The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-03-24

tai work with his short knife. Finally
he managed to get a good chance and,
he plunged it up to h hilt in Wright's
heart. Wright fell dead. The battle
had lasted for more h q an hour, and.
had been fought outdoors AID in q
shed by the side Of the field.
The efficacy of this short knife raj 80
we'll shown in this fight that It was put.
on the market and called the Bowie.
knife" after its inventor. Bowie was
afterward killed In the massacre in h
Alamo, in Texas.
Pleasants and Richie.
One OF the greatest fights in history
Colonel Richie Of Richmond, Va, in.
that city, in 1886. Richie was the ed
itor Of a newspaper that la said some
unkind things bou Peasants, a poll
%tician, which only blood would wipe.
out. An ordinary duel even would not
Of battle armed in every way possible.
and their weapons included four pistols
each, While Peasants took a sword.
cane and Ritchie a a short knife in
his pocket. They began firing at 200
PAGES and emptied their pistols as they
drew near each other. Richie was
struck several times by Peasants bull
lets, but kept on firing, n the men
drew close to each other. Finally piss
tolls were emptied and became o mat
his knife n Peasants his cane sword
and they went at 1t. They fought COW
cred 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
OF and finally managed to thrust his
short knife into a vital part Of Pleas
ants anatomy. The latter fell dead.
The duel had lasted nearly two hourf,
and Richie barely survived his
Wounds.
Buffalo Bill and Yellow Hand.
We have today a hero in the old
Cody. Buffalo Bill. His greatest fight
was a duel with Yellow Hand, a Chey-
n M chief and a terror, in 1876.
Cody, then a scout with General Mer-
rift, was with the Fifth United States
Cavalry in Indian campaigning. SUPP
when they had overtalken the Chey-
ennes and q battle was imminent, the
young scout rode out in front of the en-
envy and dared anyone to come out and
give him a battle personally. Yellow
Hand responded and they rode at each
other. At the first fire Cody's bullet
killed Yellow Hands horse, but the In
dian fought behind the body of his
steed as a rampant. The scout and the
chief fired n fired, and neither fell.
Buffalo Bill struck Yellow Hand in the;
forehead and he fell dead. Buffalo Bill:
then rode to him, leaped from his horse.
scalped his fallen adversary and gal
Hoped back to the soldiers ines before
the Cheysnnes could muster courage
enough to pursue. n
Sullivan and ki!ra;n.
R1f fho GrroatpSf nf all hoff1aS man In
man, in our days was the fight between,
John L. Sullivan. champion of thei
world. and Jake Kilrain. at Richburk
Miss. on the morning OF July 8, 1889.
The fight attracted more attention
than any previous battle, for it was the
Jeffries-Johnson fight of the times, anl
though the purse was only $4,000, that.
was tremendous for those days. 1t was
the last of the great ring contests;
fought under London prize ring rules,
with bare knuckles. i
The morning was piping hot, about
lot in the shade, said the thermometer,
n the ring was pitched on the ground
beside an ice house, so miles from New
Orleans. The spectators, who had come
from all over the country, were on
roof OF the icehouse n in trees. Any
where was a good seat then. The fight.
began at Z o'clock in the morning, Inc
it was seen when the men went into.
the ring that they both had prepared
for the battle by picking their hands
into a tough condition. their skin being.
brown from what they had used on 1t.
The fight was in more ways than o.,o
the hottest of all the great battles eve
seen. The men tough hammer Ind
tongs, n though Kilrain repeatedly
spiked Sullivan's foot so that blood
oozed through the shoe, the Boston
maj never made a complaint. 1t was
SO hot and their skins were so baked
by the sun that blows glanciing from
their shoulders peeled the kin Off in
strips. .
In kilrain's corner was Charley Nit
chell, who had fought a draw in France
with Sullivan. and he kept hurting re-
marks at the Boston man till the latter
was goaded into fury. He fought like
a demon inc would have beaten XII
rain more quickly had the rules not
permitted h latter to slip to his knees
when avoiding a blow, making 1t H.
legal for a blow to be struck when he
was in hat position. Sullivan called
time n again for Kilrain to get up
and fight like a man., and the latter,
finally did. when Sullivan proceeded to,
finish him. 1t was not till the seven
ty-sixth round. however, and after,
three hour of fearful fighting that XIII
rain was finally beaten into submission.
His punishment was terrible, his face
being mashed to q pulp and his body
in a dreadful condition.