Evening journal., 1898-12-27
written for This Paper.

IA those last words there give better IDEA
Jim Scales than the first ones do" be-
Ia my soldier friend, 'for to all the west be
is Broncho JIM
5# Jim was one of the old-timers ia the
s st. His life history touches closely the
< story of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and
M e Indian territory. Before the war his
g ther whs prospector in the Arizona
4 fountains and his mother was an Apache
uaw. His father fought under the con-
derata flag as private soldier in Gen.
Nrices army. He was killed in Arkansas.
m was practically raised among the
apache Indians. He knew all their crafty
lays, and he hated them worse than any
# uecoated soldier whose business it was
hunt them in the Arizona mountains.
rom the time he was old enough to take
,re of himself, in the battle for life in the
81 ,uthwest, to the day he left that country to
rye in Col. Roosevelts regiment, he was
unappeasable enemy Of the Apaches.
II never knew Jim personally until after
le formation of our troop, but had heard
him ever since l went to the southwest,
nd there are probably but few in that por-
on of the United States who have not.
wenty years ago he was one OF the really
picturesque characters in the states which
e frequented He was one Of the few men
u 'ho gave the cowboy the name Of a wild and
DOLLY creature, whose chief delight was to
RI ide through some town and shoot out all
Il he lights. That was Jim's way He prob.
81 bly, did not do it just as it is usually dc.
cribed in the humorous papers, but he at
,ast furnished the foundation for their
tories He was a wild, deyil-may-care, Jolly
ort of a chap, whom everybody seemed to
Ike. He had never had the reputation Of
81 eing very good, nor was he unusually bad.
3 pn the ranches where he was employed be
q ad the reputation Of being hard worker
S when he worked at all. When he became
red of work he took holiday at the near.
st town Of any size and spent it az was
customary among men Of his class. He drank
bis share of western whisky; he lost and
won at different times at all the gambling
levices common to the west in those days
Z the necessary provocation offered he
vould shoot, and shoot to kill. Historians
n and around Phoenix can tell you Of at
east three men who have died at his hand.
ct Scales never had the reputation Of shoot
ing without cause. Two Of his victims, of
whom / spoke, were killed in self-defense,
md the third one in defense of friend who
had been caught unarmed and who would
have been shot down by a card sharper and
sdesperado had it not been for the timely
Interference Of Scales.
"At one time he and six companions Of the
Same class cleaned out band Of Apaches
and so saved a ranchman's wife and family
from fate worse than DEATH His deeds Of
this kind were numerous in his early days,
&and for this reason the people ofthe conn
TRY liked him. At different times be has
worked on almost every ranch in the south
west, and at every place he made friends Of
the best and enemies Of the worst classes.
Il don't know why Jim enlisted It may
& have been because of his patriotism, out he'd
4 you asked Jim he would probably have told
you he wanted Job. / believe the reason
was more that he wanted to be in the fight
than anything else, for it was not his nature
to bo particularly patriotic, and it was not
a necessary for him to want Job very long
at time; but if there was any fighting going
on it was as natural for him to want to be
in it as it was to breathe.
"When his name was added to the troor
roster the first sergeant told the captain
0 that he would be a good man for pair ol
chevrons. The first sergeant knew Jim by
s reputation, and had also run onto him dur
E ing a campaign against the Apaohes, IT
which Jim had done some good fighting, ever
i though he wasn't enlisted, and he knew h'
would make a good noncom. But Jim didn
4 want the chevrons. He told the captain that
. he thanked him for the honor, but he hat
never beers very much on the boss order
and didn't believe he cared TO begin SO late
in life.
"Some of us who knew Jim by reputation
did not believe he would make a good sol
dier, because we did not believe he would
submit to the discipline, but We were mis-
taken. The man who for years had livet
and done about as he pleased fell in with The
general run Of military life as naturally al
though he had been born on a military post
He did his part of the guard duty in CAM
when to most Of us guard duty seemed al
unnecessary hardship; he was never ahsen
at fatigue call or drill call; he was usual!
up before reveile and in bed before taps.
Never once did we hear grumble from
him during our stay in camp, but when W.
were on the transports on the way here h
swore at the engineers for not moving tn
vessels faster, then he 'swore at the officer
for not disembarking us sooner, and fnall,
he became exasperated because we lande,
so far down the coast. / believe it woul,
have suited him to have ATTEMPTED to run
the transports up under the very walls o
Morro and LET us begin our work at the hor
Dor entrance.
Jim was good shot, and for that rsasoi
he was selected as one of the regiments ad
vance line of sharpshooters. Much to on
surprise, he kept himself well under c0Te
during the opening ofsthe battle, and, Will
be did good work, he did not show any Q
that spirit Of daredeviltry we had expected
when the heavier skifmish line wa
formed Jim took his place in the troop an
advanced with it up the bill. Again W
looked for some show Of that fighting spiTi
Of which we had heard SO much, not fror
Jim himself, but from those who elaine
to know, but it was not Forthcoming, and W
began to think we had been fooled in tn
man. He stopped at the bank there lilS
the rest Of US, and did not seem any NOR
anxious to 60 over it than anybody else.
"Once over that bank, however, he wa
4 different man. None Of the rest Of U
we're able to keep near him as he ran toward
the Spanish trenches, yelling at the top {
his voice at every step. He reached the wiz
fence in front of the trenches before all th
Spanish troops had left them and had Ii
wires cut so as to get through almost in
second. As he plunged through the fent
he jumped to catch a retreating Spaniar
L.