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yyyyyyyyyyyyyy VOLUME I. £cijaf Jlitaeriiscmeiik i Y\ liereas. 0. \\ . Hood. Executor of Z..S. Hood, deceased. represents to this Court, by his petition duly filed, that lie has fully and completely ad ministered said deceased's estate, and is entitled to a discharge from said administration — 'This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if any they can, on the first Mondjyv in Seldom her. 1881 ...at the jerjn of Hie V'linf <4 ( Unfix? <WSsW county. why Let ters of Dismission should not be granted the ap plicant from said trust. < .iven under my oflicial signature, this May i>D issi. Ai. YV. BELL, Ord’y. (~t ilOltlnlA, .lacksoM Coanly. Whereas, ('. M. Wood. Administrator on the estate of A. M. l/iggins, late of said comity, de ceased. represents to the Court, by his petition duly filed, that he Juts fully administered said es tate, fntitjcl to| iTiichar^ei-. , ? Thii? is*fo cite afr t-orrcemcd, knmreif and cred itors, to show cause, at the Court of Ordinary of said county, ofutho first Monday in. October, 18fW, why s;vid applicant slumiKl not hawe fitters of Dis mission from his said trust. (liven under my oflicial signature, this June 28. '* ' A'' 1 :-L. Ct .lackson Comilv. vx Whereas, YV. I*. Cosby. Administrator on the estate of k'ninees C Cosby', late of said county. dc<n f ased, repr&chts to the fJotirt that he Has fully administered said estate, and is therefore entitled | to betters of Dismission— This is to cite iyll, concerned, kindred and cred- j itors, to sKmV caftso, at the CbdVt of Umifi/Vry of; said county, on the first Monday in October f ISBI, | why said letters should not he granted the appli- j cant. (liven under my oflicial signature, this June 28, 1881. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. .lat'lison Coiiifty Whereas, the reviewers, appointed for the pur pose of reviewing the road in said county com mencing on the Athens and Lawrenceville road, near the residence of Charles Furgerson, thence by tlie residences of James and Nancy Spencer, John Marlow, 4'. U. Furgerson. Lewis Anthen and W. Collms, intersecting with the Watkins ville and llog Mountain road at or near the resi dence of the Widow Jones, having marked out and reported„tlmt the.establishment of said, roiul as one of the p\#Hl iff* itindsjoP’ said "ociuAby wall iolr dtice to the convenience of the traveling public, an order will he passed on Monday, the day of August. JBSI, grafting-Die lishment the county*, If no good cause to the contrary be ,,j liiil2 m?3 **, Givch under ray official signature, this July 20, ,ssl - ,m i Jackson County. Whereas, upon application to mo. in terms of the law, lv onc-lifth of the qualified voters of llitv, 253d DisrfctJ(ft 111. $f kiid ZimitV % askjn| fen an clciJtraii to* be mea in safa District, that. tff<r question of the restriction of tl'.e'salc of intoxicat ing liquors in said District may be sttWhiltiilito the voters thereof— ' m % It is hereby ordered that an election be held in jit of holding fleo- t*i tsam\ oh SiyaTsflay* the GU* day of August. TSSI ; that those voting at said election who favor restriction shall have written or printed on their ballots the words, •• For Restriction,’* and those who oppose shall have written or print ed on their ballots the words, Against Restric tion," and that the managers of said election shall keep duplicate list of voters and talley sheets, certify and sign the same, one of which shall be tiled with the Clerk of the Superior C<mrt of county and fyfwlrmil without delay to his Excellency the (loverimr.' julyS v f . U. YV. BEJ.L, Ord'y. ~ ' . f t- /t i r \ IT r r r t * \y ? * ? j( ) T ji 11 * y |t- J / v#'" MORE lET! x ia ti* *i * NOTWITHSTANDING the heavy inroads up on our stock, we still keep enough of B\tV\At tvwt\ V\u\f^ ..-a Dry Goods on hand to supply our Customers, and shall con tinue to add to the same as tiie requirements of tin* trade demamJ. a f r.? T-71 ji i /i W/ .. 1 I WE AliE STILE OFFEKIXU vri'4, ft O tt/lt j?. BARGAINS -—TINT : Staple Dry Goods ’.VXD Glt <) CEItI E S • Call and price. We will take pleasure in show ing our .