The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-11
ike a chicken on a skewer.
"Jim" Eowie and Wright.

next great fight of real consequences, |
in that it employed only modern weap- |
ons, was that between Col. Jim Bowie !
and Maj Morris Wright in August. !
1927 1t was a great melee. The af-
fair started as a duel between DR..
Maddox and Samuel Wells, both prom
inent men, in which two shots were
| fred with no damage. Then the adj
herents of the principals got mixed
up in a general row, in which Bowie
was wounded. But he singled out the
Wright, and, though he had no gun
himself went at the latter with short
knife that he had made with his own
hands from a blacksmith's file. The
major emptied his revolver ana then
grabbed his sword and they went at
it. They cut and slashed each other
numerically. and both Bowie and
Wright were bleeding terribly from
their wounds before Bowie could do
ally he managed to get good chance
and he plunged it to the h1lt in the
heart of Maj Wright Wright fell
dead The battle had lasted for more
than an hour, and had been fought
both outdoor and in a shed by the side
Of the field.
The efficacy of this short knife was
so we'll shown in this fight that it was
out on the market and called the
Bowie knife after it's inventor.
Col Bowie was afterward killed IN
he mas acre in the Alamo, in Texas.
PIeasants and Richie.
One of the greatest fights in his
.ory was that between John Peasants
and Col. Richie, of Richmond, Va,
in that city, in 1916. Richie was the
editor of newspaper that had said
some unkind things about Peasants,
a politician, which only blood would
wipe out An ordinary duel even would
not suffice. They decided to go on the
field of battle armed in every possible
way and their weapons included four
pistols each, While Peasants took
sword cane and Richie had short
knife in his pocket They began nrIng
at 200 PAGES and emptied their pistols
as they drew near each other Richie
was struck several times with Pleas
ants bullets, but kept on firing, and
the men came closer to each other.
Finally their pistols were emptied and
| it became a matter of personal COM
bat Richie drew his knife and Pleas
ants his sword cane, and they went at
it. They fought covered with blood,
! giving terrible wounds to each other.
Richie had a horrid cash across his
| face from Peasants sword cane, and
the bullets in his body weakened him
terribly; but he fought on and finally
managed to thrust his short knife
into vital spot in Peasants anato-
my. The latter fell dead The duel had
barely survived his wounds
We have today hero of the old
style fighting in Colonel William F.
Cody, Buffalo Bill His greatest fight
vas the duel with Yellow Hand a
Cheyenne chieftain and Il terror, in
1876
Cody, then a scout with General
Merritt was with the Fifth United
States cavalry in Indian campaigning.
ing, when they had overtaken the
Cheyennes and a battle was imminent,
the young scout rode out in front of
the enemy and dared any one to
come out and give him a battle per-
sonally. Yellow Hand responded and
they rode at each other. at the first
fire Cody's bullet killed Yellow Hands
horse, but the Indian fought on be-
hind the body of his steed as a ram
part The scout and the chief fired and
fired, and neither fell, until finally
well directed shot from Buffalo Bill
struck Yellow Hand in the forehead
and he fell dead. Buffalo Bill then rode
to him, leaped from his horse. sca1ped
his fallen adversary and galloped back
to the soldiers line before the Chey-
ennes could muster courage enough
to pursue.
Sullivan and kirain.
But the greatest of all battles, man
to man, in our day, was the fight be-
tween John L. Sullivan, champion of
the world, and Jake Kilrain at Rich
burg, Miss. on the morning of July
8, 1889. The fight attracted more at
tention than any previous battle, for
it was the Jeffries johnson fight OF
the times, and though the purse was
only $4,000. that was tremendous for
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