Most historians tend to support the claims that Courtright had previously offered his protection to the White Elephant, and that Short informed him that he didn't need his protection.

In the first of these, on February 8, 1887, Luke Short and Jim Courtright had a shootout on Main Street that left Courtright dead and Short the " King of Fort Worth Gamblers.

Another face-to-face gunfight in the American West happened in Fort Worth, Texas which was known as the Luke Short-Jim Courtright Duel.

Owens entered the county building and forced them to pay him at gun point, and he received no resistance. In the case of Marshal Jim Courtright, for example, he did " clean up the town " while serving as town marshal for Fort Worth, Texas.

Timothy Isaiah " Longhair Jim " or " Big Jim " Courtright ( 1848-February 8, 1887, Fort Worth, Texas ) was an American lawman, outlaw and gunfighter.

That was the Fort Worth, Texas that Courtright inherited and which he was tasked with controlling.

Wishon and Courtright form impoundments for the Helms Pumped Storage Plant, one of the largest pumped-storage stations in California with a capacity of 1, 212 megawatts.

Next to KCMC is the Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology ( KCCO ), which was founded in 2001 and is co-directed by Dr. Paul Courtright and Dr. Susan Lewallen.

Although the Hells Half Acre district was known for being the most dangerous area of the city, Courtright seemed to have been in his element, as few crossed him, and most who did were killed by him.

Probably mostly for the sake of bystanders and justification, Courtright said loudly " Don't you pull a gun on me.

With that statement, Courtright drew his pistol, but according to reports it hung for just a second on his watch-chain, and in that second Short produced his pistol and fired one shot, which took off Courtright's thumb on his shooting hand.

Unfortunately for Courtright, that fame was posthumous.

In 1876 Timothy Isaiah ( Longhair Jim ) Courtright was elected City Marshal with a mandate to tame the Acre's wilder activities.

Courtright cracked down on violence and general rowdiness by sometimes putting as many as 30 people in jail on a Saturday night, but allowed the gamblers to operate unmolested.

* John Courtright, former Div.

It appears that William Courtright acquired title to the land first bought and settled on by Philip Taylor, which, in 1814, he conveyed to Lintsford Coates.

At this point New York club DJ and Independent Music Consultant, Neil Kempfer-Stocker, told Bruce Findlay to forget the Polydor Inc ./ USA offer to release the band's records in North America and steered the band to A & M's Hernando Courtright, West Coast A & R.

Other dams on tributaries form lakes such as Black Rock Reservoir, Wishon Reservoir and Courtright Reservoir.

The township comprises the communities of Avonry, Babys Point, Becher, Bickford, Bradshaw, Brigden, Charlemont, Colinville, Courtright, Corunna, Cromar, Duthill, Frog Point, Froomfield, Kimball, Ladysmith, Moore Centre, Mooretown, Osborne, Payne, Port Lambton, Port Seckerton, Sombra, Sykeston, Thornyhurst, Vye's Grove, Waubuno, West Becher, Wilkesport.

Mooretown has a school named Mooretown Courtright Public School.

Gunmen Kid Curry, Jim Courtright, Dallas Stoudenmire and Dave Rudabaugh were killed in raging gun battles, much as portrayed in films about the era, and usually against more than one opponent.

Timothy Isaiah " Longhair Jim " Courtright was running the T. I. C.

But the Dodge City gunfighter told Courtright to " go to hell ," that he could do any gunslinging that was necessary to take care of his business.

On February 8, 1887, the two quarreled, with Bat Masterson at Short's side, Courtright and Luke Short dueled in the street.

Courtright then attempted the " border shift " a move where a gunfighter switches their gun to an uninjured hand, but he was too slow.

Jim Courtright and Dallas Stoudenmire both killed several men in gunfights both as lawmen and as civilians.

But the CFSD failed to gain nationwide support, and Taverne lost the seat at the October 1974 General Election.

