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Jurors Selected to Decide BANK CASHIER the Fate of William Christ. MRS. HART TESTIFIES. Sensational Scenes at Says the Defendant Acted a Portland Bank. Like a Crazy Person Before A Lone Bandit the Killing. Promptly Driven to WANTED HIS WIFE TO DIE. the Street by Bullets. Had Offered the Witness a Well-Laid Plans to Pistol With Which to Shoot Loot the Institution Mrs. Christ. Come to Naught. ESCAPE OF THE January 29, 1896, Call, , California — The jury OUTLAW Bank Robbery Foiled. which has been chosen to try Makes His Way William Christ for the alleged mur- Through Groups of Excited succeeded but for the prompt and der of his wife was completed this determined resistance on the part Mrs. Hart Preparing To Testify. morning, George Boyd, A. L. People, Mounts His Horse of A. W. Lambert, the cashier, who Warren, 0. C. Smith, G. D. that the statement of Christ was far- and Rides Away. drove the robber from the bank Wentworth, C. B. Strong, F. B. cical in the extreme. The weapon and took a parting shot at him as Adams, William Vought, E. that ended Mrs. Christ’s life must January 21, 1898, Call, San he passed from the bank-room into Heinrich, C. Kellogg, J. C. Scroggs have been discharged within twelve Francisco, California — A daring the street. He missed by aiming a or fourteen inches of her head, as and Max Ginsberg, being the cho- attempt was made to hold up the little too high. her face was badly powder-burned; sen ones. The selection of the last cashier and rob the Citizens’ Bank, Although the bank is situated three jurors occupied the whereas, if Christ’s story was to be on the northeast corner of East in the heart of East Portland, forenoon and the afternoon ses- believed, when the weapon was dis- Washington Street and Union where numbers are constantly sion was consumed by the District charged it was at a distance of at Attorney, who made the opening least ten feet. Avenue, today shortly after 3 passing along the streets during Continued on page 4 statement for the prosecution. The bullet then would have o’clock. The attempt would have The Prosecuting Attorney out- taken an upward course, while the lined the points the State would report of the autopsy proved that attempt to prove and stated that the missile ranged downward. He facts had been learned proving stated that all the contents of the room would be NOVEL SWINDLER offered in evidence; that photographs of History of Leroy Harris, the face and hand of the dead woman, Recently Released from Phoenix, AZ PRSRT STD PRSRT Permit # 3418 showing the powder- Prison — Remarkable US Postage PAID US Postage marks, would be pre- Criminal Who Robbed sented, and it would Post Offices from be shown that defen- dant had made very Connecticut contradictory state- To Illinois — No One ments as to how the Knew a Cent homicide occurred. Was Missing — Scheme At the close of the He Swindled Post Offices From Connecticut To Illinois. District Attorney’s Discovered By Accident released from the Joliet prison. address Mrs. Frances Harris was the originator of a E. Hart was called to January 8, 1898, The Daily novel plan to rob the government, the stand. Mrs. Hart Times Herald, Dallas, Texas — In by concocting a scheme for swin- is the wife of William the criminal history of America dling the post offices of the coun- Hart, the man of there are few parallels to the case try that was so skillfully carried out Continued on page 4 of Leroy Harris, a convict recently Continued on page 4

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CONTENTS Features PUBLISHER’S NOTES Sacramento’s Murder Trial ...... 1 About 30 years ago Sunny and I spent a get-away weekend in a hun- Bold Robber Foiled by a Bank Cashier ...... 1 dred-year-old stone cottage located Novel Swindler ...... 1 in Northern California. It was one Policing the Yellowstone ...... 3 of those pleasurable experiences Young Outlaw ...... 8 that we talk about to this day. Indians and Outlaws ...... 9 On the wall of the small kitchen Portal of the Chiricahuas ...... 10 was a framed needlepoint with an Spirit of the West Gathering ...... 10 interesting proverb. Now, I don’t ...... 11 consider myself a mystical person, but I had the strange feeling that Returned From the Klondike ...... 12 that needlepoint was placed there About the Bannocks ...... 13 years earlier just so I would be able Two and a Map ...... 14 to read it during that weekend. Current Conversation ...... 15 I copied it down. When I got The Escape of ...... 16 home I printed it on a sheet of Upper Verde Happenings ...... 17 paper and put it under the glass pad The Power To Endure Them May Be Cultivated ...... 18 on my desk. We’ve since moved and Trading Stamps ...... 18 I no longer have a glass pad, so the Dakota and Sunny saying is now on the wall right in Pest-Killing Insects ...... 19 I can waste it or use it for good. front of me. What I do today is very impor- A Child’s Gift ...... 20 I still start each day reading it tant because and committing to making sure I am exchanging a day of my life each day is lived to the fullest. Columns for it. With the beginning of another When tomorrow comes, this day Publisher’s Notes ...... 2 year, we’re faced with 365 new days. will be gone forever Legend ...... 2 As long as we’re alive, each day has Leaving something in its place I Bronco Sue’s Old West Trivia “” ...... 6 to be lived. It’s how we live it that have traded for it. makes a difference in our lives, as Woman’s Sphere ...... 7 l want it to be a gain, not loss... well as the lives of others. So, lets Events To Consider ...... 11 good, not evil... live it to the fullest. LouisL’Amour.com Trivia Contest ...... 12 success, not failure As Sunny and I are renewing our The ...... 13 in order that I shall not regret commitment at the end of the year, It Happened In January ...... 14 the price I paid for it.” we ask that you also make sure those May 2017 be an unbelievably Heard Around the Bunkhouse ...... 15 days God gives you aren’t wasted: Louis L’Amour Trivia Monthly Winner ...... 15 great year for all of us. “This is the beginning of a new day. `Dakota Staff God has given me this day to use President • T. G. Shepherd as I will. Publisher • Dakota Livesay Executive Editor • Sunny Livesay Editor • Scott Livesay Sidekick #1 • Gordon Eaton Transcriber • Pat Roberts FROM OUR READERS Historical Consultants • John P. Clum, John H. Marion, Horace Greeley, John H. Beadle, Hiram Brundage & Phil S. Triplett What a great pleasure it is to I also think it’s great that you Volume 17, Number 2 - Copyright 2016 renew my subscription to the print the articles in the same CHRONICLE OF THE OLD WEST, P.O. Box 2859, Show Low, 85902, (928)532-2875 Chronicle of the Old West…The month they were originally printed. Copyright 2015. All rights reserved. Reproduction of the contents of this publication without permission is strictly prohibited. CHRONICLE OF THE OLD WEST neither endorses nor is responsible best danged newspaper in the And Sunny does a great job of for the content of advertisements in its pages. Advertising information is available by writing to: country. putting Woman’s Sphere together. CHRONICLE OF THE OLD WEST, P.O. 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And if so, you had to of the Old West. originate from somewhere other We’ve been publishing than Chandler, AZ…like maybe Chronicle of the Old West for some AN EXPLANATION OF Southern Illinois where I come 16 years and Sunny and I still get a CHRONICLE OF THE OLD WEST’S CONTENTS from. That, along with never hav- kick out of putting it together. It • Chronicle of the Old West contains two types of articles: ing a “g” at the end of a just amazes me that two people word…goin’, bein’ and doin’ is the whose knowledge of the Old West • Reprints of 1800’s periodicals. way I talked until I went off to col- at the time was through movies and • Places to go and things to do to enjoy the Old West lege. In college I had to learn novels came up with the idea of today. English all over again. Chronicle of the Old West. • All articles about the Old West are published in the Incidentally, although we do month in which they took place. I’ve been a subscriber to this, I have two syndicated radio • Reprint articles contain the date it was published and Chronicle of the Old West for some shows, a syndicated newspaper col- name of the 1800’s publication. time. umn, and I do talks about the Old • We take the liberty of changing grammatical errors in I totally enjoy reading the arti- West, we don’t consider ourselves 1800’s reprints to reflect today’s usage. cles that were written some 125 experts, but just enthusiasts. years ago. The way they wrote is so As we hope our readers do, we interesting. And I’m sure they learn something about the Old spoke the same way. West each month. Chronicle of the Old West January 2017 3 POLICING THE YELLOWSTONE

