Arizona silver belt., 1892-09-10
aas or to a Tendsrroot
LFrom tbe Colorndo snn.


 One by one the roses fade. The gentle tenderfoot from the distant East, whose doings in our Western country have been a subject for ridlcule, exag- sration, and entertainment, suddenly turns the tables on his calumniators, We have all heard of his listening wide mouthed to the startling stories con- eocted by the wild Westerner; of his being made to dance to the music of the fretful six-sbooter; of the innumer- able Jokes of which he has been made the butt of the joshing and joking he has ever been subjected to; of the ridiculous appearance he has made in the presence of the cowboys, the brawny miner, and the breezy denizens of the boundless prairie Always n guy, usually coward, and generally a nerveless dude, the tenderfoot from east of the Mississippi has been the plaything and the shuttlecock of our worthy and self-reliant citizens.
 Bus suddenly all this is changed, and the tenderfoot blossoms cut to be .'as mild a hammered man as ever Bcuttled ship or cut a throat Yesterday morn ing, shortly after the vitchipg hoqr of midnight, tram was held up on the Union Pacific, between this city and Cheyenne Three masked robbers, looking like the heavy villains in the fourth act of the average melodrama, suddenly entered the coaches with gilt teriug pistols cooked, and hoarsely dc handed that every passenger hold mp his h9Rds The train was filled with cowboys Indians typical Westerners and blooded men from Montana. They glanced at the murderous guns of the robbers, listened to the fierce demand, and sullenly obeyed. All but one poor, lone tenderfoot, from away back East, who, instead of needing the call of the thugs and thieves, simply pulled his pistol and begen, alone and single handed, such a murdsrous, steady, and lively fire on the three masked hold ups that one of them fell before the volley of cold lead, while his cornpan.  ions, amazed and mortified, picked him up and hastonod from the scene.
 Immediately following their depsr- ture, the valiant cowboys, Indians, and bad men" from Butte became intense iy brave, grabbed their pistols, and talked loudly for an hour or so about following the seoundrels and hanging them to the nearest tree, Meanwhile, of course, the hold-ups escaped into the mountains, doubtless very wrotb at the whitehead youth from the East who had wounded unto death one of their fellows and prevented one of the nsatest and richest robberies of the age, it beiEg understood that several of the passengers had with them at the time large amounts of what is known as ''the stuH.
 We rather regret that the action of MT. Payne brushes 10 earth an idol we long have cherished. That he alone and single-handed should scatter the wild Western robbers, while his terri fsl fellow passengers got under the seats aad dodgai out of sight of mur- derous muzzles, set at defiance our preeonceived notion of Che genus ten derfoot He is clearly an iconoclast. He violates all Western tradition. If be or his kind repeats the instance of yesterday morning many more times, we shall begin to cherish a speaking regard for the hopeful and brainy young fellow who comes out to our Rocky Mountain region in searh of fame and fortune, and glance some what askanco at the loud-yoicsd, leath- er-breeched, and iaunty native, who alleges that he keeps his own private graveyard, but who is frequently be- bind tree when the bullots gre thickest