Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-15
HOW ARE The NICHTYFALLEN
IgnominiOus Surrender Of Bat MaSterson IN
New York City.
HIS RECORD As A CEMETERY PROMOTES
RecoIIectiOns Of His Career as a Peaes
Persuader in Cowboy Towns
and Mining Camps of
the West.

the scenes Of their trials and triumphs
the shadowy host Of heroic pioneers have
abundant cause for a mass convention "a
give expression to the indignation which
these degenerate days must provoke. One
Of their number who fingers In the flesh has
dishonored his tribe and discredited his
reputation. known throughout the vest as
an artist with a gun. who has started nu-
merous cemeteries in active service. sup
pressed scores Of desperadoes and blooming
toughs and faced without hipching scores
Of guns with the head on-this giant of
border days surrendered ANONYMOUSLY to a
pair OF fly cops in New York City.
How are the mighty fallen!
"Bat" Masterson is In hook and disarmed.
The triumph Of enete civilization" was
| pulled OF In New York City, where Bat
and two other sports sought to work a
game on a rustic who was long on money
and short on sense. This is the substance
OF the story the police told when Masterson
was a~rraigned. Masterson denied the
charge and demanded a trial, which was
rut on for thirty days, and the prisoners
admitted TO bail.
Masterson drifted down east about a year
ago, where, it was said, he held the re-
sponsible post Of bodyguard for George
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cidedly strenuous life in the west and
achieved distinction in a score Of cowboy
towns and mining camps. He ran away
from his home in Chicago in 1878. struck
the Kansas trail and became a chum Of
Wild Bill, q notorious character in his day.
Bill sent word along the trail that Master
son was one Of the nerviest youngsters on
the plains. When Mastersol reached
Dodge City II was to find that the town
was overrun with a lavless element. Dodg
was then the end Of the Texas cattle trail
and from that point all the beef in the
country. 1t might be said, was shipped to
the Chicago market. But the place was In
the hands Of the cowboys, who made life
dangerous, took possession Of the saloons
and robbed and pillaged the place when
ever the fancy struck them. A marshal
had no terror for them. Several had been
appointed, and those that had not been
killed had resigned or allowed the cowboys
to do as they pleased. The saloon men Of
the town were in terror, as we're the gam
blers. Dodge was a profitable place for
each IL they were left alone, and as they
constituted the government Of the town
they had appointed nearly everybody
recommended to them, but always with the
same result. They relied on Luke Short,
but fearless as he was. the cowboy crowd
was too much for him. So. he hailed the
arrival Of Bat with delight, and calling the
saloon keepers and gamblers together, he
announced that be could recommend to
them a man who would restore order in
Dodge City. and asked that Masterson be
appointed marshal. He was brought before
them-a mere boy 19 years of age, and it
was with some misgivings that a commits
sion was made out and placed in his hands.
Masterson Immediately appointed as depu-
ties Short and Psrren Stevens and Pat
Garrett, the latter the man who killed
BILLY the Kid" In New Mexico in the early
SOS. In fact. he gathered around him men
who aftervard became famous on the from
tier. and then, alone, he called upon the
various tough men OF the place, notified
them that he had been appointed marshal,
that the town was in a lawless condition
and that in the future acts Of violence
would not be tolerated: there must be no
more shooting out Of lights in the saloons
and gambling houses; in short, they must
behave themselves or take the conse-
quences, and that, beginning the next
morning, be would expect everybody to be-
have himself. He was laughed at, and
when morning dawne a wild orgie was in
progress. gambling houses were being
robbed. saloons being destroyed and prop
erty generally n danger.
Shot Two Men Dead.
Masterson called on the crowd. ordered II
to dispense, and a movement was made for
reyolvers' when a couple OF shots from the
new marshal's revolver laid two tough men
dead on the floor, and the crowd walked out