The Progress., 1888-10-13
IN THE FAR WEST.

IN THE FAR WEST.
A had Man From pennsylvania Runs
Across q had Man III wyoming.
One day we stopped by little creek
near Fort Fetterman, Wyo., for dinner.
Another covered wagon, headed west,
was already camped there, and a boy
was taking care of the horses, while a
girl about fourteen years old was busy
frying some bacon over fire near the
wagon. We managed to secnre an
acquaintance with the girl, and asked
her if she and her brother were travel
ing alone. (. IL
20, no. she replied, ''pap and nam
are in the wagon. Pap's laid up an
mam's doctorin' him. 5.S ]. y
''Hurt in an accidentp''
''Yes, all bunged up. Other fellcr
was sight quicker N pap lowed he
was. Lor', but he did make some
lively motlons!'
"What was the troublep''
20, jes' fight. Say, want know
if the men keep gittin wuss the furder
west you gitp''
well, it's hard to say. Do they
seem top
. That's about 1t. When we lived
back n Pennsylvania pap lowed he
could lick any man in Mifiin County,
an he used to do it, too, 'lection-days,
an Fourth Of Julys, an camp meetin's.
Three months ago we pulled out for
the West, an says pap: ] shall leave q
line o men on crutches from Lewiston,
Pa, to Bozeman, Mont. shall
tie together the Alleganors and
the Rockies by line o Grip
pies! I shall unite the East
an the West with spawned an busted
up fighters! shall shut up the op-
tics and fatten out the smellers Of
these Western galoots an learn .,,ern
that the bad men don't all roost west
o the Miss ssippi' Pap said he was
pizen on Western blowhards, an they
wanted to sing low when he had his
boots on
"Well, was he as successful as he ex-
pected to bep''
mot by good bit. He pounded q
man all to pieces near Pittsburgh, an
licked two more crossin' Ohio, They
seemed to get tougher in Indiana, but
pap whaled q ivery-stable man at De.
catur an chased a Tippecanoe County
farmer mile an half. When we
struck into nlinoys they 'peared to pit
still wuss, an pap only kinder tired
out three or four OF 'em an didn't lick
EN- reg'lar. Then we crossed the
Mississippi at Burlington an man
that was loadin' lumber down by the
river kinder tired pap out. Then az
Ottumwa a man that run s'loon pert
ty near licked pap reg'lar, an at Osce-
ola he'd "a got pounded if he hadn't
a run. Still he didn'tgit hurt much
till we struck Newbraska.' s
They got still worse, did theyp''
"That amt no name for it. At Free
mont one Of the county commissioners
come down where we was campod an
put it all over papin about ten minutes,
an at Long Pine pap shook his fist at
the conductor of a passenger-train that
was goin' past an the conductor
stopped his train an come over an
whaled pap till he squealed. At VAL
entine the principal Of the schools
chased him out o. the school-yard
when we tried to camp, there, an at
Cliadron he picked on the mayor. .
little while they was tryin' to trade
hosses, an the mayor up'n socked it
to him 'thoutg gpullin' his coato sayin'
a word. Still pap wasn't laid up till
we struck Wyoming. Back here at
Lrsk pap got talkin' with little feller
bout religion. Pap Jumped up .
couple q times an told the little feller
to look out cause he was comm. I
An then pap went for him with his
head down an gosh, you orter seen
the motions that little teller madel
Pap was licked fore he got his secon'
wind, but somehow the cuss was SO
little he KEEP a-fghtin' him in place o.
rllnnin like he orter, an the conse-
kence was me m mann had to hist him
into the wag'n an fix up some plasters
for him an rub him with i1oss lin 'ment.
I don't know what's goin' to become
o. pap il he keeps a-pltchin' into IN.
IL pears that the flrder west we git
the wuss they git, an II looks 'sif lore
we git up to Bozernan that we'd have
to bury pap. Pap lows II he could
strike . Quaker settlement he would
be all right, but there don't seem to be
.iioile out this way. 10 4 man DIP 4
tfee it looks sif pap was d busted coma
minity la -F. e. Caftata, ~ Chicago
Tribune.