The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-11
STORIES OF BAD MEN
The REAL THING rs WILLING
TO TAKE CHANGES.


delphia and Boston fiction manu-
facturers who write stories about
western life and manners for the week
" ana monthly picture publications are
siIl ming and maintaining that The
S'eth pad man has always got to see
gu edge IN his own favor before he'll
ptoCeeu 10 get mussy with another had
man. said Frank CouncelIe. a nro,n-
Iileht stockman from the Cochise conn
uy ia New Mexico. 10 a Star reporter
IN reading these picture paper sto-
res OF western life I've always had a
siedhlhg sort of an idea that the peo-
PIE VINO wrote them must sure have
peeu strung and stuffed up a whole lot
Dy the boys on the occasions of their
visits 20 the western country with
win their Wallets along with them IN
look ater their brawsses and luggage
ana all that. There's no other way Of
accounting for some of the things thew
west. \ up o"'
FOR example, one of these yarns. re-
Gently printed. told Of how one had
man conquered another one bv o-Ia,ine o
az MN. Both men were marshaIs Of
hot camps situated twenty miles aparf
Ihty never seen each other They
hdd nothing against each other There
was no Jealousy between them, as there
was no need to be. both men having
to"ns OF their own to preside over and
uld 1e. but one day, according TO
TINS cream narrative, one Of the mar
shals, who is described as a pizen bird
sure enough, took il into his head that
ne lope over the trail to the other
Town Tor the purpose of having a look
a. the other marshal, who is also MIC
tured as a double fanged ella. without
mercy or remorse.
30 he rode over 10 the other TOWN
old this marshal with the butting-in
ldea. He found the other marshal
standing in front of a bar The two
men men recognized each other and nodded
Lhey mad drink together. Then they
stOOu looking each other over The wav
lney stared each other out OF counte-
nance Ike couple of small boys dou-
Die-ooS- daring each other TO knock q
cblp OFF their shoulders. is described
with great elaboration. The mutual
attempt TO hypnotic each other lasted
IOI ABOUT twenty minutes. at he end of
Mhich ne marshal who was OF, his
nome lot detected signs of faItering. i'm
MS visitors eye. WhereupOn. accord
ing TO this yen-hok trance. the marshal
VINO was holding down the gaaoe
grounds deliberately walked up to the
visiting marshal. pulled the other mar
snal mustache, picked the other mar
shsI guns out of his belt without anv
Soiiie- PACK and then incontinently
booted the other marshal, who had
completely caved under the pressure of
the stronger mans giarfng eve. into fbe
street, where the marshal With III
ousteQ nerve lay sObbing and tapping
UP the dust
Not True to Life.
There's just about as much of real
ne m that as there is i'm the StruoosIe
Oh The cliff for the forged papers he
tween the oily Wynn and the long
cared hero who is here to save the wo-
man honor with meh life. No bad
marshal or bad man of the west ever
I[oked another one of his own type TO
me cavlng point, nor did one of them
ever deliberately go up against an
other without there having been !, ~
tive or a rivalry or some other incenf-
i've Of dislike or hatred
but 1 started to run afoui of this
theory that the honest Tniun had man
OF the west must see the ching baIanc-
IDS Just a little bit his way before he'll
stand the chance of a cash-in That
may be so of a whole lot OF boeuses
anu iour-huShers that have been mis-
called bad men during the past ten or
fifteen years But il was never true
Tor minute of the real horned toads.
Ihey not only didn't want any advari-
tage for themselves but they lust a
little bit preferred TO have the otber
Fellow possess just enough Of the edge
on them to make the get-together in
teresting and worth while.
clay Allison, one Of the WORST. ,,,e,,
that ever saddled a cayuse in the Pecos
country Of Texas, wasn't LOOKING for
any cage on his own side the time he
met up with sam Durnin. the marshal
and all-around killer Of Durango and
yet when that thing was all over CLAW
had 50 completely messed up the mar
shalS reputation that Sam had to move
out OF Durango between shutdown and
sunrise 10 avoid the jeers and the
boots of the Durango outfit
That meeting happened because
Marshal Sam Durnin had killed one Of
Clay AliisOn's Texas friends in hon
kOtonk melee. The man killed biz Dur
mn had been bull-skinner along with
Clay Allison, and Clay was a lot dis
turbed in his mind when he heard OF
how his pal had met his finish at the
hands Of Marshal Durnin of Durango.
tie LtIo.
Some o these days. announced
Clay when he heard that news. I'm
goin' fin out o. IN Pecos les long
'nough t run up Z Durango an lead
that gun-alcalde aroun' tn Durango
plaza by both o his ears-I sure am
The Texas people TO whom CLAW
made this remark hadn't the least
doubt in life that. sooner or later. he
would go up against this very job that /
he had set himself to do-leading Mar !
shall sam Durbin around the public 1
square of Durango by the ears. Clay's I
gun was nOtched up like the side-bar /
Of an old-time whatnot. he had never I
stood for a stick-up in his life, and he 4
wouldn't have known what the white 4
feather symbOlized il he had received 4
a ton Of them by freighE
a man who had heard of Clay's /
threat. and who went up to Durango
rom the Pecos country. told Marshal
Durnin about It. Durnin wasn't any
vilter or crawfish. either. In one Of
he worst camps then seething. Durnin
had had the marshal's badge pinned
% his blue shirt for two years with
)ut ever going into the discard at the
point of anybody's gun or blade. and !
le was looked upon as about as daunt-
ess an all-around pOp-fanner as ever
vent " tuS MAINE u sam w men ne
vas told of what Clay Allison whom
le knew by reputation. was going 10
10 to him TO square the account for
he piping out or a pal, Durnin re-
llied that he expected TO be moving
lround Durango for quite bit longer.
md that he'd just as soon DISPOSE of
my trouble that zephyred his way
tut Of the Peeos country as any other
lind.
Just two months, 70 a day. after
lay Allison had heard of the death
II his pal i'm Durango at the gun end /,
II Sam Durnin. he arrived i'm Durango h