mountain thunderstorms set in, and it was as though the New York fire department had concentrated its nozzles on the earth. The place was presided over by a classic Irishman by the name of Larry, who speedily got a roaring-hot beefsteak and some coffee on the table, and then busied himself con- ducting growing pools of rainwater out of the tent. Larry is justly famous on the road for his bon- homie and Celtic wit. At an early hour we arose and departed — the pale moon shining through the mist of the valley, while around us rose the ghostly pines. We cowered under our greatcoats, chilled through, and saddened at remembrances of the warm blan- Frederick Remington. kets, which we had been compelled to roll out of at this unseemly hour. By At 7:30 we broke into one of those Frederick Remington beautiful natural parks, the Lower Geyser Basin, with the sun shining January 12, 1895, Harper’s on the river and the grass, and spot- Weekly — “Captain Anderson — he’s ting the row of tents belong to D the superintendent, you know — Troop, Sixth United States Cavalry. started today for the south of the Captain Scott met us at the door, a Park; some trouble, I believe, down bluff old trooper in field rig and a there. A scout thought the buffalo welcoming smile. After breakfast, a were being disturbed,” said soldier brought up Pat Rooney. Pat Lieutenant Lindsley to me at the was a horse from the ground up; he Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, near came from Missouri, but he was a the government with credit for over years, they have learned how to the entrance to the Park. true Irishman nevertheless, as one thirty years. He had breasted the conserve their well-being. There is “That’s unfortunate. Can I over- could tell from his ragged hips, high divide in a dozen places, had a tradition that one was con- take him?” long drooping quarters, and a lib- bullets whistle around and siderably overdone once in a “It’s nearly four o’clock, but as I eral show of white in his eye, which through him, and withal was mod- geyser-hole, so they may have taken am going down to our camp at the seemed to say to me. “Aisy, now, est about it. He was a quiet person, warning. Who can understand a Lower Geyser Basin, we can start and I’m a dray horse; but spare the with his instinct of locality as well mule? The packer leads the old now, and by traveling at night we brad, or I’ll put ye on yer back in developed as an Indian’s, and con- bell-mare off to a feeding-ground, can catch him before he pulls out the bloom in’ dust, I will.” The sad- tented with life, since he only want- and the whole bunch of mules go in the morning. I think,” said the dle was put on, and I waited, until ed one thing — a war. I think he racing after her, and chains would- yellow-leg. presently along came the superin- traveled by scent, since it would n’t hold them. The old bell-mare So putting our belongings into a tendent, with his scout Burgess, have been simple enough to have takes across a nasty chasm or a dirty double surrey, we started hotfoot three soldiers, and nine pack-mules gone over easier places; but slough-hole, and as the tinkle of the through the Wonderland, leaving a with their creaking aparejos, and Burgess despised ease, and where little cowbell is losing itself in the band of Dakota chicken-shooters their general air of malicious mis- the fallen timber was thickest and timber beyond, one after another 0 standing on the steps waving their chief. the slopes 60 , there you would they put their ears forward and fol- adieux. If verified all my predic- Pointing to a range of formida- find Burgess and his tight little low on. tions — men who shoot chickens ble-looking hills, the captain said, pony picking along. We passed up a cleft in the hills, belong in a — they are a “We will pull in about there,” and Both Captains Anderson and and were swallowed up in the pine “scrubby wagon outfit,” as the cow- we mounted and trotted off down Scott have a pronounced weakness and cedar forest. Presently the cleft boys say. the road. What a man really needs for geysers, and were always stop- ended, and nothing but good hon- Posed on the trestled road, I when he does the backstretches of ping at every little steam-jet to est climbing was in front. There looked back at the Golden Gate the Yel lowstone Park is a boat and a examine it. I suppose they feel a began my first experience in riding Pass. It is one of those marvelous balloon, but cavalrymen ride hors- personal responsibility in having over the fallen timber, which vistas of mountain scenery utterly es in deference to traditions. My them go regularly; one can almost obstructs all the northwestern beyond the pen or brush of any mount, Pat, was as big as a stable imagine a telegram to “turn on Rocky Mountains. Once up in man. Paint cannot touch it, and door, and as light as a puffball on more steam.” They rode recklessly British Columbia I did it, but had words are wasted. War, storms at his pins. As Mr. Buckram said, over the geyser formation, to my trails, and I childishly imagined sea and mountain scenery are big- “The ‘eight of a ‘oss’ as nothing to discomfort, because it is very thin that there must also be trails wher- ger than any expression little man do with ‘is size,” but Patrick was a and hazardous, and to break ever men wanted to go. Crisscross has ever developed. Mr. Thomas horse a man needed two legs for. through is to be boiled. One and all about lay the great peeled Moran made a famous stagger at Besides, he had a mouth like a bull, instinctively objects to that form of logs, and travel was slow, toilsome, this pass in his painting; and great, as does every other animal that cooking. The most gorgeous colors and with anything but horses as is the painting, when I contem- wears that impossible bit which are observed in this geyser forma- trained to it would have been plated the pass itself I marveled at Uncle Sam gives his cavalry. We got tion; in fact, I have never seen impossible. the courage of the man who dared along swimmingly, and, indeed, I nature so generous in this respect A good horse or mule, once the deed. But as the stages of the feel considerable gratitude to Pat elsewhere. I wondered that the accustomed, makes little of it, but Park Company run over this road, for the two or three thousand pack-mules did not walk into the on the steep down grades the situa- every tourist sees its grandeur, and times, he saved my life on the trip sissing holes, but I suspect a mule is tion is complicated by fallen logs, bangs away with his Kodak. by his agility and sureness of foot. a bit of a geologist in his way, and as which it is necessary to “bucket” As we pulled up in front of the Burgess, the scout, was a fine lit- most of them have been in the gov- over, and then stop dead on an tents of the rest camp, one of those tle piece of a man, who had served ern ment service for thirty or forty Continued on page 5 4 January 2017 Chronicle of the Old West

Sacramento’s Murder Trial from page 1 told of how, on the day of the Novel Swindler from page 1 department envelopes, and the whom Christ was jealous, and which killing, Christ had come to him that he had obtained some $4,000 office stamp, and officially jealousy, it is believed, led to the and told him of the poetry that of Uncle Sam’s money before any declared to the store full of folk killing. Mrs. Hart testified that she Mrs. Hart had shown him as having one knew a cent was missing. It that the money order department found some “gushing” poetry in her been found in the pocket of her took six days to carry out the plan of the Noroton Heights post office husband’s pocket. It was in Mrs. husband’s coat, and which had and when he drew the last money, was closed. This news spread Christ’s handwriting and signed been written by his wife. Ogg read he had apparently done everything quickly in the town and had with her first name, and she took it the poetry and tried to make mat- he had planned and had aban- become old when some one of the to Christ and showed it to him. ters all right by telling of a drama doned the work, leaving, as it patrons of the office received a That afternoon Christ called on which he had once seen, where a seemed, not a clue to his identity. money order, and the postmaster her and said that he had been man wrongfully accused his wife of Harris visited the little town of received the advice, which tallied thinking the matter over and if she unfaithfulness. Noroton Heights, Conn., where a with it. The order was presented thought her husband had any Thomas Eby, a clerk in the credulous general storekeeper was for payment, but the postmaster improper relations with his wife Controller’s office and a neighbor also the postmaster. He made the refused it, said he had no money to she could take his revolver and go of Christ’s, told of having heard postmaster believe him to be an pay it, and besides his office was and kill Mrs. Christ. He then the deadly shot fired and of having inspector of the money order not a money order office. The began to ramble, talking like a met the prisoner, who told him department. patron uttered a kick and insisted crazy man. He said that he had that he had accidentally killed his The postmaster and storekeeper on having his money and worried saved and denied himself so that wife. Part of the furniture of the was the leading citizen of the place the postmaster so much that he his wife could have everything she room was brought in and arranged as well. A few days before the finally wrote to Washington, wanted, and that he had treated and the witness, stepping down to arrival of Harris in the town, that explaining all the circumstances, Hart like a brother and now both it, retold the story of the shooting section had been visited with a and requested them to remove had deceived him. His expression which had been told to him by severe Atlantic snowstorm. All the their “dod gasted” old post office was wild and the witness was afraid Christ. Eby will go on the stand farmers had been “snowed in,” and from his store. In this way, the of him. for cross-examination tomorrow Saturday was the first day they had swindle was first discovered. The next witness, George Ogg, morning. reached the village in any great While this was going on, Leroy numbers. So it happened when Harris was most diligently Leroy Harris reached the office employed. He filled out the money and store, the postmaster was Bold Robber Foiled from page 1 by Preacher J. C. Read, about four orders, payable to himself, and for- doing a rushing business. the afternoon, and is surrounded years ago. warded the advices to 15 different He found time, however, to hear post offices between New York and by business and houses, the rob- From the evidence at hand, it is Harris’ story. Harris told the post- Chicago. Harris made out some 40 ber evaded every one and affected clear that the highwayman had master he was an inspector and orders for $100 each, the highest his escape unscathed. When he carefully planned his work. He was exhibited several imposing looking amount for which an order can be saw he was foiled in his purpose seen at 10 o’clock in the morning official documents to show that drawn, and in all the advices insert- he hastily left the bank, hurried to make an examination of the rear what he said was true. The pur- ed the clause waiving identification. around the block and mounted a of the building in which the bank is pose of his visit, he said, was to He forwarded the orders in horse he had tied beforehand on located. He was also seen by the close the money order business of department envelopes and then the other side of the same block. same person a few minutes before the Noroton Heights post office started out to collect them. The The entrance to the bank faces the attempted robbery, surveying because it was doing such a small offices on which he had drawn the center of the intersection of the ground. The presence of his business. The postmaster said it orders were sprinkled on the map East Washington and Union horse also forces the conclusion was a matter of indifference to him in every state from Connecticut to Avenue by means of double doors. that he had carefully planned his whether the money order portion Illinois. Orders were drawn on The bank had just closed for the escape. of the office was continued or not, Fort Wayne and Valparaiso, Ind.; day and Mr. Lambert had pulled During his brief stay in the bank and that at any rate, he could not Decatur, Joliet, Peoria and LaSalle, down the window shades. E. M. he dropped a pair of spectacles, his spare time from his mercantile Ills. Five days after his departure business to check up with the Sargent, a real estate dealer, was in mask, and outside the door his hat, from Noroton Heights, Harris pre- inspector. He invited him, howev- his office, which opens on East a light felt one. Another hat and sented himself at the LaSalle post er, to go into the office and do the Washington Street, and is in the mackintosh which he left behind office and asked payment on two business himself. This was just the orders for $100 each. The LaSalle rear of the bank building, being for some, reason or other were opportunity Harris wanted. He did postmaster did not have the money only separated from the bank found in the rear of the building, as he was invited. He checked up to pay them both. He paid one, room by a small room and two where he had been seen to put the business, packed up the blank however, and Harris waited for the doors, one of which was open. He them by a woman, only a few min- money orders, advices, special Continued on page 5 had just been talking to a cus- utes before his attempt on the tomer when he was aroused by the bank took place. shot Cashier Lambert had taken at The would-be robber is the retreating form of the thug described as a man of medium and dashed into the bank to ascer- height, looking rather like a labor- tain the cause. er, with a sandy beard and florid The street in front of the bank complexion. He was dressed fairly was at the time deserted, but the well, but with an evident effort at report of the pistol soon caused a style, as his pants were neatly great crowd to gather every direc- creased. The local police and tion. The scene for a time resem- detective force have done nothing bled that when the First National with the case so far, and probably Bank of East Portland was held up will not. Chronicle of the Old West December 2016 5

Novel Swindler from page 4 such a leg had formerly been chief office to take in enough to pay the clerk at Station L in New York. He other order. Shortly after noon on could not be found. The descrip- the next day, he received the tion tallied exactly, and he was money for the second order, and tracked and finally run to earth at almost at the same hour, Captain Buffalo, but was not captured until Stuart, chief inspector at Chicago, after a fight. Harris was arraigned was notified of the swindle on the before the United States commis- credulous Noroton Heights post- sioner, and when asked to stand up master. and hold up his hand to be sworn, Stuart instantly telegraphed to he flashed a big revolver and held all money order offices, asking if the court and officers at bay while any one had received Noroton he backed out of the room and Heights advices. He learned that darted into the street. Harris got two orders had just been cashed in away and skipped to Canada, but LaSalle. He went there by fast was afterward arrested at Niagara train, learned all the facts he could Falls and taken to Chicago, where and then put the secret service the United States court convicted men on the hunt for the criminal. and sentenced him to a five-year Harris walks with a slight hitch or term at Joliet prison. When arrest- limp, and the department added to ed, Harris had nearly $2,000 con- its description of him, “One of his cealed on his person, which was legs is shorter than it ought to be.” taken from him by Inspector The secret service men were Stuart. Harris recently brought soon on a hot hunt for every ex- suit against the inspector to recov- employee of the postal department er this money, claiming it was not who was known to have a leg that the money stolen from the govern- was shorter than it really ought to ment, but the case was decided be. It was learned that a man with against him.

