Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-02-16


sround FlagstaR ffom that night-plain
AN spoken right out loud. Among tne:
raonla who didn't hesitate TO express
themselves audibly were Ed Fay ana
Doc Radde both OF whom dealt faEo
4 pave blacks big place. They were
roth ouiet men, and game. But thai
Burns lob got them on the raw ana
neither OF them hesitated asminute N
saving ID, The result was that one
assarnoon they rot a Joint invitation.
conveyed in writing, from the Stran-
glers. "a leave Flagstaff on the 1l;S0
train out that night.
..Are you going, Door Fay asked
Radde when they'd read the note. ~
"eNo, said Radde. N
Neither am I, said Fay
'Theys took the Stranglers' invitation
TO Dave Black, their employer. There
never were any better nor gamer men N
the southwest than Dave Black. he ives
4 man Of absolute integrity. He had
heart as big as a bullock's under his
vest. But he was agin the Strangers
from way back. The Strangers note 70
Fay and Radde made him hostile IN
stantly. He 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: t3
"'Stranglers, take warming
Dave Black was on the warpath. He
walked out into the air for awhile anG
studied the situation, and then he re-
turned to his place, where his TWO
warned dealers Fay and Radde, were
waiting for him They had talk. AZ
the conclusion Of the talk Black handed
each man a $500 bill.
"In case the play doesn't 60 through,
he explained, and you boys have TO-
drill you'll need the money!
"Then Dave went around and had
few quiet talks with some Flagstaff men
who he knew would be with him in the
little undertaking he had in mind. One
was his brother, Charley Black, An
other was Mysterious Dave, surname
unknown. an Ax-Wells-F Fargo messen-
ger who had never been known to back
water. Then there was Virgil Earp--
needn't say anything about Virgil. |
always figured him to be the best Of
All the Earn boys. Doc Holiday was
another and 4 good man In d tight
ninch and John Burns, no kin to the
RuTnses who had been murdered by the
STRANGERS took ON. The famous Shot
run Collins Joined the bunch. There.
were II of them. There wasn't a des-
nerado or lawbreaker in the lot. But
thew were tired Of strangers.
"Tbe two warned-out men, Fay and
Radde dropped at ii O'Clock that night
into Wah inns Chinese restaurant
TRev AL on rough stools before rough
tahles aide by side. and facing the
'front.' They didn't appear to be both
arad about the near approach Of their
warned-out hour. ii go They heard the
train cons in and they heard the train
% mi Then thew began to wait for
something to happen. It was pitchy
dark outside, but when, thfee of four
minutes, after the train pulled out, the
two dealers saw by the light issuing
from the Chink's windows number Of
men approaching the restaurant they
knew the game was on. They waited
for the 'frst Of the dozen Or so Stran-
plers n aet into the frame Of the door,
when thew kicked their stools from be-
meath them and were lying fiat on their
stomachs on the door. They were no
sooner down than from the rear Of that
Chink,s eating house there came
vollev the Iike ~ which IN bet no stran-
pler n yirilante IN Arizona or anywhere
eIse Mad ever gone i'm against before.
Tha vollav was made nv sawed-ofr shot
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