The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-02

ago made it possible for a law-abiding
man to live in Deadwood without having
liShed was in a quiet way.
He was the most persuasive man ever
can readily believe that when from well
authenticated sources you learn Of how
portunity to get away from him, kindly
warned them of their danger left loop
when all these chances were despised and
tossed aside. shot down the ringleaders
with as little compunction one would
ssae would wait until the last minute"
says the irrepressible BILL and then
he'd sort of shift his hand around as
though it were jerked lfghtnin', and the
shootin' to kill. He didn't miss, he didn IT,
The bad" men fled from Lewis and
Clark county after he became sheriff to
the Deadwood country and took posses
sion of the mining camps. Deawood sent
LOT MN; In time ne came, a snadoW OF
q man in physique. but vlry, nervy, en-
during. He made himself known in
tone Of voice. as low and soft as a wom-
ans. He said he desired the law to be
observed. When it wasn't he proposed to
arrest the man who offended, or kill him
If necessary In very snort order MS COM
mands were obeyed- For months and
years he stood as the unwritten law of the
camps Things had Ito be square, or
the malcontents must settle with him.
Railroads, statehood, legislative enact
ulation took his occupation from him.
There has been nothing left to him but
His idea of humor-the pioneers idea. of
humorz-is found in the story he tells of
x. Y. z. Beidler- They were building
jail in one of the Montana towns. and the
new cells were just in position No pris-
oners had yet been placed in them.
-One day says Mr. Bullock. * Y,
who was 1ong-winded story teller,
started out on one of his yarns. He had
two or three fellows listening but one and
another left him until only one was left
This fellow finally quit before the story
was ended X. Y. was mad, but he didn't
say anything Two or three days later
he meets the man who was last listening
to him and he invites him over to look
shows him everything. and finally the
fellow steps into one of the new cells
Quick as fash x Y snaps the door
:. Hi. youS says the fellow. let me out
But X Y. is gone. Pretty soon he
comes back with a stool in his hand and
his pipe. He sets down. fills his pipe and
makes himself comfortable.
No says x. Y You're gings to stay
in there until I get my story Finished
You wouldn't listen the other daX. Now
''He never, let the fellow out until the
story was all told
Seth Bullock Is a gentleman to the earth
born but he is lonesome The Great uu-
trammeled sweep of the country once so
dear to him is gone. The fence man.
has come IN, the summer tourist the peo-
pie who gaWk and gaze at tales of olden
days, the men who trembIe at the sight
of a Teyolver'S butt and rush for a peace
bond If they see its muzzle. This is the
order Of things, this is commerce rising
above the pioneers level. but 1t is weak,
disappointing to the men who once ruled
IN the country OF the Sioux. There comes
to their eyes. as there has come to those
they, too. had not passed away when the
last tepee was struck the Rosebud and
the Sioux passed from the pages. of his
tory TO the care OF the keepers OF legends,
fables and things that are no more