The Washington times., 1919-09-24

Seth Bullock died yesterday in his
home in DeadwOOd, S. D., and with his
going fades away one OF the last Of
the eXemplars Of the unbranded West
that Bret Harte used to write about.
He was siXty-tWo years old, and in
1 those sixty-two years Seth Bullock
had crammed enough excitement to
keep strenuous family on its toes
for a century. He had been SICK for
several weeks.
He was a friend OF the late Theo-
dore Roosevelt. who made him United
States Marshal Of South Dakota and
whom he guided through the Bad
Lands of the Black Hills country on
horse rustler chases and other eX-
petitions that required grit, stamina
and nerves that remained put.
He was as straight, as slender and
as strong as a Saskatchewan spruce
and he had the speed Of a diamond
back rattler. He looked like what
he was. He was the Fasteners
/ cherished vision Of what the first
Sheriff Of Deadwood, S. D., ought to
be and look like. What the movie
hero Of a Wild West drama tries to
portray Capt. Bullock was and did.
He was born in Sandwich, Canada,
just across the river from Detroit
He made tracks for the West as soon
as he was able to saddle and ride a
horse. He dismOUnted in South Da-
kOta because the place looked good
to him, and in succession he became
miner, prOspectOr and Cattleman.
Things becoming a trihle dull, he
sought and obtained the precarious
job Of sheriff OF DeadwoOd.
Stirring Days I'm DeadWOOd.
In those days Deadwood was in
its formative. stage. DeadwOod had
just as much respect for laws
whether man made or heaven inspired
AS Seth Bullock had for the reputa-
tiOn Of the bad men who were making
zionist. About everything that laws
prohibit nowadays was a part OF
DeadwOOd's program. Such rough
and ready gents as Big Bill Cotton,
Curley Demond, Scar Face Wilson
and the original Omaha Kid held sway
in Deadwood when Seth Bullock
yearned to install law and order
there. TUsCon Tommie McGOnniEal
and Baldy Cartaret ran the inevitable
FL Dorado where roulette, poker, ran
tan and the like were to be had in
the big barroom and Fanny Fedora,
Yellow Katy and similarly iOcund
ladies held carnival in the dance hall
beyond.
Seth Bullock set forth. an hour
after his election, to get the lay Of
the land, and straiEhtway he opened
operations. 1t is said Of him that he
arrested thirty-seven bad men that
night, using such measures as beating
recalcitrants into submission with
the buUt Of his gun and carefully
shooting others in those sections Of
the anatomy that housed no vital
organs. Seth was an instantaneous |
success. He dominated Deadwood by |
becoming just a little tougher than
any citizen who was catalogued as 4
tough before his election. Those /
yesrning for a fght had but to apply /
to Seth and they were given complete |
Seth managed by these direct /
methods to convert DeadwOod into as 1
clean a town as the West Of those /
.y enjoyable time doing IT,
FriendGhIp With Roosevelt.
When Theodore Roosevelt set I'D 1
his ranch on the Little Missouri |
River in 1885 Seth. who lived but 4
sixty miles away, ran down to see 4
him. There and then a friendship /
that was genuine and permanent be-
gan.
It was in Seth BulIock's baiIiwick
that Roosevelt met such celebrities as
Crazy Steve. He'll Roarin' Bill Jones 1
and other two fisted and two gun
celebrities given prominence in the |
former Presidents autobiography.
At ROosevelts Inauguration, Bull /
lock took a band Of COW punchers 1
TO Washington and with them par /
ticlpated In the inaugural parade.
In 1910 Seth and his family went I
10 Europe. u was not without much |
diplomacy on the part Of Mrs Bull
lock that Seth made few sartorial /
before embarkinE on the
liner Cedric. She managed TO get him
nto a hard boiled shirt and Eastern
shoes. but he clunE 10 his Stetson so
oudly and hercely that he escaped
he bowler hat destined for his sun
burned brow.
In London, Captain Bullock met |
Colonel Roosevelt again. The Colonel
lad just returned from his African
explorations, and ne and the Sheriff
II Deadwood did London 10 the vast
iatisfaction Of that city. Likewise
hey Travelled Scotland fOrcfhcr