Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-09-25
TWO KINDS OF BAD MEN.
One is Dangerous and the Other Is I'm
tircly Harmless.
kansas City Stnr.]

" Rad men III tho West break into two
classes, SAID gentleman late Of Silver
CITY. Tho sure enough and tho imIta-
ton bad man. One i 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
guXIie the thrOUbng whlskey of the
region. md follow each others suits from
first To last; for which reasons il Is hard 10
tell the real thing from the counterfeit.
Ae only sure way of Distinguishing the
true sllli-sliycr had man from the plated
fellow /, 10 test them a. fast Us presented.
Russian Bill, who. in the early SOS.
was rustler IN the valley OF the San
SIMON, ~ Arizona, and u singularly indus
tr oGs horse and cattle slealer Of that
snadcleS> region, WAS al imitation bad
man. He was a great ,alkor. and-hear
HIM tel! lt-had filled more graves than
an epidemic. II j. doubtful, however, If
ho ever drew human blood, and the otner
rustlcrs' similarly regarded HIM as IA
man OF no courage. ii turned out
ease Of the maybe and the pea
cocks with the Russian though, for
one evening the impulSiye denizens ct
Shakespeare. ATiz.. took iii word for
II and lncOntiuentallv hung him 10 hcle
,ss.. The RUSSIAN hal company, though,
for they stretched another gentleman.
time and tree the same. yclept SANDY King.
There was no discount, however, on Mig.
One could have tax, u brace and Dlt and
bored clear through King ana struck no
thing but clean-straln game. King and
Russian BEL were together on the Uc3a-
sion of their apprehension and taking on,
and were decided specimens OF the two
types ot bad men.
"Bill. az "a name, has been the property
# a good many Of the fighters Of the
West. Frequently some stix or prefix
went with II 70 keep the blOOd-bedewcd
Bills from getting all mixed up. There has
been a Curly Bill, Wild BIZ, Navajo
BIZ. Buffalo Bill, Poker Bill, Cheyenne
Bill. q French Bill. an Antelope BIZ.
Russian Bill, Bronco Bill a Canadian
Bill, Monte Bill. a Butcher Knife Bill;
and Bill BonDeg, or Billy tie Kid, that
have known of.
Cheyenne Bill was and Is one Of the
false killers referred 10, and always irving
10 run blazer upon some tendeIiOOt and
scare MN TO death. Ration, \. NJ, pro-
nounced Rah-toJn. does not, - comnu-
nity. rise ear.v OF SUNDAY morning. and
as once. back in 80. came out al The no
tel III the still and early morning Of that
holy day heard voice over on The next
street raised to q point between threat
and command. My attention was at once
attracted. and getting out where | could
see found Cheyenne BIZ III slow but
threatening pursuit OF reluctant tender
foot. who had come IN on the tram the
NIGHT before. v Lat the row WIS about
didn't know.
-. stop WAR You be or III pull on Won .
commanded the yapor.sh BIZ IL herce
tone. his hand on his six-shooter and fol-
lowing along after the stranger some two
rods behind. -,
ITO give the tonderfoot his due. while
he k.n, walking away from Bill, he APP
pearad moro dls1ustcd than scared, ana
while be sad nothing and did not turn on
Ia. would-be capiOr, nevertheless ne Tc-
eejved Als order. 10 halt with becoming
cont alupt and kept straight on
Except for NY presence theyenne ana
his victim had the town t. themselves
Jack HiXenbaugh. the marshal, ana the
rest If the citizen, being senslDly III ped.
| Ind seen IA ChluaMan run Cheyenne
around once over III Trinidad, and knew
.bere W., no more 10 be feared from MN
han from tue last calf on the range. ana,
shoutlnp over TO him, ! SO informed the
pers1n from the East and ADVISED nm 70
90 alter the doughty Cheyenne ana
null his head of. The tenGerio3'
lad about made up ms n'I" 80 H. H.
II anyhow. and my vote settled IL. lie
,urued and started tor Bill; whereuponi
tnat person at once lost all his YalCr ana
Sel briefly. The tenderiOOt caught mp
Win him. however, aud eased his sur,
CHARGED soul by three or four foIcefui ana
very meritorious kicks. inns seemeG 70
do both Blll and the snorthorn wotid Oh
GOOD a,d the former avoided the fifth. 10y
plunsing up a stairway; The tenderi /; t
wanted t. charge after Bill and XII INN
c5mpletely, but urged different nI y, view ,'s
and uointed out the fact that BIZ took ms
1,,,n win nm and that If he found himself
Coruered he might 7hOOt. .
Curly Bill was another of the riotouS
and desperate sort. His range IN 1881 and
1872 was Southwestern New Mexico ana
Eastern Arizona. No one knew where
CnrIv HI! hailed from, but II there's truth
in Scripture, where he was going was
niaiu all lie was reputed when saw
mm 10 have killed nineteen men, ana hau
The ar Of one who was looking haI n, ior a
chance TO make IL n score. Curly pm nn5
sn~nd hrs graye somewhere out IN the aria
wastes he patroled as nothing has been
heard Of him for some time"