-ftock, • *5 4 t V. H. BROCK & CO. Jefferson, (la., April 20th, ISSJ. . - -i at^•^w&eSSsssiiissk^w ■ *rf i" ■ ■ ■ ' I ■II.I—■! ■ *'■ ■ --■ 4 -- ■ .1 ■* ■ " •mi Boots and Slioes! New Slioc Siiop it Mailer’s CM CfflCGj JEFFERSON, GA. * T/’EEP onharni best of material. Fine sewed -IV. Bobts and Shoes a specialty My work needs no talk from me. Give me a trial, and I will give satisfaction. juuc 10 S. M. STAIIK. WV.vA'A"? XUSC'VAAN/Wt. t * ou ’ I’rrNoilly menrl f —Bid Twenty-One Years of Aye and One of the Most Noted of Desperadoes —Shot D6wn at Last by a Sheriff ■ — llis Excitinj Life. r4 s y V i l k V'V is no doubt abourr it that '*• Hilly 'the Kid,” the no torious bandit, is dead, lie was killed on Saturday, by Sheriff Pat Garrett, of Lincoln county, at Fort Sumner, 120 miles from here. The coroner's jtyy returned a verdict of justi fiable* homicide, coupled with a statement that Pat Garrett deserved the thanks of the whole community for ridding the country of such a wfspclado. Tljp Kid \yas a'beardless youth and is said to have been born in New York, and it is said that his real name was ?dc CafUiy. 11 is ‘boast was that lie had killed a man for ever}' year of his which is prob ably true. Sheriff XLqyrett Receives the re vMTl\ iTWffi tlieTcrritory afid $-0(1 will be raised for him by the rejoicing people. The verdict of justifiable homicide is rather queer, as the Kid was shot down without warning. lie had been in the neighborhood of Sumner for some days, disguised as a Mex ican. Sheriff Garrett got upon his track and on Saturday night was waiting for him in the cabin of Pete Maxwell, a cattle man. Gar rett had not been in the room over twenty minutes when the Kid entered in his stocking feet, knife in hand, and ostensibly for the purpose of buying some meat. lie observed Garrett’s crouching form near the bed, but before he could ascertain who it was, Garrett fired, the ball passing through the desperado's heart. The Kid has shot a number of men since hU.esoape from jail, abopt two months ago. He s was tried and sentenced to be hanged, and taken to Lincoln, near Fort Stanton, for sajrc kqcpi t ! le gave 'escape*. One day he felled his guard with a blow from lire shackled' fists, Sfiatchcd a rc and-seiit a Uuti)Tg|| his heart. Tnsn he wafkeft across tlTe street to the house where another guard lived, waited for him to come up the street and shot him dead. Then be armed himself with a Winchester rifle and a lot of revolvers, and as the crowd, attracted by the noise, gathered, scattered people right and left. Ho ordered one of the men to get him a horse and a file. He mounted the for mer anil with the 1 a tteTli’ ljs3V)lr tap fly s upon one of his legs, and, not stopping to re move the other, tied the severed manacle with its chain to his belt so that it should not.im pede his movements. Not a man in the crowd dared draw a bead on him, and, saying that lie did not intend to steal the horse and would return it, Billy smarted out-of town on a gal lop. Before he had gone lar the horse ‘'•bucked” and threw him. lie jumped up. and at the rtiuzalf of his pistol compelled ohc of the men to catch his horse, which he re mounted and rode away. Soon after he went to Sumner, be had a sweetheart, and disguised himself. HIS CASTLI-: IX Tin-: WILDERNESS—SHOOTING TJFOFI.K OFF HAND— IirS BAND. [Special Correspomlencc Philadelphia Times.] Fort Sumner, N. M-, July 10. — A month ago it was generally believed that the famous bandit known as “Billy the Kid” was dead, ami as the belief in the truth of the report grew there was more and more rejoicing. Now, however, comes the report that Billy is still in the land of the living, and that lie is living in disguise at Sumner. There is con siddrable exokeinent over llio news. Billy the Kid, who has been greatly feared in this portion of Xew Mexico, in Texas and parts of Colorado, for 'several years past, is the desperado concerning whom less is'known than an}’ other American outlaw wjio ever out throats, robbed stage coaches or stole cattle in this far Western country. Your corres pondent has accidentally made the acquaint ance of a young gentleman, the son of a for mer distinguished member of General Sher man’s stall’, who had a wonderful experience with the celebrated bandit, whose deeds have been so much heralded of lute. Young Duucan is now a successful trader at Alamosa, New Mexico, in the “Black Range.” The news of the renegade's death was to the effect