The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-02
Wild TINES IN TIL E WEST
oocE CITY AND LEADVILLR IN
-uT EARLY AND BLOODY DAYS.

,t.n Who Annoyed Him at a Dance
mia Coliseum at Leadville and It's
pa+rons-aaylor's Mining Claim and
,unat He Struck On It-A Boy Strung
Tn by VigllAntes.
From the NetO York World.
Tho soft applause Of gioved hands and the
.,iat though intensely hearty laughter tn at
~ ~. greeted Bobby" Gaylor, the star in
49, nSnort McAllister :" at Rosenquest's Bijou
.saster. must fall very oddly on Gaylor's
w. Time was when his admirers in the
-.i5 and woolly west greeted Gaylor by
.hooting holes in the ceilings of the variety
halls where he was singing or by playfully
s-inp bullets over his head into the berid~
died scenery.
81 took Horace Greeley's advice in SO"
aid Gaylor the other night to party of his
Glands who fingered after late supper
.,or their cigars, land went west That
,,os the year, you remember, that the Irish
SAINT TO Canada to capture Eng land.
rent on the stage in IA in st. Louis. Jake
r,ber who keeps a little variety theater
,bere nut me on the stage. He put Joe
F,nmet on the stage, too. Emmett was a
drnmmer in Esher's orchestra, aAd one day
lave heard him running over the keys and
singing. That was the beginning of EN-
NETS career;
o,nnle of friends who knew him we'll. We
lacked at the performance a while and got
a few beers into me. After several people
had done their turns l said to my friends,
None of them are great shakes, | could do
as well myself My friends, for lark,
c7axed Esher to let me 60 on. l sang and
danced and made the biggest hit ever did.
Tsber engaged me on the spot at the mag.
niacent salary of $40 a week and was with
him for six months. Then l went to Gin
cnnati. thought then l was cut out for
a darby and doubled up with young fell
low and did darby songs and dances.
thought l was in the business then, sure.
about wild scenes in the west? Dodge
CITY in 1877 was a dandy Dodge City
was the shipping point for the Texas cattle
trade. During the winter about four num-
dred people lived there; from May TO Octo-
Der there we're always about three thousand
men in town, mostly cowboys. They
brought the cattle up from Texas and were
paid off il Dodge City. Each one bought
new pair Of boots and then started in for
lime with the rest of the money. They
always had the time but no one ever went
away with money. There was a plaza
about as wide as seven Broadways there,
through the center Of which the railroad
sides with gambling houses, drinking
saloons and concert gardens that were
wide open day and night. The
place was full of killers Bat Mastersol
was sheriff and his brothers Ed and Jim
were there, These three at the time had
record OF thlrty-four men. Then there
were Doc Holiday, Wyatt carp and
Charlie Bassett, who were very quick on
the trigger. l was singing at variety nall
kept by Ben Springer and Dick Brown.
Brown was killer too. He e.oped from
Cheyenne to Deadville with mans wife
and the man came after hin. Brown was
playing the banjo on the stage one matinee,
when the man climed up from the floor OF
the hall with an ak. Brown shot him dead
on the stage and the show went on. One
afternoon while l was singing young fell
low, crazy with Dodge City rum, which
would knock Digger Injun silly, came rid
ing down the street as fast rs his bronco
could run, and bling, bling, bing,' he
let fly from two guns through the plank
walls Of the theAter. The bullets came low
and the audience dispersed to learn where
they came from. They dropped the crazy
young fellow and carried him to the
'morgue, as they called it. which was the
hospital, too, and was over the only news
paper Office IN town. | took liking to the
young fellow after he sobered up, and l used
TO 60 to the 'morgue' and read to him. The
doctor said he would have to amputate his
arm, which had been shot through, and the
young fellow asked me to hold his other
hand while the sawboneS was at work. The
doctor gave him little chloroform, when,
all of sudden, the young fellow half rose
up, yelled Mother at the top of his voice
and fell back dead. / could never learn who
his mother was.
DOC Holiday" Gaylor went on In an
swer to one Of the men around the table,
was thin, spare fellow with thin, soft
voice. Anyone would take him for a
marker He was dancing at ball one
night, and a big chap was jumping around
90 the fl or. stamping with his heavy boots
and making such a noise that he annoyed
Dee
Quit your stamping, won't you.' said
Holiday, very quietly aud pleasantly.
The big fellow kept on. Holiday
pulled his gun and shot him dead. AS he
Lsll Holiday shouted, Go on dancing, 60 on
dancing; it's nothing They did go on
6Ganclng, while the walters carried out the
Dody. don't believe the musicians lost
note
From Dodge City went to Leadvile in
Io'S There it was a case Of sociabilIty all
the time. Day or night was just the same,
and the only difficulty was that a man had
10 go to sleep sometimes. | used to travel
with Charlie Vivian and with O'Reardou,
"qo wrote My Dream of Love is Ger and
o1ner songs. | was singing at The
coliseum, a variety hall, and the place was
uolng the biggest business in town. The
manager OF rival house, knowing that l
had the mining fever, put up a job to get
me away. | had located q claim in the
Robinson mining district outside OF Lead
VINE, and sent two men there 10 work it,
giving them their grub stakes. All at once
Tue rumor spread through the town Of a
great strike at the Wheel of Fortune
inlhe' which was next to my claim. 1t
created intense excitement, and, you may
Imagine, l was not the least excited. Early
4. at evening gentleman from the East
rae walter said. called to see me at the
.ueatre: L went out and saw smooth
oIRued man who wore u stovepipe hat, the
TTHy stoVeplpe l ever saw in Leadville.
ne ordered a small bottle of wine, and
hlter little talk he offered me 1000 for
ny claim. More talk, and finally the
gentleman from the East bid up
u $4,000. still refused. By that time
thought | was millionaire
anu when they came and told me that the
sage was waiting and the people were show
,IS their impatience by shooting at the
chandeliers, L said: No more stage for me-
gnu started Off on foot for my claim. On the
way met the two men who had been work.
1T1g IT and asked them what they had struck.
icy said water When l reached the
suea'er again heard that il was the rival
.s.atuager who had started the report OF the
: at the w heel of Fortune and who