Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-26
TWO KINDS OF BAD MEN.
One 10 Dangerous and the Other 10 En-
tirely Harmless

One il Dangerous and the Other IL En-
tirely Harmless
From the Kansas City Star.
'Bad men in the west break into two classes"
said a gentleman, late Of Silver City. The
sure enough and the imitation 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
guzzie the throbbing whisky Of the region, and
follow each others suit from first to last: for
which reason it is hard to tell the real thing
from the counterfeit. The only sure way of
distinguishing the true solid silver bad man
from the plated fellow is to test them as fast as
presented.
'Russian Bill, who in the early '8Os was
rustler in the alley of the San Simon in Ari-
IONA and a singularly industrious horse and
cattle stealer of that sbadeless region, was an
imitation bad man. He was a great talker.
and-hear him tell it-had filled more graves
than an epidemic. 1t is doubtful, however,
if he ever drew human blood, and the other
'rustlers' similarly regarded him a man of
no courage. 1t turned out case Of the mag
pie and the peacocks with the Russian, though,
for one evening the impulsiys denizens of
it and incontinently hung him de
bene esse. The Russian had company.
though, for they stretched another gentle
man, time and tree the same, yclept
candy King. There was no discount, how
ever, on King One could have taken a brace
and bit and bored clear through King Gnd
struck nothing bu. clean-strain game. King
and Russian Bill were together on the
casion Of their apprehension and taking off,
and were decided specimens OF the two types
Of bad men.
'Bill, as a name. has been the property of q
good many Of the fighters Of the west. FIRE.
0uently some afiix or prefix went with il to
Keep the blood-bedewed Bills from getting all
mixed up. There has been q Curly Bill, q
Wild Bill. Navajo Bill, Buffalo Bill, a Poker
Bill. Cheyenne Bin, a French Bill, an Ante
lope Bill Russian Bill, Bronco Bill, Q
Canadian Bill, a Monte Bill, a Butcher Knife
Bill and Bill Bonney, or Billy the Kid, that
have known.
killers referred to and always trying to run
blazer upon some tenderfoot and scare him to
death. Ration, n. NJ, pronounced Rah-toon,
does not, as a community, rise early Of Sum
day morning. ana as once, back in '8S, came
out of the hotel in the still and early morning
OF that holy day heard q voice over on the
next street raised to point between . threat
and q command. My attention was at once at
| tracted, and getting out where I could see
found Cheyenne Bill in slow but threatening
in on the train the night before. What the row
was about didn't know.
s.Stop whar you be or I'll pull on your COM
manded the vaporish Bill in q fierce tone his
hand on siz-shooter and following along after
the stranger some two rods behind.
ITO give the tenderfoot his due, vhils he
kept walking away from Bill, hs appeared more
disgusted than scared, and while be said moth
ing and did not turn on his would-be-captor,
nevertheless be received his orders to halt with
| becoming contempt aud kept straight On.
Except for my presence Cheyenns and his
victim had the town 70 themselyeG Jack Hix-
enbaugh. the marshal, and the rest Of the citi-
gems being seusibly in bed Ihad seen China
| man run Cheyenne around once over in Trini-
dad, and knew there Vas no more 70 b feared
from him than from the last calf on the range,
and, shouting oyer to him. 10 informed the
person from the east. and advised him 70 20
after the doughty Cheyenne and pull his bad
| OF The tenderfoot had about made I'M his
mind to do it anyhow. and my vote settled il.
He turned and started for Bin; whereupon
briefly. The tsnasrfeot caught up with hin,
however, and eascd his surchargsd soul By
| three or four foresful and very uasritoxious
kicks. This seemed TO do both Bill and the
shorthcru Q world Of good, and the former
:,oidsd ne afsh y Rl J, s up p, :;sir..y
KIN him completely, but urged different
view. and pointed out the fact that Elm took
his gun with him and that u be found himsslf
cornsred he might shoot
| Curly Bill was anOther Of ths riotous and
desperate sort His range tn 81 and "a was
southwestern New Msxico and eastern Arixona-
No one knew where Curly BIN hailsd from, but
II there's truth In Scripture WHARF h Wa no
ing vss plain 10 all He was rcputsd vhen ]
saw him 70 have killed nineteen nsn, and had
Tie q. Of ens .he e. was lossia9 hssa AZ e; !.
found his grave somsvhers ont IL Dc srid
wsstes b pa&roled. e nothing kns boss haard
Il lin TT sons Tina"