Policng the Yellowstone from page 3 came into the Little Fire-hole Basin, and found buffalo signs in abundance. We were in great hopes of seeing some of these ani- mals, but I may as well add that only one was seen on the trip, though there was fresh spoor, and they were undoubtedly about. We found no pony tracks either, which was more to the soldiers’ liking, since they are entrusted with the protection of the Park against poachers. snow may fall even in mid-summer. his face, proceeded to lay the blan- In this way, squads are sent over In winter, the snow covers the ket and adjust the aparejo. With a the Park, and instructed not to fol- ground to a great depth, as we can heave, the cincha is hauled tight, low the regular tails, but to go to tell by the trees. Nothing grows but and the load laid on, while the the most unfrequented places, so rather stunted fir and pine and a lit- expert throws the “diamond hitch,” that they may at any time happen tle grass of the most hardy variety. and the mule and pack are integral parts. This packing of nine mules The Bell-mare Over A Bad Place. on a malicious person, and perhaps The rounds of the Park are then be able to do as one scout did — made by mounting the cavalry on was accomplished with great rapidi- ty, and laying our saddles carefully, incline of 500, with a couple of photograph the miscreant with his the ski, or Norwegian snowshoe, we mounted and followed the miles of tumble if he fails. The tim- own camera. and with its aid, men travel the des- scouts off down the trail in single ber grew thicker, and when Burgess After a good day’s march, we olate snow-clad wilderness from file on a toilsome march which would get us in a hopeless sort of made camp by a little lake, and one “shack” to another. Small would probably not end until three picketed our horses, while the place, Captain A. would sing out to squads of three or four men are or four o’clock in the afternoon. mules ran loose around the bell- Captain S., “Burgess is on the trail quartered in these remote recesses We wound around the of now”; and when it was fairly good mare. Our appetites had been of the savage mountains, and hills, and then across a marsh, with going, “Now he is off.” But nothing sharpened by nine hours’ fast, remain for eight months on a its yielding treacherous bottom, could rattle Mr. Burgess, and he when a soldier called us to the stretch. The camps are provisioned where the horses floundered, and “commissaries” which were spread continued calmly on his journey, for the arctic siege, and what is one mule went down and made the out on a pack canvas. It was the the destination of which, it seemed, stranger yet is that soldiers rather mud and water fly in his struggles, could be nothing short of the usual military “grub,” and no hun- while my apprehensions rose to gry man can find fault with that. like it, and freely apply for this moon. Finally, we found ourselves detached service. There is little of fever-pitch as I recognized my grip- seemingly so inextricably tangled “Any man who can’t eat bacon sack on his load, and not likely to can’t fight,” as Captain Scott said; the “pomp and vanity” in this sol- up that even Burgess had to scratch diering and it shows good spirit on be benefited by the operation. At so if any reader wants to be a sol- the headwaters of these rivers — and his head. One mule was hung up the part of the enlisted men. They dier he must have a mania for it may be said that this little purling hopelessly, while the rest crowded are dressed in fur caps, California around us into the che -vaux-de- bacon, it seems. “This is the stuff brook is really the source of the that makes soldiers brave,” he blanket coats, leggings, and moc- Missouri itself, although not so frise of logs, and merrily wound casins — a strange uniform for a cav- through the labyrinth the old Sixth added, as the coffeepot came described — there is an abundance around, and we fell to, and it left a alryman, and also quite a commen- of soggy marsh, which makes travel Cavalry “gag,” “Here’s where we tary on what are commonly called trot.” dreary waste of empty tins for the extremely difficult. In one place, cook to pick up. We lighted our the vicissitudes of the service. Captain Anderson’s horse went To complete the effect of this In the early morning, our tent pipes after the banquet on the belly-deep on a concealed quag passage it began to rain, and short- was pulled down, and our bedding grass, and walked down to the made by a stream coming out of the ly to pelt us with hailstones, so we packed off almost before we had side of the hill, and rolling back, shore of the beautiful pond, which stopped under some trees to let it disentangled ourselves from its fell heavily on the captain, and for seemed so strangely situated up pass, and two people who should sheltering folds. The well-trained a time it was rather a question know better dismounted and got there on the very crest of the conti- troopers went about their task of whether the horse would get out or their saddles wet, while another, nental divide. There are only three breaking camp with method and not; but by dint of exertion, he more wise in his generation, sat seasons in these altitudes, which address. Burgess and a young sol- regained firm ground. When a big tight, and was rewarded later for his the boys divide into July, August, dier pulled a reluctant strawberry- strong horse gets into a slough the display of intelligence. By-and-by, and winter, and the nights are blond mule out of the line of pack dorsal action is terrific, and it is wet and tired of fallen timber, we always chilly. An inch or two of animals, and throwing a blind over Continued on page 6 6 January 2017 Chronicle of the Old West

Policng the Yellowstone from page 5 From the breast of the moun- floundered through. The pony tains, overlooking the great had a positive genius for morasses. Lake there opened up We followed him into the mud, or the most tremendous sight as the plunged off the steep sides into the waters stretched away in their blue roaring river, and, to my intense placidity to the timbered hills. The satisfaction, at last struck a good way down to the shores was the pony trail. “Now Burgess is off the steepest place I have ever seen trail!” we cried, whereat the mod- horses and mules attempt. In one est little scout grinned cheerfully. place, where the two steep sides of From here on it was “fair and easy,” the canon dipped together, it was until we came to the regular stage- cut by a nasty seam some six feet road, to travel on which it seemed deep, which we had to “bucket to us a luxury. over” and maintain a footing on This expedition is typical of the the other side. After finding myself manner of policing the Park, and it safely over, I watched the shower of is generally monotonous, toilsome, pack-mules come sliding down and and uneventful work; and the use- take the jump. One mule was so fulness of such a chevauchee is that On The Headwaters. Burgess Finding A Ford. or his first yacht-race with the quar- far overbalanced that for a it leaves the track of the cavalry often necessary to dismount quick- ter-rail awash. moment I thought he would lose horseshoe in the most remote ly to aid him out. We crossed the All through the Park were seen his center of gravity, which had parts of the preserve, where the great divide of the continent at a hundreds of wild geese, so tame been in his front feet, but he poacher or interloper can see it, place where the slope was as- that they would hardly fly from us. sprang across to the opposite slope and become apprehensive in con- tonishingly steep and the fallen It was a great temptation to shoot, and was safe. Horses trained to sequence of the dangers which timber thickly strewn. It was as but the doughty captain said he this work do marvels, and old Pat attend his operations. That an old thoroughly experimental travailing would run me off the reservation at was a “topper” at the business. I trapper might work quietly there as I have ever seen, unless possibly a turkey trot if I did shoot, and gave him his head, and he justified for a long time I do not doubt, if over a lava-rock formation which I since I believed him, I could my trust by negotiating all the he only visited his line of traps in essayed last winter on the restrain myself. The streams and details without a miss. On a sandy the early morning or late evening slope of the Sierra Madre, in marshes were full of beaver-dams, “siding”, he spread his feet and slid and was careful of his trail, but Chihuahua; and yet there is a fasci- and the little mud-and-stick houses with an avalanche of detached hill- such damage as he could do would nation about being balanced on rose from the pools, while here and side. Old Pat’s ears stuck out in be trivial. Two regiments could those balloon like heights, where a there we saw the purl of the quiet front in an anxious way, as if to say, not entirely prevent poaching in misstep means the end of horse water as they glided about. This “If we hit anything solid, I’ll stop”; and rider. I was glad enough, part is exactly as primitive as when the mountain wastes of the great while from behind came the though, when we struck the park the lonely trapper Coulter made reservation, but two troops are suc- like levels of the Pitchstone plateau his famous journey through it, and cheery voice of Captain Scott, cessful enough at the task. It is a as the scene of our further progres- one cannot but wonder what must “Here’s where we trot.” great game-preserve and breeding sion. If one has never traveled have been his astonish ment at the On the shores of the Shoshone ground, and, if not disturbed, must horseback over the Rocky unnatural steaming and boiling of we camped, and walked over to the always give an overflow into Mountains there is a new and dis- the geysers, which made the Park famous Union Geysers, which Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho, tinct sensat ion before him quite as known from his descriptions as began to boil and sputter, appar- which will make big game shooting vigorous as his first six-barred gate “Coulter’s Hell.” ently for our especial benefit. In a there for years to come. The unrea- few minutes, two jets of boiling son ing antipathy or malicious disre- water shot a hundred feet in air, gard of the American pioneer for and came down in rain on the game laws and game preservation is other side, while a rainbow formed somewhat excusable, but the lines across it. The roar of the great gey- of the pioneer are now cast in new sers was awe-inspiring; it was like places, and his days of lawless aban- Old West Trivia Shootout the exhaust of a thousand locomo- don are done. The regulation for Here is a great opportunity for you to win a custom tives, and Mr. Burgess nudged me the punishment of Park offenders Bronco Sue hat ($300.00 value) in the style of your and remarked, “Hell’s right under is inadequate, and should be made choice. All you have to do to be eligible for the drawing is here.” more severe. The Park is also full submit a correct answer to the Old West trivia question. Near the geysers, hidden away of beasts of prey, the bear being 1. Anyone can participate and win. The prize is a Bronco Sue custom . in a depression, we found a pool of very nu merous. A fine grizzly was 2. One winner will be drawn from the entries with a correct answer. water of a beautiful and curious trapped by some of the superinten- 3. One entry per person. green, while not twenty feet from it dent’s men and shipped to the 4. An entry can be made through our website, ChronicleoftheOldWest.com was one of a sulphur yellow. There Smithsonian Institution while I was 5. The winner for this quarter will be drawn on Dec. 31st, 2016, was a big elk track in the soft mud there. Near the Fountain Hotel announced in the February 2017 issue of COW and posted on our leading into it, but no counter one evening a young army surgeon website Jan. 1st, 2017. track coming out. There had been and myself walked up to within one a woodland tragedy there. hundred and fifty yards of a big QUESTION: The utility of a geyser-hole is not grizzly, who was not disposed to run its least attraction to a traveler who off. Being unarmed, we concluded “What does it mean when you’re has a day’s accumulation of dust that our point of view was close asked to ‘hobble your lip’?” and sweat on him. I found one enough, and as the bear seemed to near the camp which ran into a lit- feel the same way about it, we part- tle mountain stream, and made a ed. BRONCO SUE’S OLD WEST tepid bath, of which I availed Americans have a national trea- TRIVIA SHOOTOUT ANSWER myself, and also got a cup of hot sure in the Yellowstone Park, and water, by the aid of which I they should guard it jealously. FORM “policed my face,” as the soldiers Nature has made her wildest pat- Please fill out this form or photocopy and mail to: Chronicle of the call shaving. terns here, has brought the boil- Old West • P.O. Box 2859 • Show Low, Arizona Territory 85902 The next day we encountered ing waters from her greatest one of those great spongy moun- depths to the peaks, which bear Name ______tain meadows, which we were eternal snow, and set her master- Address ______forced to skirt on the rocky timber- piece with pools like jewels. Let us strewn hillsides, until finally we respect her moods, and let the City ______State _____ Zip ______ventured into it. We curved and beasts she nurtures in her bosom zigzagged through its treacherous live, and when the man from ANSWER mazes, fording and recrossing the Oshkosh writes his name with a ______stream in search of solid ground. blue pencil on her sacred face, let Burgess’s little gray pony put his him spend six months where the foot forward in a gingerly way, and scenery is circumscribed and when satisfied, plunged in and entirely artificial. Chronicle of the Old West January 2017 7

