The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-04-21
WHITE PINE NE WIS
BAD MEN OUT WEST

One day we stopped by little
creek near Fort Fetterman, Wy. l.,
for dinner. Another covered wagon,
headed west was already camped there,
and a boy was taking care OF the
horses, while a girl about IA years old
was busy frying some bacon over Il
fire near the wagon. We managed to
scrupe 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 doctorin' him."
"What was the troubie2'
"Oh, jes' fight. Say, want o
know if the men keep gittin wuss the
furder west you git2'
well, IFS hard to say. Do they
seem to-"
..rhat's about it. When we lived
back n Pennsylvania pap lowed he
could lick any man in Mitfin county,
aud he used to do it, too, lection
days and Fourth of July an camp
meetin's. Three months ago we pulled
out for the west, an says pap: i shall
leave line o. men on crutches from
Lewiston, Pa, to Bozeman, Mont. |
shall tie together the Alleganers and
the Rockies bv line of cripplesl l
shall unite the east an the west with
spawned an busted up fighters! l
shall shut up the optics and fiatten
out the smellsrs of these western ga
loots, an learn 'em that the bad men
don't all rOOst west o. the Mississippi.
Pap said he was pizen on western
blowhards, an they wanted to sing
low when he had his boots on"
Dwell, was he as successful as he
expected TO be2"
mot 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 a 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 an
didn't lick 'em regular. Then we
crossed the Mississippi at Burlington
an man that was loadin' lumber
down by the river kinder tired pap
out. Then at Ottumwa man that
run a s'loOn pretty near licked pap
regular, an ut Osceola he'd "a got
pounded if he hadn't "a run. Still he
didn't git hurt much till we struck
Ncwbraska.'"
They got still worse, did theyW
THAT amt no name for it. AT Free
mont one of the county commissioners
come down where we was camped an
put it all over pap in about ten min
utcs, an at Long Pine pap shook his
fist ut the conductor of passenger
train that was goin' past, an the con-
ductor stopped his train an come over
an whaled pap till he squealed. At
Valentine the principal of the schools
chased him out o. the school yard
when we tried to camp there, and vt
Chadron he picked Oh the mayor while
they was tryin' to trade HOSES, an the
mayor np'n' socksd it to aim 'thout
pulin' off his coat or sayin' q word.
Still pap wasn't laid up till we struck
Wyoming Back here Lusk pap got
talkin' with little Teller bout relig-
ion. Pap's Prespeterian, an the lit
tie Teller said he wasn't nothing, but
he leaned towards the Piscopals an
never took much stock in Prespeter-
ians. Then pap jumped up couple
% times an told the little Teller to
look out cause he was comm An
then pap went for him with his head
down an gosh, you orter seen the mo-
tons that little Teller made Pap was
licked fore he got his secon' wind,
but somehow the cuss was so little he
KEEP tightin' him in place o. runnin
like he orter, an the conscience was
'qlfe M main had to hist him into the
wag'n an fix up some plasters for him
an rub him with boss n'ment. |
don't know what's goin' to become o.
pap fhe keeps pitchin' into 'em.
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 Quaker settlement he would
De all right but there don't seem to
be none out this way. To a man up
a free il looks 'sif pap was busted
community Chicago Tribune.
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