The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-08
CUSTER SCOUT
 WILL BE HERO
 AMONG HEROES
Men Who Conquered West Hold Last Roundup in
 Houston Today
BY ROY J. FORREST United Press Stan Correspondent

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 Houston, Tex, Nov. a-(UP. = in the curling smoke of a "cow trail" camp fire, grizzled survivors of many Western legends will spin yarns of long gone frontier days at their Last Roundup" convention here Nov. 8-11.
 There will be the long-haired, high-booted Pawnee Bill, lesser known as Maj. Gordon w. Lille; Chris Madsen, famous Danish scout for Gen. c. A. Custer; Col E. D. Nix, the Law of the Cimar- rom: Effego Baca, who once bat tied an entire town of cowboys for 34 hours; Al Jennings, evangelist and famous ex-train robber, and many others.
 Exploits of these men in their youthful days will be reenacted at a colorful pageant In which the old scouts, peace officers, gunmen and more than 100 Indians will par ticipate.
 Major Lille Is president of the National Frontiermens association which was organized at Fort Smith, Ark, and will hold it's eighth an- nual convention here during the four days, ending with 8 street parade on Armistice day.
 Had Indian Troupe
 As Pawnee Bill, he organized the oklahoma Boomers" into an or- derly colony and led them on the rush to Indian territory on April 22. 1889. He was the first to exhibit Indians, appearing in the Wild West show of the late Col. William r. Buffalo Bill" Cody.
 Pawnee Bill now raises buffalo and horses on his ranch at Pawnee, Okla, Ills wife, the famous May Manning Lillie, was killed in an auto accident two weeks after her 6Oth wedding anniversary last year.
 Madsen, native of Denmark and former French Foreign Legionnaire who came to America when he heard of the Indian Wars, will be honor guest of the convention. Mad- sen survived the massacre of Gen. eral Clusters 7th U. s. cavalry ln 1876.
 Although disputed, he said that he saw the famous knife duel be- tween Buffalo Bill and Chief Yel- low Hand. After the Indian wars, he became deputy U. s. marshal ln Oklahoma and was contemporary of Wild Bill Hickok, Heck Thomas, Bnl Tighlman and Bear River Tom Smith.
 Dix Jailed Jennings
 Colonel Dix, now 75, was a grocer at Guthrie, Okla, when he was ap- pointed U. s. marshal In 1893 ana ordered to run down Oklahoma bad men. He and his men killed scores of outlaws and jailed several thou sand persons, including Jennings "Ghttle Annie" Bell and the notori- ous Henry Starr. He fired the start ir9 gun in 1893 when more than 25O,OO0 persons rushed to the Chero- kee Strip to settle 5,000,000 acres.
 Jennings, who made a sensational race for governor of Oklahoma after his release from the Ohio State penitentiary, has campaigned in lec- trwes in recent years against crime and for prison reform. -
 The Vests greatest gun battle occurred at Socorro, N. M, when Baca rode into the city and de- manded that the cowboys who mu- tilated Q young Mexican just TOT fun" be arrested for the crime. When resistance was offered, ne shot the horse of the cowboy leader whose neck was broken in the tall' Baca took refuge in an adobe hut and fought a mob for 34 hours.
 Dan Beard To Attend
 Others who will talk over old times by the camp fire will be Mexican Joe" Berara, called the father of trick roping," and now ranch foreman for Pawnee Bill; Gen. Roy Hoffman of Oklahoma City, retired army officer and 1or- mer frontier prosecutor; Daniel Car ter Beard, national commissioner and founder of the Boy Scouts oi America; George Coe of Glencoe, N, M., last survivor of Billy the Kids" outlaw band and the Lincoln county cattle war of New Mexico; Al Lillie, brother of Pawnee Bill, once a trick rider in the latters show, and Bald win Parker, son of the late Chief Quanah Parker, last of the Com anche chieftains, and grandson oi Cynthia Ann Parker who cause a sensation by becoming the white bride of Chief Peta Nacoma and re- sisting efforts to return her to white relatives.
 Tiie convention will be held in Houston's new $l,300,000 municipal