The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-07-07

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out of the country. Ducello went along.
/ 1t happened that Miller didn't look with
favor on the running out process, and
he had man working for him who was
similarity minded. Ducello told me
about it afterward.
There was me, he said, 'and fell
low from Laramie with yellow chaps
that couldn't ride much, - -~o'har
fellow, 1 forget his name, but his alias
was Bullwhack Bill. guess he'd been
a freighter somewheres. Anyhow,
they was US three and couple of more
fellers, and we was just going to fire
Sandy Miller p. d. q. But we didn't.
He wouldn't fire. We cleaned him out
instead, and he and his hired man
nearly cleaned US out dom it. We got
up there all right and found old Sandy
at home. He came out to meet us with
a Winchester and his hired man stood
in the door behind him. He knowed
what we was after without our sayin' a
word
"'You fellers,' he says, 'don't run
none of your - WHITES on me- he
says, ana with that he ups with mis-
Winchester and let's silver. He took
old Bullwhack Bill pretty fair and it
got plain they was goin' to be fight.
l take it he wasn't used to Wyoming
ways. Well when he shot of course 1
got out my gun and began to talk some
myself. They was considerable shoot
| ing going on, and l seen that Miller's
hired man was pretty handy with
Winchester himself. He worked her
EASTERN any man ever seen. Some
body knocked Miller over, and 1 thought
it wouldn't be just square not to save
the hired man trouble, so gave him
one that stopped his old Winchester.
Damn good thing did, too, for the
Laramie man, with the yellow chaps
and Bullwhack Bill and one of the
other fellow was done up
WELL" said the colonel, lighting
fresh cigar, "that was the kind of
men Hyde and Ducello were, and it
was evident that If they ever crossed
each other the shooting would not be
as long drawn out as accurate. They
crossed. That seems to be the newt
able when two bad men really have
nerve. So many bad men are just bluff
ers and DULLES, you know, that you can
hardly tell what any of them really
means to do. don't know as ever
heard just exactly what started the
row between them. Professional ieal-
ousy, most likely. Maybe Ducello
sneared about Hyde's escape from a
mad steer. 1t was at a roundup, aud
Hyde got off his pony to throw steer
another cowboy had roped. He started
in, but the other fellows rope broke
and the steer charged at Hyde. Hyde
dropped his own rope, pulling his gun
at the same time, shot once at the
steer and dropped once to the ground to
avoid the steers rush if he missed.
But he didn't miss. However, the row
started it don't matter much how, and
be some of the quickest and cleanest
shooting when Hyde and Ducello met
that the world ever saw. Well, they
met and there was shooting. But no
man alive is ever going to tell exactly
how it happened.
"Ducello was breaking a bunch OF
bronchos for the X outfit Hyde was
in Cheyenne. 1t happened that on the
afternoon on which Hyde started for
Little IVA, Ducello took it into his
head to ride into Cheyenne. That
evening their ponies came up the lane
to the X ranch together, but without
riders. The boys knew what had hap.
pened, and started out to get the bodies.
They were lying not so very far apart
on opposite sides of the road, only
about a mile below where the lane
from the ranch turns into the stage
road. hyde was shot through the
heart, Ducello through the top of the
head.
The boys figured that it happened
in this way: When Ducello and Hyde
met it just so happened that the
chances of the draw were even and
each saw it. Each wanted to get
whatever advantage of the other he
could, and neither was in a hurry tc
pass by the other, so they stopped and
talked, maybe about the Indians, maybe
about the stock; who knows9 Maybe