East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-09-24

4 gan to shoot at my feet" which Ger
tainly did seem to offer presumptiv,
evidence of meanness. Simpson con
: tinued:
Il didn't have no gun, so Just had
to stand there and take it until some
thing distracted his attention, and !
went off home to get my gun and kill
him, but l wanted to do it perfectly
lawful; so l went up to the mayor che
was playin' poker with one of the
Judges), and 1 says to him Mr.. Mayor
says ], I am goin' to shoot Fowler
And the mayor he rig out of his chair
and he took me by the hand, and says
he, Mr.. Simpson. II you do l will stand
by you; and the Judge, he says. III,
go on your bond
Forfeited by this cordial approval Of
the executive and judicial branches Of
the government. Mr.. Simpson started
on his quest. Meanwhile, however,
Fowler had cut up another prominent
citizen, and they already had him In
Jail. The friends of law and order
| feeling some little distrust as to the
! permanancy Of their own zeal for
Righteousness. thought it was best to
| settle the matter before there was time
for cooling, and accordingly, headed
| by Simpson, the mayor, the judge, the
fTurk, and other prominent citizens of
the town, they broke into the Jail and
hanged Fowler. The point in the
| hanging which particularly tickled my
| friends fancy as he fingered over the
reminiscence, was one that was rather
too CHASTITY TO appeal to our own sense
| of humor. In the Turks mind there
still ranked the memory of Fowlers
very unprOfessional conduct while
figuring before him as a criminal.
Said Simpson, with merry twinkle of
the eye: do you know, that Turk,
he was right funny fellow after all. |
Just as the boys were going to string
up Fowler. says he, Boys, stop; one
moment, gentlemen, - Mr.. Fowler, |
good d-by,' and he blew kiss to him."
Cowboy Nicknames
In the cow-country, and elsewhere |
on the wild borderland between saw
agry and civilization, men go quite as
often by nieknames as by those to |
which they are lawfully entitled. Half |
the cowboys and hunters of my ac-
qualntance are known by names en-
tirely unconnected with those they in
herted or received when they were |
christened. Occasionally some would |
be desperate or make-belieye mighty |
hunter tries to adopt what a title he
deems suitable to his prowess: but |
such an effort is never attempted in |
really wild places where it would be
greeted with huge derlsion: for all of
these names that are genuine are be-
slowed by outsiders, with small regard |
to the wishes of the person named. |
Ordinarily the name refers to some
easily recognizable accident of origin,
occupation. or aspect; as witness the
innumerabie Dutcheys. Frencheys,
Kentueks, Texas Jacks, Bronco Bills,
Bear Joes. Buckskins, Red Jims, and
the like. Sometimes it is apparently
meaningless: one of my cowpuncher
friends is always called "Sliver" or
"Splinter" l have no idea. At
other times some particular, incident
may give rise to the title; a clean
looking cowboy formerly in my en-
ploy was always known as Muddy
Pill" because he had once been buck
| ed off his horse into q mud hole.
The grewsome genesis of one such
name is given in the following letter
which have just received from an old
hunting friend in the Rockies, who
took kindly interest in frontier
cabin which the Boone and Crockett
Club was putting up at the Chicago
| World Fair
Feb. 10th. 1898; Der Sir: I see in
| the newspapers that your club the
| Daniel Boon and Davey Crockit you
intend to erect frontier cabin at the
| world Far at Chicago to represent the
| erley Pianears of our country I would
| like to see you maik success have
| all my life been q fruntiersman and
feel interested in your undertaking and
| hoap you vile get good assortment
| of relicks want to maik one sugges-
| ton to you that is in regard to getting
| a good man and a genuine Mauntenner
to take charg of your haus at Chicago
I want to recommend man for you to
get IL Is Liver-eatlng Johnson that is
the naim he is generally called he is
an olde mauntneer and large and
fine looking and one Of the Best Story
Tellers in the country and Very Po-
light genteel TO every one he meets
Twill tell you how he gotthat naim.
iver-eating in hard Fight with the
Black Feet Indians they Taught all
day Johnson and few Whites Taught
large body of Indians after the fight
johnson cam in contact with wound
ed indian and johnson was aut of am
munition and they taught 1t out with
their Knives and Johnson got away
with the Indian and in the fight cut
the liver out of the Indian and said to
the boys did they want any Liver to