Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-15
RAN DOWN FOUR GAMBLERS,

| afterward heard it. Travis Travelled up
ana down the Mississippi, the Rer Qua
chlta and the White rivers over three
months before he came across any of the
men for whom he was looking. AT last
one day he found his first nlal-Jack
Hellerig-oa a steamboat at Napoleon.
That evening, While Hellerig, Travis and
two other men We're playing cards, Ira
Wis. who had been watching the gambler
keenly, caught him cheating. A second
later the gambler was lying on his back.
h1locked out of his chair by the young
planter. /
FIRST TO DIE.
The gambler did not get an opportunity |
for underhand work. and would have
been thrown overheard but for young
Travis. who protected him from violence
at the hands of the indignant passengers
but only on the agreement of the gambler
to fight it out with pistols at the next
landing. The passengers saw that there
was something behind the YOUNG plant
e,'s actions and they interfered no fur
Their.
The next landing was at a wood a few
miles below Napoleon, and when Travis
and Hellerig We're placed Is PAGES apart.
and before the signal to fire was given,
young Travis held up his hand and said:
Gentlemen. this man. pointing toward
his opponent, is Jack Hellerig. an in
famous scoundrel and murderer. He
and three others. thieves and ~scoundrels
like himself. deliberately murdered my
father a year ago and now ! am going to
kill him. Ready
Zone, two three! Fire"
"Only one pistol cracked. n that one
was Travis's. Hellerig fell shot square
" between the eyes. The L. Sorers who
We're supplying the steamer with wood
wanted to throw the gamblers body in
the river. but young Travis begged them
to bury it where it fell. It has long since
been carried away by the floods, which
have washed away the bank.
"a week after the killing Of Helerig
young Travis learned that Leon Parade
another of the quartet Of gamblers, had
been seen at Shreveport La. Two weeks
later Travis and his man Jack found Pa
RADIO on the Osceola at Baton Rouge.
Parade was a half-breed Spaniard sui
len. trea cherOus and a notorious fighter
with the knife. A dozen or more men
We're sitting on the forward deck Of the
boat. smoking and talking. when young
Travis stepped in front of the Spaniard
and with the heel of his boot trod on
the SDaniard's foot.
DREW HIS KNIFE.
PARADE sprang to his feet and instant
ly drew his knife, but was prevented
from using it by the passengers.
LET the Dago go said Travis, quiet
ly. He's a thief, a liar and a murderer.
l suppose he wants to fight, and although
he is too low a dog to notice | will accom-
modate him.. We land a few miles be-
"A lpW, ScIIlISIilCi. dlIO y "lAA
arrange with the Dago's second, whoever
he may be- AS the Spaniard insisted or
a duel, there could be no further objec-
ton on the part of the passengers. When
the seconds met 1t vas found that "a
ado insisted on the battle being decided
with knives. Captain Barron refused
to concede until he saw his principal, but
a few minutes later, after talking with
J Travis, knives wer agreed upon.
Men who saw the fight told me that
THAI, poxnr a ~ ANYTHING anl1al IN Ira
l vis's experiences and rapidity. From the
+, time the blades We're crossed to the finish
Travis's movements We're SO rapid that
t only flash after flash of his blade was
4 The young planter escaped with a
scratch. AS before, Travis told the
! spectators the story of his fathers muir
der, and everybody was glad when the
. young fellow escaped without injury.
: after the death of Parade the two re-
e naming partners in the murder of old
man Travis learned of the death of Their
comraie and of young Travis pursuit
Hank Smart and Jose Severn We're brave
t men in certain conditions, but they be
g came terrified at the fate of the other
: two men. and they fled. Smart went t.
| Texas and worked along to Galveston.
A PAID DETECTIVE.
"Travis had paid a detective at eacl
one OF the principal towns to keep u look
\ out for the meil, and in less than a month
after the arrival of Smart in the towr
a young man calling himself Strange az
rived in Galveston. On the next nigh
S Strange and Smart sat opposite eacl
s other at a table in a gambling den. NJ
t one knew exactly how the trouble began
: but only one shot found its billet, ano
f that one lodged in Smart's brain.
Jose Severn was now the only one O.
+. the original quartet alive. He was some
:, where in Texas at the time of Smart:
death, and, of course, heard of it. Th'
fact that a man calling himself Strang'
r. had killed Smart did not deceive Severn
He intuitively knew that Strange wa
really young Travis, and he was full,
4 aware that if he remained in Texas i
q would not be long before he would b
face to face with the avenglng son of tn
old planter.
g severn fled the country. and it wa
nearl va year before Travis got a cles
X to his whereabouts although he visite
nearly a year before Travis got a cleW
had a dozen paid men locking for hin
When he did hear of him it was to lear
that Severn had gone to Mexico, Wher
he had enlisted in the navy. Travis &c
l to the City of Mexico as quickly as pos
sible, and learned that Lieutenant Jos
IS Severn was at MatanZaS. They met a
Pulquera, but Severn and the Mexican
ar with him did not dream that the strange
it was other than he assumed to be
I'd an Englishman.
IN Had Severn suspected the stranger t
re be Travis he would not have done Wha
,e he did, but doubtless would have stun
in out of Pulguera and fled. AS it haI
If pened, he did rot, and, instead, to sho'
40 his men tha. he was a terror. he delil
erately insult the supposed English
. man and was challenged, of course.
LAST ONE OF THE -FOUR.
"The men met a mile out of town, an
1e an American was Travis second. Befol
ly the signal to fire was given Severn's o.
ne ponent said to his enemy:
is Jose Severn, your time has com
Your three partners in the murder of Il