Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1913-04-05
WANTED CAT" AND
BLOOD--PERSEVERANCE

Nuff said, white man, Ell you am
done eXhaustifiCated you finanshul
corporosituness it am time you done
'yaporate. Take a black mans cab
fare and make yo'self hard to fin J"
With objurgation, obligation and
opprobium thus heaped upon him. the
cup of the gentleman involved was
full without the addition of menace
protruding from eight pairs of eyes
cleaning from black frames set in
the stern faces OF eight colored gen
tlemen. all said to have been from
the Fifth cavalry, and further said
to have been gathered in the vicinity
of a beer garden on Naco road in the
enjoyment Of a game of craps. The
latter, it may be added had in the
previous several minutes reached the
maximum of the evenings pleasure
through the separation of the white
brother from some 40 odd plunks of
for in Slopes and other underground
pathways to the daily bread route
Dazed, Inundated, panied. the white
gentleman followed the peremptory
advice indicated ip the opening para
graph. The fresh air brought him to
as he rode into Bisbee and when he
got off at the foot of Brewery Gulch,
a vast change had come about When
that change had been encouraged with
a drink extended by an accommodate.
ing bar keeper friend, il was some
thing worth while beholding. No ele-
ment Of war LACKED in the bearing
~ 1-s ~. n
tins of craps. And yet there was re.
straint. that deadly sort manifested
in glinting eye and tense bearing
With these symptoms plain TO the
eye. the gentleman landed in front OF
/ Leo Gannon's cigar stand at the Wal
dOrf and reckoning that versatile
/ young man, whispered iH his ear. He
( wanted a ga6" a big one, and al
once. He had been robbed of $40 Il
I skin crap game ana he was COINS
I to have it back. There were eighr
I black men TO kill, and he proposed
doing IT, What in the blankety-blaHE
did s black lives amount to in com
{ parison with $40 anyhow?
Mr. Cannon looked thoughtful II,
/ did not have his gun. but maybe Their,
/ was one at the bar If so. goOd-by,
( black men. He would see. Meantim,
/ would the gentleman please look IN
! concerned and wait quietly at the ci
/ gar stand? And then Cannon beat i
( TO the telephone. The Hon. Matt Dill
/ lon. Mexican diplomatic expert, on
swered his call and was informed o
| the situation; also instructed to cal
iup a friend Mr.. Cannon returned
mournfully 10 the cigar stand and ad
I vised the waiting one OF warlike &c
/ meanor that the bar. gun had beer
/ loaned earlier in the evening. but tina
he thought Matt Dillon could fix hin
/ up over at the EdelWeiss. Matt al
ways carried three or four guns
! Whereupon the warlike one hastenet
across the street The Hon Mat
waited a hand gently over his gIisten
/ ing dome. wiped a sympathetic tea
/ from his eye and told his caller tina
\ he lamented deeply his inability Z
/ help even indirectly in increasing tn
4 coon heaven census roll, but all hi
l guns had been loaned earlier in tn
I evening II seemed that IL was
blood hunting kind OF a night Tn,
\ company. An observe ton that grev
| upon him as well put as he went from
place to place under the suggestion
OF those upon whom ne was directet
to call for artillery and that did moth
/. ing toward the abatement of the bloo'
\ fever surging with ever increasini
heat beneath the forced calm of
nevertheless plainly bellieose exteT
h ior
\ Telephone Gals sent the rounds a
] O'Clock. closing up time, indicates
that the gun seeker had visited 2
bars in his evenings round and tina
he had left the last one up Mail
/ street on his way to Charley Thomas
house in upper Tombstone canyon
where he had been assured there wa
a regular arsenal There was a d0u
bic purpose in this visit, however, TO
in the event that as an officer OF h
law Thomas would not or could nc