Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-10-26

Wild Bill In Abilene that day they kept care
fully out OF sight. Not shot was fired Moth
ing happened. Wild Bins reception at Abilene
was a regular ovation.
That little trip that Coles brother and
friends had made from Texas to Abilene to
avenge Coles death was no blum They went
TO Abilene again the following year expecting
to find Wild Bill there Whey they learned
that he was in Cheyenne, Coles brother and
two OF his close friends started on for the
Wyoming town. Wild Biips friends in Abilene
wired him to be on the lookout for them.
bill was standing against the bar OF sa-
loon In Cheyenne drinking a glass OF beer
when the three Texans stalked in. Bill recog
nized Coles brother by his resemblance to the
Cole he had killed. But Bill made 10 move
He merely fingered his glass lazily and watched
the three strangers out OF the corner OF his
eye. The Texans separated slightly AID closed
on Bill in semi-circle Get him now!' said
their leader suddenly. All three whipped out
revolvers. But--would you believe it?-they
did not fire shot Bill was the quickest man
ON the draw that ever lived. He fred 30
rapidly that others In the saloon testified after
wards they heard but one report His bullets
found the Texans between the eyes anu they
fell dead in their tracks. Wild Bill killed
these men with six-shooter had given him
v-hen he quit the theatrical business
Wild Bill was one Of the best revolver shots
ever in the west" Buffalo Bill went ON. HE
certainly was the best revolver shot in ngAt.
The man OF today wonders why Wild Inn
got Into SO many fights. One naturally figurcs
he must have been a quarrelsome man. Gu
the contrary he was distinctly nkable and ami
able. But out west in early days there were
many men who took pride in bloody exploits
and killed men simply to make a record. In
the spirit OF gamblers these men swore q,
an nj har 10 "a.
man. They hunted each other often and trav.
eled hundreds OF miles to fight It out with a
rival killer. number of these professional
bad men tried to kill Wild Bill for the reputs
ton 1t would give them. Other men tried To
Kill him as result OF disputes still othern
sought his life to avenge the deaths OF rels-
tives who hac fallen before Wild BiIrs re-
vovers.
Tie was kined in Deadwood by Jack Mccall
on August 2. 1875. With party OF friends
he had entered saloon to play poker. The
card table Sas in corner at the rear Of thu
place. Captain Durfee. an old Missouri steam
boat man and friend ~ Hickok's, took thu
seat In the corner. wild Sill tried 10 get the
seat frst When he failed, he asked CaptaIn
Durfee to let him have IT, Captain Durfes
suspected Bill wanted the seat to have certain
man at his right to CIT for him and perhaps
stack the deck. Captain Durfee refused 10 give
up the seat Then Bill without more ado sat
down In chair with his back to the front
door. In that position he cocad not see Mccall
enter. The assassin stepped up behind MIN
and fired bullet in the back o. his head. XIII
Ing him instantly. Mccall was hanged In Yank.
ton not long after The fatal bullet, sfser pass
ing through Wild Bilis Akull, broke Captain
Durfee's arm.
Captain Durfee said afterward that he "a
not realize until too late that Wild Bill wanssr
the chair In the corner 10 he could communal
a view OF the bar and all who entered from
the street n the captain had known this 4.
would have surrendered the chair and Wild ~,
would not have been assassinated."