Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931, February 21, 1908, Image 1

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«teamed slowly out o f the house. _
■Bunts showed he was at home ou aa had him under their feet tn a mtnuta bcudl’ght brn-ket, dropped down wa
I Jumped down, and Ben Buckley, the the steam cheat and Swung fa r ont. As Cameron, who, though not worse than
engine.
“Can you hand)« It?" I asked aa he conductor, came running np. Between the cowcatcher shot jiuxt Foley’s long many others, had been leas prudent
Shut off after backing down to the ua we gave tbe little fallow a Ufa. H e arm dipped into the brg^y like the and, while we all (e lt sorry tor him
squirmed out like a cat and backed In­ sweep of ii connecting rod und eaught a fte r the other boys had gone to work,
soundbonne.
All kinds of Reservoir and Cistern work in con­
the l»oy ly tty J brcechos, The Impetus Lancaster repeatedly and positively
‘You use soft coal,” he replied, try- stantly up against the tender.
I
nection with water system s installed in first
“Oue at a tlma, and coma on!” he * onr speed threw the child high In the refused to reinstate him.
lax the Injector. “ I ’m used to hard.
Several time*, though. I *a w Foley
cried hotly. “I f It's ten to one and on air. but Foley's grip w is on tho little
ffi
Copyrl«fau
class style and all work done guaranteed.
This Injector Is new to me. Gueas
a man a back at that, we’U do it differ­ overalls, and ns tile youngster bonuded and Cameron In confab^ and one day
can work It. though.”
D ynam ite and powder work on all kinds of Rock Excavations
te
“W hat did you say your name was? e n t' With a quick, peculiar movement back ho enught It close. | s iw the up came Foley to the superintendent’s
rrukH.
of hla arm he drew a pistol and, point­ horse give u leap. It ueuC the hind office, leading little Andy, in his
“I didn’t aay.”
be
ing it squarely a t Cameron, cried. “Get whee’s Into tho corner off the baggage overalls, by the hand. They w en t into
"W hat Is It?” I asked curtly
back“’
car. There was a crash like the report Lancaster’s office together, and the
"Foley."
1 caught a flash of hla aye through of a hundred rifles, a u l the buggy flow door waa shut fo r a long time.
“ Well, Foley, If you have aa much
Whan they came oat little Andy ti
the blood that streamed down hla face. In the a.'r. The big horse waa tbrowu
sense ns you have gall you ought to
H E R E bad been aa Instant’s hesitation the answer came get along. I f you act straight, you’ II I wouldn't have given a switch key for fifty feet, but Folpy. with a great lf<ht a piece of paper In hla hand.
the life of the man who crowded him In his eyes and tho baby boy In bis
“Hang on to It, son,” cautioned
rumors all w in­ clear:
never want a Job again as long aa you
at that mlnnte. But Just then Lancas­ arm, crawled, laughing. Into tho c*»b.
Foley, "hut you can show It to M r.
ter that the en­
“Say ‘yefir*
live. I f you don’t, you won’t want to
ter came up, and before the crowd real
Thinking he would take the engine Reed I f you w ant to." *
gineers w e r e
Every one o f us started. I t was live very long."
laod it we had Foley, protesting an
The youngster handed me the paper.
agaiq. I tried to take tho baby, ’lake
going to strike. throwing the gage of battle. Our word
“Got any tobacco?"
I t was an order directing Andrew
grlly, back In the cab again.
It? W ell, 1 think not!
Certainly we of bad gone ont; the division waa pledged;
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’’Here. Baxter," said I. turnlpg to tba
“ For heaven’s sake, pull out of thia
“ HI. there, buster.** shouted the little Cameron to report to the master me­
t h e operating the fight was on.
roundhouse foreman, “thia la Foley
before there's bloodshed, Foley,'
engineer
wildly, “that’s a corking pair chanic for service In the morning.
d e p a rtm e n t
Next evening the strikers through Give him a chew, and murk him up to
i
I happened over a t the roundhouse
had
warning some w.vaterloas channel got word that go out on 77 tonight. I f he monkeys tried, and. nodding to Buckley, Foley of, breeches on you, son! I cntight the
kid right by the seut of tile pants." he one day nearly a year later, when
enough. Yet In tbe flier was expected. About 0 o’clock with anything around the bouse, kill opened the choker.
