The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-05
HARD MEN TO KILL.
Narrow Escapes of BuffaIO Bin and
Some of His Men.

From the Philadelphia Times.
There is In the Buffalo Bill Wild West
shoW-and this Is not a press notice OF
that amusement aggregation--a concealed
exhibit of the power of human nerve and
the effect of strength OF viii that is not
seen upon the surface, and therefore in
visible TO the superficial. uniformed
looker-on. There is a story contained in
it that every III man should read; a story
of why many men die before their time;
a story Of win force; a story OF courage;
a story of defying a doctors death sem
tence by saying, II Will not die, large
percentage Of those who move from this
sphere to the next do so largely by rea-
son Of he fact tnat they believe they are
going to die, and so believing give up the
ghost TO such as these, could they come
back TO earth, the men gathered about
Buffalo Bill II they We're induced colec-
lively to indulge in exercise, unadorned by
attire, in a swimming tank, would present
an object lesson that would lead them TO
the conclusion that they had gasped their
last breath away without reason. There
is hardly q member of the aggregation
that does not bear upon his body the scar
OF knife on the impress Of "A bullet as a
reminder OF what the doctors have pro,
nouncad mortal wounds. Buffalo Bin
himself Is wounded in almost every por-
ton of his body. At Wounded Knee, be-
fore ne killed Yellow Hand, that doughty
Indian chieftain inflicted upon him a
knife-thrust, imperiling his life TO such
an extent that the attending physicians
Ruffalo Bill said he wouldn't die, and he
didn't
carved and shot times beyond his mem
DRY, aud told that me must die,
Salisbury said he woldn't die, and he
didn't
Mai. John M Burke-"Arizona John"
they called him years back in Arizona,
when he was the pride Of Prescott--re-
ceived a swipe from the back of his neck
to his chin that came within fractional
part OF an inch Of seVering his iugnlar
vein and which the iooBing-glass stu
tells him the story OF every morning, and
as a consequence of which he was told
thai he must die
"Arizoua John" said he wouldn't die,
Tommy France, the only man on this
earth who can ride the broncho terrors
known as Jumbo" and Jubilee, when
he is stripped looks like "A war map OF the
Philippine Islands. and has several times
been told that he must die.
Johnny" said he wouldn't die, and he
Johnny" Baker. the famous rife shot,
has gone through almost similar expert
ence, and by the way, talking OF nerve,
his lamonted wife, when she was con-
nected as a rider with the show. rode
race al O'Clock one afternoon, presented
her husband with an heir one hour later
and the evening Of that same day again
rode 20 victory In the arena.
Hard to Kill people of that kind. Most
of them come from the West. But there
Is Just as much nerve IN the East as ~
The West. Ii Is only necessary that it
should assert itself.
An this leads up 20 another man, and
more striking example.
ba,siness department is a man named S.
G. HaIler tall slim, blonde, wiry-look-
ing. He does mol weigh more than about
1gg mounds Seven weeks ago ne was
dead: 20 the doctors said Now he IA
with the STOW and a very active part Of
IT, This Is the story of the death where
there was no die:
Halter comes from Salt Lake City. He
was captain OF police there. That was
hack In 1890 In New York city on the
first day Of April last, In public saloon
a man named HaEler had never met be-
fore-William II. HOLLAND, so-calicd
"sporting'' man from Albany and the pro-
prietor OF u pool room in Montreal
pushed the Inuzzle Of a pistol against
Hslcr's body, and without warning and
heard The explosion but did MOI know that
he had been wounded. lie saw his vest