The evening world., 1911-11-02
Here's a Man Who Fought
( Champions and Never
Got Paid for 1t, Either

safe. We hac gone along for ten miles
n everything had been so pleasant
that I did not fear any trouble. When
We were twelve miles from Craig. where
the jail Is located. Doggy suddenly
stretched his arms back and yawned.
All OF a sudden I felt his hand on my
gun. He got II all right. but ] wheeled
around In time to knock his hand up
and then we had a desperate struggle.
BOTH ROLLED OUT OF THE
BUGGY.
In the excitement we both rolled out
or the buggy to the ground ana the
norses ran away. AS we M the ground
the gun Jared ont os his hani. | then
remembered wha, the prize fighters had
taught me and before he could get his
arm back l gave him a stlr upper cut
ana laid him out. I then beat him into
submission after a ten minutes fight
and put the handouts on his left arm
n my right arm ! threw the gun
away. Then I showed him the key to
the handouts and threw that awag. 7
had to take a chance on fighting MIN
with my fists and my boxing training
had made me the better man. Honestly.
j was afraid to carry the gun. We
walked the full twelve miles handcuffed
to each other. and l landed him in jail
that night and got the money"
This story. told In a simple. staight-
forward manner. had the ball players
sitting with their mouths agape. and
the sincerity OF Pfeiner so Impressed
them that they begged for more.
Tell them o the troubles you
had over shooting the squaw." sug-
gestcd HUMPHREYS and, mildly protest.
Ing. this frank fellow related an Incl
dent that would be worth Ave volumes
OF dime novel.
You know I got In trouble with the
Indians owe shooting a sauaw,' ex-
planned Pfelner. and in case some
one gets a wrong idea of this and prints
II j want everybody to know exactly
how 1t happened. You inc I wouldn't
have shot a squaw II I had known It.
But I did.
AT that time the Ute Indians had
been making raids on the deer out of
season For buckskin and the game war
dens couldn't stop them. Some ranch
men protested and to get even the
Indians set fire to their haystacks and
~outhouses and began killing cattle. ]
was riding for the 'Two-Bar' OUTFIT al
mat time and me and Buck Overholi
were sworn In by the Sheriff and told
To join the other rangers and go after
these Indians. one young buck Indian
shot ono OF the COW punchers and was
caught. Overholt vas told to guard him.
The young Indian seemed harmless and
Overholt was amusing him by playing
mumble-peg on a plank. The young In.
dian waited until Overholt had go,
careless and he suddenly reached over
grabbed the knife with which he was
playing, and almost cut on Overholt'.
clothes. Overholt then turned and sho,
him.
BAD INDIAN INSIDE A TEPEE.
The ~cowpunchers then got after me
n told me I would have to get me- ar
indian. or course I had no idea OF kill
ing anybody. but when we cam to tn,
Indian camp II seemed that I wa.
bound to get In trouble. The bad Indiai
that we really wanted was inside &
tepee with eight or nine other buck.
around him and refused to COM out
We had to get him out some way ant
the gang kept taunung me and darinl
me to go In and get him single handed
They kept at me so strong that I de
cided to take a chance. l jumped of
my horse and dashed inside the tepee
The other fellows got ready to shoot |
anything happened. I finally got hold o
the Indian. who was not a.. big fellow
and by main force was dragging hin
out Of h tepee, at the same time keep
ing my hand on m gun. I was jus
about to back out OF the flap when thu
cowpunchers shouted sharply: Watch
out. Red: watch OUT
IT turned my head as quick as I could
Just as I did I saw an axe flash In tn,
air. A squaw was standing there ant
was swinging the axe at my head
There was but one thing to do and
jerked out my gun and with a quick
side motion pulled the trigger. The
bullet killed her dead. The squaws and
bucks dress so much alike that I didn',