spangled white mousseline de sole cut in long Vandyke points that reached to the belt. These were all bordered with ruches of heavily spangled mousseline de sole, and between the points bloused the green gauze. The corsage was cut square necked and was finished with a narrow ruche of the green gauze. Spangled pale green rib- bon was employed for the belt and Edited By shoulder straps. Sunny Livesay A gown that well represented a yellow chrysanthemum was made DANCE GOWNS Our editor at work. of pale yellow chiffon over the of draped white tulle, and shim- same shade of taffeta. The skirt Designed by American Girls mering frostiness could be repre- was sun plaited, and from the waist- in Paris sented beautifully with spangled band hung numberless two-Inch TWENTY NOVEL white mousseline de sole. Then, yellow ribbons of uneven lengths for the color note, bright holly, that overlapped each other, so as to CREATIONS AND EACH mistletoe, violets and the many entirely cover the skirt to give the ONE REPRESENTED A shades of chrysanthemums could petal effect. all be adopted. All the winter flow- WINTER FLOWER The corsage was an accordion- ers, but only the winter flowers, plaited blouse of the yellow chiffon Corresponded From Tip to could be chosen. cut square necked; it was finished Toe in Color and Form with a border of ragged shoulder Hair Dressed to Match TWENTY CREATIONS straps. Between thechrysanthe- With their plans just halfway for- mums peered out little suggestions mulated they went to interested of spangled white tulle. January 2, 1898, Herald, Los couturiers, who were delighted Another gown was made of Angeles, California — (Paris Special “Bright Mousseline De Soie”. with the novelty of the plan. She green gauze, in that uncompromis- Correspondence to The Herald.) was just boxing twenty lovely cre- ing green of the holly leaves. The One of the couturieres here There are twenty young girls that skirt was made double and very showed me a number of belong to this dancing club, and of full. The upper one was cut with a pretty evening gowns that were course they held a meeting to try long, rounded point at the back especially designed for dances such and decide on some unusual fea- and front. It was trimmed round as usher in the first of the year. ture for the dance. with three ruches of the gauze with They were all suggestive of frost When it was proposed by a red berries peering out of the full- and snow and winter flowers. The bright member that their costumes ness. idea of giving a January dance at should suggest snows and pretty The corsage had a square yoke which these unique costumes were winter blossoms the Idea took at of puckered white tulle, heavily to appear originated in the fertile once. What could be more sugges- incrusted with spangles. From the brain of a young American girl. tive of winter snows than quantities bottom of the yoke the green gauze was put on very full and “There Were Twenty New Flower Creations.” gathered down into a belt of scarlet satin ribbon with long sash ends. ations, no two alike that will be At the bottom of the yoke there worn next week at the dance, when was a garland of the holly leaves I appeared. One that was particu- and berries. Over the shoulders larly striking was made of bright there were high bows of scarlet rib- red gauze over bright red taffeta. bon, tied with sprigs of holly. The skirt was sun plaited, and over the left hip fell a garland of bright HOLLY GOWN green holly leaves that reached There was another “holly gown” halfway down the skirt, back and in the number altogether different front. The corsage of the red taffe- in every detail. It was made of heav- ta was covered full with accordion - ily spangled white gauze over white plaited red mousseline de sole. It glace taffeta. The skirt was was cut square-necked and was fin- trimmed with innumerable tiny ished with a border of green holly ruffles of the gauze that reached to leaves spangled with strass. The within six inches of the waistband. silk straps over the shoulders were They were draped with tiny sprigs covered with a continuation of the of holly leaves and berries. leaf border. The ceinture was of The corsage of the gauze was bright red moire, drawn through a gathered full over the taffeta lin- strass buckle that was placed at the ing. It was cut square-necked and back. One of the most original of had a short yoke of puckered white these gowns was designed to repre- gauze, heavily spangled and pow- sent Icicles. Any Ice queen in a dered with tiny sprigs of holly. fairy story would have envied this From this yoke hung a pointed gown. It was made up over a trans- berthe of Brussels lace, spangled parency of nile green taffeta. with stars. The shoulder and belt The skirt was covered with span- ribbons were of crimson satin rib- gled white mousseline de sole that bon. was slashed into points around the bottom that fell over a deep MISTLETOE DRESS flounce of nile green gauze. The The mistletoe gown was made of edge of the points was bordered spangled white tulle over white with narrow ruches of white mous- taffeta. The full skirt was trimmed seline de sole heavily spangled. around with three rows of ruches that formed rounded points at the BLOUSE CORSAGE back and front. The corsage was The corsage was a blouse of the covered with narrow bias folds of green gauze over the same shade yellowish green tulle. Over this was of silk. On top of the gauze was Continued on page 9 8 January 2017 Chronicle of the Old West

He was handcuffed and closely guarded by Sheriffs Love and McMurray. The car was crowded with curious people who wanted to see and speak with the outlaw. The reporter introduced him- self and promptly applied his gim- let. But the prisoner was in a sullen mood and would not talk much. He did not approve of the curiosity of the crowd and remarked while the crowd was pressing around him: Crawford Goldsby. “Wonder if these d–n fools “On the 29th December I think I’m a wild animal.” learned that Bill Cook and Jack Bill Cook is about 21 or 22 Turner were in Dickens County, years old and is not a bad looking Texas. What I reached there, they youth. He is five feet eight inches had skipped. I had seven men high and well proportioned. He with me, but on leaving there were weighs about 165 pounds. He has only two in the Cook party, so I the form of an athlete. His face is sent five of my men back to smooth — entirely free from Amarillo. whiskers, and had no sign of need- “Cook and Turner went to the ing a razor. His hair is dark and Ranch in the Panhandle, his little eyes are of a bright grey. then on to the Land and the In reply to the reporters gimlet he ‘Square and Compass” Ranch. At said: this last ranch they spent several “I didn’t have a chance to fight, weeks and then went on to the they got the drop on me. I have ‘ZL’ Ranch where they separated, not been in the Cook going to Roswell. Turner since the 16th of last October. No, went to City and got I was not at in into some trouble, but he December, and I did not believe escaped. the sheriff’s word that I was there “I then followed them with two waiting for him to come after me. men to Colorado City. Arriving I do not remember to have ever there I shipped my men and killed any person. I have been to horsed back to headquarters and about two days.” followed Cook to Roswell. I soon Cook appeared very much dis- found he had been in Roswell gusted over his hard luck in being under the name of Williams, but captured and while he was very he had left before I arrived. reticent with reporters he talked “I concluded he was either freely with the officers. making for El Paso or White Oaks, W. J. L. Sullivan, sergeant of so I went to Sheriff Perry and told Company B, Texas Rangers sta- him that if anyone was going to tioned at Amarillo, Potter County, White Oaks I wanted to be count- YOUNG OUTLAW ed in. He and Sheriff Love, how- Texas, was also in the city yester- day and he attracted no little ever, left before daylight without Cook, the noted outlaw from the attention. Sergeant Sullivan is a letting me know anything about it, Indian Territory, was in El Paso typical Texan. He stands six feet and without having anyone to yesterday. He came here by special three inches in his riding boots pilot me to White Oaks, I went to invitation and was accompanied by and he has been on Cook’s trail Eddy. Thinking it possible that Sheriff Perry, of Chaves County, since the 19th of October last. To Cook was trying to reach old Sheriff McMurray, of Mitchell a Times reporter yesterday he told Mexico, I came on to El Paso, and County, and Tom Love, sheriff of the following interesting story of Saturday while myself, Captain Borden County, Texas. The first his long chase: Hughes and his rangers were watching every corner in El Pas two named officers are of New “On the 19th of October last and Juarez for the outlaw, Love Mexico. Bill Cook is wanted in when the Texas & Pacific train was and Perry had him in New Oklahoma for highway robbery. held up two miles east of Gordon, Mexico.” He was captured on Mr. Farrell’s Texas, I started out after the rob- Sergeant Sullivan and Cook bers, and I have been on Bill ranch in Lincoln County, New had never met, but they knew Cook’s trail ever since. I did not Mexico Saturday morning by each other from descriptions. know, however, that Bill Cook was Sheriffs Love and Perry. Cook was Cook knew that Sullivan had been traveling under the name of the man I was chasing. I only on his trail for months. Mr. Williams and was stopping at knew I was following the trail of Sullivan went into the car where Farrell’s to rest his horse. the robbers who held up the train. th the men were and approaching On arriving morning he started “On the 15 of November one the young outlaw, greeted him to the stable to feed his horse, and of my men captured four of with “Hello.” Bill Cook glanced on reaching the corral two men Cook’s gang in Uray County, and up and said, “Hello, Sullivan.” suddenly confronted the outlaw three of the captured outlaws are The outlaw talked freely with his with cocked revolvers. Cook did now in the penitentiary — two for old pursuer. not have his gun so there was twenty and one for thirty years. Bill Cook. Speaking of Sullivan’s capture nothing for him to do but to sur- “We did not stop at their cap- of four of his men Cook said: Editor’s Note: Bill Cook, part render. ture, but kept right along on the “I was only half a mile distant Indian, was the leader of an outlaw Sheriff McMurray was near at trail of the leader. We ran him into with Jim Turner when you got the gang that operated out of the hand, and the three officers Jack and back again into Clay. boys, and if we had been on hand Indian Territory. Crawford brought the outlaw to El Paso Then another robbery took place you would have had to do more Goldsby, better known as enroute to Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the Texas & Pacific at Benbrook, fighting. I have never in my life Cherokee Bill, was a member of to secure papers for his removal to eight miles from Fort Worth; and killed any known being. You and his gang. Bill Cook was sentenced Oklahoma. again some of the robbers were your men were the only people to 45 years at the Albany, New The officers and their noted captured, but the daring leader was who ever crowded me.” York, State Penitentiary. Cook prisoner arrived on the Texas & still at liberty, an a few days later he Sullivan says that Cook is the died after five years. Pacific Train yesterday morning, held up the Rock Island Train at coolest young chap he ever met, January 25, 1895, Arizona and taking a carriage drive to the Red River, and we were then on the and that is impossible to rattle Citizen, Phoenix, Arizona — Bill Santa Fe train. trail of the robbers. him. Chronicle of the Old West January 2017 9 INDIANS AND OUTLAWS

