The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-07-07
A REAL BAD MAN.

it'AN " iiisl blSiliNtNS. IiS z
Was as game a mar as ever accepted
a grub stake to hunt for pay rock.
When l knew him back in the early
eighties, and later when the Creede eX-
citeinent was putting the hectic flush
into the cheeks of all the old-time
proSpectOrS, Jim was so dauntleSS a
chance take that l used to think that
nothing short of a real busy bolt of
lightning would ever get the breath
out of him. He wasn't afraid of any
body. He stuck up some good men in
his day at the points of his old sawed
off guns, just to indicate that he was
right there and in the game, but he
flashed a gun until his minute to do it
had arrived. The nickname Silver
Wire Jim was fastened on to Corby
because once down in Arizona, after
he had been cut up a lot in a bowie
fight, he sat down and very carefully
sewed up the torn places on his person
with silver wire. the sawbones of the
camp having been absent at the time.
Il happened TO be in Durango, Col,
when this famous p~rospector and tam
er of pi2en bad men did one of the
nerviest jobs of his life. Jim had a
brother living in Durango, a young
fellow in his twenties. Jim looked up
on this brother as a good deal of a
dude and didn't have much m
with him.
one day, though, While Jim was in
hhrnthar nt Nc .o'h ,n'S NJ
,i,,.na y, ~. 80 -
nn,nnaa IN :, 49, "iG pa hih ~
800 e Soi. ~ as"list iee.s
had got all of his money. some 81, 200,
Fleet and his under-strappers had
dropped the youth out of a second
ona ,t Ne 80 ANY az i"'' "' o''heil
Hci,ra'. :,
live CO.. n,,rn ,on q " 80 e.
nn, no, Ia,tar ~ aoarima IVY ne
nav ms un,n ltlaat m,n wa.
,ra,,,, Ia -. - ""3 q
- NJ ~ IL Hn'd 80 ps :, nmS 10y 20 pay
iaHomts an n,ar ~ n,, rh ~
pen,,,, ,,arntni, ~" Wy
ha,d 800 - Ssais, anu
hl,nch whan no nnahast % 49,
tinas va n nti one 'ous1iese o. ms ec-
r ~ *. s'att.u ~ ~ punrtuIe we IN
~ go ui"ppins WEI ioiis' re Was
nre 5n ma w ,o,h nliie j, Gn
r r Vi H.. ~ ~ snLa oil-
coiIaa bbir1 and nat ~ ~, .,,;,h :" eNe,
.T,iaa, '"u -. ~ F, y.
Dnraneo nin,, and VA ' 'n az HIS
ONO 81 ~ f,,,r inaL,a" Ne NY
nnss =, ~ ~ 800. 80 hui ~ qu,ch-
nnI he ,mar, III aha,. ~ NsM riss''
don nronnsi,io a.. ato s ,p Ta suu-
outs, nhhnirs tnn VIZ '"' III '"e y
An w. ,Uo 80 n ,o
riyht re- ha,d "a a. ~ uc,och on NE
hrot her Nc nhon e -, 10 y ~ y ~
70 E,laa,'. ~ q. Ine eti.iah.e
saa his @ naun peei y
IL ;i,n, n.onel -.e5seu nlo'hei az an
: ~ a,.a va y a : 80.
,oa. 49, 49, "a On ie
,innS ,riaa ~ IA uhu.i his'iuI-
cn,,iGr,t aat ~ - Golns IrnI ne
hrea1 q e. -; ~ ~ ns sa,e ~ hail-
go a oi'P =. .ie lh.e anu thei .he
$3.50 AN - i''''''' nc va II lis
f,op, hI - n"Nins u io:ly ives
co,,ar III, nha 'o 90 ~. onhS ~
for ,aanor ~, . :, a u'Sh, io me
s ~. lnuhou's' ~ ~ ne "ioie puhch VINO
=" a. az '"pies'
the plant. Who sat NJ his desk nka a !,
man carved out Of stone come nyer
hero ~ n,e-a-rnnnin, 49,
Fleet got M from his desk in . hn,-
nv and walked over close tn Co,hv az
a pretty nifty mace
."rhat.s ne,r eno,,cb .,ia corh,,
still tanning his guns So as to keen
the lookou1s in orde~- .J,leat what,s
this I'm a-hearin' about your messin'
up that dude brother n nineo,
He lost his coin and made a hoef,
said Fleet with - had loan ~ HI. 800
Then, when he got mussv. he was
dropped OUT of the window
".Who done the dronrin;p, ;n,,i,ed
! Corbv. not looking AT Eieei h,,t wainhN
ing every move Of the looLonts
OBJECT hesitated min Cnrb,'s blood
shot. fre-snittinp owes ninnad binI
~ did, he renlied hen
$50 heard said Corhv oui.,,,,
:. hen. in a voice that conld he Mana
a block. he gave his commend. $500
".AU hands eashav to iha oo
oye~ II indiratjnp Nv a nod ~ nc
head the corner of the room where
there wac Tho moot cnare ~ ,,ar -,
front of and behind hos tahlas knau,
that # was a Iottarv as 70 wabn,d nat ~
first If the order WASN'T instant1r 6 ehai'
ed. They rose as one man daoIsrs
iookouts and nIavore ANA oli,,ad 49,
the corner 49, e4NN' ny
r,1aa,, Gaia ca
owl, aff W. $50 49, ~ahihs ms
- slo"u ~ ne corner, you
Mills VI d SKUNK
hairo ~ ~ nusn .hin l We sot
- Hs soui
.ep.ieu 80 s"h!io"lhs a
e Ia - iorh9 mo d par
49, IA ~ = W." VIII agree 10
~ 49, ana
NV 80 uon. Wan' 70 20 no more
Ia "o.h III ans yeie camp, 90 YOU
IN, nan 'da,nh N quieuy.
wan s,tS (
,s sadu SiNei wire oifn' that
49,, 80 90" wv ~ yes PICK up
ohI,a,, 800 ~ ~ ~ ~ oHe, ana
So q. - 'ua. nlnuo" ma you
= .EIaa. ~ ni nio.ne' rom.
neeieu' WIN d curse ana
n ~ ~ "a tanie nearest lhe