Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-02-08
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The West Makes Due Acknowledgment
 to a Mir. Payne eroYn the Fest

The West Makes Due Acknowledgment
 to a aar. Payne from the Best.
 One by one the roses fade. The
 gentle teuierfoot from the distant
 east, whose doings in our western
 country have been 6 subject for ridi-
 cule, exaggeration and entertain
 ment, suddenly turns the tables on
 his calumniators. We have all heard
 ot his listening wide mouthed to the
 startling stories concocted by the
 wlld westerner; of his being made to
 dance to the music of the fretful
 EiA shooter; of the innumerable jokes
 of which he has been made the butt
 or the loshing and joking he has ever
 been subjected to; of the ridiculous
 appearance he has made in the pres. ence of the cowboys, the brawny
 miner and the breezy denizens of the
 ooundless prairie. Always a guy.
 usually a 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.
 But suddenly all this is changed. and the tenderfoot blossoms out to be ''as mild hammered man as ever scuttled ship or cut throat. n Short " after the witching hour of mid night train 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 gittering pistols cooked, and hoarselv demanded that every passenger hold up his hands. The train was filled with cowboys, Indians, typical west erners and blooded men from Mon. tana- They glanced at the murder. ous guns of the robbers. listened to the fierce demand and sulleniy obeyed- All but one poor, lone ten. dertoot, from away back east. who instead of needing the call of the thugs and thieves simply pulled his pistol and began, alone and single handed, such a murderous, steady and lively fire on the three masked holdups that one of them fell before the volley of cold lead, while his companions. amazed and mortified. picked him up and hastened from the scene.
 Immediately following their de parture the valiant cowboys. In. dians 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. Meanwhile of course the holGups escaped into the noun tains, doubtless very wroth at the white faced youth from the east who had wounded unto death one of 1 their fellows and prevented one of l the neatest and richest robberies of | the age. it being understood that 1 several of the passengers had with | them at the time large amounts of i what is known as the stuff"
 w ASNAACA AGtSACA AA4AtN LA4G ACLlO1 | 1f Mir. Payne cIushes tc earth an | dol We long have cherished. That le alone and single handed should | ;catter the wild western robbers, while his terrified fellow passengers got under the seats and lodged out 'f sight of murderous muzzles. sets # defiance our preconceived notion 'f the genus tenderfoot. He is clear. y an iconoclast. He violates all western tradition. If he or his kind 'epeats the instance related many nore times. we shall begin to cherish l sneaking regard for the hopeful md brainy young fellow who comes ut to our Rocky mountain region in earch of fame and fortune, and dance somewhat aslance at the loud 'oiced, leather breeched and jaunty Iative who alleges that he keeps his wn private graveyard, but who is behind q tree when the 'ullets are thickest. Colorado Sun.