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A MERGE EIGHT,viilnr.H of Tttrrilile A Or ay iu an Arf-Town—'Thirty Shots iu TwentymeKaw\*»Tjja yuaget, a paper published in fcrabstone, Arizona, give3 tlie follow-nU ^raplifc account of a fierce fight %[i occurred in that place not long* ..2.. -t ir _ l. -i.l-oxigin of the trouble dates I0 the first arrest of Stillwell and pricer for the robbery of the Bisbee ^oe. The co-operation of theEarpsthe sheriff and his deputies in tlie ’ rt,si, causing a number of the eow-iors to, it is said, threaten the lives_ ofa411interested in the capture. Still,nothing occurred to indicate that any snCli threats would be carried into execution- Bat Tuesday night Ike Clanton aud Doe Holliday had soiaediili-■altTin tho Alhambra saloon. Hard Lff0rjs passed between them, and when tliev parted it was generally understood Jhii fhe feeling between the two was ijjut of intense hatred. Yesterday corning Clanton came on the street dnced with a rifle and revolver, but ffas immediately arrested by Marshal Esip, disarmed, and fined by Justice Wallace for carryiug concealed weapons. While in the coutt-room Wyatt Earp tdd him, as he had made threats ag dust ins life, he wanted him to make his fight, to say how, whon and where he would hght, and to get his crowd, and he (Wyatt) would be on hand. In reply Clanton said:“Four feet of ground is enough for to fight on, and I’ll be there.”A short time after this William Clanton and Frank McLowry came into tovra. and, as Thomas McLowry was already here, the feeling soon became aencral that a fight would ensue before die (lay was over, and crowds of expectant men stood on the corner of Allen and Fourth streets awaiting the coming conflict. It was now about 2 o’clock, aud at this time Sheriff Behan appeared upon the scene and told Marshal Earp that if he disarmed his posse, composed of Morgan and Wyatt Earp sad’Doc Holliday, he would go downopponents, and asked no quarter. With great holes pierced through their bodies by the leaden messages of death, their sole anxiety seemed to be to return shot for shot and only when the spark of life ceased to bnrn did they relinquish their hold on the death-dealing revolver, and they sank to earth as the smoke from their weapons ascended as from a funeral pyre. Before death claimed them for his own they saw Morgan Earp fall, only to raise up and renew the murderous fire, and the chances for each man’slife engaged were a thousand to one against him. Who says it does not require courage to stand and listen to thejaiusic of a half a dozen six-shooters, singing a death inarch in unison every time the hammers came down? But these men died as they would probably have chosen to dio had they had their choice. From the wild life they led, the dangers they encounter, and the chances they take in their chosen profession, it is a part of their creed that they must he ushered into the next world amid a pyrotechnic display and the whistling of bullets.ThaIiThBut soThe esWo m;Great Fires of the 'World.Wo give below an interesting list of figures showing tho great fires of the world froru 1(566 to 1876, with tho losses in number of buildings and dollars:s.os1066 LotuIod, 1S.QM braidings bunted, covering 13G acres, withoighiv churches............1778 Constantinople,2,500 buildingsburned.................1782 Constantinople, 8,000 buildings burned................1788 Constantinople, 10,000 .....1791 Constantinople, 30,000.......1791 Copenhagen, Denmark.......17101 Smyrna, S,000...............1805 Island of St.. Thomas, W. I...1S12 Moscow, 18,000 bouses, iuciud-ing rojai palaces........... 