The Green Forest tribune., 1910-04-29


 taned made an attempt to strike his cap tor who promptly bent his gun over his head-mildly at first, then with force, bring ' ing the offender to his knees. The Ranger captain pulled the bell cord, brought the train to a standstill, turned his prisoner over to a policeman who had appeared on the scene. and set out in pursuit of the other thief, who by this time had obtained a healthy start.
 Capt Bill is built like a greyhound, with long hind legs, and a prov de signed for splitting the wind. The thief active, and making good time but he match for a Ranger of that architecture The distance be- tween them closed up rapidly and presently the fugitive, having reached what is known as 'Niggertown," dived into one of the houses, causing a regular stampede among the inhabi- tants Men, women, and rabble of little pick anfnnies fell out in every direction. Capt. Bill, now close behind added to the excitement as he plunged in, only to find the room vacant A quilt, however, hung across a second doorway, and stepping to it. his six-shooter ready for emergency, he drew the hanging quickly aside. As he did so, he was confronted by a man standing on chair, holding in his hand bottle filled with some transparent liquid, which he in the act of throwing The crack of McDonald's revolver was followed by such sudden collapse of the woud-be vitriol-
 
 had wounded him seriously, though his inten. tion had been merely to disable the arm in action. Investigation showed, however that the thief was only frightened; that the ball had graZed his arm, also his ear, cutting hole through the rim of his hat
 Securing the vitriol as evidence Capt Bill marched his man back to where he had left thief Number One, only to find that the mex perienced policeman had allowed him to es. wi capture but personally saw him safely locked up, and then set out for home by the next train.
 Not long after, package arrived one day in Amarillo and upon being opened 1t was found to contain handsome gold medal contributed by a prominent jeweler and others of Fort Worth
 This decoration engraved with Capt. McDonald's name and official title; and an ac- companying letter stated that 1t was awarded as token of appreciation of his efforts in bringing criminals to justice, and as a pre- mium for his superior swiftness of foot.
 It was during the Panhandle period that Charles A Cuberson-son of the Dave Gull person who nearly 30 years before had cleared the boy Bill Jess Mcdonald, from a charge of treason-was attorney general for the state of Texas. Capt Bill was at Quanah one day, when he received notice from Culberson that the lat ter was anxious to locate the Tooth meridian, preliminary to beginning a suit against the United States to test the claim made by Texas for Greer county-now a portion of Oklahoma. The attorney general invited Capt. Bill to accompany him guide and body guard knowing him to be familiar with the district and capable of talking of such expedition.
 They left the railroad at Vernon Wbarger county, proceeded in blackboard to Doans Store on the Red river, and crossed over into Greer county It was a pleasant drive across the prairies and Capt Bill, who felt in good practice beguiled the time by bringing down -prairie-dogs, running rabbits, sailing hawks and the like using his six-shooter with one hand and his Winchester with the other, riding along as they were. without stopping. To Culberson, this performance amazing enough.
 Captain he said, that beats anything I ever saw. Why, believe you could throw nickel up in the air and hit it before it touched the ground
 Mcdonald smiled in his quiet way.
 Do you think so?" he said. Well reckon I might but I wouldn't want to waste nickel that way
 Capt. Bill then gave few exhibitions of what he really could do in the way of shoot ing and Culberson declared without hesita- ton that there was not such another marks man in the state of Texas. The attorney gen eral was enjoying himself immensely.
 They camped that night, and next morning were continuing their journey toward Mangum, the county seat of Greer, when they began to meet men and women on horseback, evidently getting out of that section of the country with out much waste of time. Capt Bill inquired the reason of this exodus and told boy had killed Indian over on the North Fork of the Red, and that the Indians were getting on their war-paint. preparatory to ma king a raid-Comanehes and Kiowas.
 General" said Capt. Bill, "Tll have to look into this thing. You can go on to Mangum with the team and I'll get horse and go over and take a hand in this trouble"
 Not at all,' said Culberson. You've under taken to see me through this trip and I'm not going to let you desert, now, Indians or no h. dians."
 But I've got to, general. This here's a pleasure trip. and that's business. Them devils are goin' to start something over there and it's my duty as Ranger to investigate it." Culberson laughed.
 Now, captain" he said you know very well that all you want is to get oyer there where there's chance to give shooting exhibition. You've got tired of hawks and prairie-dogs and want to try your hand on Indians
 A new arrival just then furnished the infor- nation that the offending cowboy had been jailed at Mangum and that the Indians were likely to storm the jail. This settled the mat ter, for Ranger duty and inclination lay *Ex&x$%x%x4Ex4Ex Ex}Ex|1ExA$x4Ex%:x}}x}
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