Bisbee daily review., 1908-01-15

For the benefit of those who walk
in trembling and fear every time the
stars and stripes fade in the distance,
the following story is submitted from
memory as related by a husky son of
| the Lone Star State after a thrilling
experience, in Cananea, in which the
thrill might have been appreeiably mil,
igated by the mployilent of a modest
measure of common sense.
Il was working in Ronquillo and
this was yad day night / had bought
me some underwear, tobacker and
things, and then | went down to the
dance hall. There wuz seven dance
halls, and each one of them wuz al
lowed TO have a dance once week,
so the fact wuz a Teller could dance
evry night in the year. Well, / went
down there and clipped of reel and
quadrille, and treated Josephina, VIC
leta. Concha and a few other dazzlin'
damsels, when l fell in with Ben
Bound a sort of a cross between a
mimi man and a local prize fight-s~,
and we started nome together / had
sunk about tive gallons of that Monte
rev seryerza suppose, q wuZ charg Il
up with a barrel and never question
MY account, and we wuz just along
between the smelter and the machins
shop. when a little old policeman with
face like burnt leather and his old
blanket drawd haiN way acrost that,
steps up and told me in Spanish to go
with him Well l hadn't done nuthin'
but aollored a little and told him so
but Just the same he remarks, mo
liase,' which means il don't make no
difference, come with me. Well, said
''buen" cid timer, and in an instant I
concluded / dida't want 10 stay In jail
that particular evening. The dog
hadn't been fed, no one was there to
let the cat out, and a jusgado is the
most uninvitesnest spot on earth 20
me any how, so l just made a long
swing on that feller's neck and ne
went over the bany, and never came
back Now instead of an angle in my
original plans, we just walked right
along congratulating ourselves on fixin'
that officer, and had got about a quar-
ter of mile, right on the main road
when we heard some rurales come clat-|
term down the pike and we had't time
TO hit the suburbs then, not quite.
These fellows amounted a three spot
squad, and when they rode upI had
some experience in the army, and l
caught the first one by the foot. When
you catch a felier right under the STIR
rup that leg will Involuntary stiffen
out, and before he realizes it you can
toss him out of the saddle like bundle
of hay, and that is Just what I did to
him By this time Ben had pulled an
other one off, and 1t seemed we wuZ 60
ing to have everything our own way,
wnen all at once the third rurale
roped me by the foot, and was going
down that road on my back like a bob
sled, and he never stopped till he
landed me at the jusgado with just
about enough clothes on to make a
neck tie for mosquiter,, In the mean
time, while Ben was trying to finish
one of the PROSTATE, there I recon
that's a good word-rurales, the 9TH
er got up and went over there and had
him hog tied before he knowed IL,
and purity soon we wuz both in the
carcel together.
Well, we slep like logs and dreamt !
we wuz in the best room in the Gads- |
den hotel. till about O'Clock, when |
they rammed a big Mexican in with |
us who wuz crazy wieh mescal, and /!
Ben and put in the rest Of the night
killin' that gila monster, and II Ben
hadn been giant, he would have
killed US botns We set on him time
about while the other one rested, and |
pounded him until in the morning when |
the officers came. he looked like a !
struck him in the eye. Several oth-
gunny sack full Of dog meat, but still
alive and fightin'. When we wuZ taken
out and lined up for trial / was or
dered to take my hat of, which de
cIined to do by cody rolling pill. Just
then soldier snatched my hat of and
ers evened things up and went me
some better, by jabbing me deity in
the back with their abyents. l picked
my hat up, but every time | made
motion to put il on,one soldier would
move to perforate by posterior with
delicate touch Of a rusty baynet and
would change my mind.
Then l got mad and l cursed the