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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1925)
1 111 It 111, i The Ari20na Sheriff Ttlta f U adreittarM,-kls coBttf, ki hamor, kls kMi Intelligence collected fcy MJer Grover P. Sextan. 'T1 Deputy frm Trpal Couuiy." ttlwr with nimbi ftm md motor ear 4 riag wirt and car Justice te wldoer.4 : ,,, , . i THE SEVENTH XQTCH - "Partner, just Kit on that horse o' yourn-and. start fridla';; and don't let V he sun ga down" on you in Cochise county, 'cause If you do, you'll wake up looking old Sti Peter right in the face.' When Andy Darnell bad man, good cowpuneher and all-around mueh-to-be-f eared character di rected that conversation toward a citizen . of Cochise, the population of the community was jast about sure to be one less the next day either In actual count or by the coroner's records.' Didn't matter a whit to Andy which , way ? the individual went, either. It wasn't any trouble for Andy to kill a man; the only an- credit In the thief demise, since the community" thereby bad been bettered.;. ,-. K, ' . , v : . But oneway, Andy Darnell, des perado now, picked "wrong majrto warn' with the -times honored ulti matum,' , This man was Frank Johnson, still a resident oMiisbee. a small man with more nerve than two teeth. Andy had recited the warning which to some was .a" life saver, and to others a dirge. " But Frank opined he'd let a lot of suns set on. him in Cochise county, because The had s a home and .family, there. ; " i ; w . Andy's right hand started to ward the deadly 45. Said Frank: ; "Andy, do you see that, moun tain over there?" pointing to Sacramento mountain, a crag of almost pure copper ore now beinp; demolished for the metal, Just outside Blsbee. j4Do "you eareparlicular which side of that hill you'd rather be buried on ?'.' Darnell's gaze returned ' to Frank,- who had gained ''just enough time., to get hold of his own gun. It was then a race for life on the draw. ; Frank, who can shoot a running . coyote with a 4 5 and then put two more bullets into Its body before jt falls, beat Andy to it. A un nis noay tney round nis gun and ConchiU'8 rose, now faded and stained. The; slogan was buried, with Andy.. and is heard in Arizona no longer. Frank gave Andy's gun to his nephew, who is a mechanic with the Ilisbee Auto company. Studebaker dealers, and f rbm him it has passed, to "the deputy from Yavapai." ' '." if noyanre it gave him , wn$-that he had to clean his pistol afterward. There are .six deep .notches on Andy's.; big 45 frame gun, now in possession of "the deputy from Yavapai."; , .;, ' - . ' A seventh notch Is" only'a short one. Andy was always doubtful and, somewhat uncertain and 'apo logetic about that seventh notch. You see, he shot a man who lived two .-months "in ; a hospital, then caught pneumonia and died. Andy figured he was entitled to some credit, but 'didn't allow he could claim a full notch; " t - i (is ."first victim was a JMeiican monte dealer in a gambling joint out of Wlicox,v a bit to the east- j - dni, many yearn .ago, wail 9 Anay was still a fresh young cow-puncher, and a good one. He always was a good cowman; he roped cat ' tie with -his lariat da la vuelta ( pronounced, daily weita), which means he used a 60-foot - rope wound several times around 'the saddle horn, instead of being tied, ra be could ease it off in a pinch. ao one ever knew Andy - to ' be yanked off his horse. r The aver age rope is 35 to 40 feet long. ' But. to go on with the story. This monte dealer marked a card, by putting a "ridge in its edge with N1ils thumb nail. Said Andy: . "Just la minute tthere. amigo: did you mark that card inten- t Ion a 1 ? " ; ' ' 7 - ' The dealer, caught, shrugged his shoulders, smiled and replied "Si, senor, eef you insis'.' -Whereat Andy shot him neatly but somewhat effectively through the bead, and the game was over. They, hunted around for a justice of the peace or a territorial officer to hold an inquest and. found one at Wilcox. Twelve cowpunchers sat ; on the Jury, though, six is' a legal panel. i':- ' Andy told howthe Mexican had ' admitted the cheat.. No one cared much about the cheating itself, but much was said about the admit ting of it. . And the Jury brought in a verdict : . "Justifiable homicide." His next victim a miner, met Jn a. dive on Brewery Goleh. Bls bee, most noted ."line" of I dives In any southwestern state ' until cleaned up a number of years ago. They sat at one tabled very friend ly