The Tucson citizen., 1902-09-09

| let the new ones In our midst sweat in
comfort
Now, that was square enough
talk for anybody, but, as told you,
the mesquite booze had sort O. got Cal
stampeded around his top works, and
his hat-bells had sort O. worked their
way into his head.
Don't you gimme no such conversa-
tion as that said Cal to the marshal,
or I'll be smoking you up some
We'll, George knew the shape Cal
was in, and he didn't want to have any
bother, and so he walked away. Now.
this all happened on powerfully hot
day-hat ven for Tucson. Cal poked
aro'ird after his little talk with the
a hooter inlG his system every four
minutes or So Just how he got the
idea i!tu his fool head that Marshal
don't know, but along toward night he
gave three jumps in the air, yanked
out both his ANS, and allowed that he
wanted Sc me marshal meat to salt
away asainst a harj winter Calls
friends tried I 3, argue him out of it and
TO lead hin. to his little white trundle
bell. lut he WASH t seeing them or their
advice from any Tcint of view. Said
that the only thing that could recon-
cile him to his lot in life or the life to
1 ~
with rcck sp1t. Well, seeing that
they couldn't do anything with Cal,
they concluded that the next best thing
was to notify Conway that CCal was
Oft the rs, alton and making war
medicine like Mojave weaving bas-
kets.
"All 6 X said Conway. L sure
don't want to tattoo that boy up none
but | need a whole lot O. breath this
hot weather, and if he hikes too close
to my trail I'll have to the best know
how to give l. I'M a nap.
We'll, VIC all kept pretty close to
cover then, for we knew that it was
going to come off, and we didn't figure
none on being tossed over by the stray
cnes from Calls and Georges guns.
"It happened along toward 10
oclck that night in the Smoke Up sa-
loon. Conway was standing up at the
bar, alone, taking one for his stom-
ach's sake, when he heard Cal a-com-
ing down the street like calliope.
Conway stood right quiet at the bar,
but he cleared ship for action action.
and the bys in the back room picked
out healthier spots on the second floor.
EThe bnrkeep yanked open the trap and
sought the coolness of the cellar.
Gal loped in with whoop. Right
at the same instant he and the mar
shall began to bump without word.
You never heard such a FFourth Of
July rumpus in your life as that was.
Then men were only abut ten feet
apart, and yet the boys on the second
floor were amazed to hear every shot
in 10th mems guns go off.
'Scandalous shootin,' the boys said.
and it really seemed as if they were
Justified. Conway was ordinarily
able to push a dime through the side
of dobe at twenty PAGES, and Cal
had shown some gun-fanning in his
day that earned him the respect of
everyone.
Well after they had made all that
noise, we heard 'em talking quite like,
and SC we made our appearance on the
scene. There was Cal, his two guns
resting on the bar and the shells out
of 'em in his hands Same with Con-
way. You never saw such mystified
pair Of men in your life as those two
were for minute Then the marshal
gave his knee whack.
"By the blue blazes of Sheol!' he
yelled, If the heat hasn't melted the
balls out of our cartridges, and we've
been firing blanks at each other!'
He reached down into both of his
bootlegs, and burned if he didn't pull
CONCEALED mass of queerly-twisted
lead out of each ofem. Cal did like
wise and I'm gopher if he didn't
fetch UP two lunches Of the same kind
o lead! The heat of the day had