IEL MURDER IS ffCALLED BY DEATH Traces Bullet Around Man's Body. Recalls Cruelty Of Outlaw. How Slade, the outlaw made fa ns by Mark Twain in “Roughing 1 tied one of his enemies up to side of a house and standing yards away played “eat and *se” with him by shooting at i for hours before finally putting bullet through his heart, is being tiled around Ike scene of the af by the death some time ago Mrs. Addie Becksted, wife of the pit on whom Blade perpetrated a Be of such cold horror as was ely heard of even in the days Pttl the West, was new and wil 1 pi a Juler.burg, Col., dispatch to New York Herald-Tribune. Blade was master of thn overland fege and pony express station a‘ nlesburg and carried on bin “busi S” of outlaw from this position some time before he pave m other liner, for the “profession’’ |outlawry. It was while Slade was Julesburg that Mark twain, «n to Nevada to see his brother, ped at that stage stand all fcht. At breakfast the next morn he ate so many fried eggs and quantities of fried ham that [ never again ate cither, simply bubo Slade, who sat next to, lln, insisted that he “eat." Wife of Pioneer. |Hn. Becksted, whose death ha lilted Slade out here, wfiere oil things took plai c, formerly the wife of Jules, for 'whom; isburg was named, and the nia; to tied up t > p. house and killed I'such a manner that it still is of the traditions of this part, 1 the plains country. those days Jules had a big ,ch and kept a frontier store Z- Julesburg now stands. Slade a ranch, some distance west of Jules ranch. And heverd the _ranch Jules had still another tie ranch. Jules’ store was on the at Overland California trail, thi ognized route to the Pacific < Mrs. Beckstcd whs scarcely re than a child at that time. Slules and Slade had some sort of ftfrow” which ended in Jul s _ting Slade. After the fight es loaded Slade Into a wagon and eve with him to Denver, 150 j away, for medical treatment ^erwards the two men settled Heir trouble and Jules thought ev-' thing was all right. Slade Wounded. Jut it wasn’t. Slade had beer.' .ded in the body. This he t forgive. But the Wound to h:s j, that another man should |ive shot him in a fair fight, was; i much. Slade was known as the [ It expert shot along the eastern ! _ of the mountains and he had pirtain that repuvn’ ion if he was continue living at all. ('ore he that reputation a cowboy c< r jtly would kill him. )ne morning Jules started for h's rfet distant ranch for some cattle. | took with him three or four cow As he passed Slade’s ranch de and half a dozen men came HP out, covered Jules’ men and them prisoners. All were dis 1. and started home except _lie was held. Jno of Jules’ cowboys, after rid some distance and getting be \ a hill, left the others and on t returned to see what was being i to Jules. Jules „_ was tied l» a smntl shod. back to the wall, his arms out? bed. He could move neither body, arms ncr r.ead. ide, dead shot that ho was, j I with his rifle some distance Jules, took careful aim and . The bullet struck within an „ of Jules’ ear, toother shot and one of Jules out bed fingers was shot of;.* |e laughed aloud, an Slade shot off one car and j the other cf the man tied to rail. a- hours, in fact, virtually all Slade continued this form of ;y. He could could have killed at any shot, but he preferred ;ue the man. was wounded in fifty places of which was fatal. Slade had # to that. The wounded man was “ dead from exhaustion, loss of and the nerve-wreeking o' - [ through which tie was passing, d night, with his victim in; li-conscious condition, Slade . he had had enough “fun.” picked up his rifle and sent through Jules heart, next morning Slade and of his men went down to trading post loaded every they wanted into their wa nd went back to their ranch, tules took a wagon and drove —jr, Slade took all Jule’s cat [otbing was ever done about irder of Jules, story of Slade’s killing Jules iy in the “cow” country as , cruel murder that eve-.* ,je on the frontier and the putme time ago of the widow trader has revived the tale. j chairmen of the shipping i announces a profit of $t, in six months for the States Hners. This being so at time some private com skes a reasonable bid for your will is a serious - *T THE MOVIES - The Webb theatre has two out | standing pictures on ita program [this week, and will continue vaudt , ville nights through Christmas. The vaudeville feature has been a great sureess, and there will be more of this class of entertainment at the Webb. One of the feature films, which is due Thursday, is “Syncopating Sue," beautiful Gorin no Griffith’s latest. A critic says of this picture: “There’s a high note of drama—a deep note of pathos—a harmony of humor—and a symphony of action in ‘Syncopating Sue.’ ” Tom Moore is cast with Miss Griffith in the piece. Christmas day a rollicking com edy is scheduled “Tin Hats” with Conrad Nagle and Claire Windsor. There is also to be shown with it a Christmas day short comedy just m 1 ased for the leg day. Wednesday (today) and (Friday) Mr. Webb has picked good west er*’". Vaudeville will continue the rest of the week at the night shows, the curtain rising at 8:45, after the picture run. The school of experience awards no honorary degrees. I Waiting Time For Idealists William Allen White in the Em poria Gazette. The people of America have evinced no interest whatcer iri the emotional side of polities since the defeat cf Woodrow Wilson. The American people are static. They are living under the burden of some terrible spiritual inertia. They are back in Grant's administration. They wish no change. They desire! no betterment in conditions. They are overwhelmingly for the order that is. And President CoolidgeV message tells them definitely and wisely how to keep things going as they are. Democracy never was better vin dicated than in the calling and election of Calvin Coolidge. De-i mocracy is getting exactly what it want, in the way that it wants it. The few insurgents, kickers and idealists, among whom the writer is which, have a mandate from the American people to go way back and sit down until it hurts. They also serve who only sit and wait. Motorist—-That man I ran over is ’ the meanest man in town. Friend-—Why ? 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