Arizona silver belt., 1896-05-07
GIVING HIM A CHANGE.
A Hit cr Western Chivairy Which Was
 Quito Uncailed For.

A Hit or Western Chivairy Which Was
 Quito Uncailed For.
 "Spealing of the tales of chivalry. said government official, whose du- ties some years ago took him to points in the far west. II heard of one in o locality I once visited which for un- called-for chivulry rather exceeded the limit"
 But chivalry is not one of the things that can be exercised to excess. is it?' interrupted the reporter.
 Wait till 1 have finished my story and then I'll leave the question to your own ideas of it and let you settle it to suit yourself. It happened in this To- cality I mention that there was bad nam as there is in greater or less de- gree in all of those western localities, or for that matter, in every new To- cality at whatever point of the com pass it may be situated. We'll, this bad man had killed nobody knew how many people and had run the gamut of crime generally before he struck this neigh borhood, and the people there. most of of whom were trying to get out of the old way of doing things, gave him a wide berth and did as much as they could decently to get him to move away.
 But the place seemed to suit him and he wouldn't leave. Then it wasn't long until he began bulldoaing the inhabi- tants by threats, turning himself loose in the streets and shooting up the town and now and then banging somebody through the leg or arm and narrowly missing the same sort of dose himself. The people didn't want to spoil their reputation by lynching him, for they hadn't had lynching for couple of years and didn'twant to have any more. Neither did any of them want to shoot him down in cold blood, because they proposed to be law-abiding.
 "Nor did they want to assassnate him, for that was cownrdly and sneak ing, and they would give wolf half a chance for his life. Still it was neces- sary for the good of the community that the bad man be put out of i;, and finally five patriotic citizens fixed upon q plan. It was carried out one day after the bad man had done more devil try than usual, and one or two prom inent citizens were laid up for repairs, and the bad man still held possession of a saloon and was treating all corners 10 the owners liquors. The five patri- utic citizens, armed to the teeth, walked quietly into the saloon and tackled the N,s,1 NtfVh | F.afn ia proffered treat, and he got ugly and be- gan to swear.
 "'Now,' said the spokesman, firmly, you let up on that. We are here to set tie with you; we ought 10 shoot you down in your tracks, ,butwe are going to give you q show; you've got two guns and we've got ten; you may get one of us, or two, perhaps, but in the end our combination will win, and the commun- ity will get much-needed rest; it may come little hard on you, but you can Herer say we didn't give you fair chance; get ready; one, two three, flrcr
 And the firing commenced. The bad man was game, but, as had been an- nounced, the combination was too much for him, and when the smoke cleared away he was dead and two of his five assailants were in the same fix Two good men were gone, but the bad Inan was with them, and the communi- ty felt better. Now" concluded the of flcial, what have you to say about en excess of chivalry?"
 He should have been lynched," said the reporter, with promptness.-Was ington Star.