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I t was a night run and a new track
Foley was showing Cameron a new
the railroad life there la always fric ­ g crowd of them began to gather round him.1
—
to him. 1 tried to Are and pilot both,
engine Just In from the east The
Satisfaction Guarantied
tion In some quarter. The railroad tbe depot.
Baxter looked at Foley, and Foley but after Foley suggested once er twice
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two men were become great cronies;
man sleep* like the soldier, with an
• I t was after 1 o’clock when No. 1 looked nt Baxter, and. Baxter not get
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Both in Workmanship and Price
that If 1 would tend to the coal ha
that day they fell to talking over the
ear alert, b u ^ u a t the same be sleeps,
ting the tobacco out quick enough, Fo­ would tend to the curves I let him find
pulled
In,
and
the
foreman
of
the
Oma­
strike.
for with waking conies duf^.
Office at Furniture Store.
ha roundhouse swung down from the ley reminded him he was waiting.
“There was never bnt one thing I
them, and he found them all,
Our engineers were good fellows. I f
We
didn’t
pretend
to
run
freights,
locomotive cab. The strikers clustered
thought, before wa got to Athena. H e
really laid up against this man,” sold
they had faults they were American
but
I
concluded
to
try
the
fellow
on
Cameron to me.
took big chances In hla running, but
faults—rashness, a liberality bordering around the engine like a swarm of an­ one, feeling sure that If he was crook
W h at’s th a t7 ’ asked Foley.
there was a superb confidence In hie
on extrnvagance and a headstrong, vio­ gry bees, but that night, though there ed be would ditch It and skip.
W hy the way you shoved that pis­
bursts of speed which marked the fast
lent way of reaching conclusions- was plenty of Jeering, there was no
Ro Foley ran a long string of euiptl
tol Into my face the first night you
traits born of ability and self confi­ actual violeuce. « When they saw and a car or two of rotten oranges runner and the experienced one.
i n n r m i r n i r m i i i m i i m u m n i i i v i m m i i i m i m
w ii. i m
took out No. 1.”
Neighbor climb Into the cab to take
A t Atheus we had barely tw o hours
dence and developed by prosperity.
down to Harvard Junction that night, to rest before doubling back. I
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I never shoved any pistol Into your
One of tbe best men we bad on a lo­ the run west there waa a sullen al­
with one of the dispatchers for pilot never tired In my life till I struck the
face.” So saying, he stuck hla hand
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comotive was Andrew Cameron; at tbe lene«.
Into his pocket with the Identical mo­
Next day a committed of strikers, Under my orders they had a train pillow that night, but before I got It
same time he was one of tbe hardest
made up at- the Junction for him to wnrm the caller routed me out again.
tion he used the night of tho strike,
to manage, because he was young and w ith Andy Cameron, very cavalier, at
bring
back
to
McCloud.
They
had
and leveled at Andy. Just aa he had
The easthound flier was on time, or
headstrong. Andy, a big, powerful fel­ their head, called on me.
picked
up
all
the
strays
in
the
yards.
done then—a plug of tobacco. ‘T h a t’s
nearly so, and when I got Into the cab
“ M r. Reed,” said be officiously,
low, run opposite Felix Kennedy on
Including half a dozen cars of meat for the run back Foley waa Just cou­
all I ever pulled on you, son. I never
the flier. The fash rubs require young “ we’ Ve come to notl/y you not to run
carried a pistol in my life.”
men. I f you w ill notice, you w ill rarely any more trains through here till this that the local board of health had pling on.
