The state herald., 1898-12-09
A ROUGE RlpER,s sroRY.
How the spanish sh,rp.bootcr Fell Victim
to Justics and Christianity.

Ono spot there was In the rough riders
camp where you could always find a curl
Gus group visitors and troopers. This
vas about Josie's cage. Josie being a
mountain lion, one Of the resimental pets.
To watch Josie snsrl and show her white
teeth: to admire the daring OF her tanner
the one rough rider whose touch she
would permit as he rolled her. splitting
and clawing, on her back. and cunfed her
playfully and otherwise displayed his
mastery; to see her welcome poor little
frCwsy Cuba, the regimental yellow dog.
and pat him with her pGwa and show that
she loved him-these We're sights that new
ef grew tame FOR the followers OF Colonel
Roosevelt. writes Cleveland Moffat In
Leslie's Weekly. II was in this group one
morning that | met Happy Jack" and
for an hour or more thereafter | enjoyed
the picturesqueness Of his talk Happy
Jack Is a product Of Arizona. In times
OF peace he delvcs the ground for pre-
clous metal and breaks the monotony of
things by playing faro tackling bad men
and painting the evidences Of his pres
ence over the Yisage Of frontier towns.
He does all things good or bad, with de-
light, and II Is not on record that he ever
was afraid. lie is sharp-fea tured, clean
shaven young man of about 30. He speaks
English like anybody else. dialect writer's
to the contrary Notwithstanding.
Tell him about how you got the Span
ish shnrpshooter Happy said one Of the
group
ish sharpshooter."
without further urging Happy jack
lpDh lnt tftItf oil tnN ttlEe ana rrOCttn-
ed thus; IT wnA on the great day when
pretty much everything happened down
thcre--thc lat OF July-Rnd | had just gone
back from the firing line a few hundred
yards to carry a wounded comrnde out Of
danger. But It looked as II ia done the
wrong thing, for Just AZ ! came up to
where some doctors and orderlles were.
zip came a bullet under my hat and went
into u gentleman behind me, WIS Just
thinking what n lot Of life there was in
that spent bail when zip came another
mn a. II ali Il. FtngF h.af.I AM
landed In tree
That's no spent bnll, said /: there's
n LAD getting rangc on me
IT'S Spanish sharpshooter some
where about. said an orderly: he's killed
eight or nine men In the last half-hour.
See en- there He pointed to a lot OF
We'll, said /. II that's the case. I
guess I'd better go hunting Tor that Span
ish shnrpshootcr.' 50 ! got down on the
ground and gets under cover and ] waits
and watches to make out where the fel-
low IL. You see. he had Hmokcless powder
and Il was . Job TO fix him.
81 guess II took me nftcen minutes be
fore l found him. He was high up in q
cocoanut palm, close to the trunk, lust
made q dark spot there like crows nest.
So ! throws up my sights to coo yards. and
gets good and steady and then ] suya.
Almighty God put Justice and Christian
ny in this shot and then pulls the trig
ger ] snid TINT because was shooting
with nE.Iurgonscn, and alnt 90
wcll used TO them. II ia hnd q Winches-
ter wouldn't have needed to pray;
Winchester is Happy Jacks graft every
time Well, SIR " worked all right jus
tice and Christianity prevailed. and my
friend the Spanish HhHrpshoDtcr came
he meyer knew what hit him, lie felt
forty feet ana was dead before he struck
the ground
ns may have heard that we tell all We
know.