Arizona republican., 1903-10-08
SANDY BEND JUSTICE
It Reaches Out for Blood-Red Jim,
 the Terror.
(Copvright, 1903. by c. B. Lewis)

seat, II may mention the fact that we ] hey only one case before us today l That is the case of Blood-Red Jlin varsus the public peace. The prisoner is sitting over thar on the bench with his head in his hands and a lonely feelin's in his heart, and most or you know how he got here. The story am one that any of us can feel proud ol. On the contrary, some ot us reel hhe crawlin' into very small holes.
 Yesterday morning at an early hour Blood-Red Jim strikes this young anu tbrivin' town of Sandy Bend. He IS over six feet high and weighs clus up to 2SO pounds. He looms up like hlli' and when he utters 9 warhoop the sound is like a rumble of thunder lie has long hair, is dressed in buckskln, and his guns number three and hiS knives two.
 That he is Q terror from way-back' and that he is a three-ply and doupie tinted, is realized by all at first glance There is half q dozen other terrors Tn town at the same time-Grizzly Pete, One-E Eyed Sam and Awful Joe among the number-and the rest Of the popu- lation is made up of bad men who ar handy with the gun. When thls great terror is seen coming down the noun tain trail three or four men straight way goes out of town at the other eiiu' feelin' sure that someone Woulu De wiped out in less'n ten minits. While those who remain work thar guns around under thar coat tails and pre- nare to greet the stranger civilly. He comes walkin' up the street till he reaches the Dead Sho saloon, and thar ho halts and looks as black as thunder and roars out.
 ".My cornomen is Blood-Rcd Jim, and I halls from the highest peak ol the Rocky mountains. The same con yulshun of natur' that split the noun tain in two at Bridger's pass threw me on earth and I'm going to live TOT | the next 800 years. However uoh | nobody run away from me. m eleNeh feen high and weigh a ton. but nam | dangerous My failin' is that ham got no sand. and I've allus run away from the feller who started to DICK
 fout with me
 "At this pint three or four men eX-
 tends him an invitation to drink ana
 arter imbibin q liberal quantity or
 tangle foot the terror utters a roar ike
 the noise of a snowslide and goes on:
 ..Tt was me that skeered a whole
 war party of Apache Injuns outer
 Plum valley. but I didn't do it with
 nv puns. I jest bellered at 'em and
 thev fled in terror. I've got an awful
 voice on me. but I'm. as harmless as
 a voung Jack rabbit. Don't make no
 mistake on me and take me fur a
 fighter.
 "Yes. that's the way he hollered'
 continued his honor as he cast glance
 of contempt at the prisoner, and ms , voice reached from end to end of the , town If reached me in the Red Dog saloon. and I wondered if somebody
 had come along and set up 8, fog horn. You may ask why I didn't buckle or my guns and come out to investigate hut I answers that bizness at the pal was rushin', and thar was pohel game on hand besides. Purty soof three Of the other terrors, not 1eelh
 as well as usual, edges outer town an6 9 starts for Duck river. but thar wa , other invitashuns fur the big feller tf i drink and make himself at home. Ht l drinks agin and agin, and thar is S lovely smile on his face as he look : the crowd over and roars:
 n Grizzly bars flee in terror as the! II hear my footsteps, and when l Whistl q the mountain lion hunts his liar an' N continers to tremble fur the next tW l. days. It was me that sopped a snow IT slide up in Eagle canon last winter l. and it was me that turned pack tn 3, stanpedin. herd of 10000 cattle over | e the Coco valley a month ago. SOW n sumever, don't nobody run away l d size I'm the biggest human critter Wes 2 of the Mississippi river. but as lu IT sand. I haint got a pinch
 " At this juncturc," said the coui ,r "all the terrors left in town folds Una r. tents and starts for Lone Pine. Whli
 the bad man walks softly around an 1t makes ready to bolt when the CT 70 mint arrives Two more free drink h ,,.arp,s the stranger up till his smi le takes in everything fur a mile aroun' Id and then he flaps his arms and zoe to on:
 is ".If~ I'm harmless why do l carr CT these runs and knives with me? Je
 bekase 1 met a criter who wanted I trade 'em fol my cayuse and get o' es of the kentry, and I did it to opleet an him. It was me that skeert Jim Ia! of Tor and his gang outer Cow Clty' o ne I never pulled q gun to do it. Jest oi - we'll did the bizness. If one or
 should have stood up to me l Wou
 hey run like wolf. I'm goln to
 off one of my yells here purty soon,
 nobody needn't be afeared. It's sis noise and no sand to 1oiler IL up- nc gin a heap if I was dangerous, put his cant be.
 That's the way Blood-Red Jm Ike -be it up for an hour or more, till the JON
 of Sandy Bend had shivers- It may ;..o asked agin whar this court was? II
 court replier that he was tenoih
 own bar in the little Red Dog saio mo and givin' the stranger plenty or ro ;n,, Purty soon it was ginerally peileE
 that the time was nigh at hand WI
 trc big man would turn loose ana
 a1re. another of the crowd went II o.s hi,,,n' till only cowboy was !"it aslt ,in in his chair in the Dead shot 7alo
 The big man helped himself to q GIT
 ard then standin in the door he vel
 veil which was heard three m ono away and taken for the roar ol
 avalanche When the yell echoed ,,- |" rumbled up and down the streets .G, & bad men tunbled over each ether git further away, and this court "'