Cameron looked at him, then he
“ Did you get a nap?" I asked aa wa
see an old engineer on a fast passenger strike’s settled. The boys won’t stand condemned after It had laid out In the
turned to me, with a tired expression.
run. Even a young man can stand only It. T h a t’s all.” W ith that he turned on inn for two weeks and a car of butter pulled out
we had been shifting around ever since
I ’ve seen a good many men, with
“No; we slipped an eccentric coming
a few years of that kind of work. High his heel to leave w ith his following.
a good many kinds of nerve, but I ’ll
up, and I ’ve been under the angina
“ Hold on. Cgmeron.’’ I replied, rals- the beginning of the strike.
speed on a locomotive Is a question of
be splintered I f ever I saw any one
When the strikers saw the stuff com­ ever since. 8ay, she’s a bird, lan*t-
nerve and endurance—to put It bluntly, lng my hand as I spoke; “that’s not
man w ith all kinds of nerve till I
quite all. I suppose you men repre­ ing In next morning behind Foley they nhe? She's all rig h t I couldn’t run
a question of flesh and blood.
struck Foley.”
concluded I had gone crazy.
her coming up, but I ’ve touched up
“ You dou’t ttylnk much of this strike, sent your grievance committee?"
“Yes, air.”
‘W’hnt do you th in k 'o f the track. her valve motion a bit, and I ’ll get no­
do you, M r. Reed?” said Andy to me
How
to B a t.
“I happen to represent. In the sup­ Foley?” said
tion on her as soon aa It’s d aylig ht
one night.
There are a few plain facts about
Don’t mind getting action on my
Fair,” -he replied, sitting down on
Don’t think there’s going to be any,. erintendents absence, the manage
how and when to eat which It would
ment o f this road. I simply w ant to my fivsk. “Btlff bill dowu there by account. Foley; I ’m shy on life Insur­
Andy.”
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be worth a man's while to keep In
ance.”
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say to you aud to jo u r committee Zanesville.”
H e laughed knowingly.
mind even when well. I f you are In a
He laughed.
“Any trouble to climb It?” I naked,
“W hat actual grievance have the that I take my orders from the presi­
hurry, eat lightly. There Is no virtu«
dent and the general manager—not for I bad purposely given him a heavy
“You're safe w ith me. I never killed
In gulping down a large meal Just be-
man. woman or child In my life.
on the East End,” be from you nor anybody you represent train.
T h a t’s a ll.”
rep Hod evasively.
Not with that cap of butter. I f you When 1 do, I quit the cab. Give her Fol«v dropjtttl down on the »team cheat caua® B •• mealtime. W hile the mind
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I la
a/n«lovA1«o engaged In XL.
a X... and o
and auntng f a r out.
Every hour the bitterness Increased. bold that batter another weok, It w ill plenty of diamonds, i f you please,” he
Is actively
the details
Is that any reason for calling a
W e got a few trains through, but ws climb a hill without any engine.”
added, letting her out fulL
responsibilities of business the diges­
thousand men out on this end?"
called over to me, laughing hysterical
were terribly crippled. As for freight,
He gave me the ride of my life, but ly. “Ileaveua, little man. I wouldn't tive apparatus la In no condition to
‘I f one goes out, they all go.”
“Can you handle a passenger train 7
we made no pretense of moving I t
Skating, I 5 cents
I hated to show scare, he was so ooolly
Skates for Sale.
'Would you go out?"
ve struck you for all the gold tn Alas hndertake heavy work. The blood Sup­
“I guess so.”
T rain loads of fru it and meat rotted
ply la dralued off elsewhere, giving all
‘Would I? You bet!”
“ I ’m going to eend yon west on No. 1 audacious himself. W e had but one ka. I've got a chunk of a boy In Read
atop—for w ater—and after that all lng as much like him as a tw in brother. the contribution It can to the brain,
man w ith a home and a w ife and In the yards. Tbe striker* grew more tonight”
Nearly every body, old as well as young, are learning a ’A
baby boy like yours ought to have turbulent daily. T hey beat our new
“Then you’ll have to give me a fire­ down grade. W e bowled along as easy What were you doing all alone In that and If a quantity of food be taken
meu and crippled our locomotives. man. That guy you sent out last night as ninepins, but the pace waa a hair buggy? Whose k id d o you suppose It In It almply remains undigested In
more sense.”
to skate so don’t you put it off and regret.
