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that gleaming knife made a strange exciting tableau.

Another ex-scout, known as Curly Walker, was killed near Dodge by a resident of Salina, Kas., in an encounter resulting from an effort on the part of Walker to sell a lot of cattle stolen and run off by him from their lawful owner. This man Walker has cowed once when drunk and disorderly at Fort Dodge in a way that Lieut.-Col. John R. Brooke is too modest to tell about. Bob Wright was present when he was killed. He was pierced by several bullets from a Winchester rifle whilst dismounting from his horse, and died with one hand on his revolver vainly struggling to release it from the holster in the stitching of which the hammer was caught. In the other hand "Curly" Walker had a revolver, which, in his death throes, he used as a knife, repeatedly thrusting it into the prairie sod, discharging it and bursting the weapon by the act.