Chris Evans. John Sontag. Sheriff Hensley of Fresno meat. Prior to the slaughtering, in Talks about the Two. nearly every instance, there would be an Indian in sight. No sooner would the knife be plunged into January 26, 1893, Herald, Los the throat of the sheep than the Angeles, California — “I had con- Indians would commence swarm- siderable experience with Indians,” said ex-Sheriff Hensley of Fresno ing around to get the offal. On County, in the Golden Eagle, the these occasions I have often tried other evening, “but I have yet to to touch that spot in an Indian find an Indian in his own language where he would say ‘thank you’, or any other that will say ‘thank but I never succeeded. you’ for any kindness shown him. “I recall one of these attempts. “For many years I was in the It was in the winter, and it was sheep business, and often in the rather short browsing for Mr. mountains we killed them for Indian. I had killed two sheep and given the offal to the Indians, as one, possibly, and better acquaint- usual, when I saw a buck eying one ed with the country in which Evans of the carcasses. The dressed and Sontag are hiding. The sheep were suspended from a stick Indians brought from Arizona to of timber by a rope. I picked up a run down the outlaws, instead of knife and indicated by gesture and going ahead and finding the trail, manner that I would cut one of the followed the white men. This was carcasses where the Indian desired wrong, because by doing that they and give him the portion removed. defeated the only use they could be I passed the knife around the fore- put to–to go ahead, draw the fire quarter. I then circled the hind- of Evans and Sontag, and give the quarter with it. I made several white men a chance to get out of other attempts to see what part of the country. When I have got to be the sheep the Indian wished, but the escort and advance guard of a my efforts were futile. pack of Indians in hunting outlaws, “Finally I gave the Indian the it is time to quit, isn’t it?” knife and told him to cut off what “From Sampson’s flat to Todd’s he wanted. This, I thought, is 10 miles. Detective Smith and six seemed to please him. He walked men, including the Indian trailers up to the carcass and with one blow of man-hunters, got lost on the severed the rope and carried off trail in broad daylight. The the entire sheep. Still that Indian Indians spent nearly all day in an didn’t say thank you.” attempt to get out, but they could This little anecdote was told by not make it. It is a terrible country. the ex-sheriff as he recalled the Why a cat in many places could not efforts of the railroad officials to get through the brush on the trail. hunt down Evans and Sontag with I doubt if the Smith party would the Arizona men-trailers: “Now, I ever have got out if it had not been claim,” said Mr. Hensley, “to be as for a mule. The mule was raised in intelligent as an Indian, as brave as Continued on page 12

Women’s Sphere from page 7 spray of the mistletoe tied in with a covering of white tulle cut into the belt ribbon at the back that square scallops that showed a yoke reached half way down the skirt. of the bias folds. Round the edges I wondered if they would not of the scallops were ruches of span- take this great opportunity to do gled white tulle. The shoulder some beautiful hairdressing with straps were of green ribbon, tied spangled powder and strass orna- with high bows and sprays of ments. The effect would be charm- mistletoe. There was a trailing ing with these costumes. 10 January 2017 Chronicle of the Old West The Old W SPIRIT OF THE The Old West In Print WEST COWBOY PORTAL OF THE GATHERING The Spirit of the West Cowboy Gathering CHIRICAHUAS February 17 to 19 in Ellensburg, Washington is sec- Portal of the Chiricahuas, ond to none. They Deborah Galloway and have nationally rec- Jeanne Williams, Arcadia ognized Baxter Publishing, (843) 853-270, Black, Dave Stamey, $21.99, paperback. 126 p.p., Rider in the Sky and Photos, Bibliography. many other song- Arcadia Publishing is ded- writers and poets. icated to offering local histo- Their gear fair hosts over 40 Their Stampede program pro- ry books targeting nearly vendors from across the country. vides the building blocks for their every city throughout the Works of art, custom leather communties’ youth to develop United States. These books, products, felt hats and hand- those traits that have defined the made up of many pho- “cowboy” throughout history. tographs with captions, plus made boots are just a few of the Words like respect, hard work, historical information at the booths available for your shop- kindness and integrity are uti- beginning of each chapter, ping pleasure. Fiddlers from takes the reader on a fast- across our region will be compet- lized to provide examples of what paced adventure about the ing and providing music for your is possible for our leaders of region. enjoyment on Saturday in the tomorrow. This book combines Historic Liberty Theater. Their Grab a pair of gloves, pull on information from reference downtown venues provide the your boots, wrap up the kids and photographer Deborah opportunity to stroll through enjoy a weekend of music, poetry, Galloway and Western writer beautiful Downtown Ellensburg food and authentic cowboy cul- Jeanne Williams, who both while enjoying an array of music ture. Go back to a simpler time live in the Chiricahua mountain photos of Apache women with and scenery. You can sit and when a handshake was a bond community of Portal, Arizona. infants in cradleboards enjoy with a glass of wine or and time was something we spent Williams has more than fifty pub- On and on the pages turn as warm cup of coffee. with family and friends. lished historical western novels the history of the region is Spirit of the West is a volunteer For more information you can call under her belt, and with her vast explained from one culture to the organization dedicated to pre- them at 888-925-2204 or visit their site at experience in depicting original next. We find Apache scouts and serve the “spirit of the cowboy”. ellensburgcowboygathering.com. detail with finely honed prose, she U.S. soldiers, then Apache prison- begins this book with the early his- ers and on to the rustic shacks tory of the region. Beginning with built by white miners and home- “Moccasin, Hoof and Wagon steaders, ranchers and even rene- Chiricahuas from previous column and an interesting hotel offering Tracks,” the reader is given a con- gades who moved through the out the canyons where rustled cat- rooms, meals, baked goods and a cise history lesson in what hap- region. tle were held. Too, there sprang whiskey barrel. pened here in the early days The faces, the clothing, the up neat little churches and com- The stunning cover photograph before 1854 and the Gadsden rough living conditions remind us munity buildings where neighbors taken by Galloway in 2014 shows Purchase. This desolate, dry, of what real sacrifice is all about. gathered for social respite as well how this magnificent region has prickly and wind-swept land was The were moved out of as funerals and help during really not changed. Since the explored, fought over, and covet- their homeland as white men took tragedies involving forest fires and beginning of time, humans are ed by Spaniards, Apaches, over the region. Filled with ener- roaring floods. merely travelers criss-crossing these Mexicans, and eventually gy and high hopes, some believed Jeanne Williams weaves her mountains and valleys. If you are American adventurers including lucrative mining ventures were information packed story about interested in Southern Arizona his- military men, miners, ranchers right on the horizon. They suf- the region’s wealth and wildlife, tory, this book written by Jeanne and outlaws alike. fered every possible inconve- while combining the historical Williams will be a treasured addi- The introductions to each nience but somehow struggled on. information about various pio- tion to your Old West library. chapter are short and informative, People built tiny school houses, neers who settled the region. Her Editor’s Note: The reviewer and then come pages filled with general merchandise stores, cor- writing is tactful and precise, filled Phyllis Marreale-de la Garza is the photographs including flints, rals for rustled cattle and in some with clever surprise. We smile at author of numerous published mountain landscapes, archeologi- instances bootleg stills. some pictures showcasing deer books about the Old West, includ- cal excavation sites exposing giant There were the usual saloons after a hunt, faithful dogs, a ing the novel Lost Roundup, pub- bison jawbones and Clovis points. and gambling dens, along with skunk, and pulled by lished by Silk Label Books, P.O. Box We see grinding stones, under- outlaw hideouts strewn through- thin horses reflecting a sparse 700, Unionville, New York 10988. ground granaries, and eventually Continued on next column diet. 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heads this article by saying that it But E. W. Jenkins was a talker, applied particularly to men with and knew what he was talking families which are dependent on about. He had been in Alaska and RETURNED FROM them. on the Klondike three years. He is “Of course,” said Mr. Campbell, over six feet tall and strong enough “a young man with only himself to to face scores of Arctic winters, but look out for, might do worse than says frankly that he has enough. KLONDIKE try the Klondike country. It is a As a starter to his interview, Mr. country that has gold all over it, Jenkins drew a buckskin bag from the only difficulty being to find it his pocket and poured out a hand- reporter last night and in paying quantities.” ful of specimens, the smallest everybody who knows There are, Mr. Campbell said, weighing several pennyweights, the him — and most people plenty of unstaked claims in the largest over an ounce and a half. in Sacramento do — gold region, but it is not easy to “This,” said E. W. Jenkins, “is know he means what he find one that pays. All of the men only to show you that there is gold says. who go in expect to strike it rich, On the 15th day of on the Klondike and that I have but, he said, he doubted whether March, 1896, Dan been there. Seven of us left one out of ten would come out Campbell decided to Dawson, and we all got through leave Sacramento for with as much as they went in with. easy — that is, easy for us, though I Forty Mile Creek to seek “In my opinion,” continued Mr. suppose people here would growl Campbell, “men going in next about the cold if they had to make There Are More Men On The Klondike Than Work. fortune where there is nine months winter and spring ought to take the Chilcoot the trip. We brought our own dogs GOLDEN NUGGETS IN three months bad weather, and last Pass trail, and I wish you would say and carried our own provisions, night he sat in a circle of friends at as much to Sacramentans who are but we brought only enough to last THEIR INSIDE the Belvidere Hotel on Sixth going. It’s easy, and figures it out us through. Some folks say to me, POCKETS Street, between J and K, for the like this: The first boats making ‘if you can get out, we ought to get the journey by ‘The Mouth’ (via St. in,’ but they forget that they must But Dave Campbell and first time since his departure. Dan Campbell and his friend, E. Michael) will naturally take those take in provisions to last a year, E. W. Jenkins Say Many W. Jenkins, of Ontario, Canada, persons now at Skaguay and Dyea, while we only brought out enough Will Miss Getting a left the Klondike on the 12th day and they will not get in before July. for the trip. of December last, and twenty-seven The next consignment will not get “Yes, no man ought to go to the Large Stake days later reached Dyea safe and to the gold fields before August, Klondike unless he takes enough and either July or August is too late sound, having suffered no unusual grub to last a full year. Then he to get in. will be independent and his soul January 30, 1898, Sacramento hardships and taking their time in “If they go by the pass,” he con- will be his own, as well as what he Daily Record-Union, Sacramento, making the trip, marching seven tinued, “they can start the last of makes. All the creeks on the California — “My advice to my hours a day and resting two out of March and if they have any hustle Klondike are rich in gold, but they friends is to stop at home. There the total twenty-seven days. about them, they ought to get have all been staked out. There are more men on the Klondike But Dan Campbell, who was for- through by the 25th of May and are enough claims for men now now than there is work for.” merly employed in the packing- have the whole season before there, but where those going in will That is what genial Dan house of Mehr and Yoerk in this them. But if a man has steady work get off is hard to say. Campbell said to a “Record-Union” city, modified the statement that here,” concluded Campbell, “he “Every stream in that country,” had better stay with it. Still, I could continued Mr. Jenkins, “and every LouisLAmour.com show you checks that would sur- hill that shows wash gravel, will give TRIVIA CONTEST prise you.” Continued on page 13 Indians and Outlaws from page 9 fetch you out all right.’ Smith the country and acquainted with took the mule. every trail in the region. “Now, when Smith and the Each month we will have a trivia question about Louis L’Amour and his writing. There will be a monthly winner with a prize of Louis “When I first met Smith, I said, Indians were aimlessly wandering L’Amour merchandise. All of the monthly winners will be entered in ‘Smith, you are going into a very around between Sampson’s Flat a drawing at the end of the year for a complete collection of Louis tough country. The country is and Todd’s, the detective remem- L’Amour’s 120 books valued at $625. badly broken up, the trails indis- bered what I had said about the 1. Anyone can participate and win. tinct and in many places covered mule. He gave the mule the rein, 2. Enter by filling out the form below or by visiting our web site at with brush. You will find much and the intelligent animal piloted ChronicleoftheOldWest.com. difficulty in getting along, much the detective, the Indians and oth- 3. One winner will be drawn from all the entries with a correct answer. less finding Evans and Sontag. I ers out of the wilderness. 4 Only one entry per person. have got a mule that knows every “This simple story illustrates the inch of the country. He is superiority of the mule, acquainted THIS MONTH’S QUESTION tractable and very sagacious. If at with the country, over that of an any time you should get lost, give Indian, unacquainted with it, in “What is Barnabas the mule the rein, and he will hunting outlaws.” Sackett’s daughter’s name?”

