The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-04-26

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THE COWBOYS LAMENT.
No More Necktss Parffes and shoot
ing Matches On the Frontier.
San Franeiseo Alta-californisn.
Yesterday evening there might have
been seen In the rotunfIa OF one of the
hotels burig-iooking fellow. who at
tracfed general attention BY the broad
brinmed sombTero which be wore and
capio4ls discharges OF tobacco Juice
which be fred with unerrinc accuracy
OF aim, generally accompanying each
shot with explosives that we're com
pound in character and unique as spe-
cimens of fluent profanity. A great
disgust was upon his face, and he APP
peared to be detected as well. In con-
versation with an difd reporter he
said be had left Silver City. ". NJ,
nearly six weeks ago, and, after spend
ing the interval in Tucson. Ari., had
determined 70 take In the sights Of San
Francisco.
I've been in this dod-gasted town
for better'p q week. be remarked to
the reporter, AN IL amt ths place Ii
once wus. strayed into show the
other night and heard a little dark
haired fellow dealing out merry
all around. Oh, you bet he'd flush
hand, you bet. Well, thought first
there wus going to be some fun, but
be started in agin s'loons, an then /
found had dropped onto preacher
outfit. I'm figerin' now he mourn
fully concluded, ION goin back next
week, but things even there are not
what they WIS once. In thu old DAYS
there wus nothin, to speak of in Sill
yer City 'cert ginmiils: OF course there
| wus drygoods an q drug store, but
wet goods an gamblin' and dancin
was what the population gave their
energies mostly TO.
Now an then the boys when they
come in o. the range would make
things lively. The s'loons and hurdy-
gurdies run ali night. an the drygoods
kept open all day, so hizness wuz brisk
at all hours. | feel kind o. lonesome
when ! think o. the old crowd most
all o EN- has petered out. They
fteayly all went 10 kin dom come by
/ the lead route.
II 'xrect they'll be havin church in
Silver lity every day soon, same as
here, an everybody Ii be going around
sinein hymns. The boys an girls
that used 10 make the streets lively
has gone, an | s'pose there won't be a
man killed there once in a year xcept
he should be run over by the cara.
We known three rnen to die in Silver
City in one night, an none 81 'eua had
consumption or anything else. The
other ieliers got the drop on 'eni, an
It's very fatal disease in them parts
leastways il was, for things Is fiat
busted now.
- Teller was askin' this moYnin ii
ever met Billy the Kid. Well,
should snickeri | was down that way
when the Kid was killed By Pat Gar
rett. an know all about IL an know,
too, that Pat didn't give him squire
show for his life. O. course he'd been
a fool II he had, cause Billy handled
the shootin' irons better than any
man in New Mexico. The Kid was,
an no mistake, a hcly terror. Hewas
as smooth an pleasant lookin little
Teller a. you could wish TO 'sociate
With, but he was like n snake shinin'
IN the sun, 50 slick an shinin', but
death was in his touch. He
sas slim an light-haired, an
hiue-eyed an bis upper teeth
stuck out In front an mede him
lock more innocent than ever. He
was pleasant kind o. Teller until he
tgot mad. an then the dust Jest used 20
ijy triiie. seen Billy kill two men,
though. at White Oaks. an he did the
| job up clean. They never kicked an
had their lights put out in great shape.
WAS in Santa Re when Bob 0ilinger
and Jim Bell brought Bin in after he'd
biz yrested. He nearly dug out o
4 jail there. hut they were too slick for
him, an they tux him for trial 20
Mesilla. The principal witness against
him was a Teller as owed him an old
Igrndge, an 50 Billy let il hot. The
jneekile party NUS 20 be held at Lin
coin. an when Bob oliinger an Jim
| isell tux him there they put him in an
upstairs room next where the depu-
ties KEEP their guns an things. They
| knew Billy WIS smart an always one
10 them KEEP in the room with him.
The mornin' after they got 10 Lincoln
Billy asked the deputies for old times
sake 20 loose tsIae o the bracelets he
had on. en-. as Bob. an Jim. too. had
known Billy for a long time. they
thought they couldn't refuse a request
| like that, so they ioosened one brace
let an left ii danglin' by the other
wrist.
AT dinner time Bob said he was
goin over the way 90 get somethin' 10
eat, an Jim. be was left with Billy.
The Kid was draggin' his seg-irons
after him as he walked about. an Jim
He'll was reaaiu', but lifted his eyes
every time the Kid come close % him.
| All the SAME. Bslly got his work in in
great shape, for he watched bis chance
an buried the Loose handeuiI in the
skull OF the deputy. To make no mis-
take he pulled Jinl's gun from his belt
an started pumpln lead into him at
| a great rate, at she FIRST shot Bob
ollingeF jumped from the table where
he Was eatin an said Ny God,
there's Billy fryin 10 git, an jim :
shot him lie rushed onI an across
the street. an was just skippin' up
the stairs, when he seed Bully stand1n
at the top 'sntin' . Winchester AZ him-
| Next mint Bob dropped. done up In
real good style, With bullet thro his
| head. Billy never did no bungiin
work iii was always done slick an
| neat.
| 20 course q big crowd got around.
hat they wusnt ali agin Billy. An
when he got the drop on Teller an
| told him 10 come up an file his irons
of, why. be did IT, When he got free
he rode out o Lincoln. an nary a
man aaEst Try 10 stop him. Pat Gar
rett wasnt there then. but when be
heard, didn't he cass Parties made
| cut 10 kesch Bill. hut he got down 20
| the Panhandle. AZ after things had
| toned down he eane un into New
| Mexico agias. Rfily had hsn COIN /;
pretty strong in Lincoln county, an
no mistake. In the fusslin back aa
forrard his gang got purity sell cleaned
out an Pas Garrett swors he'd cir
even with him.
Billy hsd taken a fancy 20 the
pretty daughter o. small ranehman,
an she was sort o. fascinated! witks