The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-05-27
EGOT HIS REVENGE.
" CAME IN THE WILD RIOT STARTED
BY THE CIRCUS MAN.


II CAME IN THE WILD RIOT srARTe
| BY THE CIRCUS MAN.
He BiAed His Time, ana when
Came the Mexicans Who HAD Tor
tured Him Paid Dearly For Thei
| Uawarranted Brutality.
"Tye been mixed up in q good man
Hey, RUDE, fights in the western states
and I've got myself pretty badly clawe
| apart In some Of them at that" said tn
settled down Capitol hill man who use,
to be boss tentman with circus, but tn
worst 10 minute Hey, Rube,' battle
ever got tangled with happened In Mexico
The battle was started to satiate tn
vengeful spirit Of one man, and the nea
way with which he brought 1t of wa
surely warning to grasshoppers. This
man was in my gang. He joined thu
show up in the northern pert Of Starr
county, Tex. He was inexperienced, but
he was Q worker and he didn't want IL
do all the talking himself. His head was
done up in bandages when he Joined the
outfit, and I asked him who had been
slugging him.
'Greasers,' ne replied shortly, and, az
q sort Of hard, steely light crept into his
eyes when he snapped out tho word, I
didn't press him for details.
1--WE had q sort Of q half baked Hey,
Rube, fight down In the middle of Starr
county-we were working toward the
southland noticed that the new man
didn't take any part In 1t.
"You've got to do your end of these
mix ups ! told him. When you hear
the "Hey, Rube," boot, it's part Of your
business to grab tho heaviest thing you
can swing and rap the first duck that
doesn't belong to the show with it. Hey,
Rube, means all hands around, and every
man that draws wages from the show is
expected to give a club swinging exhibit
ton when that yell goes up.
"'lm saving myself for game that's
coming later on. the man told me with
another Of those finty glares stealing into
his eyes. THE shows bound for Cainargo,
Mexico, isn't iti'
~ told him that Camargo, Mexico was
on the date book; that it was probably the
last town the show would appear in be-
fore going into winter quarters.
"'Thats what l understood when I
Joined the show, and that's why I took
the job, said the man quietly. You just
let mo out of whatever scraps happen be-
tween hero and Camargo. When we get
there I'll do what can to keep my end
up
"Then the man opened up and told me
why he had it in for Camargo.
"'A greaser tried to pink me with
knife in the back couple Of months ago
over in Camargo, he said. Don't know
why. Never saw the gopher before. I
was too quick for him and planted ball
In his shoulder. Then about hundred of
his pals hoped me, and they came near
kicking mo inside out. That's what allied
my head when Joined tho show. When
they got through with me, the half Injun
oonstables got hold of me and chained me-
to the floor of a dungeon. was there for
two weeks, on bread and water, when
got tho steel out of one Of my boots and
sawed myself loose. broke out of the
dungeon and swan the Rio Grande to get
on American soil. While was chained
one Of the guards made 1t his business to
come into my dungeon every day and
punch my sore head. Oh, I'm going to
have some trouble in Camargo all right
That's what joined the show for.
Now, it was my business as one of the
men of the show to peach on
this fellow and have him fired before tho
show struck CamargO But didn't. A
lot of old pals of miro in the circus bust
ness had told me of tho way they had got
the worst of 1t on many occasions at the
hands of the Mexican authorities, and as
had along with me in my gang about
the toughest bunch of fifty and odd bad
scrappors that ever hit up dirt road and
rs, besides, felt that this quiet tsntlnan
had genuine grievance, just chewed
straw and walked away.
"A huge crowd of half breeds turned out |
for the show in Camargo There was but |
one performance, the night show, and the |
for about hundred miles around |
had galloped in to take in the show. About |
Of the bunch Of several
thousand in the tont were gaudily bedeck-
ID COW handlers. They all had knives In
ull sight, but no guns. Mexican COW
,unehers rarely pack guns They don't
light on tho level, and knife isn't a level
Instrument to fight with.
Before the flaps were pulled up for the
rowd noticed my quiet tentman getting
stack Of wagon poles, nearly hundred
# them, piled together in heap. l also
,otced that none of the hands, either in
ny gang or in the other gangs-there
we're nearly 200 men all told connected
With the show-were doing much talking.
hey seemed to DO ON edge for something
hat was gong to happen.
1.-THE last act of tho concert following
he show was about over, and the grcasers
'ero leaving their seats, when my quiet
ontman boppcd on top of the pile of poles
Q had fixed and gave the Hey, Rubc,'
elp-gave it like any bull of Bashan. Ho
ad put the whole gang of hands next, for
hey didn't waste second in taking up
he yelp all over the tent. Then they came
rushing for the poles Well, l thought
d keep out of that one made for the
lclter of ticket wagon and saw 1t all
ON there. The quiet tentman served
ut all of his poles in less than two min
tes and then the hands began to break.
irst the constables in their funny blue
informs and bare feet-2O of 'enl-were
atted into Inconsistencies in less time
ian I'm telling 1t. Tho quiet tentman
oked like devil up in the front Of the
trapping. In spirit OF complete DELI
ice he quickly dropped his pole and be-
III to use his fists. He was a six footer
I'd built in proportion, and the way they
ent down was a caution. Finally his ,
% lit upon the prison guard who had
at him when he was chained, and, by
curious coincidence at the same moment,
@ greaser who had tried to stab him
avod in sight. The victim Of Camargo
aged one to the other by the scruff of !
@ neck, banged their heads together and
en stabbed them both to the heart with 5
10 of the guards knives That was the
st ever saw Of him, but he got away. !
0 got across the Rio Grande in our 6
rges just In time to see FIVE troops of r
exican cavalry pull up on the banks of {,
0 Mexican side. The show would have
en- there yet If they d been bit earlier"