle
saloon, doing their best to make Mr. Iron
sons stay agreeable. The prize lighters
fame had preceded him. and as citizen alter
citizen was presented to him and then re-
tired to take him in it became evident
that the evening VA 10 be one OF grotesque
adulation Of the Terror from Coffin Plate
Butte.
After the big room id the rear of the bar
had been pretty well filled, and all hands
bad partaken freely, Thomson began to urge
some of the boys to give him a little eXer'
else, lie insisted that he had come up to
Deedwood out Of pure good will; that he
liked the town, and that all he wanted as
an inducement TO locate here permanently
was the assurance that he would not grow
rusty. As 10 one wanted to meet him,
even in q friendly bout, it was agreed that
he should be entertained at a chicken iight'
and that a match between a couple OF dogs
should come of later on, if the cur that was
missing could be found. This proposition
was received By the crowd with much favor,
hit Thomson looked bored. Three or four
of the men who had seen him down on the
Niobrara were very cordial, but they kept
as near the doors and windows as possible.
The chicken fight did not amount TO much,
and Tronson came very near violating the
rules Of etiquette BY criticizing, with a
GOOD deal Of severity, the men and the
town that found any delight In UGH
SPORT. 9,
When the dogs got at it he manifested
more interest. and when one of them got
tie other 5y the ear ard began dragging
him around the room slowly and suilenly he
swo.e that next to seeing a man do thai 10
smother lie had rather see one bulldog per-
form the act with another bulldog. The
Winning dog seemed not to tire of pulling
his vsauuishei rival around. Ills teeth were
we'll set and his jaws were as solid rs quarts.
crusbers. -,
Presently there were cries Of Enough
and the crowd would have separated the
dogs, but Thomson objected. He held that
the beaten dog belonged to the other, and
that no one must interfere with his fun. lie
Was Jest engaged in a speech on the sub
iect and in explanation Of the rules OF war
fare in his locality, when Sam Perkins, the
owner Of the under dog, strOlled in and
looked hurriedly about. Spying his we'll
beloved dog in chancery, he gave the other
che a ten .mule power kick, and found him
sell Immediately confronted by Tronson.
The boys closed in on the couple, for they
liked Sam, and feared he was on the point
Of getting into trouble. Thomson was wear
ing mad, and Perkins himself was doing
something in the same line. \ brief ex-
PLANTATION suficcd to mollify both parties to
some extent, but Thomson insisted that, as
they had been exercising their chickens and
dogs, it appeared mighty strange to him
that nobody would give him a turn. Per
kins made sundry remarks calculated to
promote the valor OF the home guard,
but as they grew more timid and Iron
son more tantalizing, he at length eX-
claimed:
I'm an old man going on sixty, bnt
I'm blamed if any prehistoric mound build
er is coming here to say that he cleaned
out the town until he's climbed over
me. I'm not a slugger, but I've got
science, and III show you what an old man
can do
4 ring was speedily formed and both
men stripped. The old nan danced around
like a chicken. Before beginning opera
tons he had left his wig and false teeth
with the bartender, and when Thomson saw
him he wanted to know what had become
of the other fellow. The wig and teeth had
to be produced and put on again before the
newcomer would believe that he faced the
same man. When this had been done the
contestants prepared for business. The old
man pranced up and down, back and forth
like an agile youth and Thomson surveyed
him critically. Some OF the Deadwooders
began to entertain n sneaking hope that
Their man would come off victorious, but
they were doomed to disappointment. The
old man was quicker than his adversary,
and he hit about FIVE times TO Tronsons
once. but, when Thomson did strike, he
knocked Perkins clear over the heads OF
the men who were sitting on the floor
around the ring. The old man would re-
cover himself instantly and be back at work
almost before the boys had got their seats
again. This was kept up for five or ten
minutes until both men were we'll wlnded,
and Tronson himself suggested that the ex-
o1cise had gone far enough. When Perkins
tried to get his wig on he found it wouldn't
fit, and after two or three attempts to put
his teeth in place he was obliged to give
them up also, saying as he handed them
back 10 the bartender and drew his COON
skin cep over his lumpy Uranium: "He
didn't drag me around by the ear to no
great extent, did he boys? twas agreed
that lie did not, but As it vas then near
morning the party broke up.
Tronson will stay here several days it the
bows can make it interesting.