The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-08
BAD MEN OUT ~sST.
Discouragine Experiences ~ AN Emigrant
from the Land Of the Quakers.

Wv s~hhn VI "
One day we stopped,by a little creek near
Fort Fetterman, Wy. T., for dinner. An
other covered wagon, headed west, was al
ready camped there, and a boy was taking
care Of the horses, while a girl about II years
old was busy frying some bacon over a fire
near the wagon. We managed 10 scrape an
acquaintance with the girl, and asked her II
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
90. jes' a fight. Say, | want % know if The
men keep gittin' wuss the furder west you
gitr'
"Vyell. it's hard 10 say. Do they seem tor
That's about il. When we lived back n
Pennsylvania pap lowed he could lick any
man IN Miiiiin county, and he used - do II.
too, lection days and Fourth OF july an
camp mcetins Three months ago we pulled
out for the west, an, says pap: i shall leave
a limo a. men on crutchcs from Lewiston, Pa,
10 Bozeman. Mont. | shall tie together the
Allogauers and the Rockies 10y a line Of
cripples' shall unite the east an the west
with spawned an busted up fighters! shall
shut up the optics and fatten out the smellers
Of these western goloots, an learn EN- that
the bad men don't all roost west o the Mis-
sis,ippi. Pap said he was pizen on western
biowhards. an they wanted 20 sing low when
he had his boots ON
"Iyell. was he as successful as be expected
10 bcf'
"Not by a good bit. He pounded a man all
20 pieces near Pittsburg an licked two more
cro,su' Ohio. They seemed o GIT tougher in
Indiana. but pap whaled a livery stable man
at Decatur an chased a Tippecanoe county
farmer a mile m a half. When we struck
into lllinoy they reared 20 git still wlss, an
pap only kinder tired ont three or four Of
'em an didn't lick 'em reg lar. Then we
crossed the Mi.sippi al Burlington am a man
that was iOadiu' lumber down by the river
kinder tired pap OUT. Then at Ottumwa a
man that rua "a sloon pretty near licked pap
reg lar, am at Osceola he'd a. got pounded if
hc hadn't "a run. Still he didn't git hurt
much TN we struck Newbraska."
"Ihey got still worse, did they"
"That amt no name for d.. Al Fremont
one of tine county commissioner come down
where we was campod an put IL all over pap
80 '''N" 20 "NNiNNN."f NA az AHAAA 4 AA| pap
shook bis fist no the conductor OF a passenger
train that was goin' past, an the conductor
stopped his train an come over an whaled
pap TN ho squcaled. Al Valentine the prin-
cipal Of the schools chased him out % the
school yard when we tried % camp there,
am at Chadron he picked on the mayor u
little while they was tryiu' % trade hosses,
as tine mayor JPN sCrkci it 90 him 'thout
pulln' IBIS coat or sayin' a word. Still pap
wasn't laid mp tin we struck Wyoming
Back here at Lu.k pap got a talkiu' with a
little Teller bout religion Pap',a Prespete
rIan, an She little feilcr SAID he wash moth
ing, but Doe leIuei towards the P|is.1ual- AM
never took much stock in Prpspeteritn,.
Then pap jumped up "a coupled Times au
told the little Teller 10 look ont 'caus. Doe was
"a comm An then pap went for him with his
down an gosh, you Orter seen fhe mo
tions that little Teller made. Pap wa. licked
fore Doe got his --cou' wind. but somehow the
russ Wa, So little be KEEP a dghtin' him in
place o. runuin' like he orter. an the conse-
sence w1, me % mann hadto Hist bin into
Tine wa-u am fix upsome pla,-ers tor him an
rub him with boss La'ment. don't know
what, goiu' 20 become ~ pap il be- keeps a
into nm. In pears chat the furler
west we git tine wuss they g.t, am 10 looks sif
fore we gift up to Bozeran that we'd have 20
bury pap. Pap lows 81 hc could strike a
BEER settlement Doe would be 900 right. bat
here don't seem 90 boz mono OUT this way. To
, man upatres 10 look, 'i. pap w1a a bust
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