The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-10
DROP ON bad MEN.
TWO WILD WEST DULLES ROUND
ED UP BY A LISPING TEN.
DERFOOT
DANCED AT PISTOLS MOUTH

His form entOrs, shooting One to
Death and Seriously Wounding
the Other Handy With a Gun
Himself When Pushed Beyond the
Limit of Patience.
Washington Star.
1.-THE bad men down my way haven't
been fooling with tenderfeet much of late
years." said George Craig, an Arizona
man, who was In Washington in connec-
ton with mining case. 'Tenderfeet
have way of coming to life once in
while, and the WOLF eaters have found
this out. 1 remember the case of ten
derfoot who arrived at himself In Phoe-
nix back in 1887. He was a towhead,
with white eyebrows, a peachy skin and
slight lisp-but he made good. He had
struck Arizona straight from d mining
school somewhere back East. He hadn't
made the mining engineer proposition
stick, and within a month after he land
ed in Arizona he found himself broke in
Phoenix. So he got S. a day job
pounding piano In the back room of Joe
Hardesty's 'Palais' saloon. He was
pretty fair plano sharp and earned his
wages. His name was Algernon Mont
clair, and he looked the name. with his
girly skin, big blue eyes and mild, in
curing expression. The boys got to guy
ing him a good deal, calling him NAM
mas angel child and that sort of thing,
and they tried pretty hard to get rise
out Of the key puncher, but he
STOOD FOR THE WHOLE THING,
and never stopped playing when they
were guying him the hardest. Joe
Hardesty called the gang down once in
while for ridiculing the piano player,
but when Joe wasn't around they poured
1t into the tenderfoot pretty hard His
two chief tormentors were Buck Free
man, genuinely bad man, who ran an
ether saloon and gambling joint further
down the street, and Chop Suey' Pollock,
bad proposition from San Francisco,
who got his nickname because he could
talk Chink and loved the dope pipe. Both
were killers with records. They had
both been warned to cease their picking
on the tenderfoot piano player by Joe
Hardesty, who was pretty quick with a
gun himself; but one Sunday the pair,
who were thick friends for some reason
or other, combined up the whole lot along
toward night and went to the 'Palais'
They knew that Hardesty was out of
town, and they wanted to have some fun
with the plano whacker. The tender
foot was drumming away when Free
man and Pollock lurched into the back
room Of the saloon Most of the patrons
of the place were upstairs, trying to beat
the faro layouts.
Hey, SIS said Freeman to the ten
derfoot as soon as he got into the room,
you thump that thing pretty we'll, don't
you? But there's one thing never seen
you do, an that's
PLAY THE PIANO AN WALTZ
at one an the same time. Never teached
you t do that, did they? You nver seen
him do it, Chop?' he asked his pal, turn
ing to Pollock.
Not any, said Pollock But it sounds
as If 1t ought to work pretty good
I don't know how 1t 'ud work said
Freeman, cause I never seen it did But
I got powerful hankerin' t. see it, Sis,
s'pose you heave us one O. them doublin'-
up stunts I'm a-talkin' about. I've heard
you do tn KEEP punchin' end of it; now 1
want some ballay with it. Go aheadp
I don't danth,' replied the tenderfoot
oh, yeth you do, chimed in Pollock,
initiating the tenderfoot's lisp. You can
:" I thay, you fellowth,' began the
piano-playing tenderfoot. I'm not feeling
well tonight, and thith 18th no time to-
Danth! suffered both Freeman and
Pollock together, suddenly pulling their
guns, and both Of the DULLES planted balls
within an inch of the tenderfoot's heels,
the bullets boring through the soft pine
floor.
"Algernon Montclair struck up On the
Beautiful Blue on the piano, at the same
time shutting his feet about clumsily in
time with the music His gyrations
tickled the two devils behind him to the
limit. They
ROARED OUT DIRECTIONS,
and when the tenderfoots movements
seemed to slacken from WEAKNESS thew
put another pair Of bullets through the
floor close to his feet, and he went on
with renewed energy. There were a num-
Der of men in the front part of the sa-
loon who didn't like the thing a little bit
but they kept out Of 1t from motives of
prudence. The tenderfoot PLAYED the
waltz through and danced to it twice be-
fore his tormentors grew weary of the
fun and let up on him by walking I'D to
the piano and bringing their paws down
on the keys together. They had put away
their guns.
That'H do you, SIS said Freeman. L
knowed you could danth, an you're prov
ed 1t. You danth like you were born to
it. Your mother must ha' been a ballv
danther, or else
freeman was walking toward the
front room with Pollock as he said this
thay, you, called Tenderfoot Alger-
nono Montclair after him, in a quiet tone
or voice, and Freeman turned around to
see what the key puncher wanted. AS he
did so he saw the tenderfoot standing
with his back to the piano and gun in
each hand. They were two almost stimuli
taneous reports, and both of Buck Free
mans arms were broken close to the
shoulders. Chop Suey was quick on the
trigger, and he had his two guns out be-
fore the tenderfoot's pair belched forth a
couple more flashes. Then Pollock's twin
guns fell to the floor like so much Junk
Both Of
HIS ARMS WE'RE BROKEN, TOO.
You dirty dogth,' said the tenderfoot
70 the TWO helpless DULLES, as they stood
ana looked at him savagely with their
shattered arms at their sides, and then
he walked over to them and spat in their
faces, one after the other. Freeman gave
sudden reach out with his right boot
as If to trip the tenderfoot-his idea
probably being to get the piano player
down and stamp the life out of him-but
the tenderfoot, whose mild blue eyes
were now blazing, was too quick. He
hopped back out of reach like q boxer.
and with his right-hand gun he bored a
hole fair and plump through Buck Free
mans forehead. Pollock begged for his
life like cur, and the tenderfoot after
looking him over doubtfully for a full
minute, gave 1t to him. He took Chop
Suey by the back or his shoulders and
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