As Moism lost support by the time of the Han, the main philosophical contenders were Legalism, which Confucian thought somewhat absorbed, the teachings of Lao-tzu, whose focus on more mystic ideas kept it from direct conflict with Confucianism, and the new Buddhist religion, which gained acceptance during the Southern and Northern Dynasties era.

When in 1981 François Mitterrand was elected president Denard lost the support of the French intelligence service, but he managed to strengthen the link between SA and the Comoros.

In 715, the Neustrian noblesse proclaimed Ragenfrid mayor of their palace on behalf of, and apparently with the support of, Dagobert III, who in theory had the legal authority to select a mayor, though by this time the Merovingian dynasty had lost most such powers.

Dominated by favourites, offended by his homosexuality and openly favouring his select bodyguard, he lost the support of the legions.

However, since the contras failed to win widespread popular support or military victories within Nicaragua, since opinion polls indicated that a majority of the U. S. public was not supportive of the contras, since the Reagan administration lost much of its support regarding its contra policy within Congress after disclosure of CIA mining of Nicaraguan ports, and since a report of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research commissioned by the State Department found Reagan's allegations about Soviet influence in Nicaragua " exaggerated ", Congress cut off all funds for the contras in 1985 by the third Boland Amendment.

Official observers from the Carter Center reported that returns from almost 2, 000 polling stations in areas where support for Tshisekedi was strong had been lost and not included in the official results.

The Christian Democrat group was the biggest group at formation, but as time wore on it lost support and was the second-biggest group by the time of the 1979 elections.

In Berlin the party lost nearly 3 / 4 of the support they had in the previous election.

Constantius drove Ataulf into Hispania, and Attalus, having again lost Visigoth support, was captured and deposed.

In the October 1917 elections, the Social Democrats lost their absolute majority, which radicalized the labour movement and decreased support for relying on parliamentary means of achieving its aims.

The result was that the infantry and armour advanced independently and having reached the objective 50th RTR lost 23 tanks because they lacked infantry support.

At the same time the Democrats gained support from the Mugwumps, they lost some blue-collar workers to the Greenback-Labor party, led by ex-Democrat Benjamin Butler.

With Gaius's support from the people weakened, the consul Lucius Opimius was able to crush the Gracchan movement by force – Gaius lost his life and about 3000 of his supporters died in the fighting or in emergency execution shortly afterwards.

The two groups have been treated as separate orders ( Axoplasthelida and Centroplasthelida ) in a common class, but this has lost support.

In 1966 Erhard lost support and Kurt Kiesinger ( 1904 – 1988 ) was elected as Chancellor by a new CDU / CSU-SPD alliance combining the two largest parties.

Where a head of government has lost support in the legislature, some heads of state may refuse a dissolution, where one is requested, thereby forcing the head of government's resignation.

The Sun newspaper, still at this stage supporting the Conservative Party, had lost faith in Major and declared its support for Redwood in the leadership election, running the front page headline " Redwood versus Deadwood ".

Van Buren opposed the annexation but in doing so lost the support of many Democrats, including former President Andrew Jackson, who still had much influence.

While independence was being reclaimed, the election of King Gustav of the Vasa at Strängnäs on June 6, 1523, has been seen as a formal declaration of independence, and as the de facto end of a union that had lost all long-term support in Sweden.

The Templars ' existence was tied closely to the Crusades ; when the Holy Land was lost, support for the Order faded.

" Morris played peacemaker but sided with the anti-Parliamentarians, who won control of the League, which consequently lost the support of Engels and saw the departure of Eleanor Marx and her partner Edward Aveling to form the separate Bloomsbury Socialist Society.

George Monck, realizing the military stood to lose power ; secretly shifted his loyalty to the Crown but as General George Monck, who had been Cromwell's viceroy in Scotland, began to march south, Lambert, who had ridden out to face him, lost support in London.

In Greece, there was a strong reaction against NATO and the United States but the small anti-war political parties lost, rather than gained, support.