The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-30

about she tsne fhaf Tumhsfone. dcoen
miles sway. was s<Arted. ne miasnG ex-
esssn<nss bEanxi1e = - xsl1sa miaess ana
adven*urers. sv3 oedS4 thca1nAd q uieua.
But Buynetx was BOT miner he iona g
mcre prcafxhse 70 ~ q b~teheT. He uwnSa
hardly one head q stock.~yss hsn busir66e
G1ew and tmMeu3e' w1Ee bis deaHn8A
Then Ne was eIected Justice al the peace.
ana Ia ss.At o1Hce hesweeA the years I'D
and sse attained the Seasfn pf biz fame.
Hut ~ d~ifneasfon ~ far-ess would =
cnmpiete vtthou; more than passing re1.
e-xnce 10 his hssne- Tombstone ~ ts1e STAR
had very little water. 20 the ores were
freighted dewn 70 Charleston for redue-
sfon. Around the mills grew up fo1n
that had .5ae inh2hitants and. by actual
count, sixty saloons. II bad the usual
crowd CT re1-shsrted miners. who made u
lively when fortune favored them. but the
browning glory Of the psass WAS in tts cow
boys They called themselves cowboys. the
hespurred fraternity who rode their horses
through the streets and SIZED the 9amnainx
hesis AZ night X Is probable that noss oe
them. at one time or other, had been cat
sleusn. hus at the time with which this
article deals there were few iong-horns IN
Southeastern Arizona. and the grassy
meadows and deeply tarfed valleys gave
no warning Of the drouths OF later years.
A cowboy Of the class referred to was To-
caIiy called a russier. which. In Western
parsanee. means mounted individual who
makes g living BY picking up everything
he can loosen from the earth. regardless Of
prser rsghts
.STenabHtone Is usually considered 10 have
been the toughest Of csmps." said John
Dunbar editor ~ the Phoenix Gazette. He
lived In Cochse county In lsss But
Tombstone" he continued, WASN'T a
marker TO Charleston. II was simply aw-
ful. They didn't begin their day down
there TIL dark. ard then they whooped 1t
up. Election days were the richest OF all.
The sownspeopls never pretended TO come
cut Of their holes TO vote. The cowboys
hundreds OF them, would come in on their
Sunday horses. tank up and then proceed
10 capture the ballot hcx ana stun IL as
they pleased. They rarely molested Tomb
stone Most OF them had individually
been run out Of Tombstone. But they
manages things along the San Pedro ac-
cordsng 10 theirown sweet wills.
There were some OF the toughest men
la those rustier gangs that ever stretched
hemp unused Dunbar. 'but every man
seemed afraid Of Burnett. and the tough
est were In band that knew him as lead
er One was Billy Leonard, the toughest
nat that ever carried a gun. He wasn't
originally cowboy: had very little expert
ence at IT, He was jeweler from New
York city. high class workman He had
consumption. knew he had to die. and real
iy would have preferred being killed. Ono
Of his feats was to chase the whole crowd
OF my racetrack al Tombstone enc Sunday
at the muzzies Of two guns in his nervous
little hands. He had dozen or so helpers.
but Billy himself did all the driving.
know. for I was In the crowd Billy had
los, on a race ard felt bad Curly Bill was
a member Of Burnett's crowd and SO were
the cian,on boys. Ire Lowreys and Jack
Ringgold. Ringgold was feet inches.
the handsomest desperate that ever put