Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1882 — Comanche Bill. [ARTICLE]

Comanche Bill.

]Kansas Sun.J An incident illustrating the nobleness of heart and gallantry toward women of mountain men is related of Bill, which happened in Wichita a few weeks since. Bill rode into town dressed in a complete suit of buckskin. As he went along he saw a “counter-jumper,” as he was pie sed to call him, roughly catch a little girl about. 18 years old (Bill’s idea of a “little” girl) by the shoulder and solicit her attention. The girl with drew her arm angrily, and just then the scene fell under Bill’s personal inspection.

“She was a poor girl,” says Bill, “and plainly clad in an old dress, but I wan*t going to see her insulted by any durted-counter under my mountain eyes. X just jumped down from my hoss and I called for that fellow to stop. He didn’t seem to want to, but I made him stop. I took up the little girl in my arms and set her down on a box. I took off her shoes and said to the counter-jumper: ‘Now I want you to get down aud lick the dust off the soles of that poor girl’s feet whom you have insulted.’ And I made him lick that poor girl’s feet whom you have insulted.’ And I made him do it. He looked down in the muzzle of a forty- five callfiber Colt.s for just about half a minute, and then e came to his milk like a little lamb, And I made him lick that girl,s feet for a plumb two hours, though a big crowd gathered around, but I bad all my men with me and did not care whether they liked it or not.”