that “Bill}' the Kid,” dis guised and going under another name-, was shot and killed by passengers of a stage coach within five miles of Alamosa, New Mexico, on the afternoon of May IG, at thirty minutes past one o'clock—just twenty-five hours and thirty minutes later than he would have died by, the .rope had ho remained in the jail of a little New Mexico town, where he wars Con fined under sentence of,death, which sentence was to have been executed on the lath of May, at twelve o’clock boon. On the 2d of Mjay he craped from jail by kiwddpjjjiis jailer senseless with the manacles on .fiis hands and got aw a}’, after killing the Deputy Sheriff and one other citizen. During the two weeks* freedom which followed, this young terror of the plains succeeded in tak ing seven more lives than he already had to answer for, bringing his grand total of known LutChcrics up to some thirty-three or thirty- JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA„ FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, ISSI. four in number. The news ofhis death proves false, and there is no doubt that the despe rado is now in this vicinity, in spite of the price set upon his head. A Yi WSTKKIOrs BANDIT. But little is known of the true history of the little more than youth called “ Billy the Kid.” and there is not an individual living within the radius of several hundred milesof tliis region (where alt the desperate exploits of the murderer have taken place) who even knows the Kid’s true name. This is some thing he would never tell, and his reasons for ■': . f withholding it will be found further along in this history. The young man who tells me the story of the Kid’s life is one of the best known young fellows in this whole wild coun try. Nieyeifis danger threatened the settle ment but lie is the tirst man to be on the alert to protect its interests, and it has not been many days since he headed an expedi tion in pursuit of a party of Indians wltf) were suspected af murdering a young miner. Some time ago young Mr. Duncan was a member of Mcllroom’s surveying party, surveying for one of the new railroads through New Mexico and Texas. lie had at this particular time been several months in the country and was pretty well used to its ways, lie could talk, eat and sleep with “ Greasers’' and hold fluent converse with nearly all the different tribes of Indians. “It was about the middle of April, in 1S80,” said he, “ that I was with Mcßroom's party, and, after several weeks’ hard work, we found ourselves somewhere close to that dangerous locality, the Llano Fstacada, or Slaked Plain, occupying an immense territory in the coun ties of Lincoln and Don Ana, in the extreme southeastern corner of New Mexico, and where it is, as you know, very hard work to find anything in the shape of water or green ness. In fact, there is no verdue in the whole immense area. One hot evening, when what water we yaiyked was exhausted, wc’Yverc ui successful in tkiAing-a creek r spring! The night was rapidly approachingYyhen wc finally werit nhd several of us were dis- directions to look for the precious -fluid. I was given three burros (small Mexican donkeys} and started in a northerly direction, with instructions if I did uot strike water before darkness came iu-re turn to camp. Tp Uk>i’ DA, ’Ulb I’JALXS. “ I found no water, ami at dusk started in a direction which I Supposed would take me to the camp. It did not, however, and I wan dered about all that night, hearing no noise except now and then the screeches of night birds peculiar to this region. I cannot de scribe to you my feelings when, at the close of the second day of 1113- bewilderment, I sank down exhausted and made a pillow of one of the little animals which, like were ncarl3' famished through hunger and thirst. It came to me all at once that I was lost on the Llamo Kstacada. For three days I was alone on that desolate plain, and the fourth day had set in,before I became delirious. On the afternoon of the fourth da}% when I was about ready to lie down and die, the burros struck up what is known as a ‘ blind trail’ and followed it up. I was startled a short time after to have one of the burros break awa3' from me and dash forward. The two others followed, and a few moments later 1 saw the poor beasts rolling and plunging in a greenish, stagnant pool of foul water, out of which grew a lieav}’, rank vegetation. I thanked God, for I knew there must be clear water somewhere near, from which this pond was fed. ;At length I found it—a tiny, silvery rivulet, very shallow, but every sparkle of which in the clear sunlight was more precious to me than so tafaiiy diamonds. I threw my self prostrate by its side and drank. Getting up I walked to the top of what is called a measn, or high plain, that was just before me, and w'as surprised when my eyes fell on the valley beneath to sec a cluster of what ap peared to be cottonwood trees. Immediate!