The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-20

noted deSperadO named Wiley, VINO,
at the head of gang OF cut-throats,
had been "holding up" and robbing
the wagons of settlers crossing the
plains. Buffalo Bill was at this
time a scout in the service of the
United States Government, and Wiley
had threatened to kill him ION sight"
1t being known that the desperado's
gang was somewhere in the vicinity,
a posse was formed to capture them.
The night before the attempt was to
be made, as luck would have 1t,
Bud" met Wiley by accident, some
miles out on the plain.
Both ran we're on horseback, and
in the moonlight could see each other
distinctly. Wiley opened fire at long
range, galloping his horse in a circle
so as to gradually close in on the
other horseman. The young deputy,
sitting low in his saddle, put spurs to
his mustang and thundered towards
him. Waiting until he was close up,
he dropped his reins, drew both his
revolvers, and opened deadly fusil-
lade, with the result that the outlaw
dropped from his saddle riddled with
bullets. Bud" jumped from his
horse, placed the body of the dead
man across the front of his saddle,
and, remounting, rode into town,
where he deposited his burden before
Buffalo Bill's" tent, with the laconic
intiihation: "Here's your man,
| Cody"
In the first two years during which
Turner served as deputy he "an-
swered" for sixteen men, among them
being Jim" McNair, "the Terror of
the Northwest" cowardly renegade
who used his knowledge of the white
mans ways in assisting the Indians.
McNair it was who with his own
hand killed an entire family of six
by tomahawking them before the eyes
of their hapless mother. Turner fol-
lowed this brute over the plains for
weeks, finally running him down at a
ranch in Dakota. McNair heard of
Turner's proximity, and when Bud"
rode up McNair fired from behind a
fence, the bullet knocking off the
officers hat. Turner promptly fell
off his horse as though shot, and
while on the ground drew his re-
volver, and, taking aim lying ON his
back, shot McNair through the heart.
BY this time Bud" had been pro-
NOTED, and was now a full-fedged
sheriff. 1t was about this period
when the famous gang of outlaws
called kid Morgans Rangers" was
at the height of its evil career. This
gang was perhaps the most notorious
the West has ever known, their spe-
cialty being rushing" or the steal
ing of cattle. No one knew exactly
who the members were; ones own
neighbor even might possibly be a
Ranger" Thousands of cattle were
stolen, and no one dared say word
for fear of incurring the displeasure
of so powerful and mysterious an
organization. Finally, after a more
than usually bold raid on their paTt,
Bud" determined to capture them
at all costs, and sailed out at the
head of a small posse of trusted men.
He trailed the members of the gang
who were concerned in this particu-
lar job for over 600 miles, and finally
succeeded in cornering them in Kalor
Canyon, Colorado, at a place known
as Bloody Canyon" Here, between
two almost perpendicular cliffs, des-
perate battle ensued. out of which
only four men emerged to tell the
tale. Creeping from boulder tc
1boulder, firing incessantly on the re.
treating cattle-thieves, the sheriff'f
little band fought their way forward
until, there being no further cover
available, the sixteen pursuers found
themselves face to face with forty
desperate cattle-thieves. The strug
gle that ensued is almost without g
} parallel in Western history for til
desperate valor and dogged resolu
tion displayed on both sides.
When 1t was over, and the acrit
, fumes of the powder-smoke hac
cleared away, only three of Buds
Z party, including himself, and one o.
: Morgan's men survived. and then only
} because there was no more ammuni
! tion.
: In this fight Turner afterwards ad
: mitted having accounted for eigh
men.
, The sheriffs next encounter was |
species of duel between himself anC
! DOC" Howard, cold-blooded mur
r deret and horse-thief, in attempting
, to arrest whom Turner was woundeI
no fewer than five times. Howard
l and he came face to face Unexpected.
! In a barroom, and immediatel,
!. emptied their revolvers at each othe
at less than arms length. Howar,
was killed on the spot. and bud
a was out of action for some month
: as the result of his injuries.
e Hardly had he left his bed, how
4 ever. when, single-handed, this re
e markable man arrested four hall
q breed horse-thieves--but not befor
y his unerring revolver had agai
o spoken and added yet another to hi
grim list of casualties"
t During the depredations OF tn
d world-famous Jesse James gang {
}. train-robbers andba thieves. @Bud
: Turner was given rowing commil
t sion by the United States Govern
= ment, through Governor Crittendel
y OF Missouri. to hunt the miscreant
= down. He chased the gang throug
s six States, covering an area OF 500
? miIas In his tfreleea nuest IN xyo