The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-01-20
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Bow the spanish sharpshootsr Fol vietim
90 Justice and Christianity.

90 Justice and Christianity.
one spot there was ln the rough riders
camp where you could always find n Curi-
Gus group, visitors and troopers. This
mountain lion one Of he rcImentai pets.
To watch Josie snarl and show her white
teeth; to admire the daring Of her tanner,
the one rough rider whose touch she
would permit, as he rolled her. splitting
and clawing, on her back. and cuned her
playfully and otherwise displayed his
mastery 20 see her welcome poor little
frcWsy Cuba, the r~egimental yellow dog.
pat him with her paws and show that
she loved him-these were sights that nev,
ec grew tame for the followers q Solonel
Roosevelt, writes Cleveland Monat In
Leslle's Weekly. IL was IN this group one
fo T aB boIunr a or 1 m mgs tbleer559 or Il enioved
the picturesqueness Of his talk. Happy
Of peace he delves the ground for pre-
cious metal and breaks the monotony OF
things by playing faro. tackling bad men
and painting the evidences Of his pres
ence, over the. visage Of frontier toWps'
He does an things, good or bad, with de-
light, n IL rs not on record that he ever
was afraid. He is a sh~arp-featured, clean
shaven young man of about 30. He speaks
English like anybody else, dialect writer's
to the contrary Notwithstanding.
Tell him about how you got the Span
ish sharpshooter, Happy said one OK the
Yes" said I. tell me about the Span
ish -sharpshooter."
Without further urging Happy Jack
took the center Of the stage and proceed
ed thus; 1t was on the great day when
pretty much everything happened down
there-the list Of July-and 1 had just gone
back from the firing line a few hundred
yards to carry a wounded comrade out Of
danger. But II looked as II ia done the
wrong thing, for just as j came up to
where some doctors and orderlies were,
zip came a bullet Under my hat and. went
into a gentleman behind me, / was just
linking what a lot Of life there was In
that spent ball when zip. came another
bullet on the other side Of my head and
landed in a tree.
" That's M spent ball. said /; there's
a lad getting a range on me
IT'S a Spanish sharpshoOter some
where about, said an orderly; hes killed
eight or nine men In the last h~alf-hour.
See EN- there He pointed to a lot OF
dead bodies.
Well said I. If that's the case. I
ish s-harpshooter.' So l got down on the
ground and gets under cover, and i waits
and l watches to make out where the fell
low is. You see. he had smokeless powder
and It was a job to fix him.
Il guess Il took me fifteen minutes be-
fore / found him. He was high up In a.
cocoanut palm, close to the trunk; just
made a dark spot there like a crows nest;
So 1 throws up my sights to 600 yards, and
gets good and steady and then / says,
Almighty God, put Justice and Christian
ity in this shot n then pulls the trig-
ger. ] said that because 1 was shooting
with a Krag-Jorgensen. and I amt 50
well used 70 them. II I'd had a Winches-
ter ] wouldn't have needed to pray; a
Winchester is Happy Jacks graft every
time. Well, sir, It worked all right. JUS
tice and. Christianity prevailed, and my
friend the Spanish sharpshoOter came
tumbling out Of that c%ocoanut tree 50 fast
he never knew what hit him. He fell
forty feet and was dead before he struck
the ground"
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