Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01
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BAD MEN OUT WEST.
Discouragfng Experiences Of an Emigrant
from tho Land OF the Ouakers.

Discouragfns Experiences Of an Emigrsnt
from tho Land Of the Ouakers.
One day we stopped by little creek near
Fort Fetter1nan, Wy. T., for dinner An
other covered wagon, headed west, was al
ready camped there, and boy was taking
care of the horses, while q girl about IA years
old was busy frying some bacon over a fire
near the wagon. We managed to scrape an
ACQUAINTANCE with the girl, and asked her if
she and her brother were travelling alone.
"Oh, no. she replied; pap and nam are
in the wagon. Pap's laid up an mans doc
torin' him"
"What was the trouble"
so, jes' fight. Say, l want o know if the
men keep gittin' wuss the furder west you
gitr'
"Well, it's hard to say. Do they seem tor
That's about it. When we lived back n
Pennsylvania pap lowed he could lick any
man in Miffiin county, and he used to do it,
too, lection days and Fourth of July an
camp meetins. Three months ago we pulled
out for the west, an, says pap: I shall leave
a line O men on clutches from Lewiston, Pa,
to Bozeman, Mont l shall tie together the
Alleganers and the Rockies by line OF
cripples! l shall unite the east an the west
with spawned an busted up fighters, shall
shut up the optics and flatten out the smellers
of these western goloots, an learn 'em that
the bad men don't all roost west O the Mis-
sissippi Pap said he was pizen on western
blowhards, an they wanted to sing low when
he had his boots on"
.sWell, was he as successful as he expected
to ber'
'sNot by good bit. He pounded man all
to pieces near Pittsburg an licked two more
crossin' Ohio They seemed to git tougher in
Indiana, but pap whaled livery stable man
at Decatur an chased Tippecanoe county
farmer a mile n half. When We struck
into Illinoy they peared to git still wuss, an
pap only kinder tired out three or four of
em en- didn't lick em regular Then we
crossed the Mis'sippi at Burlington an man
that was loadin' lumber down by the river
kinder tired pap out Then at Ottumwa a
man that run s'loon pretty near licked pap
regular, an at Osceola he'd a. got pounded il
he hadn't "a run. Still he didn't git hurt
much till we struck Newbraska.n
They got still worse, did they!"
"That amt no name for it. At Fremont
one of the county commissioners come down
where we was camped an put it all over pap
in about ten minutes, an at Long Pine pap
shook his fist at the conductor of passenger
train that was goin past, an the conductor
stopped his train an come over an whaled
pap till he squealed. At Valentine the prin-
cipal of the schools chased him out O the
school yard when we tried to camp there,
an at Chadron he picked on the mayor
little while they was tryin' to trade HOSES,
an the mayor upn' socked it to him 'thout
pullin' his coat or sayin' q word. Still pap
wasn't laid up till we struck Wyoming.
Back here at Lusll pap got talkin' with a
little Teller bout religion. Pap's Prespete-
rian, an the little Teller said he wasn't moth
ing, but he leaned towards the Piscopals an
never took much stock in Prespeterians.
Then pap jumped up couple O. times an
told the little Teller to look out cause he was
a comm An then pap went for him with his
head down an gosh, You orter seen the mo-
tions that little Teller made! Pap was licked
fore he got his secon' wind, but somehow the
cuss was so little he KEEP a fightin' him in
place o runnin' like he Orter, an the conse-
kence was mo n nam had to hist him into
the wag'n an fix up some plasters for him an
rub him with boss in'ment / don't know
what's goin to become O pap if he keeps
pitchin' into m. 1t pears that the furder
west we git the wuss they git, an it looks 'sif
fore We git up to Bozeman that we'd have to
bury pap. Pap lows if he could strike a
Quaker settlement he would be all right, but
there don't seem to be none out this way. To
a man up tree it looks 'sif pap was bust
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