Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 185

M-21 "liT till Il' S'. Oakland Tribune, Sunday, Oct. 2, I960 1 i 1 aren't vou forgetting A FEW TH I N6S, RALPH other p0g5 haws out the winpow. I'M THAT STUPIP WOMAN PRIVERWHO SHOULDN'T EVEN BE ALLOWEPTO PRIVE "TO TH STORE REMEMBER? 5T0P YOUR WORRYING. HAROLP'S BACK-WERE SOMEWHERE.

I 11 jpl iVeaskep if i could WHY MUST YOU YES. THAT'S MY CAR OUT FRONT. WHY?" USE THE CAR RE ALWAYS STICK UP FORTH POLICE PEPT? TALKING IT OVER NOW Im 0 I Off AS mnW The Old West's Hokum Heroes Continued frtm Page 3 ed a star, so decided to run for sheriff. His technique was simplicity itself: He bought an interest in the Lone 'Star Dance HalHo acquire respectability. He was elected by a three-vote majority.

He started off in high gear by catching some would be train robbers. But as the months wore on, like Earp he whiled away his evening hours as a professional gambler. He was walloped in his for reflection. Earp had already turned in his star and gone to Tomb-stone to follow the silver strike. He was not, as the legend has it, a U.S.

marshal at that time. His trouble began on the night of March when a stagecoach left Tombstone carrying eight passengers and a quantity of bullion. Bandits attempted to halt thg', coach, and failed, but in the process, killed the driver and one passenger, The talk around town was that the brain behind the bungled holdup was Earp's. To silence the accomplices Naming Our City Streets iy ALBERT E. NORMAN HILLEN DRIVE, from 55th Ave.

west to Madera, was named for Robert C. Hillen, first a builder in Alameda, then developing both sides of the Oakland street bearing his name, and many other locations. He developed the Charles Nelson estate, naming it Normandy Gardens intersected by Piccardy Drive, the street off Seminary Ave. so beautifully decorated at the Christmas season. He left most of his large estate to the Children's Home Society of California.

ISABELLA, CURTIS and LYDIA (now 22nd) STREETS, between 19th and 23rd, running from San Pablo Ave. and to Market St were named for Michael Curtis and his4wo daughters, their home being at Sisth and, Brush Streets. Curtis and C. 0. Williams subdivided this Curtis and Williams Tract on Sept 9, 1869.

Williams made his home at 22nd and Brush. AYALA from Vicente 'off Claremont) to 59th, was named for Manual L. Ayala, second husband of Mrs. Vicente Peralta, daughter of Francisco Galindo. The Ayala home as on the present site of the Golden State Creamery at 53rd and Telegraph Ave.

rf ,3 i I Earp tried to persuade Ike Clanton to stage a holdup so he could ambush the killers, Clanton refused, but boasted publicly about the offer. In October Earp and his brother Virgil, Tombstone's marshal, followed the Clantons and their friends, and somebody started shooting. After a couple of minutes, three of the Clanton group were dead. Friends of the slain took matters into their own hands. Morgan Earp, another brother of Wyatt, was picked off in the middle of a billiard game, and Wyatt took off in pursuit of the killers.

He rode and he rode, but he never camebadt- Bat, who had hustled back to Dodge City to help his younger brother Jim, got into shooting trouble, and both were ordered out of town. Like a cat. Bat landed on his feet in Trinidad, where in addition to running a gam- bling concession he appears to have been appointed a peace officer. But the trail led down from glory. In 1890 he was ordered to leave Denver, and went to New York where he was at once arrested.

But such was the magic of the Wild West legend that President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Masterson a deputy U.S. marshal. The term was brief, and he was put out to pasture as a sports writer for the New York Morning Telegraph. He died at his desk in 1921. Billy the Kid Billy the Kid is less interesting as a human being than as a sort of Rorschach ink blot by which one may elicit fantasies and so study their V4" inventors.

It is safe to say that at least a thousand writers have used him as a vessel into which to pour their passions and prejudices; but it is likely that no two portraits of him jibe. He killed for the first time when he was 17. There followed some gambling and horse stealing. He was next a principal in the celebrated Lincoln County War, an affair which went on for more than a year. For the rest of his.

brief life he was an outlaw, a hunted man. He stole some more livestock. He killed. Caught near Stinking Springs, he was sentenced to be hanged. There were two men guarding the gun, killed them btb, and fled again.

One brightly moonlit night Sheriff Pat Garrett killed the Kid. He was not yet 22. And now the fun began. The first book to follow his death was subtitled, "The history of an outlaw who killed a man for every year in his hfe." The number of his killings mounted steadily. A play about him opened in 1906 and ran for years, Hollywood brought out some 20 movies about him.

He is the most imperishable of our folk heroes. Under his name there will always appear a figure freshly refurbished to embody the hero who appropriately symbolizes the need of the hour. CwvrlaM. lttt. mm Im fir jail, but the Kid got hold of a RJly tU KM tilled for tha first tin at 17.

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