The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-02-01
clMARRoN's HISTORIC sAaRoom.


The Landlord Proud Of the Fact Ths
twenty-five Men Were Slain There.
"Cimarron was lively town i
tho seventies, said land survcyo
from New Mexico. II have see
Clay Allison ride into the place wit
n following Of cowboys and start il
to make night Of it. He woul,
buy out Lambert's barroom to begil
with, turn everybody out Of tn
room except his own crowd, ant
then their fun would be fast ant
furious. On such an occasion
glanced through the window ant
saw a cowboy dancing naked on tn,
counter to the accompaniment o.
yells and pistol shots from his com
rades.
Through this little adobe town
among the foothills, three-quarters
Mexican in its population, came and
went the various bad men Of the re.
gion. Many of them went no far.
ther, dying there with their boots
on in quarrels over land and stock
transactions. politics, women, cards
or in the ambitious attempt to as.
sert their supremacy as desperadoes
When / last visited Cimarron, in
1878, the town was quiet, the COW.
boys being all out on the ranges
gathering beef cattle in tho fall
roundup 1t was the same old place.
with its fiat rooted adobe buildings
struggling along the banks Of the
deep ravine through which the Gin.
arron river flows, its few pitched
rooted, whitewashed residences Of
the weather. people and Lam.
bert's. AT that excellent hostelry
of sanguinary record l was welcom-
ed by the host, the most genial and
pacific of Frenchmen, who, as we
chatted together over a glass Of ma
tive wine, spoke with evident pride
of the tragic events connected with
his historic barroom.
twenty-five men have been
killed in this room, he said; seven
in one year. Look at this. And he
led me to one corner and pointed to
two great splashes, dull red in color,
upon the wall, one above the other
These are the blood stains made
when Pancho was killed.
"Pancho was a Mexican desperado
and between him and Clay Allison
enmity had long existed. Allison
rode into town one day and fell to
drinking quietly enough, as he usu.
ally did at the beginning. AS soon
IS Pancho heard that Allison was in
town he likewise began to drink,
and then the townspeople looked for
difficulty between the two. They
lid not meet until late in the even.
ng, when, as Allison stood in Lam.
oert's barroom, his elbow resting
IN the counter, Pancho came in and
walked over to the farther corner OF
the room. Two other Mexicans en-.
tered with him, one Of whom took
\ position little in the rear of ALI
son, while the other threw himself
n q lounging attitude upon q corner
If the billiard table in the center of
he room, and taking revolver
rom his pocket laid it on the cloth.
ITO these maneuvers to distract
lis attention Allison gave no heed,
,ut kept his eye on Pancho, who be-
,an to talk to him, proposing that
hey adjust their differences in a
friendly way. As he talked thus
the Mexican held his som.
,rero before him in his left hand,
.oncealing a weapon, with his right
hand all the time slipping down TO-
varL the hat. As Pancho passed his
,and beneath the brim Allison 8 pis-
ol came out like a flash, and its two
quick reports sounded like one
Pancho, shot through the forehead
md the heart staggered against the
wall and sank in a sitting posture
nto chair that stood in the corner
The other two Mexicans made them.
'elves scarce at Allison's first mo.
ion, and Lambert, running in from
he kitchen, blew out tho lights and
closed up the barroom without per.
sewing the slain man in the corner
ALLISON at once took horse for his
.anch, saying nothing to any one of
he shooting, and that night the
friends of Pancho hunted far and
vide for him, not knowing where or
n what condition he was. The next
morning when Lambert opened up
ais barroom he saw Pancho sitting
asleep, rs he thought, in the corner,
md, going to wake him, discovered
hat the man was dead. - New
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