The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-02
WAS GUNLESS BUT
 BEATS BAD MEN ] The Result of the Theory of
 Quick Thinking TALE OF JACK WCKERs Two-Gun Bully From Arizona Makes Rapid Exit From Denver-vick-
 CTS Is Given Firmly
 Warning.
TALE OF JACK VICKERS

From the Philadelphia North American.
 Recently at Santa Barbara, in South CT. California, I met up with Jack Vick- CTS. who many years ago in the western country was called the man too bad to pack a gun," said New York roamer. Hes a peaceful, quiet-spoken old man now
 Jack Vickers always was a quiet spoken man for that matter. He got his name because he beat to the ground with hands and teeth whole passel of bad men, who had attacked him at diff ferent times. He had a theory that a man who could think quickly and handle himself quickly and knew little bit about the art of acting didn't need any shooting tool to put it on the skilful- est gun fighter that ever famed A.
 ''Vickers had been everything about the west and southwest-prospector min CT. freighter, COW gouger-before I met up with him. He was an editor when worked for him in Leadvil1e. He was printer by trade, from Philadelphia, of all towns. He was rather undersized, but as muscular as a Moqui.
 During the time I was with Vickers only one of the gunners got after him. Vickers in the paper. took a fall out of camp character, a braggart named Jeff Hudson.
 Had His Record Pat.
 ''Vickers had known Hudson in Tomb stone and had his record pat. He spread the record on the minutes, too. Hudson was doing a lot of claim jumping around tuifh flot stuff on the strength of his reputation as gun man.
 There were lot of eastern chaps in the Leadville rush, and these were the kind Hudson picked out to impose upon. Ol4e of these customers told Vickers how Hudson had run him off a fairly staked and duly registered claim, and then ViclS CTS got his puneturing tools out and be- gan to hand it to the hard one from Arizona.
 Jack wrote the stuff and set it up himself. He said that Hudson was an imitation and a bogus that he'd killed three men in Arizona and New Mexico by shooting them in the, back, and that he'd shot one man in Kern county, Cali fornia, while the man slept in his bunk; that he really didn't have the nerve of fiddler crab, but just big way of talking; that he'd never earned an hon est dollar in his life, that Leadville d1dn need him little bit, and that if the de- cent folks of Leadville intended to pre- serve their self-respect and to keep the cs. mp from becoming hog camp it was up to them to boot Jeff Hudson over the so uth trail just as soon as they could spare the time to do it.
 And all like that. Fighting, killing stuff. of course.
 When I saw that stuff slapped bang in the middle of the first page I figured that that office wasn't going to be very sanitary pretty soon. I was just out from the east. Moreover, I had met up with Jeff Hudson. And I considered him pizen bad, braggart or no.
 Vickers Is Warned.
 " You're going to get killed, Jack,' l said to Viclers the minute I read that Jeff Hudson thing.
 "Vickers only laughed dryly and went on smoking his corncob pipe.
 When the story was read and digest ed a lot of Leadville's quieter folk dropped in on Vickers and told him that he was taking a needless risk.
 You don't stand to get anything by jumping Hudson, Jack they told him. He's in camp to stick. You can't run him out Moreover, he'll kill you as sure as eggs is eggs. Better vamp back to Arizona, eh?
 '' Hudson will do the vamping,' was