The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-27

| the trigger of a. SiXShooter faster than
| a patent adder could count them. and
| from Texarkana to Ell Paso he had the
f, reputation of never missing fire. 1t was
| Hanshawe who was revenged, and
! when he got into the saddle death traY-
| eled quickly over the plains.
The villain, who was an enemy to
Buck Hanshawe and murderer of little
| Tom Allalone,was Wilfred Castro,a for
| mer Missourian, despite his Spanish
name. Castro was a desperate known
| as Wildf1re, and he wore as many differ
ent DISCUSSES as the playwright could
/ think of. He was a train robber and
trail wolf. although when at Col. Ben
tons cattle ranch he was the dandiest
KIND of dresser, and a polished, If
VillainouS man.
Castro had a confederate. Scarface
| Charley. These two bad men were at
! the head of the most terrible gang of
bandits that ever infested the plains,
and as they were concerned with the
events of the first act it naturally fol-
lowed that the shooting should begin
soon after the curtain lifted
After the preliminary busting of the
| furniture and a long speech by Judge
| Whites, a poetical and stiff-kneeded
| reconstructed Southerner, Castro ap-
peared and tried to sell Col. Benton
| the millionaire ranch owner, a sailed
| iiiiIC' L his u6dl d1IIiOSC went through
| when business called the colonel away
He was hardly off the stage before
| Firewater Jim. a half breed Chicka-
| saw, rushed on
ugh! Paleface boy" he shouted
| excitedly to Castro she tell SCOUT He
know you. Wildfre, heap bad man
Scout he come. Ughl Get away heap
| soon."
Gallery God Saved Castro.
Castro grabbed the redskin and
threw him to the floor and if it hadn't
been for a boy in the gallery, who
| yelled for Castro to watch out the IN
| dian would have stabbed him in the
back. Just as the redskin put away
his knife Tom Aualone came and the
! Indian raised his knife to put an end
| to the orphan. But Castro, whom the
| gallery was beginning to suspect was
| the villain, told the red man to choke
the boy He was doing this when the
door flew open and Buck Henshawe
| flew in. He had a sixshooter in each
hand and the redskin and Castro were
| at his mercy.
They. stood with raised hands until
the man with slapstick up the third
hight OF stairs got the crowd Quiet
and then Benny Balm, a tenderfoot
from Philadelphia, came on and march
| ed the Indian away toward the reser-
walton. Castro grabbed for his gun.
put Tor his pains Buck only made him
lengthen his arms out another inch or
| two. -
The melodrama sandwich is com
| posed of alternate layers of love and
blood letting, and after this first thrill
came the first touch of the romance.
Col Benton was trying to make his
daughter, Olive, marry Castro. whom
ne thought paragon Olive spurned
her cousin with the evil eve. Without
delay her father disowned her and then
Tor few minutes it was hard to tell
whom every one was abusing.
Laid the Indian Low.
This torrent of abuse was at IT'S
height when Firewater Jim rushed
| again into the room with Benny Balm
| at his heels. The Indian hardly got his
| head in at the door when Buck Hen
| shaWeS fist caught him between tbe
eyes and he dropped like a ton of rock.
The Indian yelled at Castro. and this
castro thought, let out the secret that
he was Wildfire, the terror of the
plains. The Indian leaped to his feet
and fired his revolver, while Castro
fed through a side door. The redslsin
| reeled and fell dead. for Bucks six
shooter sung measure of six notes in
less than one second. AS the renegade
Castro fed Buck cried out: .sWould
| you know Wildfire if you saw him
agalnr The crowd did not answer. for