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How Deadman's Flat
Became Arlington
By
W ALTER
O RM 5BY
As late as twenty years ago we had
a “ wild and woolly west" and many
a good yarn descriptive of the pecul­
iar ways and uiunners of a people
without any of the adjuncts of civili­
zation, thrown upon their own re­
sources for self government There
can be no stories about communities
that do not exist, aud when the wild
western ways were replaced by those
of law aud order stories typical o f the
early efforts to subdue barbarism
ceased to be told.
But 1, not yet a very old man, had
an experience among one of those
wild munuered communities of men
which no one will ever have again,
for on the spot where stood a gam­
bling and drinking saloon a modest
ebureb spire now points to heaven. I
have the satisfaction of knowing that
that church was the result o f my e f­
forts to bring order out of ebaos among
the people who reared i t
The human heart is a harp out of
which one can get either discord or
harmony. When I entered the minis­
try I adopted this maxim as a basis
for my life work. And I resolved to
begin that work not among people
who worshiped In cushioned pews,
but among those who did not worship
at all. I went to that wild and woolly
west to which I have referred and in­
quired for the worst community to be
found thereabout. Deadman’s Flat, a
mining camp, was conceded to be as
unholy a place as could be found on
the face of the earth. The revolver
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store and in the stock
TRY VIM FLOUR
Dra n e 's S to re
and the knife were resorted to in set­
tlement of every dispute. The osten­
sible occupation of the people was
mining, but really gambling and sim­
ilar methods of plucking strangers
when they were to be had, and at
other times plucking one another.
I went to Deadman's Flat and be­
fore attempting to do any work with
the inhabitants made an investigation
as to what basis there was for my op­
erations. The mines were valuable, but
needed capital for getting out the ore.
Capital was not forthcoming, princi­
pally on account o f the bad character
of the people. The only women in the
place were worse than the men, having
come from dives in the east.
I was unable to work on both sexes
at once, and by far the better chance
was with the men. I found no hostility
to me as a clergyman. Indeed, I was
respected and deferred to where other
men were expected to fight their way.
I called a meeting, of men alone, and
made them an address. I did not speak
one word about religion or the saving
of tlielr souls. I began on a lower foun­
dation—their Interests. I told them
that to make their mines valuable they
must get capital; in order to get capital
they must reform; In order to reform
they must first get rid o f the women
who were nmong them and fill their
places with those who would make
them good wives and build up homes
for them. But they would find the wo­
men like the capital they needed—timid
about coming into so uncouth a com­
munity. As they could not get the for­
mer without giving promise of reforma­
tion. so would they be deprived o f the
latter without first putting away their
weapons, getting rid of the gambling
and dance halls and by tidying them­
selves up. I f they would do these
things I would bring out from the east
a.carload of respectable young women
to marry them. Ilavlng thus stated the
ease and made a proposition, I invited
a response from any one who would
speak for them.
Hickory Ben—so called for being of
excellent and tough fiber—arose and
said:
“ Parson, there’s a hull gold mine o’
sense in what you been sayin’. We
thought you war gotn' to tell us about
kingdom come, but Instead you’ve told
us how to Improve ourselves right here
In Deadman's Flat, whleh Is a good
sight ntgher, and we got to go through
the Flat to get to the kingdom. Gents,
you've seen the hand the parson has
dealt you. Do you consider It a four
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ace showdown or a bobtail Mush? Air
you goin’ to come in or stay out?”
“ Coinin' iu!" was the universal
shout
I “ Call!” cried a somber voice.
I was escorted from the meeting to
I the stagecoach by every male citizen
aud on the way was promised that
when I returned 1 would ttnd the place
“all cleaued up.” The coach was driv­
en away amid a chorus of hurrahs.
When women were shipped for wives
to Virginia in the seventeenth century
a man had to pay for a wife’s trans­
portation in tobacco, but 1, fearing to
fail by compelling the men to pay out
money they didn't have, obtained the
transportation funds from a friendly
philanthropist. The women I obtained
from homes for friendless persons, a
number being drawn from orphan asy­
lums, the volunteers having reached
au age where they were expected to
do something for themselves. Having
collected my cargo, I put them on a
train and started west with them to
Denver, where extra stages were pro­
vided, so that all could go to Dead-
man’s Flat together.
On our arrival at our destination, as
we drove down the main street, I
noticed that the tin cans had been re­
moved, sidewalks laid an*d trees plant­
ed beside them. Certain shanties had
been cleaned up, evidently to house
the women till after they had been
made wives. At the tavern where the
singes pulled up the citizens—all men—
stood in two lines, every man uncover­
ed while the stages passed between
the lines. Each man wore a serious’*
look, which was partly Intended as re­
spect for the newcomers and partly
from anxiety ns to how he was to
come out in the scramble for n partner.
