The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-07-13
THE LARIAT THRoWER.
Navajo Frank" Found Guilty of a LittIe
Breech of Social Etiquette.

| navajo FRANK" Found Guilty OF Little
Breech of Social Etiquette.
Zone of the best lariat throwers /
ever see was man of the name of Ma
vajo Frank. He could throw a rope as
correct as some men can bet four aces.
But he threw it once too often. Frank
was half Injun an the rest Mexican.
Much miXin' with white folks had
Knocked out whatever utility he onst
possessed. lie had boss load of unas-
sorted vices an not nary virtue that
you could strike by ordinary diggin',
He was working sixteen or eighteen
miles out of Springer this time I'm
talkin' about; he was on Doc. Michael
! ranch-you remember Doc. Michael,s,
kunnel: h. was over beyond the CHM
AKRON, towards the Sweetwater This
| Navajo Frank come a ridin' into
Springer one Sunday. He was half
way locoed when he struck town, an
'twa'n't two hours before he was
! plumb crazy. | alwers told Stepp when
he brought that Kansas City whisky
down he was takin' fearful RESPONSE
bility onto himself. Stepp lowed that
them that couldn't stand mans drink
better go to a sannytaryum first as
last, an opened the bari.
'What does this cross-breed Iniuu
do? He gets six or eight drinks an
goes to chargin' an prancin' ars.s&
town same rs circus parade. He
claimed the right of way everywhere,
and shoots all his six-shooters around
for his own amusement an the great
fertilization of some new people that
had jest settled at Springer on account
of its church and school privileges.
''Old Metzger an his wife was goin'
along the street on their way home
from meetin'. Some one had roped
! young spike buck from the college, an
he was holdin' regular services Sunday
and prayer meetin's durin' the week.
| He was great means of grace in
! Springer. Old Metzger was the peac-
ablest man in Colfax county, an him
| an his wife was regarded an esteemed
by all They had heard the shootin',
but didn't think it was anything worse
than a couple of the boys havin' fun
with themselves
Navajo Frank havin' run short of
ca ridges, come a-tearin' and a-poundin'
down the street swingin' his lariat
around his head and lookin' for some
thin to rope. Mr. and Mrs. Metzger
presentin' an easy mark, he lets go at
EN- an catchin both around the arms,
turns his horse and starts a-humpin'
up the street with the unfortunit Metz
ger family bumpin' along in the road
after him.
at was Navajo Franks last throw,
for he strikes band of worshipers
comm out of the Chicago store, which
Henry Abraham, the owner, had let
'em hold the meetin in. Though a
Hebrew jew, Abraham had a whole lot
of public spirit. Frank, havin' no
loads in his six shooters, an the wor-
shippers bein' mostly well fixed that
way, they had him dead to rights.
They held an inquest on Mrs. Metzger,
who was dead.
"With one united voice it was decided
to purify the moral atmosphere of
Springer at once.
eff it goes out to the country at
large that quiet, God-fearin' people
can't go home from public worship in
Springer without a-incurrin' the risk
an damage of being dragged through
the streets by croSsbred Mexican on
'leven dollar mustang, Springer gets
black eye among sister moonicipali-
ties an ColfaX county, might as well
go to the deck an be known no more,
as a political division.
Wherefore, we find this Navajo
Frank guilty as charged, an sentence
him to be hung up by the neck, so help
us God
That was the way the verdick of
the jury went, for in my capacity as
foreman wrote it myself
''Some of the boys wanted to put off
the hangin till afternoon. but the ma
jority insists on carryin' out the decree
at once. There was special song
service that afternoon at two o'clock,
an the boys didn't want to miss it.
This young college dood come out
implorin' of us to spare the pore mans
life. The boys told him that he was
plenty welcome to bring the religion
Of Springer to the front while he staid
amongst us, but local talent would
look arter all little breeches of social
etillwet sich as Navajo Frank had been
guilty Of
THE Mexican himself cursed this
preacher to a standstill tallxin' in a
most shameful way, an it bein' a law
in New Mexico that a man is entitled
to say what he pleases when under
sentence of death, no one stops him.
'We appointed Jim Tucker ex-mar-
shall, and Bill Gallagher, the newly
elected peace officer, to carry out the
verdick of the jury, and theyshung
Navajo Frank with his own lariat 10
the swingin sign of The COWBOYS
Retreat, the boys helpin on the rope,
! for the crtter wasn't what you might
call n feather-weight.
! Then they started to help Metzper.
who was badly jostled. get his wife's
body home, an she comes to all stand
in, havin' only tainted, an makes the
trip afoot. Chicago Mail.
Dreary Forecast.
When the gods of Greece passed away
with the great Pan, nature lost its
! divinity, but society was overshadowed
by holier presence. When Christian.