The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-05
BATS OFF TO a rENDEaFooT.
The West Makes Due Acknowledg-
ment to Mr.. Payne From the East.
Erop1 the Coiorndo S,,,.-

The West Makes Due Acknowledg-
ment to Mr. Payne From the East.
From, the Colorado Sun.
One by one the roses fade. The gentle
tendertoot from the distant east, whose do
ings in our western country have been sub
ject for ridicule, exaggeration and enter
taiument, suddenly turns the tables on his
calumniators. We have ali heard Of his
listening wide-mouthed to the startling
stories concocted by the wild westsrner; OF
his being made to dance to the music Of the
tretful 6-shooter; of the innumerahle Jokes
of which he has been made the butt; Of the
joshing and joking he has ever been sub
lected to; of the ridiculous appearance he
has made in the presence of the cowboys
the bTswny miner, and the breezy denizens
OF the bouudless prairie. Always a guy,
usually coward, and generally a nerveless
dude, the tenderfoot from east of the Mis-
sissippi has been the plaything and the
shuttlecook OF our worthy and sef-reliant
citizens.
But suddenly all this is changed, and the
tenderfoot blossoms out to be las mild G
hammered man as ever scuttled ship or cut
throat" Yesterday morning, shol tly af-
ter the witching hour of midnight, train
was held up on the Union Pacific between
this city and Cheyenne. Three masked
robbers, looking like the heavy villains in
sA4C LOhA W dSG VA VIC average
suddenly entered the coaches with glittering
pistols cooked, aud hoarsely demanded tn It
every passenger hold up his hands The
train was filed with cowboys, Indians,
typical westerners and blooded man from
Montape. They glanced at the murderous
guns Of the robbers, listened to the fierc 9
demand, and sullenly obeYed. All but on @
poor, lone tend srfoot, from away back east,
who, instead Of needing the call Of the
thugs, and thieves, simply pulled his pistol
and began, alone and single-hauded, such
murderous, steady and lively fire on the
three masked hold-ups that one of them
fell before the voley Of cold led while his
companions, amazed and mortified, picked
him up and fastened from the scene.
Immediately following their departure
the valiant cowboys Indians and bad
men" from Butte became intensely brave,
grabbed their pistols and talked loudly for
an hour or so about following The scoundrels
and hanging them to the nearest tree.
Mean while, of course, the hold-ups escaped
into the mountains, doubtless very wroth t
the white-faoed youth from the east who had
wounded unto death one Of their fellows and
prevented one of the neateSt and richest
robberies OF the age, it being understood
that several OF the passengers had with them
at the time large amounts OF what Is known
as "the stuff"
We rather regret that the action Of Mr..
Payne crus5es to earth an idol we long have
cherished. That he alone aud single-nanded
should scatter the wild western robbers,
while his terrified fellow passengers got
under the seats and lodged out of sight of
murderous muzzles, sets at defiance our
preconceived notion Of the genus tender
foot. he is clearly an iconoclass. he vio-
lates all western IL tradition. II he or his kind
repeats the instance OF yesterday morning
many more times, we shall begin 10 cherish
a sneaking regard for the hopeful and braiuy
young fellows who comes OUT to our Rocky
mountain region in search OF fame and
fortune, and glance somewhat askance at
the loud-voiced, leather-breeched aud jaunty
native, who alleges that he Keeps his own
private graveyard, hut who is frequently
behind tree when the bullets are thickest