Slide would always take any advantage that cunning quick action or a quick wit would give, and on one occasion when the gentleman with whom he had had a dispute appeared to he the nimblest artist, Slade quickly said that

it was useless for life to be wasted over such a small matter, and proposed that they throw their guns on the ground and fight it out with their fists. The other party agreed and threw his gun down, whereupon Slade laughed at his simplicity, and shot him on the spot.

Such conduct made him both hated and feared.

I am not in possession of the facts that originated the Jules-Slade feud, but it was no doubt some trivial affair, and the enemies of each assisted in keeping it alive, with the hope that one or the other or both would be wiped off the earth.

It was at the Rock Ranch station that Jules finally got the drop on Slade. Jules was told that Slade was out back and he fired thirteen buckshot into him. Slade dropped and Jules satisfied that he was as good as dead, told some of the fellows to put him in a dry-goods box and bur>' him. Slade retorted that he would live long enough to wear one of Jules' ears on his watch guard.

Just at that time the stage came along, and the superintendent happened to be on board. He ordered Jules' arrest, and they proceeded to hang him. He was strangled until black in the face, and then was let go on the promise that he would forever leave this part of the country. This promise was kept -- for a time.