Getting up to leave, he laughed Then our troubles w ith the new men Is a lightning rod peddler. The dis­ raiser. A fte r we passed Arlckaree we Is? What's your name, son7
the stomach. W orry, unsettled mind,
never touched a thing but the high
again confidently. “That's all rig h t were almost as bad. THey burned out patcher threw most of the coal.”
At his question I looked nt the child low spirits, all tend to delay or to
Joints» The long, heavy train behind again, and I started. I bad certainly stop the activities of the alimentary
We’ll tyring you fellows to terms.”
our crown sheets; they got mixed
." I’ll go with you tuyself, Fojey. I
us flew round tbe bluffs once In awhile seen him before, and, had I not, his canal. Students who go at hard bend
Maybe," I reported as he closed the up on orders all the time. They ran
can give you steam. Can you stand It
like tho tall of a vary capricious kite, father's features were too well stamp­ work Immediately after meals often
door. But I hadn’t the slightest idea Into open switches and into each other
to double back tonight?”
yet somehow, and that’s an engineer’s ed ou the childish face for me to be suffer from Indigestion. So do letter
they would begin the attempt that continually and had ns very nearly
“I can stand it if you cnn.”
magic, she always lit on the steel.
mistaken.
night.
I was at home and sound craxy.
carriers and other people whose meals
When I walked Into the roundhouse
I kept tab on one of the new en­
I)«}’ broke ahead, and between
asleep when the caller tapped bn my
Foley," I cried, all amaze, “that’s are followed by prolonged physical ex­
In
the
evening
with
a
pair
of
overalls
H e Ix-gan by
window.
I threw up the sash; It gineers for a week.
breaths I caught the glory of a sun­ Cameron’s boy—little Andy!”
ertion.
Indeed, any kind of effort
was pouring ruin and dark as a pocket backing Into a diner so hard that he on Foley was In the cab getting ready rise ou the plains from* a locomotive
H e tossed the baby tbe higher; he which forces the blood flow away from
for
the
run.
he
oro
W hat Is I t Barney? A w reckT’ smashed every dish in the car and
cab window. When the smoke of the looked the happier; he shouted the the alimentary region Is Injurious a f t «
Neighbor brought the flier In from McCloud shops stained the horizon, re­ louder.
1 exclaimed.
ended by running Into a aiding a few
bserver
the
east
As
soon
aa
be
had
uncoupled
‘The deuce 'it Is I W ell, son, I ’m hearty e a tln g .-D r. Galick In World's
“ W’orse than that. Everything's tied days later and setting two tanka of
membering the ugly threats of the
Work.
and got out of the way we backed strikers, I left my seat to apeak to mighty glad of i t "
up.”
And I certainly
Oil
on
fire,
that
burned
up
A
freight
>
“W hat do you mean?”
depot I figured he cost us $40,000 tbe down with the 448. It was the best Foley.
was glad—mighty glad, as Foley ex­
. “The engineers have struck."
week he ran. Then be went back to engine we had left and, luckily for my
Jho medicine bags of Navajooa, Zu-
I think you’d better swing off pressed It—when we pulled up at the
back, an easy steamer. Just as we when you slow up for the yards and depot, and I saw Andy Cameron, with nln and Apaches, all kindred tribes,
selling windmills.
“Struck? W hat time Is I t 7 ’
A fte r this experience I was sitting coupled to the mall car a crowd of cut across to the roundhouse I” I cried, a wicked look, pushing to the front contain a curious powder known as
“ H a lf past 8. They went out at 8
o’clock.” Throwing on my clothes, I In my office on« evening, when a strikers swarmed out of the dusk
getting close to his ear, for we were through the threatening crowd. With corn pollen or hoddentln. This pow
floundered behind Barney's lantern to youngish fellow In a slouch bat opened They were In an ugly mood, and when on terrific speed. H e looked at me In­ an ualy growl, he made for Foley.
der, which Is the pollen of a rush and
A.
