The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-09-04
He WENT UP THE SPOUT:
! Or a Negro Resurrection.
by JUMBo

Talking of street fights and little
crossroads rackats, reminds me of
the big, half-a-day fight that occurred
on the streets of old Milletsville
when / first landed in Texas.
Old Tim Jones, one of pioneer
cattle men of old Meadow county
was an original character. He was
odd, comieal, perseyering, enterpris-
ing and withal as rich as an Astor.
He came to Texas when land was
cheap, and cattle were still cheaper.
He accumulated fast, both money
and friends. Shortly after his com
still higher and Tim Jones became a
cattle king, before he had scarcel Y
time to realize 1t.
He knew every man in the county
and every man in the county knew
him. Whenever he backed man
for office, that man got an Office.
For ten years he stood at Tom Park
er's back for sheriff and every time
Tom got bigger majority.
Tim Jones was reared among the
rugged hills of dear old Tennessee.
While he learned and loved the ex-
amples of her heroes; while he as
simulated the teachings of her early
traditions, he learned to love the
taste of hel mountain dripsn.
After coming TO Texas he still Guilt
waited the taste, but the imbibing Of
so much of this self-made, Texas
red eye spoiled his taste, shocked
his nerves and partially ruined his
temper. He drank more cons antly;
b e c a IN e intoxicated periodically
periods at shorter lnterv ais.
When he got on one of his tandems.
he invariably took in the town and
painted it red. He got TO doing
that so often and so furiously that
the whole county got it in for Sheriff
Tom Parker, saying he would not
arrest Tim on account of his influ-
ence.
One beautiful morning in early
August just after the farmers had
sold and shipped the biggest crop of
wheat ever threshed in old Meadow
county. 1t was the year that the
cattle tipped the climax Of the high
est prices ever kaown in Texas.
Old Tim Jones came into town, took
a few drinks, eat a a few dozen eggs
straight up, and went TO the sheriff
gave him his siXshOter and said:
Tom, you and the cubs had better
keep close to the shore today and
tonight for | feel my meanness com
ing on me. ! am going on whiz
with sails hoisted, and the rudder a
singing If you care anything for
that NANCY hided, peck marked,
bow legged, box ankled, slew footed,
lousy headed city marshal, tell him
to get into the first cellar he can find
for / am in town, and hell has
broke loose in Georgia
The sheriff collected twenty-five of
the best and bravest men in the
county and told them to throw away
their guns, catch old Tim Jones and
hog tie him. While the sheriff was
making these arrangements old Tim
ate forty potted hams, sucked sixty
goose eggs, swallowed the contents
Of five gallon demi-john, sucked a
beer keg dry and gave yell that
was heard six miles, and killed all
the timber in a two mile circle. He
sprang forty feet into the street and
twenty into mid air, turned IA double
back action summersauft, and struck
the ground with such "a force ii
| broke all the window lights out Of
! the court house and half the dwell
| ings: gave a few hurrahs; snorted
twice and withered all the grass for
( a mile Just at this moment the
sheriff with twenty-five deputies
] formed a large circle around old
/ Tim Tim made dive for the
/ sheriff, caught him, slung him
straight up forty feet, caught hin
/ BY the heels as he came down
whirled around three or four times
and turned him loose knocking down
! fourteen deputies, TINS demolishing
over half the formidable circle. He
! then gave a few wild cat screams
| and each remaining deputy recalled
| some lonely spot on the prairie on
some secluded hole In "a faraway
gulch, and desiring to- be there foi
| the sake Of war and posterity star
ted of leisurely, but several of this
/ longer legged ones knocked down
and trampled some of the shorter
ones in their earelessness.
| While old Tim was holding ths
cards at the sheriff's fashionable AZ
| ternoon reception, Bill Upton, tbt
chief of the fire department, than
whom a Drawer man nor better fire
fighter ever lived climbed upon tor
of the three-story building of thu
Milletsville bank carrying with hin
the town hose. He opened up OF
| Tim with IA sluice of water as big a:
your leg. 1t was a complete sur
prise to old Tim. He threw up hi
head and opened his mouth with al
exclamation. Bill hit him cente
In the goozle, and the trembling
crowd yelled to the encore. 1t va
the worst INT Bill ever made. Tin
began swallowing that stream am
going up it as xpeditiously as al
old house cat skins a telephon
pole. If at any time Bill had drop
ped the hose 1t would have been al
day with old Tim, but Bill was dea
game and held her in his mouth I'll
Tim coIlared him and then the fu
and hair began to fly. 1t was sigh
you don't see twice in life time
two big, burly men fighting on tn
steep slanting roof OF three stor
brick. In the scuffle Bill let tn
hose drop. Some one picked ii u
and turned 1t onto old Tim with
vengeance. But old Tim took th
stream in his mouth and came dow