The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-03
TIGER BILL NOT AFRAID
AS He Walks Along in Wichita Loaded
With Reviewers.
COWBOYS THAT THRONG THE TOWN

And Dance Hall and Saloon PrODrfc.
tors Are in Deadly Fear of His
Trusty Six ShOOter-ROw He Ter
rOrizes Marsh Murdoch.
When Tiger Bill comes to Topeka, he
puts on his Sunday clothes. He unstraps
his brace of six shooters takes off his
high top boots with spurs and leaves
them where they can be found when he
returns to the Peerless Princess where a
man who believes in enforcing the law
is as much of a curiosity as the elephant
in circus
Tiger Bill has been other things before
he was assistant attorney general of
Wichita He has lived in Wichita long
time and he knew what he had under
taken when he told Governor Morrill, he
would knock out the whisky trade or die
in the last ditch.
When Tiger Bill is at home he wears
a wide brimmed sombrero, and leather
leggings. His long gray hair hangs
over his shoulders and he is feared as a
pestilence by most of the people of
Wichita. The saloon kee pers give him
the whole street and he has never once
been assaulted, for he is said to be
dead shot and wonderfully quick on
trigger.
Another man who attempted to en-
force the law in Wichita was buried on
the sunny side of hill two days after he
received his commission from tho govern
or's hands. No one but Tiger Bill would
do what he has done. He is the only
man in Wichita who could attack its
most thriving industry and live. The
people of Wichita are wild and woolly
as it is one of the frontier posts of Kan
sas, right on the border of the indian
territory. 1t is fully as dangerous to
interfere with the saloons there as in
Dodge City in 1876, but Bill is not afraid
There is some justification for the fact
that Tiger Bill is not liked well at home.
He calls no man his master and it is said
has even told that famous desperate and
law-defier, Marsh Murdoch, that by the
eternal he would have his way or there
would be blood on the moon. That sur
prised Marsh but the ivory handle of
Tiger Bills six shooter hung within
easy reach and Marsh did not argue the
question. But such things make
Tiger Bill unpopular at home.
Another thing that adds to his unDopu-
larity is the fact that he occasionally
summons some of the citizens of Wichita
before the tribunal to tell whether they
knew whisky from pop. Such an insinu-
alton would do more to lower a Wichita
man in his own self esteem than any
thing else.
When Tiger Bill left the governors
Office last night after his interview he
looked a trifle more fierce than usual
There was glare in his eye which told
of trouble. He shook his long gray locks
and ground his teeth,
"They say l can't enforce the law"
said he. "Why won't they let me alone.
I'would show them. This thing of try
ing to drive a man with check rein
makes me somewhat weary. If they let
me alone l will show them a thing or
two down at the burg that they have not
heard of before.
''They call me Tiger Bill but if have
my way l will make them think l am
roarin, lion bu-u-uu-r-r and Tigar
Bill gave his name shake which made
his hearers tremble.
They may down me-" said he, 'sbut 1
will never funk. Let them take my
scalp and hang it on the ridge pole of
Marsh Murdock's wigwam, but there is
a hereafter and Tiger Bill never for
gets. am still on earth. Whoop! Pm
the wild roaring he hair litter of the
peerairies. Whoop! whoop! and all the
dance halls aud cowmen of Douglass av-
enue can't scare me-
Then the terror of Wichita lodged into
the Copeland office and was gone
It takes man like Tiger Bill to repre-
sent the government in border towns
like Wichita.
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