Andy Cameron and Bat Nicholson quiringly. “In that way you won’t run
“I ’ve got Uuflnesa with you—you”— also of maize, appears to be used as
the depot.
The superintendent was the door and stuck his head In.
sprang up Into the cab I saw we were Into Cameron and his crowd at the de­
‘‘I ’ve got a h4Alu. with you, son,” re­ a medicine, being eaten by the alck
“W h at do you want?" I growled.
already In his office talking to the
torted Foley, stepping leisurely down and put ou the bead or other parts to
“Are you M r. Reed?"
In for trouble.
master mechanic.
pot,” I added. “J can stop her all
from the cab. “ I struck a buggy back oasu puln, but principally as a sacred
"W |L do you want?"
Bulletins came In every few minutes
“Look here, pnrtner,” exclaimed right.”
here nt tho tlrst cut. and I hear It wns offering to the sun and moon and as a
from various points announcing trains
Oameron, laying a heavy hand on Fo-
“I waht to speak to M r. Reed.*
H e didn’t take his eye* off the track.
yours.” .Cam eron’s eyes began to sanctltler of everything. A pinch of It
tied up. Before long we began to hear
"W ell, w hat la I t r
“I ’ll take the train to the platform.”
bulge. “I guess the outfit’s damaged Is thrown toward the sun and then to­
from tbe East End. Chicago reported
"Are you M r. Reed 1 " '
said be. .
some, all but tbe boy. Here, kid,” he ward the four winds for help In w ar
all engineers but; Omaha wired no
"Confound you, yes! W hat do yon
P r o tla n d , O re g o n .
“I«n’t that a crossing cut ahead?” he added, turning for me to hand him
trains movlrfg.
When the sun rose want?"
z
or the chase. Is put on the trail of a
added suddenly as we swung round a the child, “here’s your dad."
that morning our entire system, ex­
OSCA R A N O B R S O N M A N A G E R
snake to prevent harm from IL placed
“Me? I don't w ant anything. I ’m
hill west of town.
STO P AT
The Instant tho youngster caught ou tbe touuue of the tired hunter as a
tending through seven states and ter­ Just asking; that’s a ll"
“Yes. and a bad one.”
sight of his parent he set up n yell. restoratlvZ hung lu bags round the
ritories, was absolutely paralysed.
H is Impudence staggered me so that
He reached for the whistle and gave Foley, laughing, passed him Into bis
t a t
u i t e a
te s t:
I t was an astounding situation, but I took my feet off (he desk.
necks of Infnuts ns a preservative and
tbe long fra m in g screams. I set the astonished father’s arms before the la t­ sprinkled on the dead. In fact, every
one that must be met. I t meant either
“Heard you were looking for men,”
bell
ringer
and
stooped
to
open
the
fu
r­
ter
could
say
n
word.
Just
then
a
boy.
action of these Indians Is sanctified
C o rn e r 7th a n d S tark S tre e ts . an Ignominious surrender to the en he added.
nace door to cool the fire, when—chug! running nnd squeezing through the by this powder, so that, ns Captain
It it n e * and its room, are provided with glneers or a fight to the death. For
F ree b u s to an d from tra in s
“ No," I snapped. “I don’t w ant nay
I
flew
up
against
the
water
gauges
crowd, cried to Cameron that his horse Bourke writes In tho nluth volume of
running water and long distance tele­
our part, we had only to w ait for men.”
like a coupling pin. Tbe monster en­ had run away from the house with the “The Re;>ort of tho Bureau of E th ­
phones. European plan. Rates
orders. I t was Just 0 o'clock when
“Wouldn’t
be
any
show
to
get
on
an
R a tes by th e d ay
gine
reared
right
up
on
her
head.
«1 per day and upward
baby In the buggy and that Mrs. Cam­ nology” (Smlthsoulan).
