The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-10-17
DAD" BLEAKNORE
TELLS Of REVIVAL
THIS, HOWEVER, TOOK PLACE IN
DENVER WHEN THAT PLACE
WAS A FRONTIER TOWN.


This Bulgin revival reminds me Of
a spirited revival that took place in
Denver in 1864, when was a squad
of boy, working on the Rocky Noun
tain News" said Daddy Bleake-
/ more this morning while discussing
the religious revival conducted in
! Ardmore by DR.. Bulgin. Il was a prin-
ter, and like all the craft from Gutten-
! berg down, was possessed of the wan
derlust, and wanted to see the world
| With this idea working overtime in
my head, | started from Omaha, hoof-
/ ed it over the trail to Denver, Colo
RADIO, and it was some iaunt, too, you
can take it from me- That was before
the days of the railroads and Denver
was a frontier town with about as
wide open fixtures characteristic of
mining towns in those days as yOu
could find | finally reached Denver, |
after working my passage skinning |
oxen with a pack train and went to |
work at my trade. Years afterwards |
myself and wife traversed this identi- |
cal trail in Pullman coach, over |
which | had travelled as a boy on |
foot, and she couldn't understand |
why | did not enthuse over the seen
cry until | explained to her that | had |
inspected that particular stretch of |
country very closely several years ago
and | hardly think that | overlooked !
anything then that would be worth |
looking for at that particular time, !
after | had further explained the man.
ner of my minute inspection, she was
satisfied that had seen all there was
to see years before she dreamed of
ever doing so, and I was left to
the scenery from a car window. But
started to tell you of revival
that cleaned up Denver in one night,
and made it safe to live in. The
gambling element was strong in those
days, in fact most everybody took a
chance OF some kind and as usual the
bar rooms and dance halls were run
ming full blast. The bad men began
to arrive from different sections of
the west that had been made too hot
for them and soon reign of terror
swept through Denver that would be
10 walk the streets alone after dark,
and the incendiary began getting in
lis work, starting fires simultaneously
n different parts of the town in or
Ter to take advantage of the con-
usion and rob people and places of
business. This thing continued until
t became unbearable. Several of the
,est citizens of the town met and de- -,
ided to organize vigilance commit
ee to get rid Of this element, and u
% quietly did they work and so well
vas their secret guarded, that the "
irst the people of Denver knew of its "
was one morning when they Il
woke to find nine bad men hanging =
rom convenient telegraph poles on
he principal street OF the town. |
Ias working on the News, morning
aper, and had just finished by last -
take" put on my coat and started o'
cross the street from the office to -
restaurant to get something to eat ~
efore going to bed, when ran smack ~
ITO a hanging corpse, with his tongue
that seemed to me to be .,
t least foot long. I didn't eat any "
ling that morning, in fact I wasn't -,
ungry for several hours after that,
nd for days every time | closed my -
yes, could see that horrible picture
man hanging from a telegraph
ole, with his tongue out as if to
ock or scare me- The vigilantes did -,
Ieir work well, in all thirteen were
ing in Denver during that revival
I'd it made clean town. Denver haG
resort to some pretty severe meas g.
'es to clean up that town in the ear
days, but it was made clean with
few pieces of hemp and a band of 80
,termined men, and for a western
ty Denver has always been noted for
) moral atmosphere ever since.
less it pays to get rough some 80,
nes"
Daddy" Bieakmore had a varied A..
perience as a printer and to hear -
m tell of the days before the Mer-
inhaler when the work was all done
hand, and the printers Travelled ov- =
the country with no other baggage to
an a rule and a plug OF tobacco, is ty