The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-04

can ride along said he. So / went on.
Two hours later 1 was on my return
trip, VIXEN / CAME upon them again.
They were doing u land office business
that DAY, sure. for they had another
batch Of victims with their hands up.
In this last lot was a man named Lin
ton. who was almost the only man in
Cown that mad refused to give a cent
to help build my church I laughed
when / saw him. 'HuilO. there. Linton
said J. i am glad OmebOdy's got hold
Of YOU that can make YOU shell out
the next day he came and gave me
donation for the church. l knew both
the highwaymen- They were called
Trinidad and Charlie. One year later
/ saw them both hung in Rico. Their
crimes We're too many and too daring,
and the aroused community at last put
an end t. them. As they stood under
the tree with the rope around their
neeks. they begged and pleaded with
the BOYS to bring me 10 talk and pray
with them. But the men would not al
low il. Iney said that the two outlaws
had shot the marshal the night before,
without giving him moments time TO
/ prepare Tor death, and now should not
j have sny chance TO save their own
s0nl.i-
Murderer Found Refuge.
7 soon had a big Sunday school at
/ Ani'4Ias City, which was then the
I larger town of the two. and before long
/ had "a church built. one night as I was
/ preaching q man gdlloped up TO the
/ door The moment he dropped his relns
/ the horse stopped stock stIH, as these
h''rSes always do. IN: rider leaped of
: and rushed into the church He came
/ along up tie aisle quietly, bur quickly,
( at e. cry V 'rdOw SlC0Iing 50 that he
/ c0ul not be seen frs m The outside tie
/ stepped Il into the pulpit and stood
] exactly ~. nd re I iiagSted my -
. marks oTngInrr ann
gave out the closing hymn, all with
the man standing behind me. The peO-
pie were evidently excited. but they
mace no disturbance. and after singing,
( quietly dispersed There were three
brothers OF the man in the audience,
| although 1 did not know it. After the
/ congregation had dispersed the man
said to me; Partner, I'm much obliged
TO you. If ever you're IN tight fix like
Inc. I'll do the same for you Then ne
told me that he had killed a man in
SilNertOn, and that the posse was after
him. He mad turned aside into the
church. and ii was good trick, for
! they never thought of looking for him
there, but went laundering by down to
Durango. He turned in the opposite di-
rectiOn, got away into Utah, and was
never captUred.''
One day friend named Morris start
ed out to examine some mines, and Mr.
Mcfarland decided to accompany him.
Putting a package of tracts in his sad
dlebags, he mounted, and they started
off into San Miguel county, the wild
country that lies between Ouray and
Telluride. On the way Mr.. Norris was
ak lex with ramps and Mr. McFar-
and had TO walk, reading his own horse
and holding the sick man upon his own
10 keep him from falling 10 the ground.
They lost their way and proceeded in
. this dismal fashion for hours, until
I both were worn out with hunger and
! fatigue, and neither knew whether they
would ever see civilization again OF
/ nos. Even today it would not be dlIh-
( cult for a man to permanently lose
himself in that particular section. At
! / last to their joy, they beheld the lights
of a camp, and staggering in, more
/ dead than alive. found a cheerful set
| Element Of SeVenty-fiVe men, all al
work in one mine. OF all the Wild
( crazy specimens he had ever seen
these were the widest and craziest
} They would roar out Moody and san
key tunes at the top Of their voices
: linked with words so irresistibly coml-
{ cal that the preacher could not hell
laughing, much to his own disgust HIS
sense of the humorous has always been
a thorn in Mr.. Netherlands flesh
+ breaches to Gard Sharks.
The two travellers were fed and tend
/ ed with the utmost kindness and after
, nlE0I s rest IGlA AiAEiiAStthN1 HttotAA-A
. Before their departure from the camp
r Nh Mcfarland went into the place
' where the men were all engaged IT
e playing cards. He told them that he
/ was the agent of new kind or Weap-
e on, which, strange to say, always mi
. the heart; and asked for fifteen MIN
f utes to explain its merits. Mr. MGR ar
e / land is a pretty husky looking Fellow
2 / even nowadays, and twenty years
r younger, with tall hip boots and gar
2 nents to match. the miners found NJ
difficulty in believing that he wa:
uraveung through the west TO sell some
new kind OF revolver. They took
:, vote as to whether they should hea
, him. and the motion carried Telling
MIN % wait a minute they paSset
< around a great plug of tobacco Edci
took an ample chew, tipped back II
49, .tlair paced his feet upon the Ia
BILE. and told the travelling man to e
Q ahead Mr.. Mcfarland drew from M
= pochet a tiny pocket testament, Whlcl
ne told them was the weapon that al
J ways touched the heart. Never was
y more astOnished set Of men, he talke'
= or ten minutes, and each moment thel
e looked more crestfallen. Their lee
= came noiselessly down, their head
r sunk upon their breasts and their face
e indicated a strong desire to SIM
d through the floor. At the end of tel
D minutes he closed his speech, in Orde
n to spend the remaining five in prayer
a He closed his eyes and began to pray
# Now. all through his discourse tn
- preacher had been greatly DISTRESSED
by his friend Morris. The man,
e transpired. was a Methodist of the old
" fashioned type known as shouting
10 and he pUnCtudted every sentence %
ID the preachers with feTVent 'AmenS
: or Thank the LOTd's4F MI. McFaT
e land was not used to it. and 1T dis
n turbed him. The Methodist continue
e TO shout throughout the prayer II
[ would also bang the chair.
l. in fact" says Mr.. Mcfarland, n
d made such a racket that could hardl
l.. hear myself think, let alone hearin
:, / anything else. When ] finished m
- prayer [ oDened my eyes and found
was alone in the room except for Nor
- ris. who was sun snOuunS- me min
.r ers seeing my eyes shut. had all stole
- away, like a pack of children, and MOI
~ ris had made such a noise that L ma
- I not heard one of them.
= Afterwards the superintendent tot
= the minister that the men were yer
much ashamed to find they had be-
acting so roughly before a preache
~ cand wanted him to know that they al
"a not such bad fellows; many of theI
had belonged to churches back cas-
a, but shut away from all domestic az
~ religious influences on the frontle
y they had kind of forgotten how TO bt
II have so they just thought they woul
+ take a walk while he had his eve
N shut" OF course Mr. Mcfarland IS
Presbyterian, and it is Just possib