}' on the other side of them rose another kbdi C3 plain. The trees were in the valley, and in the midst of them stood one of the queerest looking buildings I have ever seen. It was a round, cone-shaped affair, that might have been the cast le of some Mexican grandee, the ranche of a cattle herder or a fort. Situated as it was between the two abrupt high plains, it could not be seen until one was upon it. The building appeared to be built of adobe, and I could notice all around its sides holes which I took to be loop holes. I w'as getting deathly sick, made so by' drink ing sdimich water, and determined to ap proach the strange building. Going down the hfl! I looked for the door, found it, cried * halloo,’ and would probably' have fallen to the ground had l not been brought*to my senses by seeing the cold, cruel bores of eleven Winchester rifles staring me ih the face. The rifles were pointed at me from cracks in the door and the loop-holes sui roundiug it. I suppose I cried, ‘Don’t shoot; I’m a friend,’ or something of that sort, for the}' didn’t shoot, and the next moment the door was opened and a }’oung man with an I eye brighter than an eagle’s stepped out. I I knew him. I had seen him at Sumner, and I I had seen him shoot down a man in his tracks FOR THE PEOPLE. The young man then described to your correspondent this peculiar and secret hiding place of one of the most lawless and despe rate bands of renegades the country has ever known. When it is stated that only in one place for probably fifty miles around this sec tion of country can water fit to drink be found, and that this water bubbles up from a spring situated in the middle of the floor of the out laws’ stronghold, one of the advantages of the site will be obvious. It was from this gush ing spring in the above ranclie of the despe radocs that the little stream trickled on to feed the slimy pool, accidentally discovered by the young surveyor. The fearful exposure to which young Duncan had been subjected caused a fever to set in, and lie could not think of leaving his bed for some time. Hu ring t<he days of his convalescence he had several long talks with the Kid and other members of the band. They all treated him with great kindness, and many Yvcre the allu sions made as to the jolly life they led, in tended, no doubt, to influence the young man to join them. The thoughts that occupied the mind of the young YYash'iivgtonian vgppn references were made to a possible onslaught on the strongliold.by Texan Rafi’gcrs, wlio wore then in the Territory, were not very plcagaut, for hying .found in* tfic rbnhgHcTes’ * company he would -have shared a like fate with them. THU . j Billy, the Kid was a re markable looking person, and the following is something of a description of him at the time of which 1 write : He was about twenty years of age, small of stature, smooth-faced, spare built, with; several peculiarities that would dis tinguish him from equally wicked spilits as himself. One of his chief marks was that of extreme cruelty. Ilis lips were thin and his upper lip very short; two sharp, fierce looking teeth, much longer than any bthers in his head, grew out from under that 'upper lip ifi an extremely cruel and vicious man ner. •- lie was exceedingly vain, not only of his position as leader of a band of between two and three hundred desperadoes, but of his personal appearance and his skill with the ride. In the latter specialty he perhaps had a right to be proud, for it is known that in all the Western country there was not such a quick and perfect shot as “ Billy the Kid.” lie took delight in showing the young man who had so unwittingly fallen into his bands the nicety with which every thing in his “ Castle,” as he called his re treat amidst the loneliness of the Now Mexican plains, was arranged. And verify, from the description of it which I received, and saunter leisurely down the street. I was in the presence-of the bandit known as. Billy the Kid. When I had seen him in Sumner lie had also noticed me, and as I was a stranger he had inquired as to who 1 was and had received the information, lie now re cognized me, and, when he saw my condi tion, greeted me kindly. I said, ‘How are you, Kid ?’ and he answered, ‘ Well, you're a pretty sick kid!* He then looked carefully around and, seeing that I was entirely alone, invited me in. I caught a glimpse of a very handsome young woman. He ordered her to do something, and soon she brought me about $ pint of raw corn meal and water. She told me to drink it."’ I did’ and if life. I laid myself down on a pile of skins, and, I guess, being quite a healthy young fellow, very tired and with a tolerably easy consci ence, I performed the feat of sleeping for about thirty hours, without eating or drink ing. When I awoke it was nearly night of the next day. I saw all of my arms and am munition lying beside me on a stool, and then ' I knew I was safe and among people yvlio would not harm me.” THE KID’S STRONGHOLD. it must have been a wonderfully built place of defence. The main room was about thirty feet in diameter and about ten feet high. There were complete cooking arrange ments in one of the “ante-rooms,” and a great number of berths fixed one above another on one side of the apartment. In two other partitioned spaces there were enough stores packed away tp last a hundred men thirty days. The great spring in the middle of the hard floor was of the most cooling and refresh ing nature. There were specimens of nearly all kinds of pillage to be found in abundance in the place. OX AN EXPEDITION. At the time the young man who gives me these particulars went to the “Kid’s’ head quarters there were only eleven or twelve men “at home.” The rest of the gang were out stealing cattle, and at his other strong holds in different parts of the couutry. Young Duncan noticed that a close watch was always kept at the loopholes during the day, and that the men never were separated from their arms. On inquiry it was made known to him, that which has long been apparent to everybody in New Mexico and parts of Colorado and Texas, viz : that there are about three classes of society in those regions, which may be thus divided : Fol. lowers of hands of organized horse and cat tle thieves, murderers and bandits, such as “ Billy the Kid,” led on to victory ; the *’ Tex- an Hangers,” or movable vigilance commit tees, who have the law of Texas on their side, but arc, in fact, as great rascals as those who steal openly. These “ Hangers” the desperadoes hate with deadly hate, but they also fear them, When bandit cow-boy and “ Hanger” meet there is blood on the face of the New Mexican moon. The “ Han gers” arc about the only organized sort of police the Texas employs, and they frequently make excursions over into New Mexico to “ whoop up the Greasers.” The third class in New Mexico society is the honest, quiet, hard working citizen, and he is the prey of both “ Hangers” and desper adocs. • < -*✓ READY TO TAKE A TOWN. In an immense corral adjacent to the “Kid’s” castle there was placed on the fourth clay of Mr. Duncan’s sojourn in the adobe rancho some two hundred cattle, the fruits of one expedition of the gentlemen who had been absent. There was much feasting and great hilarity on the night of their return home. The next morning when the stranger woke tip and looked out where the cattle had been, lo ! t hey were gone—spirited away, after having been rebanded, to some still safer place. On that day the famous young cut throat got himself up regardless of cost and went away. Before his departure, one of las men brought a magnificent black gelding up to the door of the bidden rancho, and Billy, while the horse was neighing and pawing, sprang info the saddle. This is how lie looked as lie sat giving his last orders to McCabe, his first lieutenant in villainy : He wore a blue dragoon’s jacket, of finest broad cloth, heavily loaded down with gold embroid ery; buckskin