Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-06-09

heard recently of the pending ap
pllcation for United States deputy
marshaPs billet of a man who has
more history attaching to his person
ality than most of us could contrive
to pick up in the course of three OF
four lfetimes,' said a Texan who
has way of finding out about most OF
the things happening in Washington
that have any bearing upon his sec
ton of the country.
I'm not a knifer, and SO I'm not
going to mention the name under
which he is making his application fol-
United States deputy marshal's
badge. Il IS the same name, how
ever, that he used when he Jumped
Texas good many years ago and be
came citizen of some Importance in
Wyoming. He went to Buffalo, Wyo.
from Texas where he had been a ter
ror for many years, and he behaved
himself SO well in Wyoming that they
made him sheriff there. He even
joined the Masonic fraternity in wy.
oming under the name which he is
using now in making application for
berth under the United States gov.
eminent.
He was with the cattlemen in the
rustlers' war in the early COS, and
he was a fighting man from away
back. During his stay in Wyoming
there was only one man there who
knew his record, and that man never
said word about it, for he knew his
life wouldn't have been worth two
cents Mexican if he had opened his
mouth about the Texan. l don't know
whether this man is going to get his
marshal's billet or not, but do know
that he would make a fine officer of
that kind for rough country.
Twenty years ago this mans name
was Joe Horner. Therell be few Tex
ans forty years old who won't recog-
nize that name the minute they see it.
Joe was for number of years abso-
lutely the hardest man in west Texas.
He wasn't any imitation bad man, but
the real thing. But he got into the
bad man business more or less acct
dentally.
when he was quite a youngster
he got into rough house with a vel
low man. The yellow man pulled a
knife on Horner, who was then under
twenty, and ice shot him dead. He
was grabbed for this and slowed away
to await trial. While awaiting trial
he broke loose. He hadn't been out a
day before he'd robbed stage coach
single handed. Then he took to west
Texas, got a bunch together, and made
that stamping ground a place of fear
for the inhabitants for number OF
years.
His speciality was sticking up faro
banks. He got by with that thing
times without number, often single
handed. He couldn't, of course, carry
his west Texas game through with
out doing a-plenty of killing. | don't
say that Horner killed wantonly; but
there isn't any manner of doubt thai
he sped many man into the dark.
There we're all kinds of rewards
out for him; the rangers took g
whack at trying to round him up; but
he was never nailed, and never spen
a minute behind the bars after nee
cut out of the Jail where he'd beer
tucked to await trial for killing the
yellow man.
'Horner cut the bad man bushes!
out himself, without being hobbled any
and forced to it. 1t was then that hi
jumped Texas and went to Wyoming
and acted so much on the square
that they made him sheriff and tool
him generally for what he looked to be
without doing any inquiring into his
record He wasn't Joe Horner there
nor has he ever been since; he is still
remembered in Wyoming for his fear
lessness, and by the same name which
he still signs and which he is using in
his application for marshal's ap
pointment.
This man, however, has at least
a legal right to hold Office under the
United States government, for he ISM
any longer ar outlaw. He has a full
pardon for ell of his crimes in his
pocket. obtained from Gov. Hogg, OF
Texas. The way that that pardon was
issued is the thing that l started tc
tell you about.
when Horner quit Wyoming after
the rustlers' war there, he went bach
to Texas. where he had lot Of
friends. As he was still wanted in
Texas, and pretty badly at that, he
made his re-entry there a lot under
cover. He was through with the bac
man business, but he knew that Texas
wasn't through with him, and thai
he'd have to stand for heavy dose
should his identity become known. He
told such of his friends as he met--and
not a few of them were infuentia
men-that he was through with the
! terrorizing business, and put them
RYise to the good record that he had
de fer himself in Wyoming under
kher name His friends communi
with Wyoming people and veri
prner's statements. Then they
york to obtain from Gov. Hogs
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