110,000,0001810 Constantinople, 4,500 bvuld-So lt;M$35,000,00013,500,00015.000.00030.000.000150.000.000 28,000,00050.000.00030.000.000mgs.10,000,00015.000.00080.000.000 20,000,00010,000,00018,000,000tothe O. K. Corral, where Ike andJames Clanton and Frank and Tom Mc-Lovry were, and disarm them. The marshal did nob desire to do this until assured that there was no danger of an attack from the other party. The sheriff went to the corral and told the cowboys that they must put their arms away ond not have any trouble, Ike Clarion and Tom McLowry said they were not armed, and Frank McLowry said he would not lay his aside- In the mean time the marshal had concluded to go, and, if possible, end the matter by disarming them.; and as he and his posse came down Fremont street toward the corral the sheriff stepped out aud said1818 Constantinople, 5,000........1S31 Constantinople, 18.000.......1835 New York city, 1,000.........1S30 Now York, -10 wareboaats and.... . . . • ^ .1SI1 Smyrna, 10,000 bFcls burned..181*2 Hamburg, Gei\, 2,000........ lO^OOf^OOO184S Constantinople, 3.000........ 15,000^0001850 Pkildelpbia, 400 buildingsand warehouses............. 15,000,0001S51 San Francisco, 1,250 buildings 13,000,0001852 Sacra men to, 2,500........... 10,000,0001861 London. England............ 10,000,0001801 Giartis/ Switzerland, entirelydestroyed'.................. 11,500,0001363 Pert an Piinco buildings..... 57,000,000lS0(i Valparaiso, Chilli, 509....... 13,000.0001866 Portland. Me., SUQ......... 10,000,0001S66 Charleston, C., 1.153...... 10,000,000J807 Constantinople, 0.000 ....... 17,500,0001870 Constantinople, 1J,000....... 25,000,0001870 Straaburg, destroyed by Prussians................*...... 90,000,0001S71 Paris, partially destroyed 140,000,0001871 Chicago, 18,000 buildings 200,000.01)01872 Xeadu, Japan, 3,WO Ymiidinga 10,00t,0001872 Nijmi, Russia................ 40,000,0001872 Boston, Maas., 748........... SO, 000,0001874 London, England............ 15,000,000AnDeacItseer*rnnslInSew for sWtalkuoyweaiLphyiplea the; howN.only the: satis or frItagaistiti“T1inirItmanufcfceAmlt;spermuseye.A of f» ferelt;•Hold up, boys. Don't go down 1876 Yedtlo, Japan, 5,0UU ...10,000,000 | ^there or there will be trouble. I have been down there to disarm them.”But they passed on. and whan within a few feet of them the marshal said tothe Clantons and McLowrya:“ Throw up your hands, bdys, I intend to disarm you.”As he spoke Frank. McLowry made a motion to draw a revolver, when Wyatt Earp nulled his and shot him, the ball striking on the right eitle of his ah do • men. About the same time Doc Holliday shot Tom McLowry in the right side, using a shotgun, such as is carried by Well's. Fargo Go’s messengers, In the meantime Billy Clanton had a shot at Morgan Earp, the ball passing through the point of the left shoulder blade across his back, just grazing the backbone aud coming out at the right shoulder, the ball remaining inside his shirt. He fell to the ground, but in an instant gathered himself, and, rising 10 a sitting position, fired at Frank Me-Lowry as he crossed Fremont street at the same instant Doc Holliday shot him, both balls taking effect, either of which would have proved fatal, as one of them struck Mm in the right temple and the other in the left breast. As heTotal.....................$1,405,500, U00From this table it will be seen that America leads in great fires, Chicago, with her two hundred million blaze, taking the lead. Moscow and Paris come next. Constantinople is the champion city in the number of her great fires, and taking her ten great fires, she takes rank over all with a total los i of three hundred and thirty-six millions of dollars and ninety-six thousand buildings. Almost half the loss ($610,000,000) occurred in the last six years of the 210 years included in tho list.started across the street, however* henriVUn -y t*t IT - 1 UUL-UttU 1 IS uetuia u-tM-ZiX hilk: vruc-Ligun down on Holliday, say- the merchanta. There tbev are c‘•IW S J?