The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-15
some OTHER DEADWOOD DICK
NOR THE SMALL BOYS NERO.
STCk ar VENICE. car.
THE Late Nlr. wheeler. whS Invented
Dark's Adventures. Was Sf Opiuioa
rhat Isls Real Name MAs Edward
Harris. and Thls one o. Riehard nmtler.

Dlrk's Adventures. Was &C 0piuion
rhai sls Real Name Mas Edward
Harris. aud Thls one o. Richara Rntler.
The young captain smiled. and putting
on his latest disguise he had many
he ordered his horse.
just a. Inc shades 81 evening had gath
cred he rode into Bullion. dismounted.
and entered the only hotel
II vas a rude AFFAIR. bOasttng OF a bar
and several gaming tables. a. which . few
roughs were seated.
lsapins ON top Of . barrel Dick hold NJ
20 view one % the reward placards. and
drew a plated sixshooier from Ais bait.
-'Oents.' he cried. can YOU tell me where
the chap 10 who offered this reward for the
capture % DeadwOod Dick
There was no answer. but one evil look
ina fellow attempted to dodge out
Before he could do 80 D~adwood Dick
fred and the man dropped. then without
q NOrd the Prince Of the Road took hts
departure no one offered TO stop hin.
After that DcadwOod Dick passed
through soms ninety volumes Of adven-
tIrs. during which he slowly climbed the
path Of virtue. The Prince Of che Road
retired before the apotheosised Deadwood
Dick. known throughout the Had Lands
and the great Sierras too a. the intrepid
.
wood Dick. detective.
That Deadwood Dick is now very SICK
Is the burden Of the despatch which came
! from Venice. Cal. Yesterday, DeadwOOd
Dicks other name. according to the
wording OF the telegram. ~ Richard
/ Butler. and 1t 10 said that he ~ 10 az the
house OF his old Sub-mes-enger on the
bullion run bet ween Lead. ID. and
! A.
Eskins who 10 now Mayor % Venice.
Richard Butler may he Dead~Ood
/ DICKS real name. Vet there are doubts
! about Il. Richard Butler has only one
eve. and for a time hs carried the name
Deadcye Dick. and il not long chance
! thai Deadeye has lapsed into Dsadwood
lin TO wear or two ago there was a
J man in Lead. =. d, a station teyond
/ Deadwood on the Chicago and North
western Railroad. who retorted himself
to i've Deadwood Dick. But the hard
thing to swallow about this story was
that Richard CLARK. the Deadwood Dick
Of Lead, was the baggage master OF the
( railroad aud to the bag gage master 'u
the nature Of things come the first CUES.
ton of travellers. Who - Deadwood
Dick"
i am said Richard Clark every time
he was asked. And who are yOu'
! Thus the legend.
Richard butler. Richard Clark. Edward
Harris any one or all OF them NAV D-
the original Deadwood Dick. Edward
L. Wheeler. the man who wrote the
/ D~adwood Dick stories and thoee other
, classics. Sierra Sam. the FrontleT Ferret .
High Hat Harry. the Baseball Detective .
Denver Doll. the detective Queen
-CycLone Nit. the Young Gladiator:
Wild Frank the Buckskin Bravo :
! Apollo Bill. the Trail Tornado shower.
the Boy sharp; New York Nell. the
Boy-Giri Detective Jumbo d 100 ,he
and -Deaih Face. Objective Canada
Chst- -Buckhorn Bill and Others still.
reatns ~ them I'd Ward l.. Wheeler gave
hia somewhat dubious approval To Edward
Harris a. the original OF Dend~ God DICK.
Vet IL was IN the way of general MARIA
tive that he said Ne,i Harris ives the real
4 DeadWoOd Thus; Edward Harris came.
Il IL stated of a staid New England family
} farmers who were devout and ex-
i emplary. Christians Of the Old school'
I Although people of no pretenttcns what
I ever and OF the very plainesi drees. the
Harris family owned one % the largest
and finest farms in the netghborhood
I OF the village Of Windham
What can bear the -armarks Of the
most patent truth h-tisr han that ThSSs
IVES the famous Deadvopd Dick ortEi-
mated. aud from this did he drltt west
ward. against hts will. no doubt. until
az lest he became the Verie~t villain
2 Al MlIN n hNoENs AeAANAs ~ w" -
81 virtue. when Deadwood became the
enemy of highwaymen he brought sso0
q story Wheeiers publishers. beadie
a Adams forced the change somewhat
unwiilinRly upon him. They Apped on
the sulphur from Deadwood Dicks die
ton and made Calamity Jane. Deadwood .
wife potter person than the writer
thought interesting 10 young America
Wheeler died IN Philadelphia some years
ago and now me DeadwOod Dick stories
.
year hy VI J lvers A Co. AT $40 Pearl
street where James Sullivan ~ proprie-
q tor " she concern.
] We sell 'em still. Said sullivan yes-
,erdav lots OF en- some are reprints
az what were published in 1871 she year
b the Deadwood Dick stories FIRST began
-H,Ii a dueer thing - that We don {
sell many Va New York. New York boys
don't like EN- They want em brought
3 up 20 date But zap the state and out
Vest and IA tho country well. We seil
lust A. many Of them az ~e ever did