The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1893-12-08
WESTERN DARE DEVILS
THIN TWO SPECIMENS OF T,nc So
CALLED BAD MAN.

Jim white, Teaxs sheriff, VINO
sinsiehanded, prove Ont n Gang
OF Ituatiers--snm saunders,
Nervy Customs onicer.
] think that shern Jim white OF lei
Paso. Texas. was the best type OF the
genus bad man l ever saw, save a writer
ia the Post Dispatch. 1 met him FIRST in
I 1882 when he was an Inspector OF customs
at FL Paso, Texas, and to lock at him no
7 no one would hnve supposed that beneath
that calm exterior beat as brave a heart
as ever throbbed that fear was an I'M
known emotion TO him and that ne had
hfrequentiy faced death against fearsa!
odds and came out victorious. Once, when
John iSiftney's gang Of cattle thieves or
rustats rode into III Paso and in pure
wontonness OF crime began shooting and
killing on the principal street n lze town,
then acting as town marshal. There was
delay in finding him, and n tho mean
a6 i,if and Closed their shutters. Three
dead and wounded citizens lay IL siiS
street-.the rustlers had found shelter be-
bind the cottonwood frees which stood
along tho sidewalks Here and I ere some
yenturcsono householder ~ niert hasn't was
eiitieavoring % pick the scotndrela OF
Win ms r1Oe from utllDAl tlunFttt oslNiAtfoi
but the. town wns practically u pe sFeSslon
oil the deaperadues having uily the oppo-
eition OF Alrs. burns, WAC, With llstfaSe' ed'
hair. raved i'm and down the dusty street,
cursing the air into blue sallor az she
purned out her wrath and exccrat Ja upon.
the scouadrsls. Then jim White rrresrer.
Alone with i5-caiibre six-sHonter IN etoh
hand. he snrang Into the ,oiadis Of the
street. shouting. Jim White does the
rest Of the killing today This was Z
boast, hut he made II good HIS hrat shot
shattered the hand az a man who exposed
IL N an attempt 70 bring Y bite down with,
a rifle, With the other sand ne almost
shoulder or another rlistler. The riroin-
lng hnlf dozen deapeiadocs 1 aue dash
from their hiding PLACES down the street
In an effort 10 reach the place where their
horses were tied White reyer moved fIom
Ills position IN the center OF The street
and he semi bullets after the tuEit'ves AZ
long as they were within farsc; fcur out
u five Of his mlsslves found heir mark,
and the rustlars who escaped never re-
turned to III Paso again.
hEEPING powN. EXPENSES.
An entirely different and much more
numerous type of Western bad man could
be found in sam Saunders. first met
MIN in DemIng NJ NJ. A desperate OF
the name Of poe Cane had just killed
an inoffenslve man, a railroad conductor,
named Richard Tabler. and saunders,wno
was then in the government employ as
an Inspector OF customs and engaged in
riding the Mexican boundary line west
or the Tres Hermanas mountains south Of
aetnlng, was asked by the citizens to no
thy cane that he must leave Town Saun-
defs accepted the ask without any hesi-
tation, and walking up 70 Zane s2ia 20
hun Get out OF mere now; II blow a
hoie through YOU II you are N SIGHT more
IMAM three minutes" Cane looked INTO the
very small black eyes OF the speaker
and then without word, started west
along the track Of the southern Pacific
railroaa re was nsard "a hsMt az = ,,n ny
where the horse thieves and cattle Smu8-
gices found SAFE harbor.
Finally a considerable number Of stolen
and struggled horses were reported TO
have been gathered at the ranch Saun-
ders heard uf 1t and rode off alone 70 IN
he returned bringing with him dozen
horses which ne had "stolenr out OF the
corral at night Il was Ger
but the treasury department was not lib
eral in the matter Of expense RECOGNIZES |
on that border, and. rs Saunders put i TO
know whether we could make the case /
stick or not, hut did know that the de- I
pense vouchers II We DIDN'T 50 i Just /
stole the bunch Of horses without help, so |
as to c9ver aecidents," Il the readers OF (
this article know anything about the
desperate character Of cattle smugglers
along the Mexican border they VIII be
o9le 70 rms lasnsss sRgn tnl h sSsf
so enragcd the people at the little camp
where II occurred that they sent word up
to DemiHg that Saunders would be made
that camp agalh."
luIcK-wIITED AND suRE-FoOrED.
When this reached saunders ears he
promptly saddled up and put ont fos the
boundary Sine
There's no necessity for your running
MO danger there now. sasd the dsputy