A committee headed by Hickory Ben,
each man having secured from the
store a suit of shiny black clothes and
white cotton gloves, handed the ladies
from the coaches, and when all had
alighted they were escorted by a band
consisting of a fiddle, two horns, a gui­
tar, a flute and a drum to their quar­
ters. The crowd was about to follow,
but I waved them back, telling them
that the ladles needed an opportunity
to “clean up.”
I had already by my practical method
acquired a considerable influence over
them, and they obeyed me instantly. I
am quite sure that the brief survey
they had made was sufficient for some
of them to make a choice, and possibly
a glance given here and there from the
men to the women in or on the coaches
or when marching to the maidens’
quarters had been returned in kind.
For why should not love work as
quickly nmong the lowly as among the
highborn?
Then, too, there was another oppor­
tunity for such an exchange of glances
when the women marched to the tav­
ern, where an excellent supper had
been provided for them. The men
rather than eat their own suppers im­
proved the time watching for the exit
from the maidens’ quarters and the re­
turn, and an occasional blush told that
the wearer had not been displeased
with some one in the crowd who had
made a mute proposal with the eyes.
I have mentioned in the beginning of
my narrative a church that now stands
on the site of a former gambling aud
drinking saloon. The beginning of that
church, a temporary room, which is
now used for a Sunday school, had
been built during my absence and had
been provided with a table for my use
aud seats. On the evening of the ar
rival of the women they werqjjscorted
to this room and seated around the
walls, when the men were admitted,
and the courting began. The commit­
tee of arrangements in order to lessen
the probability of fights when more
than one man claimed the same wom­
an made a rule that as soon as a cou
pie became engaged they should either
come up to the table before me and be
married or go to their respective resi­
dences till they were ready for the cer­
emony.
was surprised at the number of
couples who mated during the evening.
In ten minutes after all had assembled
the first couple came to me, and I mar­
ried them. In half an hour two cou­
ples advanced together.
Meanwhile
some five or six couples left the hall
engaged. And so the good work went
on till 11 o’clock, when ten couples had
been married. Eighteen had left the
room betrothed, leaving seven women
unprovided with husbands. Since they
were among the comeliest and most
refined of the lot I surmised that
either they had not in so short a time
been able to make up their minds as
to one or more suitors or that they
could not bring themselves to such a
marriage without more time for prepa­
ration. However, I will say here, be­
fore bringing iuy narrative to n close,
that nil these women were married in
time except one who could not be
brought to * hat was to her an ordeal.
I sent her back to the east.
My experiment was a marked suc­
cess. It was not to be expected that
nil the uncouthneM would at once be
stamped out in Deadman’s Flat. It
was not, but it died all the same un­
der the feminine Influence. But the
greatest change appeared a year later,
when the helpless bundles of flesh be­
gan to appear that now constitute the
population of the town. Indeed, there
was far more softening in the men at
the babies* appearance than when
their mothers had arrived.
I remained in Deadman's Flat—now
called Arlington—for ten years and left
It a prospi-.ous and attractive town,
no more
the place I had found it
than a m<: ..Tie of untamed animals.
I did not emain longer because I was
not needed there. And by that time
most of tlie uncouthness of the west
had begun t-» give place to a more civi­
lized condition.
Where tallow dips
were used In dingy board houses to­
day elect , ic lights shine on walls ar­
tistically decorated.
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Towns—O f course the scheme Is a
good one, but do you thluk your wife
will approve of it? Browne—Yes, if by
careful hinting I can get her to formu-
late it herself and make her believe it’s
her own.—Pearson's Weekly.
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FIR ST N A T IO N A L B A N K
O P C O Q U I I iiiB , O R E G O N .
T ra n sa c ts a General H an k in g B u sin e ss
S u r e T h in g .
Bsard of Olroetoro.
C itn iM iB ili
" I wish I knew how to make a bar­
R . O. Dement,
A . J. Sherwood,
National Bank o Commerce, New Y o rk C l
rel of money.”
L . Harlocker,
L . I I . Hazard, I Crocker W oolworth N ’ lBank, San Franc!
“ I ’ll tell you how.”
Isaiah Hacker.
K .E . Shin«. 1 First N a t’l Bank of Portland, Portland.
“ How?”
“ Spend a keg in advertising.” —Louis­
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ville Courier-Journal.
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G eo . A. R o binson ,
R. H. M a s t , Cashier.
F a m ily J a r .