pants, dyed a jet black, with small, tinkling silver bells sewed on down the sides. These pants were cut t'glit and fitted closely bis shapely log. Underneath this garhiertt were his drawers of fine scarlet broadcloth, extending clear down to Min ankle and over his feet, encasing them like stock ings. But his hat was the most gorgeous and the crowning feature of his get up, as it is with the Mexicans. It was Yvhat is known as a “ chihuah.ua,” made ot costly beaver, with a flat crown and a brim ten inches wide. And this whole structure of a hat was covered with gold and jewels until it sparkled and shone in a dazzling and blinding manner when one looked upon it. There was a gold cord around CrtflVn' large as a man's tnnVV grtat. bright rosette at the left side set ifcVJfT in all its glory I '' r fhis lmt cost nearly $300.' The shoes worn by this young prince of the plaids were low quartered, with patent silver spurs fixed in the heels, which took the place of the common, clumsy arrange ments that ordinary equestrians use. Digged out in this gaudy, saucy way the boy demon, (for 110 can hardly bo described as anything short of a mixture of the devil and humanity) would dash into a town and take it; that is, the citizens would give way to him, let him race like a meteor through the streets, drink at their bars without paying when he pleased, and one man in Sumner, a leading spirit and the owner of the largest store in the place, so much feared the Kid and his gang that he would allow them to use their pleasure in regard to paying him for articles to which their fancies might lightly turn and which they would confiscate. tiie kid's history. It was about ten days before the yoifng king of the renegades returned to Ins hidden castle. Coming back from his secret mission to no one knows where, ho became very much attached to Duncan, admired his bravery and in a remarkable degree made him his con fidante. Fourteen days after the young man fell into the den of the IvTcT that Individual announced to his new acquaintance that lie had discovered the whereabouts of Mcßroom’s party (somewhere on the Vegas river) and would in person guide his young guest to his friends. Then he called one of his men, had a splendid horse saddled for Duncan, caused his own steed to be again magnificently caparisoned and the two set out on a cool morning for a ride that much have been full of a very unpleasant sort of mystery to one of the part}’ at least. The Kid seemed to be in a melancholy sort of mood and became communicative, giving to his young and honest companion the fullest history of his life that lie ever gave to any one. This desperado has been given many names by those cor respondents who have written concerning him and not one of these names, lie himself has stated, was correct. He was known as Billy Conley, Billy Coyle, Donovan and by several other cognomens, bnt none of them were right. lie was of Irish birth, he told my in formant, and was one of a large family who, at the time of his birth, lived near Spring field, 111. Ilis father was wry poor and to better his when Billy was about nine 3 ears old. Here and in different towns of Texas the boy be came a celebrity on account of the wonder ful way in which he could handle a rifle. Old marksmen stood in awe of him when ever he appeared, a grinning, saucy bo}’, at shooting matches, country fairs or ox roasts, to compete with them for the prizes offered. S TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM. ( SI.OO for Six Months. r .\ | f * in? Ffitsj MrnnEu. In Sherman or some small town near to that city, when he was 1G years of age, Hilly killed his-first man. lie was very pa thetic when he related the circumstances of his tragedy. In a bar room one night, a swaggering youth, whose father was wealthy, threw out a slur to the Irish boy wlil<sT| 're flected seriously upon his birth, and particular ly upon the kind of work in which his (Hilly’s) father was engaged. Tile boy dared him to fight, and in the melee that ensued killed his antagonist. Immediately lie reflected that his victim’s family, being rich, they would Lincoln county cattle wbr ftc Iho unit, fdthmigh one of the youngest boys engaged in the business ; and that po sition he ever after maintained, not hesita ting to kill at a moment’s