Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-17


planted q ball between the eyes OF
| an unfortunate little oyerworked bur-
ro that was coming UP the road 1t
was u sixty-yard shot and It showed
that Bullman's prolonged jamboree
| hadn't filmed his shooting eye amy.
The bnrro jumped clear of the ground
with all four feet. came down on its
side and passed 1t up without kick.
Then JJim descended from his
mound and strolled to Juan Salnzar's
saloon, where he announced that he
would establish his headquarters as
| the plenty hoap chief of the camp of
Tombstone. Jim clomped around the
half.breed Juan's plant for an hour
or so intimidating men who didn't
care to go up against his strong gun
game and proclaiming that along to-
ward noon he allowed he'd lunch on
on some marshals meat.
Hand organ Stops Grafton.
Jim was Gill delivering himself of
this sort Of persiTlage-and the man
really was almost as bad and danger
GUS as he pretended to be-when sud-
denly he broke Off
His attention and the attention of
! everybody in the place was attracted
by sound that had never before up
to that time been heard in Tombstone.
1t was the music Of hand organ
and the hand organ was being played
right In front of Juan Salzar's place.
Jim pullman was the first man to
reach the swinging green shutters to
get look at the hand organ and
the player Of the same He had just
cot outside of the green shutters
when the droning of when the
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ed right in the middle of the tune.
The player of the hand organ was
leaning on the hurdy-gurdy to balance
1T on Its supporting stick and he had
straight bead with both guns on
the upper works OF Bullman's mas
sive frame.
you can call heaven t. witness
with both o. them tamale hooks o.
your'n, jim observed the day mar
shal. who had been providing the
music that sounded so strange in the
ears of the Tombstoners TIN
few of alcaide in this we're camp
myself twixt sunup and shutdown AM"
Bankstreet didn't finish that, be-
cause Bullman, with the unwisdom of
man who has much dead alcohol
81,
stead of poking his hands I'D. as he
had been directed to- went after both
Of his guns-,Tiin was ovcrproud of
his qnickness on the draw.
Bankstreet broke both of Jim's fore
| arms as pullman was in the act of
getting his guns out. They had to
| take down one of jams green shut
tiers and fonr Of the boys toted Jim
down the street TO the office of the
young man with the probe.
After this things moved along in n
| pretty easy groove for Day Marshal
Nick Bankstreet, until one day Sam
Farrand. the foreman of a bunch of
cleans to the south of the camp. got
n letter from one of his Eastern
wives that touched him on the raw.
Sam jumped the reservation on the
receipt OF that letter and Sam was
a sure enough helion when he got
real busy with the dreanings of the
coils. Two hours after he'd romped
In from the claims and swooped upon
Tombstone Sam was jumping on his
hat in the middle of the street, with
both guns out, and yelling that the
flock of timber wolves that had the
nerve to tackle him would have to
have their clans ground to q razor
edge with alligator lilies, and that
even then he would tear the teeth
out OF their jaws with his naked gin.
gers.
San, Commands the Street.
Then Sam constituted himself q
sort of battery of light artillery park
ed at the head of the street for he
took up his position on the SAND
mound from which Jim pullman had
proclaimed himself and swept the
thoroughfare with both of his guns
every time he saw careless or un
suspecting man emerge from n grog
gerry. 4;
Sam had kept the street deserted
for about half an hour from his coigr
OF forming the baking breeze that wa:
blowing that he. S. Farrand, Esq.
was n great desert wolf that prefer
red to lap strongly impregnated al
kali water to slipping the COOL swee
product of the freshest spring, wher
a pair of knobbed and freckled hands
holding couple of steel blue gun!
and cowlickv red head, all belong
ing to man lying close to the edge
of the Morning Moon Saloon-Nicl
Bankstreet had got into The plac,
from the rear and climbed to the
roof--were seen by some OF the Tomb
stoners sitting in q barber shop, across
the street. The Tombstoners in the
barber shop were waiting for Sam tc
so away from there before yenturine
out into the street