Brown Paper Pete

A cowboy goes into an empty bar and says, "Where is everybody?"

Bartender replies, "Don't you know? They're hanging Brown Paper Pete today."

"Why do they call him Brown Paper Pete?" the cowboy asks.

"Well," the bartender replies, "He wears a brown paper hat and a brown paper shirt. Brown paper vest. Brown paper pants and brown paper boots."

"What are they hanging him for?"

"Rustling."