The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-11-11
TWO TYPES OF BAD MEN
TIE 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 tho
Wrong Kind-Two Striking Examples.
bad men in the west break into two
classes" said gentleman, late Of Silver
City, "the 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 follow 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 shadeless region, was an imitation
bad man He was great talker, and
hear him tell it-had filled more graves
than an epidemic. 1t is doubtful, how
the other erustlers' similarly regarded
MIN as man of no courage. 1t turned
out a case of the magpie and the pea
cocks with the Russian though, for ono
evening the impulsive denizens Of
Shakespeare, A. T., took Bills word for
It and incontinentally hung him de bene
esse.
'The Russian had company. though,
for they stretched another gentleman,
time and tree the same, yclept Sandy
King. There was no discount, however,
9n King One could have taken brace
and bit and bored clear through him and
struck 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
Bill, as name, has been the prop
srty 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 Curly Bill. Wild
Bill, a Navajo Bill, Buffalo Bill. a
Poker Bill Cheyenne Bill, French
Bill, an Antelope Bill, Russian Bill, a
Broncho Bill. Canadian Bill. Monte
Bill, Butcher Knife Bill and Bill Bon
ley, or Billy the Kid that have known
Of.
Cheyenne Bill was and is one of the
false killers referred to, and always try
ing to run blazer upon some tender
foot and scare him to death. Ration, N
M.-pronounced 'Rahtoon'-does not, as
4 community, rise early of Sunday
morning, and rs once, back in 1888
came out of the hotel in the still ant
sarly hours of that holy day, | heard 1
voice over ON the next street raised to
point between threat and command
My attention was at once attracted. ant
getting out where could see | foupt
Cheyenne Bill in slow but threatenin;
pursuit OF reluctant tenderfoot whit
nad come in on the train the night be
'ore. What the row was about didn'
Know.
''Stop whar you be, or I'll pull Oh
youi commanded the vaporish Bill in
fierce tone, his hand OH his six-shoote
tHu lOllOWihB alOhS uilSA lho Sbi "hSS
some two rods behind.
ITO give the tenderfoot his due, Will
ne kept walking away from Bill, he ap
peared more Disguised than scared, ant
while he said nothing and did not turn
IN his would be captor, nevertheless HI
received his orders to halt with becom
ing contempt, and kept straight on.
BILL. AND THE TENDERFooT.
Except for my presence, Cheyenn
and his victim had the town to them
selves, Jack Hixenbaugh. the marshal
and the rest of the citizens being sensi
oily in bed. had seen Chinaman rul
Cheyenne around once over in Trinidad
and knew there was no more to be feare
from him than from the last calf on tn
range, and shouting over to him 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 d
II anyhow, and my vote settled 1t. II
turned and started for Bill, whereupo
that person mt once lost all his valor an
He'd briefly
THE tenderfoot caught up with him
however. and eased his surcharged sou
by three or four forceful and very meri
torious kicks. This seemed to do bot
Bill and the shorthorn world OF good
and the former avoided the fifth b
plunging up a stairway. The tenderfoo
wanted to charge after Bin and kill hill
completely, but urged different vieN
and pointed out the fact that Bill too
his gun with him and that If he foun
himself cornered he might shoot.
Curly Bill was another of the rio
GUS and desperate sort. His range in 1885
and 1882 was southwestern New Mexic
and eastern Arizona No one kne'
where Curly Bill hailed from, but
there's truth in Scripture, where he wa
going was plain to all. He was reputet
when saw him, to have killed ninetee
men, and had the air of one who wa
looking hard for chance to make it
score. Curly Bill has found his gray
somewhere out in the arid wastes he pi
troled, as nothing has been, heard of hii
for some time. kansas City Star.