Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-01-04

Philadelphia. and other ctlleSi WHERE hi9
compnnions had never been. Whenever
any al them venthr,d to express doubt
as 10 his yeracity. he would turn 70 me
and ask me II be hadn't adhered strictly
to the fncis. | always said that he had
rather understated than embroidered the
situation. | love truth, but | do not
yenrn 10 obtrude my preferences so far
away from home They were great
stories that wild Bill told. and as his
other hearers knew nothing about them,
and ] didn't contradict him, he had a
pretty fair margin for the play OF his
Imagination.
first met Wild Bill the day reached
DehdwoOd City with "A letter of introduc.
ton to Utter from his brother whom L
had met on the way IN at Johnny Bow
mans ranch, on Hat Creek was up
there partly for experience and partly
for a journalistic kindergarten called the
Springfield Republican. Mr.. Utter re-
ccived me with wide open hospitality,
and we started out TO hunt up his partner,
IL was about the middle of bright.
sunny afternoon, and we found Wild Bill
sitting on board which was lying on
the ground in front of saloon. His
knees were drawn up IN trout Of him us
high as his chin, and he was whiting
az piece of wood with a large pocket
knife.
Get up, BILL" said Utter, 81 want
you 70 shake hands with a friend of
/ Wild Bin slowly arose. He came up
like an elevator. and he came so high
that / thought ne was never going TO
+ STOP re was uilusuaAF .tu,l, uuu pu1'e
I spur az ~ Nm, uut Nris ~, nt"Hu S Hn ~
/ lltsouluI' ~ SAli WI Ii5n,,u run Ky
use ~ pUmvii ',.,r, ir7 @i1
TO regain their power after almost being
blinded altogether by q terrible Illness,
were rather duh and exprcssionless in
~liftcr win a srddcn geroeifv tb,t Isas
strnnesl,. jnn,innus and tS,lizeJ vbnt
I mis- man must have looked like when
Ms blood was IN. But. at onr meeting,
when he folded my hand in his biz, strong
fneers, his face was almost eSnressio6.
less, and his eyes were more or less
leaden.
We walked about the town from time
to time, and saw the sights. There
were plenty of them TO sce-shooting
scrapes, stahbing aftairs, lynehing,
/ hsucuils, aud various kinds OF shindies Of
high and low degree. Two mon, one ar
ternoon. had duel with siN-shooters
across the street Ihcy were not good
mnrksmen, ana nobody was hufl nut
during the whole fusilade 81 stood noar
the hcligprents, passing derisiye remarks
on their lack of ability TO hit anything
and apparently ns unconcernedly amused
as If the lighters had been merely throw
ing NOlL NOlltu pulNlOeN ut tNtl OlleT.
Later in me week. long after mid.
night. we We're lounriur nj the end OF
the bar. when n row broke ONT The
pronrietor Of thn MACE nrndncoj (,
saTed-oT shotqnn loaic5 aho,,t oi,i,t
inches doom Win yorio,,s nissjIes of H..
strnctlon snd ordorcJ 10 ,.oor, ,isar u
/ startoi 10 On ,rith ,t'o ,as, ~ NM.
heavy hand on NV sIoniJor b9id Luz M. fast ?
When tbe rom. vos c,nntr p m s M
"yonur man nora, r',, 80, ~ 80, S'''i =,
nm pnii"ts .,,, ,ro,lJ 60, .,Ns' i,"ui -
can Besidcs is ,nl,'r , lSns' tH d yGu
80, i,aI i.1,,,i ~ fn"S T. " ~
ioni +, 49, Nv y. y i'u"t 'uuu III tue
- pi ia "sStsi'
III ~ oor hh' Eot ms III Tue Dack aiter
"i'
lie was a most wonderful master OF
the old-fashloned, thnmb-cocling army
revolver, ] have tossed an lempty tomato
can twelve or fifteen feet in tho air and
he has hit IL with two bullets from tho
same weapon before it struck the ground.
lie could shoot quite as well with his
left hand as with his right. and he was
so sure Of whatever he went after that
once In Hayes City, il IL said. when he
killed two negro soldiers who came In
10 do him M" he wanted 10 bet thare
wasn't an inch of difference IN tbe snots
where lie shot them.
/ said to him ono morning NJ no ,,,s
lying at full ienrth an 1H
Log in front Of Ifttcr'y
j l.