Answer ______Name ______Address ______Phone______City______State____Zip______Mail to: Chronicle of the Old West Post Office Box 2859•Show Low, Arizona Territory 85902 Chronicle of the Old West January 2017 13 ABOUT THE BANNOCKS

speak the Bannock tongue. This is the same as that of the Piutes, and the latter say that the Bannocks split off from them. Before the Bannocks got horses they were very expert in the use of the bow and arrow. They are distinctly a hunting tribe, and look upon work as an BOILED CRACKER PUDDING everlasting disgrace, Bannock Indians. except for squaws. They view them- Split four soft crackers, pour a pint The Indians Who selves as the salt of the earth. They have earned a reputation for blood- of boiling milk over them, and add Have Been Giving the thirstiness, and are said sometimes to kill their aged parents when the Government Trouble. latter begin to become a burden. immediately a cup of suet well A Warlike Tribe that is a The only purpose for which the Bannocks appear to be preserved is chopped. When cool, add five eggs Disturbing Element to vex and annoy the , among the Savages of who take more kindly to labor, well beaten, a little mace, and as schools and the use of other cloth- the Northwest — One ing than blankets than do the many raisins as you like. Boil or Version of their Bannocks, who have appeared to be incurably opposed to civilization for steam three hours, and eat with Grievances. themselves and other Indians. The two tribes have been thrown togeth- January 14, 1896, Sulphur Valley sauce. er for many years on the same reser- News, Willcox, Arizona — The The Bannocks from previous column. Andrew T. Bennett, of the Fifth vation, and while the Shoshones Bannock Indians, who were report- along the trail which infantry, was one of those killed have manifested a willingness to ed to be on the war-path because of and his band had followed the year accept the benefits of schools and among the soldiers. This party of the settlers interfering with their before, driven to war by just such instruction in the use of implements Bannocks were held as prisoners sev- killing of elk, occupy the causes. of agriculture, the Bannocks have eral months, their stock was taken reservation in southeastern Idaho Gen. Miles with 100 men and from them, and then they were with the Shoshones. The assumed a superiority because of seven scouts went after them, and at returned to their reservation. They Shoshones, says the Philadelphia their refusal to be civilized, and have taunted the Shoshones as “squaws” daylight on Sept 4, 1878, surprised have made no trouble since. The Telegraph, are more numerous them in Clark’s Fork pass, on Clark’s than the Bannocks, who in 1894 because they embrace the opportu- loss of their grounds for the supply Fork of the Yellowstone, beyond the were 772, all told, 132 being males nities for improvement held out by of roots was not as serious to them as over 18 years of age, while of 1,745 the government. The Shoshones National Park. Eleven of the the loss of their hunting grounds. Shoshones there were 286 males are peaceful and industrious. There Indians were killed in the battle The game in Yellowstone Park above 18 years of age. The were raised and sold for the reserva- which followed, and the rest, nearly has undoubtedly attracted them Bannocks, or Bannaks, belong to tion during 1893 more than $15,000 100 all told, including women and now, and it appears to Miles as if a the general family of Shoshones or worth of agricultural products, of children, were captured. Capt. Continued on page 14 Snakes, which family also includes which it is safe to assume that the the various tribes of Utes, Shoshones produced a very consid- erable share. The reports of the , Moquis, Chemehuenes, Returned From Klondike from page 12. son to do much work. Indian agent show that of all the Cachilla and the Kechi, Kizh and gold, but not always in paying The men who were in the gold Shoshones and Bannocks on the Netolo tribes of California. Their quantities. region last season, Mr. Jenkins said, reservation, only 140 can speak tradition is that they came originally “And another thing! The gold did well, and it is safe to say that 60 enough English to be understood in from the Far East, and their lan- of that country has all been or 70 per cent of the number ordinary conversation. The degree guage, which is so different from deposited by glacial action, and the struck it rich. He thought, howev- that of the western Shoshones, of civilization to which these Indians stuff about there being a ‘mother er, that it will be different the com- resembles that of the Comanches, have reached is indicated by the lode,’ or any other kind of a lode, ing season, and predicted that ten whose home when white men first statement that there was one mar- is rot. There is no solid formation men would go broke where one found them, was about the headwa- riage during the year, and fifteen in that country, and the bedrock makes a raise. ters of the Brazos, the Colorado and chiefs were living in polygamy. consists of slate, shale and clay and Messrs. Campbell and Jenkins eastward to those of the Arkansas Gradually white men came into is full of mica. There are no ledges were modest about their earnings and Missouri rivers. the prairie, and, finding it well there, that ever I heard about, and while in the gold region, but a The main tribe of the Bannocks adapted to the raising of hogs, there are no rocks there of any mutual friend of theirs informed was first found near where they are turned thousands of these animals kind that cannot be easily broken — the “Record-Union” reporter that now established, at the Fort Hall loose in it. The hogs ate up the often crushed between the fin- either of them could draw his agency, in Oneida County, in the roots which had supplied the gers.” check for a Klondike (cool) southeastern part of Idaho, along Indians’ winter needs, and they Mr. Jenkins said that the route $100,000, and not be financially the Snake River Valley. They are complained of this as a great injus- to be taken in going to the crippled. taller and straighter than the moun- tice. This led to bad blood between Klondike ought to be governed by The two young men leave today tain Indians round about them, and themselves and the whites, and in the prospector’s purse. He could for the East; Mr. Jenkins to return have the reputation of being more 1878 a party of the Bannocks went go cheaper by land, but easier by to his Canadian home, and Mr. warlike. They are nearly all able to on the war trail, killing several set- water. He agreed with Mr. Campbell to again visit the North speak the language of the tlers and stealing horses. They went Campbell that to go by water would of Ireland where his people are Shoshones, but the latter do not Continued on next column set a man down too late in the sea- waiting his return. 14 January 2017 Chronicle of the Old West

but you are always so obstinate. which is Pilling. Blow the whole Now, as a road isn’t a canal —“ concern, I say. I’m sick of it.” TWO AND A MAP “Wait a minute” — rather angrily. “If you wouldn’t lose your tem- “You’re quite as wrong as I am. The per, and would have a little patience, brown line means a railway.” I should be able to put you right.” January 15, 1898, Daily Record- “It’s all the same thing. I can’t She traced with a pin. “We left Union, Sacramento, California — He walk on a canal and I can’t walk on a Pilling — so. Then we turned to the unfolded the map carefully, and railway. At any rate, I won’t. I sup- left — so. So we must be just here spread it out. “That’s what I like pose you want me to be run over.” now.” And she dug her pin tri- about a map,” he said. “You never “My dear girl, do be reasonable. I umphantly through the map at the need to ask your way. It makes you can’t ask you to walk on a railway point, and it went right through and so much more independent. when there isn’t any railway.” pricked her knee and hurt her. Doesn’t it, darling?” “You said the brown line meant a “If that is so,” he said, “I have “Yes, dearest.” A gust of wind railway, you know you did” — very only one thing to ask. It’s not swept down and tore the map — in emphatically. important, of course, but where’s two places, as the auctioneers say. “So it does on the map.” the crossroad?” “You should have pasted a bit of “We’re not walking on the map. “In front of you, with a white tape at the back of the folds,” he We’re walking on the — er — land.” fence on each side of it. It’s plain said. “Then it wouldn’t have torn.” That’s What I Like About A Map. “That is precisely what I was try- enough.” “Why do you keep confusing “I would have done it with plea- “Don’t be silly, dear. I didn’t ing to explain to you. There is no between the road on the map and sure, if you had asked me.” mean the crossroad on the — er — railway in the — er — reality, and “I can’t think of everything. earth. I mean the crossroad on the therefore we can’t be at the spot the road on the — er — well, the However, the first thing to do in map that isn’t the crossroad.” where we thought we were.” other road?” using a map is to find out where you “Very lucid, indeed,” he “Where you thought we were. I “It’s you who makes the confu- are on it. Now, as you can see, we observed, even more icily. knew you were wrong all the time. sion,” she said, “mixing up railcans are here.” He pointed to a spot on “When you try to be sarcastic, you It’s no good having a map if you with nalways — I mean, of course, the map with his pencil. only make ugly faces, and don’t say don’t know how to use it. Give it to nairails with canways–. Oh, you “This is the road we are now on, anything really good. Look here. me.” know what I mean!” and that is the crossroad just in You think that we are at this point She took it and screwed her eyes “I’m blessed if I do. I only know front of us.” on the map, don’t you? Very well, up, examining closely. “I’ve got it!” there’s a crossroad here, and there’s “Oh, no! That’s all wrong.” and you think this line represents she cried in triumph. “This is no crossroad on the map. The map “In what way wrong?” he asked the crossroad in front of us, don’t Pilling.” can’t be wrong.” coldly. you? Very well, it doesn’t. Because “But we left Pilling an hour ago.” “Then the real road must be,” “Because the crossroad is a that line isn’t meant for a road, but “Of course. I’m going to trace she replied bitterly. “Get a piece of canal.” a canal.” our road from there. No, look. Indian rubber and rub it out and “I fail to see how a crossroad can “How do you know?” Here is the name Pilling. And the make it fit the map.” be a canal. Besides, you can see the “Because it’s colored brown.” little black spot at one end means There was a moment’s pause, road for yourself — ordinary hard “It is. I hadn’t noticed it.” the village itself, the exact position and then they both happened to highroad, and no canal about it. “I knew you were in the wrong, of it.” look up at the same moment and “Thanks for the information.” both exclaimed joyously: “Wait; there’s a black spot at each “Here’s a boy!” end of the name. There must be So they asked the boy the way, some mistake. Oh, I see, it’s all and went on rejoicing, and peace right. One of the black spots is a reigned again. IT HAPPENED smut. Poof! Now, I’ve blown away They left the map behind them IN the spot which wasn’t Pilling.” by accident. Afterward they both DECEMBER “Go on. Blow away the spot said that was a pity. About the Bannocks from page 13 This big chief will lead them all in 1836 22nd Sam Huston becomes the first President of party of irresponsible settlers or cow- the chase, and buffalo and other Texas. boys had gone after a hunting party game will be plentiful and easy to 1848 24th James Marshall discovers gold in California. and captured it. Speaking of the take. To provide a horse for the reported killing of these Indians, chase the favorite horse of a dead 1862 10th Samuel Colt dies at the age of 47. Gen. Miles said that probably many warrior is killed at his grave. an innocent settler would pay with Formerly a squaw was also killed at 1863 17th Mangas Coloradas killed. his life for the acts of these men. the grave and sent after him to wait Scalps and horses are the two things on him. Although the Bannocks are 1864 10th Vigilantes hang Sheriff Henry Plummer. which the Bannock is taught to comparatively few in number, Gen. 1870 27th A thousand-mile trip on the Kansas Pacific crave. The warrior who has taken Miles says that if they are much Railroad cost $45. these from his enemy will go when stirred up they may get recruits from he dies to a land ruled by a big chief among the young men of all the 1871 17th The cable-operated streetcar is patented in who wears the feathers and robes of other tribes and make a serious dis- San Francisco. a full chief and rides a fast horse. turbance. 1875 26th Pinkerton agents bomb the home of Jesse & Frank James. The result is the death of their younger brother, Archie, and their mother lost her arm.

