Arizona republican., 1903-08-29

a settlement like the place in which he made his reputation as a bad mah | many years ago. He found men carry | ing guns around in their belts and get i ting drunk and shooting people who | happened to displease them. and it gave him the fever to get back into the game in which he was an adept in the days gone by.
 l So Earp discarded his store clothes, | got himself flannel shirt, a pair of | leather trousers and Q, sombrero. stucl. a gun in his belt loaded up on bad whisky and went around the saloons | and faro banks ballyragging everybody who would stand for his game, and | taking few shots at some men who re- sented It. There were a number of l bad men in Dawson who were suffici ently awed by Earps reputation tc stand for him. and for week he had 1 things pretty much his own way.
 Well, the fact that Earp was hitting it up got to the ears of a little five-foot cockhey member of the Canadian mounted police. one of whose duties ;t was to see that Dawson behaved itself Now, Earp didn't know much about the Canada mounted police and the manner of men who compose it.
 Therefore when he was interrupted in the gentle amusement of cleaning out a faro bank in Dawson one night by this little chap coming up to him
 with d request that he give him his 1 gun, he opened his mouth and his eyes very wide, swore a mighty round of oaths and asked the little fellow in riding boots and cap if he wanted to visit hades at once or wait a few hours.
 "Earp was somewhat surprised when the little fellow simply smiled politely and said:
 You must give me the gun or bury 1t. sir, and extended his hand for the weapon.
 .'Earp swore some more. but not quite so eloquently, for all the while
 the little man was smiling calmly in
 his face. Finally. Earp, clean Mustered by the situation, pulled his gun from
 his belt and fired it three times into
 the ceiling. whereupon the little man.
 still smiling said:
 "'Now, you'll have to bury it or I'll
 have to take it away from you. sir
 "'Take my gun away from mel roar
 ed Earp.
 "'EXactly, said the little man. May
 ba you doubt I'll do it, sir?'
 The witnesses of this colloquy didn t
 know what to expect from Earp. but
 they knew what would happen pretty
 soon if Earp became defiant. because in | Dawson people know what to expect
 from the Canadian mounted police.
 They knew, too, that this little cock
 ney had squeIched every bad man who , had ever come into Dawson, and they didn't doubt that he would attend to
 Farp.
 "However. a crisis was averted by
 Earps putting his gun back into his : belt and starting to leave the place. Just as he got to the door. the police
 man walked over and tapped him on
 the shoulder.
 .'I beg your pardon, sir, he said
 but if you come out with a gun in sight tomorrow, I shall have to take it away from you.
 "Earp turned purple with rage. but
 he had no nerve left when he confront. ed that politely smiling face. He roar
 ed few oaths back at the amused 2 crowd in the gambling house, and ther ? went to the Golden Lion saloon, wher. f he took a few drinks and proceeded t> , tell what he would do the next day { when the cockney tried to take his gar. D -''Why, I'll blow him full of holes,
 he said.
 I "'Yes,' said the listener. but wher s you put a hole in him you put a hole
 in the British empire. which it vii ! fill with two men. If you kill them ' four will take their places In the end : Earp. you will have the whole Britisl T army here if necessary, just to put yo' . out. Better let him alone I The next day Earp, very sober anc l. very thoughtful appeared on thu l streets of Dawson in the store clothes Y he came to town with. Almost the frs s person lie struck was the cockney, wE' r had evidently been waiting for him a prepared to take his gun away if h ,. i showed it. As soon as ha saw Earp h. l stepped up very politely and said: 9 Thank you sir and then turned , on his heel
 s l. :.Earp hasn't been deuce high as = bad man in Dawson since that incl ] dent. Incidentally, I might say, if h. e had elected to mix it up with the cock t ney he'd be sleeping under an epitap' f tonight: for of all the real tough mel 7 l ever saw either for CT against law alt,
 order those Canadian mounted polio l are the limit. New York Sun. ]