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HE WAS A DEAD SHOTWILD BILL, THE ARMY SCOUT ANO BORDER REGULATOR. .Daring Demin m a Botiller In the Federal Berrien — In the Enemy'* Linen In Ml*, ■otirl *-Carrying New* to General Curtin. Cowboy, Then Peace Ofltoer on the Plain*.(Copyright. 193S. by American Press Asso-Hook rights .-eBerved.Jelation.ORDER life with all its nn tamod nature has phases which speakloudprtban scrragns of man's noblor d t (1 e. Where all isgoo^ itjfl easy to tafco{no paoe. old pluininuen who in ember wiint the wild west was like 20 to 40 years ago are making a hero of Wild Bill Ilickok, a border character who died with his boots on ntDeadwood in 1882. Ovor 30 years ago Wild Bill abandoned civilization as it was aloug the Missouri and went, to New Mexico, whcro ho began life as n cow puncher. Ten years later ho was ouo of tho beet known men on the plains.Wild Bill was a nickuatno givon to James B. Hickok, an Illinois boy who ran uway in early life and lived among hunters and trappers in the mountains. When the war broke out. iu 1801, lie enlisted in a regiment which served in Missouri and his exploits as a scout were upon the touguo of every officer and soldier of both armies iu tho trails-mississippi vgiou. With a constitution toughened to outdoor life, inurvolousWlldlHil managed to let the Yankee# on the other side know that be waa one of the reckless riders, and they trained their shots upon the sergeant, but failed to bring him down. At last somo one in the Yankeo orowd—-there were thousands of both armies looking on—cried out. Bully for Wild Billl Then the sergeant snspicioned me, said tho scoot in telling this story, for be turned on mo and growled out, ‘By God, I believe yer n Yank!* And be at once drew his revolver. But ho was too late, for tho minute ho drew his pistol I put a ball through him. I mightn't huvo killed him if ho hadn't RUspicioued me. I had to do it then,After the wap a boon comrade of tho dead sergeant fought a dnol with Wild B;li in tho pnblio square of Dawronce, Knu. BiH sbophipi dead, then turned ou a frown or bis friends, but they declined to take up the quarrel.\YiU| Bill could fight when driven to the Wall as well as play tho part of de-reiver. Burly in the war ho made'him-self a torror to border desperadoes by killing ten men siuglo banded. His victims were tho notorious McCandloss gang of cutthronts who trailed him to a houso near tho Kansas border while ho was guiding somo Federal cavalry from tho plains to the states. The scout had a revolver and riflo, but only seven shots. One shot killed McCandloss, who had jumped into the room where Wild Bill took his stand when ho beard tho desperadoes nutsido swearing to cut his heart out, thoy having recognized his horso tied to n treo.The death of McCandlcss enraged his who rushed in ut two doors. Wildmen,Bill said everything scorned clear nud sharp when he faced those nine murderers, aud ho brought down four of thorn with just four shots. Two shotB were fired into Wild Bill, but tho loads wcro oulv buckshot. 11 of which lodRed in
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The Saturday Pharos
Logansport, Indiana, US
Sat, Mar 26, 1898
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