1880 6th Future cowboy movie star, Tom Mix, is born in Pennsylvania.

27th Thomas A. Edison patents the incandescent bulb.

1881 14th Michael O’Rourke, also known as Johnny Behind the Duce, killed Phillip Schneider at Charleston, Arizona.

1884 1st Mark Twain publishes “Huckleberry Finn.”

1887 1st Perry Owens elected sheriff of Apache County in the Arizona Territory. Chronicle of the Old West January 2017 15

cently backs unprofitable or ques- “In the push” is synonymous tionable enterprises to the profit of with “in the swim.” the promoters solely, or a man who “In the know” means behind the CURRENT comes suddenly to the relief of the scenes, so to speak. indulgent. It is a term of con- “Good people is a universal tempt. expression applied alike to an indi- “Long green” means green bills, vidual and a company. It means a CONVERSATION or greenbacks. good fellow or a crowd of good fel- “A wad,” “a bundle” and “a lows. bunch” all mean rolls of green “On your uppers” is to have no A Glossary of the some and difficult task. Most of bills, hence a “thick wad.” money. them have their origin in pic- “To stake” and “to heel” means “To give a front” means to look Most Graphic Slang turesque minds, are derived from to lend. well with no money in your pock- Words and Phrases nothing at all, and are simply “To give a flash” means to show ets. graphically descriptive. money. “A cold frost” and “frost crys- WHAT IS SAID ON Slang of every sort relates solely “To give up” and “to blow in” tals” are synonymous. They mean and simply to a condition of society means to spend money. to be treated coldly. THE STREET where the struggle for life is hard “To come down” means to pay. “Go tell your troubles to the Additions to the and continuous, where every man “To touch” is equivalent to steal, policeman,” means don’t bother is trying to outdo his neighbor, and sometimes to borrow. me, a private individual with your Language that Have where the weaker go inevitably to “To brace” is to borrow. affairs. There are officers for the become Familiar in the wall. For example, there are “To stand off” is to charge, or purpose. only two terms which describe an Various Circles — get anything on credit. “To spar for meals” means to honest man; to-wit, a “dead square” “Well heeled” is a term bor- struggle for life. Information for the and “dead white,” and these have rowed from the cockpit, and “To look for bother,” and also been very long in use and are not Uninitiated means to have plenty of money. “to look for trouble,” means wanti- likely to be superseded. On the ng to fight. contrary, there are dozens of terms LINGO OF DRINKERS. “To growl” is to threaten, and do January 21, 1894, The Examiner, which describe “slimy” and dishon- There are a great many terms no more. San Francisco, California — So large est men of all sorts. for drink, and the taking thereof, “To croak” is to die, while “to do a proportion of the population such as “lush,” “booze,” “a ball” a croak,” and “to do a gun croak” uses slang that its curious terms LATEST SLANG TERMS and “hops” for beer, and “red means to be shot. and phrases and metaphors have Here is a short list of the very liquor” for all sorts of spirits. “To walk down Easy street” is to become welded into and are part latest slang terms: “Chasing the can,” “rolling the do anything easily, also “dead easy.” and parcel of the current talk of “The genial,” a professional rock” and “working the growler” all the day. What may be called the appreciator, a man who laughs at mean sending the tin can down to QUEER EXPRESSIONS. small change of general conversa- everything, pays for nothing and is the corner barroom for beer. “To queer” really means to place tion may not be perfectly under- universally sympathetic. “Dead” and “smooth” are one in a false position, but it also stood by all, but it has its meaning “The hand-shaker,” synonymous words which are used continually has all sorts of meanings, as “shov- nevertheless, and in many with genial. and before almost every slang ing the queer,” which means to instances is decidedly effective. “A fly fakir,” a gypsy term, mean- term. They are used both singly pass counterfeit money, or, as when For example, take the term “hus- ing simply a shrewd, plausible and and together, as “dead smooth a man hits another on the head tler,” so graphic and so singularly inventive man. In other words an genial,” “smooth handshaker.” with a club, in slang parlance, he descriptive of a certain kind of ingenious liar. “Dead” means nothing and is sim- “queers” him with a club. man. Is there any one who can “A farmer,” a general slang term ply emphatic. “Smooth” means “To turn down” and “to call honestly say that he does not know for any man who does not know shrewd; thus a man can be “dead down” mean to repulse, to sup- what a “hustler” is? One may con- anything, coming, of course, from smooth,” meaning oily and dis- press, to put a stop to. demn it as a vulgar colloquialism, the cockney contempt of the coun- honest. Continued on page 16 or may use it with mental quota- try and countrymen. tion marks, but everybody knows “A gilly” is synonymous with what it means. In fact, it is a very “farmer.” trite description of a very common “A lush” is one who drinks. LOUIS L’AMOUR TRIVIA WINNER figure in the life of a great city. “A mug” is any kind of citizen. Thus it is a word that commands For some reason, to the uneducat- respect and cannot be put down, ed tongue, the word “mug” comes however much those who are stick- more easily than man, but it has a lers for the “well of English pure slightly contemptuous meaning. Question: and undefiled” may cry out against “A con” is a policeman, it. The “hustler” is here and has although occasionally the English “Where does the action in come to stay here, and without him “bobby” is heard. we should not be “the greatest “A scrapper” is a man who wants nation on the top of this green to fight. Louis L’Amour’s book earth.” “A yap” and a “jay” are synony- To hunt the various slang terms mous with “farmer” and “gilly.” in current use down to their origin, “A man with his hand out” is a Flint take place?” to trace out their philological beggar, and to “have your hand beginning, says the St. Louis Post out” means to beg. Dispatch, would be a most weari- “An angel” is a man who inno- Answer: “New Mexico” HEARD AROUND THE BUNKHOUSE Terms Every Cowboy Should Know Winner: •DIRECTLY – Soon as in “She’ll be Richard VanHook down, directly.” Goldsboro, NC •HOOSEGOW – Jail •THROW IN THE SPONGE – To The current month’s winner can be seen by quit or give up. visiting our web site 16 January 2017 Chronicle of the Old West

Billy the Kid from previous column “I’m sorry I had to kill him but come near me. You go,” he said I couldn’t help it.” “and saddle one of Judge On passing the body of Leonard’s horses and I will clear Ollinger, he gave him a tip of his out as soon as I can have the shack- boot saying: les loosened from my legs.” With a “You’re not going to round me little prospecting pick I had up again.” thrown to him through the window We went out together to where I he was working for at least an hour, had tied the pony, and he told me and he came to the conclusion to to tell the owner, Billy Burt, that he await a better chance, tie one would send it back the next day. I, shackle to his waist belt and start. I for my part, didn’t believe in such had saddled a small skittish pony a promise, but sure enough the belonging to Billy Burt, as there pony arrived safe and sound, trail- was no other horse available, and ing a long lariat, at the courthouse had also by Billy’s command, tied a in Lincoln. pair of red blankets behind the And so, Billy the Kid started out saddle. that evening, after he had shaken I came near forgetting to say hands with everybody around and that whilst I was busy saddling and after having a little difficulty in Billy was trying to get his shackles mounting on account of the shack- off, Mr. Sam Wortley appeared at le on his leg, he went on his way the gate leading from the garden rejoicing. where he had been at work, and Who will blame Billy the Kid that when he saw the two sheriffs for killing his two guards at the lying dead he did not know time of his escape from Lincoln whether to go in or retreat, but on whilst he himself was to be hanged the assurance of Billy the Kid that the week following? This is the he would not hurt him, he went in only murder I knew Billy ever and made himself generally useful. committing. I did not blame him When Billy went downstairs at last, then. I do not blame him now. on passing the body of Bell he said: Life is sweet.

Current Conversation from page 15 stringer.” “To throw down” means to do a “Song and dance” and “ghost mean trick. story” are lies, as “he gave me a “Lost in the shuffle” means sunk song and dance,” and so forth. out of sight. “A graft” is anything which is “Blind baggage” means riding free; anything for which nothing is between the freight cars, and is a paid. tramp expression. “To shake” is to get rid of. “A speak easy” is a barroom “Not on your life” and “not on open after hours. your tintype” are simply emphatic “Coming my way” means that expressions which explain them- THE ESCAPE OF the outlook is a little more cheery, selves. as “things are coming my way.” “To play horse with” is to treat “To get red-headed” is to get like a child. angry. Besides the above there are a “Just as hard,” a senseless hundred phrases familiar to the BILLY THE KID expression meaning “just as well.” stage, the prize-ring and the race “To jolly,” means to pleasantly course which gradually creep into buoy up, and “to jolly along” and “a the talk of the day. But to give a Editor’s Note: On April 18, 1881 jollier” are practically synonymous complete and exhaustive summary Billy the Kid was in jail at Lincoln, with “a genial” and “a handshaker.” of the slang of the time would New Mexico waiting to be hanged. “To string” means to chaff, also require a slang dictionary two inch- He managed to get a pistol and “to get anyone on a string,” “a es thick. escape, in the process killing two deputies. Following the shooting, George Gauss, John Tunstall’s cook, assisted the Kid in getting one of the leg-irons off an ankle. Nine years later George Gauss told the story of that incident. January 15, 1890, Ledger, Lincoln, New Mexico — I came out of my room whence I had gone to light my pipe, and was crossing the yard behind the courthouse when I heard a shot fired, then a tussle upstairs in the courthouse, some- one hurrying downstairs, and Billy The Kid. Deputy Sheriff Bell emerging from ing dead behind me in the yard, the door, running towards me. and before he could reply he was When I arrived at the garden struck by a well directed shot from gate, leading to the street in front the window above us and fell dead of the court house, I saw the other at my feet. deputy sheriff, Ollinger, coming I ran for my life to reach my out of the hotel opposite, with four room and safety, and Billy the Kid or five county prisoners where they called out to me: had taken their dinner. I called to “Don’t run, I wouldn’t hurt you. him to come quick. He did so, I’m alone and master, not only of leaving his prisoners in front of the the courthouse but also of the hotel. When he had come close up town, for I will allow nobody to to me I told him I had left Bell lay- Continued on next column Chronicle of the Old West January 2017 17 UPPER VERDE HAPPENINGS