\n-0W‘ , • I over, sorted into three or lour :Blaze away! You're a daisy if youfcajri replied Doc.This shot of MoLowry’s passed through Holliday's pistol-pocket, jnst grazing the skin. While this was going oil Billy Clanton had shot Yirgil Earp in the right leg, the ball passing dirongu the calf, inflicting a severejtft?h wound. In turn ho had been shotby iJorg Earp in the right wrist and once in the left breast. Soon after the mooting commenced Ike Olanion ran Jirougk the O. K. Corral across Allen roc into Kellogg’s saloon, and thence into loughnut street, where he was arrested and taken to the county jail, ihe firing altogether did not occupy ®ore than twenty seconds, during which, une fully thirty shots were fired.4 ter the fight was over Billy Clanton,Mio with wonderful vitality survived is wounds for fully an honrj was car-• mto a house, where he lay, andPreparing Cod for Market,Salt cod-fish is a popular article of diet, but many who are fond of it have no idea of the method tf which it is prepared. The principal industry of Newfoundland is the cod-fishery, and the chief center of the trade is at St. John’s, where the process of packingaud shipping the salted fish moy be witnessed to perfection, The fish having been dried on stages erected for the purpose on tho shores of every bay and inlefe of thq island, are brought to St. John’s ia small schooners and thrown in heaps upon the wharves ofculled piles,according to their quality, by experienced cullers, who separate the good from the indifferent, and the indifferent from the bad, with great rapidity and unerring skill.Women with hand-barrows attend upon the cullers, carry the fish into an adjoining shed, and upset their loads beside barrels standing ready to receive them.A couple of boy3 throw the fish into a cask, piling them up a foot or so above tho brita, mount on the top, and having danced a wax dance upon them in their hob-nailed boots to pack them down, ioil the barrel under a screw-press, where two men stand ready to take charge oi ic. Grasping the ends of the long arms of the lever, the men run quickly round a couple of times, lift their feet off the ground, and throw-comJonVmir.theiWittaki The of sCis t hav My Jaci lout of £ potmaitv'bihellt;nevwhoi1 hDft3tleafargable hail GOTTred.Starpie?noilashcraiI*jng their weight on the lever to addtwvH.;*,. .----i’ tv~ impetus to the blow, swing round withW'mormnf083 °ne 0 mak® 3 i it, and bring down the stamp with amoments easy. Be was game to . . ‘ask! never uttering a word of com-nA'1-’’ -iuat before breathing his w S sp-ld; ‘ ‘ Good-bye, boys; go away• , w 'jj v7 i fj,'-’ i' 11« re“ rie die.” The wounded were laornintru;oa to their houses, ana at 3 o'clockablv.IQb ^ere resting comfort-1 te dead bodies were taken ]ia^,ge by t)ie coroner. If tberetiiincr jj.k “sancV1 ilie evidence that. coroner.shn?? aswooiing yesterday ’•oresrUi Eaf'? Pack around enough of the QT!ihW3fance 5^ai’‘; a grindstone Everybody engaged knew that%‘‘Jnes ^ore Eablo to be- put 1 ’jj'r ‘ , luS of a trigger, and n . cCw(l or Wawror!dulltaud, compressing the codfish into a comuact mass. ‘The cask is then rolled out from under the press, and handed over to two coopers. In a trice the hoops are driven on. the cisk ia headed up, aud then trundled down an incline into the hold of some vessel loading for the West Indies or some Mediterranean port. The rapidity with which the whole process is managed is remarkable.S.-TSKIout byThe gladiole has hauled in its horns, and the mignonette has retired, aud the tulip has rung down the curtain. Therefore the garden hoso has been wound up and stowed in the carriage-house; ^ , and when the boy of the place wants to -ltd -Clanton and Frank j play on a passer and make him sad he -•wit still kept up the fire on their 1 has to resort to a bean-shooter.—Puck.no manred a hair. After beicgand the life-blood flowing- Y’ notfi ynrmcr Vrsinlrcat:illstheproIK-0the\\‘lt;YiinVtH'1ClK2\rhc: XV. lt;* wit\e^lyInpthTitrhctheedy
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Marion Daily Star
Marion, Ohio, US
Wed, Dec 21, 1881
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