indeed. A Spanish girl. danc ins. tossed a red artificial ; rose upon' rtheir'' table. The - miner reached for It. ; " - y " His funeral eceurred two days later, without benefit of clergy. . .. Andy was now a tough hpmbre.' About the only streak of sentiment he ever showed was over, Concb ita'sose, for; that, night he had seiied her and kept her wUh him t for a week before she slipped out j ; on a horse and got away, i l" . I . - The, foreman of the ranch where he" : worked came . Into Blsbee one ' time, but kept aloof from the cow boys, staying at the tJopper Queen Hotel "instead or. going' up" "on Brewery jlcb"."f Someone - asied i him about this, and he- -said he i "didnt hang'around with the cow f men in town." " ; . ' , , -.: .. This incensed Andy, who sought , him out after midnight and. veri- fled vttoe ; remyk- 'Q'.Wf foreman . Andv " first used :the . phrase 'later to i sound ifke 'the' sinister song' of a -rattler in vthe "Partner, Just git ori that horse j' o yourn and start " ridin; an !' 'don't, let the sun go down on you ; . In Cochise county, "cause if you ' do. you'll wake op looking old St; Peter right in 'the face." The foreman left, as did many Safterwardv : ,"' ',, "; :,V:;V- .1 '.That ; phrase became 'Andy's lrademark.; "While it " was ' being -'established, he killed, in addition to the first Mexican and ' miner, another -Mexican,, two gamblers and a cowpuneher . with his. wick ed-looking six gun.. ' . The seventh man, shot through lung v and abdomen, 'later was found - to have been a horsethief, most detestable of eriminals'in the cowrcountry. Andy felt that the character ; of this Individual was such that he ought Jo tae some 41MMlLESHiBD Estimate . Showst Aspljalt- or Concrete Would Gross U. S, 13 Times WASHINGTON, Dee. 12.- The latest ' estimate, ' of the; United States bureau of good roads is that at the close of 1924 there ex ter .driving are sach aectioifd of ' the highway thai now stretch vlr- i tually from Wrashington to the Pacific coast. Reports' from the state of Idaho received . here .re cently are "typical of . the work that is being. done by highway of ficials everywhere. " .',..t .Most every motor ist.wio has driven over the famous Yellow stone Trail between Wallace and Mullan and that trail ; - carries most of the tourist traffic across the mountains will recollect the tortuous .winding of the trail where the highway is built on the narrow floor-of the canyon, bend ing and twisting its .way .across a railroad and river, now flank ins the river at some sharp tarn as the swift current plows a deep gorge toward the bend, and at times twisting sharply with the railroad track as it seeks the grade. . - '-- One particular curve about, mid way on that road was so danger ous a spot that in the manner of the west it was called "Dead Man's Curve." Guard after guard had been constructed along the way, only 'to toe broken and scat tered' about after every Installa tion;" But .now according;, to D. N. Faires, engineer for the Idaho bureau of highways, a life-line has been ceaslrueied along .the whole course of the double curve consisting of hundreds of feet of Page -Hi-Way -guard; which - la. a veritable Ufa netbeing construct ed 'from a heavy wife link ' mesh which handlos a plunging ' auto mobile, no matter how rapid Its rate of travel, exactly as the 'cir cus life net "breaks the plunge of the acrobat from the. top j of the teirt toWard'the ground.' -1 ; i ' According to reports from Wal lace, the number. of accidents hap pening since .the installation of t,het new Hl-Way' guard has de creased . materially and fatalities have been eliminated. " , . In addition to that sort of high way safety work, warnings are betng circulated setting forth the tests recently made by engineers of a large tire manufacturing con cern which show; that rubber on wet concrete offers the minimum of frictional -resistance over wet or snow-covered pavements, and especially -in the mountain dis tricts, hj by the use of non-skid chains."' - ' "' ' V Medford votes $76,000 special levy, for -paying debts and larger salaries. " ' - . Give Fpmitare For Chritaas T . .. i . i h i- ' gaalai'Jsn' af d4 trwtrr Idiho -w omm'.uai ww n nu 'nr Way taar4 U Hyft! ti -Sarm toxa vaA j f mi ie jt trnmm iatlaata-taig . clwky aaicty tm tooriat.. is tecf 41,848 miles of asphalt, or concrete, highways,' exclusive of. roads that ae otherwise improv ed." . ' v' v- . . , '. 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