“ The body of the late Major Jinks
was cremated.”
“ What they goin’ to do with it?”
“ Ills widow hus him corked up In a
fruit jar. Says it’s the last of the
fumily Jars.” —Atlanta Constitution.
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Farmers
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Merchants Bank
COQUILLE. OREGON
Found.
“ I've just returned from abroad, you
know. How is your poor father?”
“ We lost him.”
“ Dear, dear!”
“ Yes, the nurse married him.” —Cleve­
land 1‘lalu Dealer.
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correspo nd ents :
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National Park, New York
First National Bank, San Francisco
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P o o r Ju d g m e n t.
Quint - So you’ ve written a new song
for a soprano voice. What’s it called?
Quaver—“ Would That 1 Were Young
Again.”
Quint—Great Scott! You’ll
never get any woman to sing that.—
Boston Transcript.
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C a u s t ic .
N o t H a r m fu l.
“ I hear there has been a great deal
of vacillation in your family receutly,
Mrs. tinmp.”
“ Yes. indeed, there was. but none of
It didn’t ever take.” —Baltimore Amer­
ican.
T h e G e n t le H in t .
Widow—Do you know that my daugh­
ter has set eyes upon you? Gentleman
(flattered)—Has she, really? Widow—
Certainly. Only today she was saying,
“ That's the sort of gentleman I should
like for my pa.”—London Tatler.
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H e r R ig h t .
“ She married for revenge.”
“ For revenge on her husband?”
“ No, on an old sweetheart.”
“ But if it was revenge she was seek­
ing why didn’t she marry the old
sweetheart?” —Houston Post
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“ Mamma, young Mr. Ketchley wants
to come and see me.”
“ When did he tell you so, child?”
“ Last time I saw him. I asked him
i f he wouldn’t like to call, and he said,
'Why, certainly.’ ’’—Chicago Tribune.
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B R O S ., P r o p s .
N o t E l ig ib le .
“ Come now, John, we’ve seen th#
elephants and the monkeys and the
birds, let us go into the aquarium.”
“ But, dear Eliza,” replied the obedi­
ent husband, “ I can't swim a stroke!”
—Yonkers Statesman.
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A T h r e a t e n e d D iv o r c e .
“ Ilubby. I must have a walking suit.”
“ You don’t need a walking suit.”
“ I do need a walking suit. Now,
would you rather pay for a walking
suit or a lawsuit?”—Kansas City Jour­
nal.
Leaves Mrytle Point daily at 7 o ’clock
a. m.
Arrives at Roseburg at 2 o’ clock
Leaves Roseburg daily at 7 a. m., ar­
riving at M yrtle Point at 2 o ’clock.
Special rigs for parties at any time.
H e a n d H is P re s e n t.
“ How did you feel at that fashion­
able wedding?”
“ About ns conspicuous as my pickle
dish looked among the jeweled bronzes
and ropes of pearl!” —Chicago Record-
Herald.
S t a g e R u n n i n g in C o n n e c t i o n
C arrying United States Mail and P assen gers’ B ag g a g e
Office at Laird’s Livery Barn, Myrtle Point
Home Telephone 461
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T h e H a r p ’s O rig in .
Mary—I ’ve just found out what was
the origin of the harp. John (looking
up from his newspaper)—Yes? Mary—
It was in the garden of Eden. Eve
ate the apple, and men have been harp­
ing about it ever since.—Judge.
P le a s a n t T h o u g h t s .
Make yourselves nests of pleasant
thoughts. None o f us yet know what
fairy palaces we may build o f beauti­
ful ¿bought«— houses built without
hands—for our souls to live in.—Bus­
kin.
F o llo w in g
t h e . R e c ip e .
Mrs. Marsh took a bite o f the cak#
and laid It down hastily.
“ Norah.” she said, “ did you follow
the recipe or do as you usually do and
guess ?”
“ Sure, mum, I followed the recipe,
only I put in six eggs instead of four,
because two was bad, and I wanted to
even ’em up.” —Youth’s Companion.
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St. Laurence Gomme regards music
as an aid to work. He relates that at
the beginning of his official career he
used to add up huge columns o f fig­
ures for statistical purposes by the
simple process of doing the task to a
Gregorian tun£ and that he was al­
ways correct in his totals.—London
Chronicle.
M ODESTY.
True modesty is a discerning
grace and only blushes in the proper
place, but counterfeit is blind and
skulks through fear, where ’ tis a
shame to be ashamed t’ appear;
humility, the parent of the first, the
last by vanity produced and nurs t.
— Cowper.
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