Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-17
BAD MEN OUT WEST.

Discouraging Experiences of m Emigrant
 from the Land of the Qualkers.
 One day we stopped by little creek near Fort Fetterman, Wy. T., for dinner. An other covered wagon, headed west, was al- ready camped there, and boy was taking care of the horses, while 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 mann are in the wagon. Pap's laid up an mam's doc torin' him"
 '.What was the troubles"
 70, jes fight. Say, want Q know if the men keep gittin' wlss the furder west you gitF'
 "Well, it's hard to say. Do they seem tos'
 'sThat'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 lneetin'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 by @ line of cripples! shall unite the east an the west with spavined an busted up fighters! shall shut up the optics and fatten out the smellers of these western goloots, an learn lem 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.'
 ''Well, was he as successful as he expected to be?'
 ''Not by good bit He pounded Q man all to pieces near Pittsburg am licked two more crossin' Ohio. They seemed to git tougher in Indiana, but pap whaled a livery stable man at Decatur an chased Tippecanoe county farmer mile n half. When we struck into Illinoy they peared to git still wuss, an pap only kinder tired out three or four of lem am didn't lick lem reg'lar. Then we crossed the Mis'sippi at Burlington an a man that was loadin' lumber down by the river kinder tired pap out Then at Ottumwa a man that run sloon pretty near licked pap reg'lar, an at Osceola he'd "a got pounded if he hadn't "a run. Still he didn't git hurt much till we struck Newbraska."
 ''They got still worse, did theyr'
 ''That ain't no name for it. At Fremont 1 one of the county commissioners come down where we was camped an put it all over pap in about ten minutes, am at Long Pine pap shook his fist at the conductor of a passenger train that was goin' past, an the conductor l stopped his train an come over am whaled pap till he squeaied. At Valentine the prin- cipal of the schools chased him out O the school yard when we tried to camp there, 1 an at Chadron he picked on the mayor a little while they was tryin' to trade hosses, an' the mayor up'n' socked it to him 'thout pullin' his coat or sayin' word. Still pap l wasn't laid up till we struck Wyoming. Back here at Lusk pap got talkin' with Q little feller bout religion. Pap's Prespete rian, an the little feller said he wasn't noth- 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 feller to look out 'cause he was acomin.' Am then pap went for him with his head down an' gosh, you orter seen the mo tionS that little feller made! Pap was licked fore he got his secon' wind, but somehow the cuss was SO little he kep' fghtin, him in i place 0, runnin, like he orter, an the conse kerce was mo n man had to hist him into the ,vag'n ar,' fix up some plastsrs for him an rub him with hoss in'ment. Idont know whnt's gpin, to become Q pap II he keeps q pitchin, into n. It pears th@t the furdel west we it the wuss they git an it looks 'sit fore we git upto Bozsman that we'd have te bury pap. Pap lows if he could strike ( 1 Quaker settlement he would be elt right, but lstheae don't seem to be none out this way. IL \ TT 2 III lsels \, s'st x Rep Pea Fass 6ns