“plenty o f
the chief train dispatcher, who was engine, would tb e r e r
Highest priced room $3
Scrambling to my feet, I saw tbe new eron was having a fit.
hoddentln has come to mean that a
tapping at a key, aald:
A week earlier I should have risen
per day.
man clutching the air lever with both
Cameron stood like one daft, and particular performance or place la sa­
“Here's something from headquar­
6 0 c , 7 5 c, $ 1 . 0 0 , $ 1. 5 0 , $ 2 .
and fallen on his neck, but there bad
hands, and every wheel on the train tho boy, catching sight of the baby cred.”
ters.”
been other*.
wns screeching. 1 Jumped to his aide that Instant, panted and stared In an
E u rop ean Plan
W e crowded close around Wm. His
Chas. Wright, Prenldeat.
“There’* a show to get your head
and looked over hla-shoulder. Ou the Idiotic state.
R » n l n n « 'a C o e s * I . t n h t a .
pen flew across the clip; the message
broke,’’ I suggested.
t
“Andy,"' aald I, getting down and
crossing Just ahead a big white horse,
’T h e coastwise lights of England,"
A G ood C lean F am ily H otel
M. C. Dickinson, Manager. was addressed to all division super
“I don’t mind that If I get my time.
dragging a buggy, plunged and reared laying a hand on his shoulder, “If of which Kipling sings, have been In­
Intendenta. I t was short, but at the
“W h at do yon know about running
frantically.
Standing on the buggy these fellows want to k ill this man creasing In brilliancy ns well as In
vrpt
an engineK’
seat a baby boy clung, bewildered, to let them d o'lt alone—you’d bettor keep uumber ever since the dhwn of the
Ire. I t was that of the
saw In our ofH6e.
“Run one three years,"
the laxyback—not another soul In out. Only this minute ho hns saved nineteenth century. In that dark age
railroad magnate we knew as “the old
“On a thrashing m^chlnet*
wenry mariners crawled Into ;xirt by
sight A ll at once the horse swerved your boy’s life.”
man,” the president of the system, . n il
“On the Philadelphia and Reading."
The sweat stood out on tho big en- tho flickering glare of twenty five bea-
bis words were few:
sharply back. The buggy lurched half
“Who
sent
yon
In
here?”
“ Move the tralnsl”
over. The lines eeemod to be caught glueer’s forehead lllto dew. I told the cona nnd alx floating lights. Now they
“Jnet dropped In."
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“Move the tralnsl" repeated the su
around one wheel. The little fellow story. Cameron tried to apeak. hut may glide safely Into haven under the
“Bit down.”
perintendent. “Yea, but trains can’t
clung on, but the craxy horse, Instead he tried again and again before he powerful beams of 880. IJghthouses
Neja ree t Hotel to Business Center, Banks and Depot.
I eyed him sharply as ha dropped
are as ancient ns civilization. The
be moved by pinch bars nor by main
of running, began a hornpipe right be­ could find hla voice.
Into a chair.
“ Mate,” he stammered, “you’ve been Pharos of Alexander flung Its light on
farce.’’
tween the deadly rails,
through a strike yourself—you know the decks of oriental bargee 2,237
“When did you quit the Philadelphia
W e spent the day arguing with the
I looked at Foley In despair. From
Sunday D inner 3Ö cents.
an«l Reading?”
what It means, don’t you? But If years ago. The Romans, who loved
strikers. They were friendly, but Arm.
the monstrous quivering leaps o f the
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I
you’ve got a baby—” he gripped the tho light, have left the ruins of one
“About six months ago,"
Persuasion, entreaties, threats, we ex­
great engine I knew the drivers were
boy tighter to hie shoulder.
of their lighthouses on a cliff a t Bou­
'T ire d r
hausted and ended Just where we be­
In the clutch of thej mighty a ir brake,
“I have, partner; three of ’em.”
logne, while a t Dover may still be
“Strike."
