 Unlike other city employees (including Earp and his siblings), who owned or partly owned many of the town's businesses and tried to steer its populace and visitors towards those under their ownership, White had no personal stake in any such enterprises, settling instead for his regular salary as town marshal.He was respected by the town in general and by all accounts treated everyone fairly.On the night of October 28, 1880, several Cowboys entered town and began drinking, with several of them firing their pistols in the air at different locations.