The morning times., 1897-01-30

prisoner down TO an open space and had
him stand alongside me. l told him to he
quiet, but that when he heard my six
shooter crack he was to grasp the two
guns / had stuck in my belt and begin
TO shoot, too. i halted the crowd and
told them that l was a deputy marshal
and proposed to prevent the lynchiRg.
The crowd howied in anger and began to
intimate that they would lynch me with
the wagon master. / stepped forward
and suggested that some OF the crowd
would not witness the hanging il they
undertook 10 defy me. Well, they took
me at my word and the lynching did not
occur
"Afterward they sent for me to take
charge of Silver Cliff when that town was
lively mining camp. One day the miners
to the number OF a hundred or more got out
into the main street and began to shoot at
each other / walked up the center of the
street with two big siX-Ehooters and drove
the fighters back to the sidewalks, and
toldthem that whenI started shooting some
OF them would lose interest in worldly af
fairs. 1t seems like boasting to mention
this incident, but guess you can get plenty
ofproofif YOU want it. Among the badmen
in Silver Cliff when / came was Riley
Fisher, of Texas, and he did not like to have
me interfering with his privileges of run
ming the town whenever he saw fit. He
sent word that he would get lie whenever
lie ran across my tracks. We had discus
sion over the matter one day on the street
as to who should stay, and both OF us
stayed, but he got out of breath first anu
never recovered. When it was over found
nine bullet holes in my oyercoat. He was
sociabe enough, you see. My first shot
struck aninch too high above the heart, and
that disturbed his aim, or i would have
died with him.
while was in Silver Cliff the railroad
war for the possession OF the Royal
Gorge broke out, and a lot OF deputy
sheriffs and guards from Dodge City
We're imported to make the fight for the
railroads conteSting for the right of way
through the canon of the Arkansas. They
were a mighty tough crow d, and the Canon
Citv police could do nothing with them.
Barrett, who was town marshal, wrote
for me to come down and help him. My
terms were accepted by the town council,
and / set TO work to clean out the town
of about as tough a class of citizens as
/ ever ran across. Things We're lively for
a few days, but l was lucky and managed
to get the town back to its accus toned
peaceful order. Express men used to fol-
low me around to get job of hauling
men to the hospital and morgue, but that
only lasted a week or two.
Just when | was ready for another
job 1 received telegram to come to
Las Vegas, N NJ, which was the end of
the railroad then, and be marshal at that
place After a conference with the au
thorities / agreed to give them an op-
portunity to sleep nights if they would
pay me $3.50 a month. Ny price was
readily accepted, and / began by ap-
pointing one OF the toughest men there as
chief deputy He objected strongly, but
/ convinced him that if he wanted TO en-
Joy life he would have TO wear a star, and
then he consented.
There had been number OF stages from
Santa Fe held up just outside OF town, and
/ thought the gang must be living i'll Vegas.
When the town authorities saw what / had
done they wefeSick enough, fort heythought
/ had sold out TO the gang. In a few days
another stage was held up, the mails stolen,
and the passengers robbed. took my Chief
deputy on tour out of town, to quiet spot
toSearch for the robbers. WhenDo one was
around to disturb us we had a sociable time.
pulled out my gun and askedf for the names
of the robbers. When my deputy saw that he
musteither give up the names or fill lonely
grave, he confessed. We then went backto
town and arrested six OF the gang and ent
them to Santa Fe for Safe-keeping.
II had to resign in u few weeks, for the
White River Ute war broke out. and as Twas
a member of the Colorado militia, / felt il
nv duty To return The Las Vegas people
wanted to keep me, but when they saw l
would not stay, they asked me to name a
suitable successor. The man L named was
brave enough but unlucky, for he was shot
within a week"