The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-11-18
TWO TYPES OF BAD MEN
THE REAL THING is INITIATED BY
THE PLATED ARTICLE.

Sometimes 1t Is Hard to Tell Them
Apart. Though, and In experimenting
One Is Liable to Run Up Against the
Wrong Kind-Two Striking Examples.
"Bad men in the west break into two
Glasses" said gentleman, late of Silver
City, 'sthe sure enough and the imita-
ton bad man. One is a killer and the
other simply busters, The two sorts
look alike, talk alike, garb themselves in
big hats, belt guns on their hips, swear
and guzzle and folkow each others suit
from first to last, for which reasons it is
hard to tell the real thing from the coun-
terfeit The only sure way of distin-
gushing the true, solid, silver bad man
from the plated fellow is to test them as
fast as presented.
Russian Bill, who, in the early
eighties was a rustler IN the valley of
San Simon IN Arizona, and a singularly
industrious horse and cattle stealer of
that sha2eless region, was an limitation
| bad man He was great tallzer, and
hear him tell it--had filed more graves
than an epidemic. 1t is doubtful, how
ever, If he ever drew human blood, and
the other 'rustlers' similarly regarded
him as a man of mo courage. 1t turned
out a-case of the magpie and the pea
cocks with the Russian though, for one
evening the impulsive ,denizens of
Shakespeare. A. T., took Bills word for
it and incontinentaIfy hung him de bene
esse.
.EThe Russian had company, though,
for they stretched another gentleman,
time and tree the same, yclept Sandy
King. There was no, discount, however,
on King One could have taken brace
!. L.
lstruck nothing but clean strain game.
King and Russian Bill were together ON
the occasion of their apprehension and
taking off, and were decided specimens
of the two types of bad men.
THE NAME OF BILL.
'sBill, as a name, has been the prop
erty of good many of the fighters of
the west. Frequently some affix or pre-
fix went with it to keep the blood be-
dewed Bills from getting all mixed up.
There have been a Curly Bill, a Wild
Bill, Navajo Bill, a Buffalo Bill, a
Poker Bill, Cheyenne Bill, French
Bill, an Antelope Bill, a Russian Bill, a
Broncho Bill, Canadian Bill, Monte
Bill, Butcher Knife Bill and Bill Bon
ney, or Billy the Kid, that have known
Of
J Cheyenne Bill was and is one of the
false killers referred to, and always try
ing to run a blazer upon some tender
foot and scare him to death. Ration, N.
M.-pronounced 'Rahtoon'-does not, as
a community, rise early of a Sunday
morning, and as / once, back in 1888,
came out of the hotel in the still and
early hours of that holy day, 1 heard a
voice over On the next street raised to u
point between threat and command.
My attention was at once attracted, and
getting out where / could see l found
Cheyenne Bill in slow but threatening
pursuit of a reluctant tenderfoot who
had come in on the train the night be-
= fore. What the row was about didn't
know.
"'Stop whar you be, or I'll pull on
you! commanded the vaporish Bill in a
fierce tone, his hand on his six-shooter
and following along after the stranger
some two rods behind.
.sTo give the tenderfoot his due, while
he kept walking away from Bill, he ap-
peared more disgusted than scared, and
while he said nothing and did not turn
on his would be captor, nevertheless he
received his orders to halt with becom-
: ing contempt, and kept straight on.
BILL AND THE TENDERFooT.
Except for my presence, Cheyenne
and his victim had the town to them
selves, Jack Hixenbaugh, the marshal,
and the rest of the citizens being sensi-
bly, in bed. had seen .Chinaman run
Cheyenne around once over in Trinidad,
and knew there was no more to be feared
from him than from the last calf on the
range, and shouting over to him l so in
formed the person from the east and ad-
vised him to go after the doughty Chey-
enne and pull his head off. The tender
foot had about made up his mind to do
it anyhow, and my vote settled it. He
, turned and started for Bill, whereupon
that person at once lost all his valor and
fed briefly.
'.sThe tenderfoot caught up with him,
, however, and eased his surcharged soul
by three or four forcefnl and very meri-
torious kicks. This seemed to do both
: Bill and the shortnorn world of good,
, and the former avoided the fifth by
plunging up a stairway. The tenderfoot
wanted to charge after Bill and kill him
completely, but urged different view
and pointed out the fact that Bill took
! his gun with him and that if he found
himself cornered he might shoot.
Curly Bill was another of the riot
Gus and desperate sort. His range in 1881
i and 1882 was southwestern New Mexico
, and eastern Arizona. No one knew
} where Curly Bill hailed from, but if
there's truth in Scripture, where he was
) going was plain to all. He was reputed,
, when saw him, to have killed nineteen
. men, and had the air of one who was
looking hard for chance to make it a
I. score. Curly Bill has found his grave
: somewhere out in the arid wastes he pa
troled, as nothing has been heard of him
, for some time. Kansas City Star.