The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1905-12-01

10 Dave Black. their employer. There
never were any better nor gamer men In
the southSe est than Dave Black He vas
a man Of absolute integrity. lie had
heart As big as a bullocks under his
vest But be was agin the Strangers
from way back. The Strangers note TO
Fay and Radde made him hostile in-
stantly lie pasted the note against
one OF the walls Of his place. Then he
outs with both Of his guns. and he de-
scribes a pretty exact circle ON that
piece OF paper with bullets. Then he
took a pencil and wrote across the whole
face OF the punctured note
Strangers. take warning
Dave Black was on the warpath. lie
walked out into the air for awhile and
studied the situation. and then be re-
turned to his place. where his- TWO
warned dealers. Fay and RaGle. we're
waiting for him They had a talk Al
the conclusion Of the talk Black handed
each man a $500 bill
In case the play doesn't 80 through.
he explained. and you boys 4a'e 10
drill you'll need the money.
Then Dave went around and had
few quiet talks with some Flagstan men
who be knew would be with him 10 the
little undertaking he had IN mind One
was his brother. Charley Black. An
other was Mysterious Dave. surname
unknown. an ex-Wells-Farso messen-
ger, who had never been known 10 back
water. Then there was Virgil Earp-
needn't say anything about Virgil |
always figured him to be the best OF
all the carp boys Doc HOLIDAY was
another. and a good man In a tight
pinch, and John Burns no kin to the
Burnses who had been murdered by the
Strangers, took on. The famous Shot
gun Collins Joined the bunch. There
we're II OF them. There wasn't a des-
perado or a lawbreaker in the lot But
they were tired OF Strangers.
The two warned-out men, Fay and
Radde. dropped al IL o'clock that night
into Wah Jim's Chinese restaurant
They sat on rough stools before rough
tables, side by side and facing the
front They didn't appear to be both
cred about the near approach OF their
warned-out hour. 1880. They heard the
train come in, and they heard the train
60 out. Then they began to wait for
something to happen. II was pitchy
dark outside. but when, three or four
minutes after the train pulled ont. the
two dealers saw by the light issuing
from the Chinks windows a number OF
men approaching the restaurant they
knew the game was on. They waited
for the first Of the dozen or so Stran-
glers TO get into the frame OF the door
when they kicked their stools from be-
meath them. and were lying fat on their
stomachs on the floor. They were no
sooner down than from the rear OF that
Chlnk's eating house there came
yolley the like Of which I'll bet no Stran-
gler or ylgilsnte In Arizona or anywhere
else had ever gone up against before
The yolley was made by sawed-off shot
guns. loaded with slugs. and Dave Black
and his bunch OF fanti-Strsnglers. plant
ed in the dark in the rear of the Chinese
grub shop. were the makers Of il. II
just tore the whole front OF the China
mans restaurant to splnters Only five
men OF the squad OF dozen Strangers
lived long enough even 10 be surprised,
and those Ave were TOO much plugged
10 care much one way or the other.
"Ambuscade' or course II was an
smbuscade. But you've got to remem-
Der that there's such a thing as fight
ing fire with fire. When you dig down
to the root OF Il. what was the spirit
Of the whole yigilante business but the
ambuScading spirit? When you're
nghting lnjuns you do better when you
fight lnjun-wlse | don't ask anybody
10 subscribe to my opinions. but think
the vigilsntes OF Flagstaff got what was
coming to them The Strangers or
sanization fell apart after that night,
and il was never patched together
again Washington Star.