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death one of the evening papers said you and he were bitter enemies, and were looking for each other on the plains. Is that so?"

Mr. Cody - "That is a bad error. Bill and I were friends always. There was but one time when he felt hard towards me, and that was from jealousy, when I was appointed chief of scouts over him by General Sheridan. I used to be under him as chief, and naturally he felt it a little. No, Bill and I were the best of friends. He killed the MoCandless gang, who murdered my father in the early Kansas troubles, in '36. Bill was pony express rider on the old Denver and Atchison trail, or what was called the Salt lake trail and the California trail. He was one day approaching a station on Rock creek when he heard a woman scream. Over the door-sill of the stable he saw a man's dead body and the screams were coming from the house. He rushed in and rescued the woman from McCandlees ad six of his gang. They rushed after him and he dropped four of them; one after another, as they came through the door. Three then made for him but with his knife he finished two of them and the other ran. He thus cleaned out a gang which was the terror of the country, and did it in saving a woman. He had been in a great many fights and killed a great many men, but I never knew of his killing a man when the law and justice were not on his side. I met him on his way to the Black Hills just before he was killed and he said he did not expect to come out again alive. He was killed at Deadwood; but I don't know the circumstances. When I met him we were nooning on Sage creek, and we I talked for two hours telling of old times. After he was killed, Charley Utter, known as Colorado Charley, took his body, laid it out under a big pine tree, got as good a coffin as he could and burried him in a decent manner. During the war with the south Bill was a scout in southwestern Missouri, and all the officers said he did most valuable service."

BUFFALO BILL'S PLANS.

If it is thought best to raise a force of frontiersmen to do service in this Indian country during the winter, probably Bill will be at their head, but if not he will play as usual during the winter months. He goes to New York to day to make arrangements for a new drama embodying the main points of the Indian campaign.