notice any man, even of his own band, who aspired to gain an}' soct of influence over the men or who questioned his authority. He also told Mr. Duncan that tho reason he always re fused to give his real name and the genuine place of his residence in Texas was that he had an old mother and three sisters, tho latter being happily married to law-abiding and honorable citizens. At that time lie was anticipating death. Heavy rewards were everywhere offered to anybody who would take him, dead or alive, or who could i give authentic information as to his hiding places. lie lived in imminent danger of any hunt him to the death, and he would stand no chance of getting justice should he remain and he tried. So he tied and went direct to Lincoln county, Nep Mexico, where 'several cattle herders were in want of boj’S. Later on he was defrauded by one of these men, who refused to keep his agreement of divid ing. at a certain time, the profits of his busi ness (cattle stealing) svitli the oow-boys who aided him. The buys revolted and a das' peratc and bloody contest ensuod. This was during the years of 1878 and 1870. and has cvfhtmwed up to the present time. There is no doubt bht what this strange boy was bound to be a ruler of some kind. In tho moment'being shot down like a dog, and ho was honest enough to own that he deserved it. - •••,-. The ride was a long and circtiitious one, and the “ Kid,” no doubt, guided his com panion in such a manner that it would be a hard task for Duncan ever again to ftud the 9 pot where the secret ranche wa3 hidden. Billy acted honorably toward his captive, pa thq night of the day 011 which they left Llano E~Lacada Duncan was returned safe and sound to his friends, lliliy bade him good bye and vanished. In the first town tho surveying party stopped my informant saw a notice posted up offering SSOO reward for “ Billy the Kid,” dead or alive, and less amounts for any of his band, or for informa tion whereby his retreats might be discovered. The man who lia’d slept in Billy’s rancho would rather have cut off his right hand than betray him, even could lie have done so. now “the kid” mcrdkued. For years this young desperado has been engaged in the task of systematically killing off all persons in this (Valencia) and Lincoln counties whom lie considered his enemies. These people were all engaged in the cattle stealing business. The chief end of his life of late has been, as he expressed it, to kill off a man named Giilis, a rich cattle herder, and who was the first man, Billy said, who “ went back” on him. Often he would ride up to where some of Giilis’ men were, shoot down one or two of them and then send word to Giilis those whom he allowed to live that he (Billy) was on his track and intended to hunt him to his death. At the time the des perado had this remarkable conversation with young Duncan he was suspicious of his first lieutenant, a Texan named McCabe, lie said that McCabe committed a great number of crimes against the settlers which were attributed to himself and which he de precated. It was not many weeks after this that Duncan heard McCabe bad been shot down by his superior. Persons at this place who witnessed a tragedy in which the “ Kid” was the chief actor described it to me as one of the most remarkable feats of quick and accurate shooting they had ever seen. An enemy of one of Billy’s fast friends was in Sumner one day when some of the “ gang” were on a jamboree. The enemy of the ren egade’s friend was a “ Ilangcr,” and by pry ing round and hiding behind doors and store boxes he thought he had escaped identification. When the renegade whom he was bent on slaughtering entered the store the “Danger” drew a bead on him, and in three seconds Billy's staunchest friend would have been food for worms had Jiot the Kid sprang about six feet, seized his Winchester and with the rapidity of lightning let fly the leaden messenger that sought refuge in the heart of the “ Danger.” lie fell over against a barrel and expired without a groan, while the entire party including the renegade who had so narrowly escaped death, marched up to the bar and took a drink. After his last escape from prison Billy was almost maniacal and was more of a dare-devil than ever before. Ilis band is now pretty well scattered" NUMBER 24.