The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-03-10
SURE DEATH FOR EOTH.
Display Of Remarkable Nerve E,y u Tcn-
t!crfOot in Issuing u Challenge.

Display Of Remarkable Nerve E:y q Tcn~
GcrfOot in Issuing a Challenge.
81! once s:tN' u challenge to il duel issued
and accepted ana the time, place and
weapons named. The affair. however, did
net come 10 any issue"
The speaker WAS Dan Quinn, the we'll
known writer of wild and wOOlly western
character and dialect stories
ut was III Deadwood," said he, "about
eight years ago. and the two men who
were TO have been the participants had
been snarling ut each other for many days.
One of them was Il young, cODsumptive
looking fellow from somewhere east, end
CT course was held in much contempt by
the old timers. In some indefinable way,
however,, many of them seemed to have Il
kind of respect for him, as on one or two
occasions he had given evidence that per-
haps after all he was not to be laughed
at. He was, to these semiadnirers, I'm un-
known quantity, and while they were all
anxious for some opportunity to present
itself in which he would show what he
was made of, yet not one of them cared to
furnish the looked for chance
1.-THE man who did the snaring was per-
haps the only man in the select clique that
hung around the saloon where the quarrel
finally materialized who did not believe
that the tenderfoot had any nerve, and he
never missed an opportunity to intimate
as much. On the night in question the
two men had been unusually spiteful, and
it was a cinch that there would be trouble
before the daylight broke in.
"Finally the old timer made remark to
IN hov hut hor r.
meant business. The young fellow heard
it, and without moving a hand announced
to the other that he had heard the remark
and that he had a proposition to make.
The crowd was in the right humor and the
boy was allowed to go on.
"He said that he was tenderfoot. He
was aware Of it, he declared, and he felt
sorry, but he also said that if the other
would give him a fair show he would fight
him. Then he made what was considered
a remarkable proposition. He asked his
antagonist to lay aside his gear, to make
no plays, but to issue him a challenge to
battle royal. He had, he said. conscen-
tious scruples against being the aggressor
in quarrel, but he was perfectly willing
to do the square thing when the show
down came.
well, after much parley the big fellow
agreed to the deal and the challenge was
issued. The boy at once accepted it, named
guns as the weapons, the place the saloon
and the time right then. But his condi-
ton under which the duel was to he fought
was the remarkable part of it. Heinsisted
that he and his opponent should stand
face to face, with the toes of their right
boots touching. Their guns were to he in
their BELTS and ut the word they were to
draw and fire. There could he only ono
result 1t was daring proposal, but
whether it was a bluff or not was never
known. The other cr,wfshed and apollo
gized. and the outcome of it was that the
two men became partners. But nobody in
Deadwood ever intimated again that the
young fellow was lacking in nerve. lie
showed that ne had something about him."
Chicago Inter Ocean.