The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-09-15

DoRE ROOSEVELT.
ranches feeling ran high between the cat
! tlemen and the outlaw element of the
region. It terminated in a meeting at a
freight shanty in Medora. This meeting
was for the purpose of banding the cattle
men together for mutual protection. 1t
was openly limited that a certain deputy
sheriff was in collision with the tough
element. The sheriff was present at the
meeting. After some preliminary forms
of organization. Mr.. Roosevelt rose and
| addressed the sheriff. In the history of
| that part Of the frontier such a speech
/ had never been heard before. Mr.. Roose-
vent openly accused the sheriff of dis
! honesty and incompetency. With the re-
! Elected light from the officers pearl
/ handled revolver at his belt flashing
| across his trimmed glasses he scorned
/ him as a man unworthy and unfit for his
( office. 1t is one thing to deliver a fiery
accusation of general or personal charges
at a crowded meeting of law-abiding peo-
pie. 1t is another to cooHy stand before q
handful bf1silent frontiersmen and open
/ " accuse one Of dishonesty. Death stares
closely I'M the fact the man who dares
attempt it, for these men, bred in isola-
lion ara sensitive to the quick on their
T personal honor and an accusation that
would be laughed at in Cooper union,
would eat out mans heart at Medora.
With downcast head the sheriff never said
a word, but his prestige was gone for
ever, and another sheriff quickly Sue
ceeded him. Mr.. Roosevelt's second in
dication of nerve was in his capture Of
Bad Man" Finnigan.
MET WILD CHARACTER.
Bad Man Finnegan" was very bad
man. He delighted in stating that he was
from Bitter creek, where the further up
you went. the worse people got, and that
his dwelling place was at the extreme
fountain head. He was short, stocky,
ugly tempered fellow, with long red hair.
which feD down over his shoulders; that
is, it was long until one day the cowboys
found him lying under sage brush suf-
fering from temporary alteration Of the
mind from the effect of big Mouth
Bob's'' barbed wire whisky. They cut of
his hair close to his head, save for ridge
down the middle, which gave him the ap-
pearance of a reached mule Mr.. Finnegan
eventually woke up. and he felt bad. He
was pained He took his big rife, and
stepping out TO where he could get a good
view of the town, began to burn it up
The first shot went through the printing
Office of the Bad Lands Cowboy and came
out or the opposite side. closely followed
by the editor, who was setting up an edi-
torial on 'The Majesty of the Law" The
next took of the corner Of the stud table
in blood Raw Johns" oyster grotto. BY
this time the citizens were rapidly making
tracks for the fringe OF timber along the
base of the bluffs, their speed accelerated
by an occasional bullet, seemingly as big
as a calf After making pepper boxes Of
the few buildings. Bad Man Finnegan'
shouldered his rife and sauntered down
the river. Finding q boat tied up. ne ap-
propriated If and drifted down with the
current until he came opposite the Elk
horn ranch, where he spied a handsome
hunting boat. completely equipped lie
Immediately made transfer and passed
on; things were coming his way. Mr..
Roosevelt shortly after came into town
and heard how the gentleman from Bitter
creek had been amusing himself. soon
after he missed his boat To say he was
mad doesn't express il. He quickly got
another boat and followed. 4 tain chase /
is long chase. particularly when the 4
current OF n river carries the pursued as I
fast as the pursuea Il IS enough 70 know I
that the young Kew Yorker followed his 1
man for I50 miles and eventually captured 4
and marched his prisoner out Of the xii 4
derness and finally lodged him fri jan In T
the adjoining county AZ Dickinson
Mr Roosevelt employed men cooks or +
his ranch and washed his own clothes by /
nIacing them fin the river and weighing /
them down with powders. He took part 4
in a frontier baU and went down the mid 4
die with the gisSling partner " Kan
Earoo Bin The Billiards Of the winter
81 1881 cost hin thousands q cattle. but
ha rest1cked bis ranch and persevcred
While doing an this he was gathering ma
serial for his famous western books His
Ranch Life and Hunting Trail is the
hest story II the kind ever written F7asl-
erick Remington illustrated the volume.
and ID IS replete with Information ~
period fast passing away IN the hisforr
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.ure. where cowboys and branding irons
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