The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-07-23

teaed. and then abjectly begged for his
life. but all In vain. He was hanged
with form Of justice swifter. cheaper
and more just than the usual forms
OF our regular courts. AT least" as
Nest0r says. so 1t seems to me-"
Slade's wife was said to have been
fitting companion. She. too. was 4
bold and violent spirit, and sure shot.
She came to town after his death.
looked on his pale face. raved and
stOrmed and swore she would have
vengeance. But soon, like many others
she learned submission and accepted
the inevitable. l suppose that she got
comfort somewhere. for she was mar
ried again after no long period.
When came back from Colorado
in 1868, bought on the train a PAM
phlet entitled "The Bandits of the Roc
ky Mountains" and in 1t read this
whole story which had been familiar to
me before.
l wonder If there are any pioneers
still remaining among you who re-
member julie and Slade?
The coach which I took on Monday
morning contained two or three other
passengers. One Of them was doctor
whose habitual and careless profanity
during the day was to me very shock
ing. At evening We took supper at a
station where some of the passengers
left our coach, and took another which
was going toward California ! think
1t was at the point where Fort Morgan
is now. When we resumed our jour-
ney for Denver the doctor and myself
we're the only passengers, and my
heart sunk within me at the thought of
being with that dreadful man for the
night. The first thing he said to me
after we started was. Are you going
to live at Denver?" replied that had
been commissioned by home mission
ary society to preach and to plant
churches in Colorado, but was not
certain where my location would be-
A very blank look came over his face,
and after little pause he said, in eff
feet, "You must think that we are a
pretty rough set out here. have been
in the west good many years, have
been among hard men in Texas, and
have fallen into their ways; but was
brought up with better manners, and
think I know how to be a gentleman
yet, and beg your pardon for all the
bad language l have used today" A
more handsome apology l have never
heard. We became quite sociable dur
ing the night, and when we parted
company the next morning in Denver,
it was with sincere cordially on both
sides.
l notice that on my map Julesburg
is placed on the north side of the
Platte river. In my time it was on the
south side, and is so marked on a map
of date 1865.
l think l never saw Julesburg sec
ond time. l went back to attend the
National Council at Boston in 1865 but
l took the southern route; and when
returned to Colorado in the Autumn of
that year, with three other men,
took that same route. When I finally
left Colorado in 1868, went from Dem
yer to Cheyenne by COACH and thence
by railroad then newly built.
l organized church tnow extinct)
at Central City, August %, 1S63,-a
church which was paying salary of
$500 when I left it, and which paid
$4,000 to e. P. Tenney, my successor;
strong and iourishing, on the 18th of
July, 1864; another. now extinct, at En-
pire City; and assisted on the 9th of
October, 1864, in organizing the first
church of Denver, preaching the ser
mon on that occasion. In company
with others 1 explored other parts of
the territory, preaching at Canon City
Colorado Springs, Idaho, Breckenridge
and several other points. The country
was pretty wild in those days. Our
coach going east in 1865 was attended
by a military escort, and at one sta
tion we found a dead white man and a
dead Indian who had been killed in a
skirmish the day before.
1 am now on the retired list, though
l have acted as pastor of the Church in
Clinton fer eight months during the
past year, my work ending the first of
June shall be so years old in Janu-
ary. AS / have little to do, it has
seemed to me that 1 might entertain
you bit by giving you glimpse of
the early history of the place where
your beautiful church now stands.
Among the distinctions which have