The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-23

pop of gun he deliberately walked up to
Texan and shot him in the eye. Then,
running his two arms between the arms
and body of the dead man, he made him
a human barricade and shot at will from
a safe ambush. After the fight ended he
went out, mounted horse and left The
dead at the big killing were Speedily dis
posed Of and the wounded taken care of.
Mike Fitzpatrick kept a dive he called
the Side Door" The unlucky chap that
got in there found himself "side-doored'
until his money was gone. Some of the
decent people were told enough to protest
against some of his robberies, among 9th
ers a prominent merchant. Mike did not
like any interference with his business,
and one morning he loaded himself lit
tie fuller than usual with his vie whisky
and started out to do a little slaughter
ing. The merchant was sought, but hap
pened to be out of his store. Mike went
up the street, terroriZing everybody, and
walked into a saloon. There he saw the
city's police judge, George Halliday, and
without the slightest provocation or "a
word of warning he shot him through
the heart. The marshal, Jack johnson,
had been advised that Mike was on a raid
and had started to capture him. Seeing
Mike coming out of the saloon johnson
took a rest for his Winchester rifle on the
well curb and shot him down. This was
Tombstone'S last killing. In an hour af-
terward the citizens had formed a league
and the suspicious characters were noti-
fed to leave. They left. Only a few in
cidents are mentioned; only a few of Che
shootings detailed Tom Carson, a nephew
of old Kit Carson, was sent for and came
to take the marshalship of the town. He
stayed three weeks. The toughs had it in
for him, and to save his life he skipped
All life in Tombstone centered about the
saloons and dance halls. If one wanted to
see mining boss, prospector, an editor,
a ranchman or a United States marshal,
he would always almost find him of an
evening in some saloon and gambling
place. These institutions were worthy an
artists study. They were always crowded
from sunset till dawn with human beings
most of whom were on the broad road
which leads to death. Bars extended near
ly the length of the deep halls over which
Arizona whisky was freely dealt out at %
cents C'two bits") per glass. A score or
more of gambling tables were in operation
in each place. At the bar was a maudlin
crowd, subject to no moral restraint, pour
ing without stint fiery liquid down it's
throat. Professional gamblers, cool and
calculating, presided at the gaming table.
Among these were red-faced women wear
ing derby hats, dealing faro. The players
sat around the table, silent and with anx-
ious faces, and sympathizing crowd
looked on. Mexican musicians sat on ele-
waited seats discoursing music that drown
ed the climbing of gold and silver coins. The
harvest was usually reaped between Sat
uTday night and Monday morning. A thou
sand miners focked from the hills to
spend these intervals in the city and to try
their luck at the gaming tables Hundreds
were left without money enough on Mon
day morning 10 pay for
drink before starting for the mountains
1t was In the weekly intervals that muir
der was rife among the gamblers. But
ARRAYS in Tombstone were of not much ac-
count al the time If a report of a pistol
was heard. and some one was wounded
or even killed, the game was Interrupted
only for few minutes. Many a time the
little Tombstone newspaper dismissed a
murder with four or five lines.
Men who have been in every mining
camp In the West and have lived along
the frontier for a generation, say that the
dance houses at Tombstone were the
worst of all. The dance halls were all in
great barn-like structures that covered an
area of go feet wide by $50 feet long.
fancy bar, 70 feet long, ran along one side
of the hail. Benches of pine wood served
as seats along the walls The men there
who would not treat the women to drinks
several times every evening were marked
as unfit for association with the society Of
Tombstone. On many a night the bar at
dance house has taken in over $500. on