Leon Metz: Baseball trip turned violent for El Pasoans - Who was that cowboy?

As a local historian, I've never encountered any particular early day period of El Paso's history when the saloons and gambling houses were closed. But it actually happened during one 1892 Sunday afternoon in Deming. And what was the occasion? Well, it seems that the fat men of El Paso took time off from their many labors and went to Deming to play baseball with the fat men of that town. A local El Paso man named M.F. McLean managed the "El Paso Fats," and he chartered a train just for this particular occasion. Over 200 local business and professional men went on the excursion to witness the game. To show El Paso support, the principal local saloons and gambling houses in this city closed their doors so that 200 El Paso proprietors, employees, business and professional men could take time off to go watch the big event. At Deming, the El Pasoans were seemingly met by the entire population. A brass band played thunderous music. Also present was an immense cannon made of cardboard. Its barrel bore the legend: PROTECTION FOR THE EMPIRE...

Here's the part of Metz's column I like:

On the trip home, a hefty New Mexico cowboy tagged along with a quart of whiskey in one hand and a pistol in the other. He wanted everybody to take a drink. Within minutes, an El Paso player named Charles B. Dowd managed to get the gun and the whiskey, and threw both items out the car window. Well, that riled the cowboy, and within a few minutes he had everyone on that car engaged in a free-for-all. Later, as things quieted down, and the cowboy went to sleep, someone woke him. In a few minutes he would have the whole car fighting again. According to witnesses, fighting broke out at least six times between Deming and El Paso, even though in a caboose behind the fight car were Judge J.E. Townsend, Mayor Johnson, M.F. McLean and a writer who jotted down all of these events. Then oddly, but perhaps not surprisingly, upon reaching El Paso, J. H. Boone, who later became Sheriff of El Paso, heard about the exploits of this New Mexico cowboy. So the two men met at El Paso's Astor house, where an angry Boone offered to give him a good trimming. But it was that cowboy's night to fight and he overcame Boone in short order...more

Who was that cowboy? Anybody from Deming or El Paso know?