El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26

HANK Moore. Tor QVe yours memooi
of the State Ranger force and for TWEEN
ty years after that deputy sheriff or
q troubled frontier. His experience OIL
men whose sole capital was their cour-
age has been large. He has seen them
tested under all conditions. From the
things that have happened he deducee
his maxim. He enlArges it in this way;
GA purely bred chicken will hght
anywhere and all the time and any.
thing or any body. It will fight II
punched off its perch at midnight. Ii
gaslight torchlight, or no light atall.
It will fly in the face of cougar. 1t
will sink it's spurs into q hat If the hat
be thrown near 1t. If q mirror ia placed
where 1T can see it's own reflection 1t
will beat out its brains trying to slay
an imaginary opponent. There is no
conceivable sci of circumstances under
which q good cook won't fight. That
sort of human is never born. Every
man may or may not have his price,
but it IL q sure thing that every men
has his fear.''
Moore believes that the desperate
has never lived who was not at some
time afraid of some other desperate,
and there are black spots on the re-
cords of them all he has had a wide
acquaintance with men of the trigger,
and in support of his theory instances
four incidents in the lives OF four OF
icau-A merican frontier has known.
Two of these men never saw the other
two, and yet the story of their defeats
makes q chain. Their were connected
in way, and If the spooks OF them
meet In the half NO Id and compare
notes they will have an interesting
time. The four concerned were Clint
Haworth, Bill Longley, King Fisher
and Manuel Estrada. All of them died
not kill each other. The schain began
in this way:
Clint Haworth is believed to have
been q native of southern Mississippi.
He came to Texas in 1878, leaving in
the states to the east score OF which
any professional m anslsyer ought to be
proud. His total of kills was five ne
Rroes and two W hite men and he was
not then 80 years OLD. 1t is thought
that he came west because his own
country had grown too hot. He did
his STAMPING ground along the Sabine
river, which is the states eastern
boundary, and travelling through the
tire of counties running up from the
gulf to northern Louisiana. His busi-
ness seemed to be trading horses, and
he got rich at 1t with strange rapidtty.
1t was discovered afterward that il
was his custom to steal bunch of ami
mails In Louisiana, swim them through
the Sabine at some point where there
was neither house nor q ferry trade
he had traded them, steal another
bunch, cross them into Louisiana, trade
them, sell and steal again. AS he WAS
q man of much daring and industry,
we'll acquainted with the 10y of the
country and sensible enough to employ
only one assistant at time, he cleared
for three years more than 81 900 q
month. He would have amassed much
wealth but for the fact that he was
like most all other men OF his class,
was especially dangerous. He killed
several men in ARRAYS during these
three years, and the expense OF hiring
lawyers, bribing jurors, paying for
witnesses and like things ate up most
of his profits. Hawthorn was brave at
all times, but when half drunk was
Forocious. At the end of his career in
eastern Texas he had a district 300
miles long by 200 wide utterly ter
rorized.
Even the officers of the law, men
paid to take their lives in their hands
and to face all manner of dangerous
people, were afraid of him, and none of
bae M could be found willing to attempt
his g rect when On one OF his sprees.
At such times it WAS favorable pas
time of Haworth's to ride into a crowd
I'd saloon at night. force the bartender
TO serve him liquor in the saddle, force |
him to give water to his horse ia one of
,he barroom buckets, sshoot out the |
lights, ride down the steps in the dark |
md depart. He had bay horse that
would attempt to go anywhere and the
,wo together II ade strong combine
lion. The man was dead shot, and in |
Iuickress with his weapon was sur
passed in eastern Texas annals only by
John Wesley Hardin, killed in Ell Paso
:wo years ago. He was giant in
stature, with a huge red beard tum-
bling to his waists and would have
proved dangerous antagonist to any
There is record, however, OF his kill
ing but one man with a knife. This |
vas accomplished at q fshfry, and the
bic started when Haworth WAS |
some distance from his horse. Contra |
y to his custom, he had left his pistol |
hanging to his saddle. The victim |
Was young farmer named Brown,
md he was kuifed from point near |
he left shoulder clear down to the |
waists line, savage, dragging stroke !
hat laid him open as if he had been a |
In November, 1879, Haworth tend
ID country dance in Pamela county.
,ear the river. At this dance was
voung stranger who had come out of
he west. slender, blue-eyed fellow
With huge thin equiline nose, pro-
ninent cheek bones, and dropping
Yellow mustache that hid thin-lipped |
mouth running straight across his face |
ike q cash. This was Bill Longley |
.lready six times killer in his own |
ection, and destined in the next two |
rears to become one of the most cele- |
,rated of the many celebrated sleyers |
# the southwest. He did not know |
Jawnrth and HaUorth did mt know