January 6, 1896, The Daily come from, anyway? Scientists may Arizona Journal-Miner, Prescott, advance any idea they please, but I Arizona — Well, Christmas is over believe the gathering string broke and everything is right side up in at the North Pole and let the whole the valley once more. There was no business loose at once. You would uniting of forces around one com- have thought so, I’m sure, had you mon Christmas tree. Each family risen at midnight and went owl observed the season according to hunting as I did a few nights ago. the dictates of its own conscience, You see, it was this way: The other and the weight of its pocketbook, head of the family, (our family has which is considered constitutional I two heads) had been trying for two believe. The usual amount of good weeks to kill a predatory owl, that cheer abounded, and the gifts were persisted in eating my frying sized as generous as ever, notwithstand- chickens. People credit owls with ing the hard times some of us expe- wisdom and this one was a regular rience in scrambling for cash. feather-clad Solomon. He would sit Christmas brought sadness to out in the tree near the house and some of our friends. Two went out make his weird blood-curdling hun- from us to the peaceful land gry cry until you crept softly out, “Beyond the River,” God having gun in hand, to find that he was not given them immortal life during the there at all. He invariably wailed Christmas time. and screeched until midnight, and Grandma Hawkins departed in then he picked up a chicken and peace with God and all mankind; left. Night after night this was and Mr. and Mrs. T. VanDeren repeated without a chance to sprin- buried their little babe. kle him with shot. He knew the Grandpa Mason, another aged sound of the opening door; he one of our number, is quite sick. knew when you were putting on Dr. Carrier has him in hand. your slippers; he knew where the The valley is at peace just now, gun sat and just how long it would and nearly everyone well, and rea- take you to get it. The other head sonably happy, but it is outrageously of the family got disgusted, and he cold. If this continues I shall have said something like this: “I’m blest to go south or fix me a dug out to if I freeze my toes off and fall from softly and there he sat in the top of in the Verde valley, there would be live in. My residence was built for a grace any more hunting that owl; a cottonwood tree. I stopped back no excuse for it. summer resort, I think, and is poor- he may go to thunder and the for my little gun, cracked away and I hear that there is to be some ly adapted for winter uses. When it chickens can go with him.” But I killed him as dead as a hammer. more marrying done one of these comes to splitting the butter with a didn’t want it done that way, Quite an excitement prevailed for a days, but I can’t say who the rash wedge and cutting the cream with a because all the money I ever see few moments, and the other head parties are. There are only two knife, it seems like being left literal- comes from selling eggs so I rose to of the family ran out and killed him young ladies in the Upper Verde ly out in the cold. I’m not hard to the surface (they keep me pretty again with a club. A clear case of now, and if this matrimonial craze please in weather, and nobody well submerged in this family) and “Betsy and the Bear.” I didn’t divide continues, there will be nobody left objects to a fine white frost and a lit- blandly remarked that someone any of the glory with the head — not but old folks. tle ice, but who wants to have their had to kill that owl if I had to do it at all. I went bragging around for a Days, weeks and months have heels frozen while preparing the myself. Of course, they laughed me week, and gave my enemies the gone by, and still the brother who morning mush? It is nowhere stat- to scorn, but I set the gun in a con- chance to say that I thought myself went to Atlanta cometh not. We are ed in the physiology that nature will venient corner and went to bed mighty smart. There is many a true saving a ham, and a string of supply another pair of heels when blood thirsty and determined. word spoken in spite. onions, and a quart of dried apples these are gone. The best way to do About midnight, one of my Some of our farmers have killed for we anticipate getting up a is to take care of what you’ve got. Langshan hens raised a cry for hogs and thrashed out their beans reception for him when he Where does all this cold weather help. I got up, opened the door so now if anybody starves to death returns. ChronIcle of the Old West Makes A Great Gift What better way to excite someone! Your friends will receive a gift card showing you as the giver. If you have more than two people to whom you would like to give this gift, just make a photocopy of this form.

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her victim on tiptoe along a small twig, for the caterpillar in self- defense can emit an acrid green fluid, and as it can swing around with great force, the fly has to be cautious. In this case, the fly was successful. She got within striking dis- tance and the next moment the big cater- pillar was writhing in Ichneumon Fly rage; but the egg had been laid suc- The Ichneumon Flies cessfully, and the fly was out of reach, searching for another vic- Which Do Away with tim. Caterpillars A big species of the ichneumon fly can often be noticed crawling along the dead limbs of the trees. January 14, 1896, Sulphur Valley Watch one stop. She has heard a News, Willcox, Arizona — The fami- worm boring its way in the center ly of insects that are immensely of the bough she was walking on. valuable in killing the caterpillars She is busy at once driving her nee- that prey on the most luxuriant dle-pointed ovipositor through the trees in the city, and in many cases wood, and it is always with unerring have made them almost leafless, aim. As soon as the borer is struck, are the ichneumon flies. In an egg is deposited. The chief vic- appearance these insects are not tim of this most useful fly is the elm unlike the mason wasps, with their tree borer, that is doing an incalcu- slender waists and torpedo-like lable mischief through a large bodies, but they are perfectly region of this country. This pest harmless to man, though a terror was imported into this country Trading Stamps from page 18. he aims to more than get even by to the caterpillar. only a few years ago, but has chairs, onyx tables, clocks, lamps, doing much more cash business. The webworm, says the New already made great inroads into desks, and musical instruments. Instead, therefore, of charging York Tribune, is one of the pests of the maples, sycamores and elms. There is no price on any of these. more for his wares, he calculates the parks. This caterpillar is gre- Prof. W. Beuttenmuller, the They are not to be sold, neither to sell them at even a closer mar- garious in its habits, and spins a big entomologist for the American are they to be given away. They gin of profit than previously. web around the leaves it intends to museum of art, remarked recently will be exchanged for green trad- The customer who hoards eat. This is no doubt spun as a pro- that probably there had never been ing stamps. Any article in the trading stamps will naturally take tection from the worm’s enemies, such a pest of insects injurious to care not to pay a higher price but a Tribune reporter the other every sort of plant as this year, but store will be given for a 990, than before for groceries, dry day noticed that an ichneumon fly at the same time insects such as the which is a book full of stamps. had forced her way in, and every ichneumon fly and lady-bird, who This represents $99 purchased at goods, shoes or other purchases, second one could see her dart out prey on these bugs, have increased the different stores where trad- at the same time watching with her ovipositor, or egg-laying tube, wonderfully. ing stamps are used. satisfaction the accumulation of and puncture a worm, who would Another probable reason why The trading stamp is a neat the little green devices which squirm up, but the mischief was the ravages have been so bad this device designed to increase the means the ultimate possession of done. An egg had been laid below year is that the ordinary number trade of merchants. Briefly stat- some article of use or comfort the skin, and when each of those of birds to be found in the parks ed, the merchant who uses the perhaps not to be thought of oth- caterpillars turns into a chrysalis all through the summer has great- stamp gives one for each pur- erwise. that egg will hatch and gradually ly decreased, owing, no doubt, to chase of 10 cents’ worth of The trading stamp plan origi- eat the pupa. the severe frosts in the southern goods. The purchaser saving the nated in a humble way a few years Another of the ichneumon flies states last winter, which killed stamps thus received takes them ago in the small town of Jackson, was seen stalking the big and ugly- thousands of birds that make their when he has 990 in a book, fur- Mich. It found favor in the looking caterpillar of the golden southern homes in the region nished free of charge by the com- minds of merchants wherever it moth. The fly actually crept up to above New York. pany, and exchanges his book was tried, and spread like wild- full of stamps for any article in fire. Today, 157 stores are suc- the company’s store which he cessfully running in as many of may select. The stamps are print- the large cities of the country. ed in green, very neat in appear- Sperry & Hutchinson, 320 ance, but of course in no way Broadway, New York, are propri- related to Government or etors of the business and of all postage stamps. the stores. They have encoun- The merchant who issues trad- tered in various places tremen- ing stamps to his customers is dous opposition from merchants induced to do so in the expecta- whom they have antagonized, but tion of increasing his cash trade, insist that their plan of acting for for stamps are only given with merchants, in exchanging stamps cash purchases. Of course he for merchandise, is perfectly must pay cash to the Trading legal, and is a powerful trade Stamp Company for the stamps stimulus for the dealers who as fast as he disposes of them, but embrace it. 20 January 2017 Chronicle of the Old West

sorry now because I boxed cer- give.’ tain ears very smartly on Mary’s “Her little all consisted of a account. small carnelian ring that could A CHILD’S GIFT “The week before Christmas not have cost more than five she fell ill. I went to see her cents. every evening after school, and “’I’d like to have you keep it,’ yeas ago a singularly beautiful and her gratitude for these visits she said in a whisper. winsome little girl named Mary. shown forth in her eyes. I feared “And I have kept it among the Her parents were dead, and she from the first that she would things I treasure most. had the misfortune to live with a never be well again, and I think “In another hour she was rav- distant relative who made the she felt so herself, and was not ing in delirium. child most unhappy by his cruel sorry. “’I wish, I do wish they’d stop treatment. His wife was even more “I took her a few little gifts on it!’ She cried. ‘I wish they’d not cruel to the helpless child, who Christmas morning, and after I point at my old clothes so! I hate was the most obedient and submis- had given them to her she so to put them on! I wish, I do sive of children. slipped one little thin white hand wish, I could have — new — ones — “They allowed her to come to up under the pillow and said: sometime!’ school three months during the “’I’ve got a little of something “Before the day was done she coldest winter weather. She was for you. It ain’t anything hardly. had put on new clothes that never always thinly clad, and I fear that I’m most ashamed to offer it; but will wear old, no lose their heaven- her little tin lunch-pail seldom it will do for you to remember ly beauty; garments not fashioned contained anything better than me by, and it’s all I’ve got to by earthly hands.” dry bread and cold potatoes. “I tired to be very kind to her. I hope that I was. “But I had a large school of bad boys and mischievous girls who surely tried my patience, and who took up all my time, even at noon and recess hours. “Mary was shy and sensitive, making few friends, and saying Winsome Little Girl. nothing when certain thoughtless January 9, 1886, Bee, and heartless girls ridiculed her Sacramento, California — “The shabby clothes. most rifling gift is often the one to “She had a way of twisting her be valued most, and I have one that thin white fingers together and a king’s ransom could not pur- glancing around in a frightened, chase,” writes a gentleman who was timid manner when she was thus once a teacher in a country school taunted. district. “I always went to the rescue as “I had among my pupils some soon as I could, and am not at all