The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-26
PREACHER WAS VETERAN CARD SHARP
Skinned the Men of Arkansas City Up Against
Came Suddenly.

years ago" said old man Green
nut as he sat chewing the end of a
cigar that would not burn satisfactory
~ and he was aI'avs taIlxin, about
money There's a plenty of 'eIn comes
'hat talks money most o. the time. but
they're the kind that breaches about
IutIih 1t IN the hat when it's passed
round. This one was different They
saId ms name was EIiphalus Knobs. or
Suthln' like that. an he sure were :,
powerful hand with the mOurners when
re got EN- I'D to the bench. lister
make EN- holler SOS you ed hear EN-
half a mile.
But Rev. Eliphalus Knobbs,' strong
fuIt. 50 TO speak, 'peared to be preach
IN agin money. He was aYavs a-sav-
u mat money want eV'rythiug I've
neefd others say the same thing. an
Iuere amt 10 doubt but there's sense
INTO 1t If you look at il the right way.
. course, If money was ev'rything Z
a. man needed, he wouldn't have no call
TO use II when he got il. He wOUldu't
heed tobacco, nor red liquor nor no
o'her necesSarles, N any fool en- see
now ridiculous that is. But them that
says IT don't never pear to git tired
Sayin' IL.
This here Knobs he got taIxiu'
WITH me one day. Feared like he
thought he were goiu' to git me up to
''''' iti'HIiit'lH Dtntn. An no SDT3nE
TINS money gag on me. Well I Sd "
l don't know but what you're right bur
what is II you reckon is needed outside
- money An he says 'Savin' grace. >
hc says.
So ] says to him. T reckon you're
right again. Savin' grace is needed |
says, an needed bad. but there's other
things. too A man. I says, has to
nave SaVin grace, there amt no doubt
nut ne got To have Il savin knoyvl-
edge % draw. too
What d become . the hull fabric
q CIVILIZATION ] says, If the game a.
draw poker was to be wiped out? There
W"Uldu be no more progress, nor ed
dication nor uuthin'. an I SAYS. a
man ; got TO have money to play draw
poker. so there YOU are Money amt
everything, but it's necessary for some
purposes An then he groaned an
vailed me a UnregenCrate an went
away. That s the trouble with preach
eTS mostly. You cant never arg-v with
en- thoutcu they gets insultin' an
NdIkS away when you shows 'em
they re wrong
There was a man come to Arkansas
t1tN fore twas as big a place as it's
now. He want one o. the early set
'oIS- reckon there want no early
S'lIIerS here FIN what I en- learn,
ARKANSAS city was days constable of
place, even when they called it Ma
p"leon' fore twas Arkansas City. But
ne come a right smart spell ago, an
When he come he come sudden.
IN" reason o him comm sudden
was L he was blOwed ashore Tn ole
Queen q the Bayous busted her b-iIer
right IonSSide o tn levee one dav. an
when the b'iler bust the buU boat
peared TO be discouraged like, an got
SprngIed round in little bits Feared
nkc the biggest on 'em want more n
DIG enough To make a AK hpIyo oIJtprl
There were folks aboard o course. an
lneN Was Sprinkled round similar
MOSTLY the pieces VIC picked up want
Dig enough to match easy when We
Iriod to int en- together. but Philotus
Fraser he come down all in one niece
Fur's | remember he was the on'y one
that did.
He had his skin onto him. Least
Nays nc shdu the most on IL. some beiu'
S'raped off as nc come through the
woodwork. but he hadn't no ShoU nor
h"thiu correspondent when he come
ashore ! reckon there never we're a
man come to Arkansas city with less
ON hand i'm the way o pervidin' hisseIf
aG m the vicisSitudes Of Arkansas City
life N Philetus Fraser had. No money.
no clo'CS. not even n hull skin knocked
SHY an SenSelesS. an 'thoutPu a man
Woman or child i'm the place t knowed
him.
Just naturally. want to be expect
Cd { nobody was COin' to take no ere't
II
quite natural. neither. to leave him Law
1h"re-dlOne on the levee. naked an half
dead some ON en- picked him I'd an
FOUND old blanket somewheres; an
wrapped him up an toted him off 10
Ia" hospital VIC hadn't no extra ac-
'ommodationS them days for them as
had To be took care of by the town. but
there were "A log Cabin down by the
woods to the west - the settlement
nat. were sort o set aside FIR emergen-
CieS
Z. There was all sorts o. cases took
There. bein' as twas tn on'y place there
was but somehow nobody 'peared to
prosper there alter there was three mig
;eTs took there with the smallpox
subsequent everybody died there till
l'hiletus Fraser was took to the place.
am bciu' as he couldn't be killed no
how, like ne showed when he come
ashore like he did. he laid there an
cot well.
All that time he hadn't had nothin'
81 tn" way - ciO'eS but that old bIan-
ct they'r wrapped round him when
hey picked him up, bein' twas warm
Gather. an him not likely to live. no
ways, as We was rcCk' min. But when
N.c hcer'd that he were all right again
~ was thinkir' - comm out on'y for
lot haViu' no ClO'es. there was consid-
able talk.
'More'u likely we'd Ina got round TO
rive him some iu a few DAYS but Phi
=" us Fraser 'pearcd TO be a hasty sort
man. like he'd showed ne was by
7'' way ne come ashore. an about the
''lrd day he come down the street in
J.. blanket. maxim some considera BILE
&C "a scandal. bein' as some o the Nvo-
1rru folks seen him.
They hustled him into my place.
Hr-C. am we had sort O pow-vyow
over him. Feared like there was some
iu' had to be did. an had to be did
Immediate. Alter some talk they put il
7p &" me. an 1 says if was up to Us TO
s"Id FOR some o. the principal citizens
&" com" round right away.
All this time PhiletuS Fraser he sot
con "a bench sayin' uOthin'. beiu' as there
7E:'U't uOthin' f'T him to say. ! took
7"iicc O. that. an 7 says 10 myself that
r 'peared to have sense enough 10
-cp his trap shut. an that was some
pm
Pretty soon a lot of EN- come in,
on amongst 'em was this here preach
,r Teller. EliphaIus Knobs. When I
seen him. I says, Money amt every
thinS. DarSon. but ! reckon IT stands
for d heap to- this man just now How's
le Soin to be decent / says. 'thOuten
somebody puts uD money An some
how Eliphalus Knobs didn't pear to
D." SO quick about talkiu' as he mostly
was in the pulpit
There was considerable more chin
music. an then they put ii no to me.
an ! says. I amt never seen but one