The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-17

shots made a most thrilling effect.
Prohibition was another visitor that
had not made its way into the Far
West. and in order to take care Of
the thirst needs of the guests thirty
temporary saloons were instituted.
These were crowded night and day,
and yet in spite of the amount Of liqu
or consumed there was little dis
order.
Occasionally there were fights. Two
big cowboys battled furiously with
their fists for an hour before one was
forced to give up but there was no
shooting in the affray, for each man
turned over his pistols to friends be-
| fore the combat started.
Some Of the men who took part in
the festivities had hundreds of miles
to ride to get back to their ranches.
In fact, there were some who came
as far as New Mexico, Arizona and
Colorado and Montana.
| So great a success was the whole
affair that it was resolved to make
it an lnnul event, and it looked as
though the spirit Of the Western life
had BEEN saved by getting the COM
rades together once more.
Then came the war with Spain.
That helped the game of the cow
boy, for Theodore Roosevelt, remem-
bering the valor of some of the men
who had been his companions in the"
IE2ays when he was recrutin his present
3roDust health by a life on the plains,
formed a regiment of rough riders, a
most striking company and the plau-
dts of the whole nation went out
to these men who went up San Juan
IL NJ -
BUT the modern encroachments
i were not to be stayed. Civilization
4 didn't feel just the same to the cow
i boy AZ the nation did
i Real estate operators foll11d that
a lot of the land used for grazing
could, under proper conditions, be tur-
ed into the most fertile farm land
and yield far greater profit -
The life of Texas underwent s
kchang#- The farmer began to take
the ptLce of the cattlemen, and even
/ where the latter managed to maintain
his WY he began to apply new
methods to the care of his herds.
The automobile began to he saan
in the West. At first the cowboy
laughed What could the motor co..
do to Pash him out of his callino~9
! 1t couldn't tame a broncho. ii conldn,t
shoot and certainly was unable 70
throw 4ariat
But the auto got over fhe roaz
Iast. 1t cD&ld make round of the
rancn at far greter Sapeed. It wasn,t
IKE a horse. 1t never tired out and
an automobile of fair size rs,nId
take around four mer wbs, corfu -
the work of a dozen under tba Nv
mltlVe conditions of the West.
And SO the sentiment of new
lions and the and the application
modern methods has had the pra-5,,s,
efIect OF forcing the cowbov f ,,rtL
west S'uu south
rr but there are no longer the sa
sis,a.s u PAGES to go to- The
makes it even on thu alart 0gresS
citrate where it is laast 20 pene
Hence, no matter where ~ expected.
COWBOY finds that the turns, the
nave been putting him seIcleS that
are actively at work. Oue q BUSINESS
another o,ls pa af cation the Indians !.
the cou,b ~ enese factors. Formo,iS,
ranch ard aloe could protect biz
skins Nfamily from the "a
all riebt Sans soldiers were
ahla ,,rs;a the case OF = eonsi Ie.e
bilities ms when there came noss;.
inc ! pitched battles. But dmr
far ge part Of the time the cat
how oru not have troops at his II.
~ 70 save himself from mararJ-
Dan0s OF Indians be needed -
ave ever near, in his own N 80, 20
TACT, intrepid men who wo,ld 'pl E ,ln
now 70 deal with the murIeri.,o An 10y
,lng aDorigines when Iauor fri ~
'nem into taking the warpath. = =