San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-11-07
TWO TYPES OF BAD MEN
THE REAL THING IS INITIATED BY
THE PLATED ARTICLE.

One Is Liable to Run Up Against the
Wrong Kind-Two Striking Examples.
Bad men in the west break into two
classes" said a gentleman, late of Silver
City, 1.-the sure enough and the imita-
ton bad man. One is 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 1t Is
hard to tell the real thing from the coun-
terfeit The only sure way Of dlstln-
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 sinGulaTly
industrious horse and cattle stealer OF
that shadeless region, was an imitation
bad man. He was great talker. 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 Tustlers' similarly regarded
him as a man of no courage. 1t turned
out a case Of the magple and the pea
cocks with the Russian though, for one
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,
on King. One could have taken a 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 a name, has been the prop
erty of a 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. IA Wild
Bill, a Navajo Bill, Buffalo Bill, a
Poker Bill, a Cheyenne Bill, French
Bill. an Antelope Bill, Russian Bill, a
Broncho Bill. Canadian Bill, Monte
Bill. Butcher Knife Bill and Bill Bon
ney, or Billy the Kid, that have known
of.
Cheyenne Bill was and is one of the
false killers referred to, and always try
lng to run blazer upon some tender
foot and scare him to death. Ration, n
M.-pronounced RahtOon not, as
a community, rise early of a Sunday
came out of the hotel in the still and
early hours Of that holy day, ! heard a
voice ovGi on the next street raised to a
point between Il threat and a command.
Ny attention WIS at once attracted, and
getting out where | could see | found
Cheyenne ELL in slow but threatening
pursuit of 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 III 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.
ITO give the tenderfOot his due, while
he kept walking away from Bill. he APP
peared more disguised 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 mad the town to them
selves, Jack HiXenbaugh, the marshal
and the rest Of the citizens being sensi
bly, in bed had seen a Chiuaman rul
Cheyenne around once over in Trinidad
and knew there was no more to be fearet
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
it anyhow, and my vote settled 1t. II
turned and started for Bill, whereupo
that person at once lost all his valor an
fed briefly.
THE tenderfoot caught up with him
however, and eased his surcharged SOU
by three OF four forceful and very mer
torious kicks. This seemed to do bot
Bill and the shortnorn a world of goot
and the former avoided the fifth b
plunging up stairway. The tenderfoc
wanted to charge after Bill and kill hill
completely, but urged different vie
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
n11s and desne1.ntn sort His 1n1lnn in 1Ss