The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-19
Two Kinds of Bad Men.

bad men in the west break into two classes, -
said gentleman, late of Silver City to the
Kansas City Star. 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 guzzle the throbbing
Whisky of the region, and follow each others
suit from first to last; for which reasons 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 10 the early SOS was
rustler in the alley OF the San Simon in Arizona,
and singularly Industrious horse and cattle
stealer of that shadeless region, was an imita-
tion bad man. He was 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 as man of no courage
1t turned out case of the magpie and the pea
cocks with the Russian though. for one
evening the impulslve denizens of
Shakespeare Ari., took Bills word for
it and incontinentaly hanged 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 dis
count, however, on King. One could have taken
a brace and bit and bored clear through King
and struck nothing but clean strain game.
King and Russian Bill were together on the
caSon of their apprehension and taking on,
and were decided specimens of the two types
of bad men.
Bill. as a name, has been the property of
good many of the fighters of the west. Ere
quently some affix or prefix went with it to
keep the blood believed Bill from getting all
mixed up. There has been a Curley Bill, a Wild
Bill, Navajo Bill Buffalo Bill. Poker Bill
Cheyenne Bill, French Bill, an Antelope Bill, a
Russian Bill, Bronco Bill, Canadian Bill,
Monte Bill, Butcher Knife Bill, and Bill Bon
new, or Billy the Kid that know of.
Cheyenne Bill and was is one of the false
killers referred to, and always trying to run a
blazer upon some tenderfoot and scare him to
Of ~ DALI
does not as community, rise early of a Sun
day morning, and as ! once. back in '83, came
out of the hotel in the still and early morning
of that holy day, l heard voice over on the
next street raised to q point between q threat
and command. My attention was at once
| attracted. and getting out where could see |
| found Cheyenne Bill in slow but threatening
pursuit OF reluctant tenderfoot, who had
come in on the train the night before. What
the row was about didn't know.
"'Stop war you be or I'll pull down. com
manded the vaporish Bill in q fierce tone. his
hand on his six-shooter and following along
after the stanger some two rods behind.
ITO give the tenderfoot his due, while he kept
walking away from Bill, he appeared more dis
| gust-d than scared, and while ne said nothing
and did not turn on his would-be captor, never
| theless he received his orders TO halt with be-
coming contempt and kept straight on.
| Except for my presence Cheyenne and his
victim had the town to themselves Jack Hix
enbaugh, the marshal, and the rest of the citi-
| zens being sensibly In bed. | had seen a China
| man run cheyenne around once over IN Trlnl-
| dad. and knew there was no more to be feared
! from him than from the last calf on the range,
and. shouting over to him, | SO informed the
person from the east, and advised him TO go
| after the doughty Cheyenne and pull his head
| off The tenderfoot had about made up his
mind to do it anyhow,aud my vote settled it. He
| turned and started for Bill whereupon that
person at once lost all his valor and fed briefly.
The tenderfoot caught up with him. however,
| and eased mis- surcharged soul by three or four
forceful and many meritorious kicks. This
| seemed to do both Bill and the shorthorn
world of good, and the former avoided The fifth
| by plunging up a stairway. The tenderfoot
wanted to charge after Bill and kill him COM
| pletey; but l urged different view and pointed
| out the fact that Bill took hs gun with him and
| that if ne found himself cornered he might
! shoot.
Curly Bill was another of the riotous and
| desperate sort. His range in 1881 and 1852 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 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 a
| cnance to make it a score Curly Bill has found
his grave somewhere out in the arid wastes he
| patroled, as nothing has been heard of him for
| some time"