gan, except that we had lost our tem ­
but the resistless momentum of the
’T hen yon know what this means,” seen ell that remains o f another. Pe­
I began to get Interested. A fte r a
pera. Tbe sun set without the turn of
train
waa
none
the
lees
sweeping
us
aald Andy, huskily putting out hla troleum und the electric light have
NiffioUon aprany on M m like a Mqer
a wheel. The victory of the first day few more questions I took him Into
down at deadly speed on the baby.
tho superintendent's office, but at the ley’s shoulder, "you don’t w ant to take Between the two tremendous forces the hand to Foley. He grlp/led the little made the eftrly nineteenth century bea­
was certainly with the strikers.
man’s flat hard. and. turning, walked con« rldlculons. On the summit of the.
door 1 thought It well to drop a hint.
this train out, do you? You wouldn’t locomotive shivered like a gigantic
N ext day It looked pretty bine around
eway through the crowd.
tower an open grate waa fed with bil­
I-ook
here,
my
friend.
I
f
you’re
a
beat
honest
workingmen
out
of
a
Job?"
the depot. Not a car waa moved. Tbe
beast I ahrang back In horror, bnt tho
Somehow It put a damper on the lets of wood and later with coal. Scot­
spy
you’d
better
keep
out
of
this.
Thia
“I
’
m
not
beating
anybody
out
of
a
little man at the throttle, throwing the boyt. Bat Nicholson waa about the land abandoned coal altogether for
engineers and firemen were a u n it
msn would wring your neck as quick Job. I f you w ant to take out this train, last ounce of a ir on the burning wheel«,
But the wires song hard all that day
only man left who looked aa If ha more up to date methods In- 181« and
a*
he’d
suck
an
orange.
Bee?"
take
It
eat.
I
f
you
don’t,
get
out
of
thia
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leaped from hla box with a face trans­ wanted to eat somebody, and Foley, England alx years afterward.
and all that n ig h t Just before mld-
cab."
P
rAere tho'poop/o »top
"Let’s
tackle
him
anyhow,"
tlln rin g hla blouse over hie shoulder,
ulght Chicago wired that No/ 1—our
figured.
tbe fellow, eying me coolly.
Cameron waa nonplused. Nicholson,
T a k e herl” be cried, aud. naval* walked up to Bat and tapped him on
big passenger'train, the Denver f ile r -
H en a a M a • ■ «
a
surly
brute,
raised
hie
flat
men­
I Introduced him to Ptp. Lancaster
shifting his eyes from the cut, he shot the shoulder.
had started oat on time, w ith the so-
Nearly all nation« have folklore and
and left them together. P retty soon acingly.
through
his
open
wlpdow
and
darted
perintehdent of motive power as en­
“Stranger." said be gently, "c
fairy tala accounts of mermaids and
“Rea here, boas,” be growled, “we like a cat along the running board to
tbe superintendent came Into my office.
you oblige me with a chew of
gineer and a wiper for fireman. The
T h e D a llw w , O r e g o n ,
sometimes of mermen. Bren the Amer­
“W h a t do you make of him. Meed?" won’t stand no scabs on thia line.”
the
front.
bacco?"
age earns from the second vies eaid ho.
ican tndlatffi>had their “woman flsh"
v
“Get out of thia cab ”
Electrlo Lights
Eleetrio Call Bella.
8team H eat.
Not a hundred feet separated ua from
Bat glared at him an Instant, but and “man flsh ” The Chinese tell sto­
president H e promised to deliver the
I ’U promise you you’ll paver get out
“W h a t do you make of h l£ ? "
the crossing. I could see the baby’s Foley’s nerve won.
train to our division on tlma the next
ries about their sea women o f tbe
It alive, my bqck, If yon ever get curls blowing In the wind. The horse
Lancaster studied a mlnnte.
Flushing a bit. Bat stock hie hand
evening, and he asked, “Can yon get It
H O T E L R A T E S TO S U IT YOU.
southern seas. Sometimes
$ito It again I" Cried Cameron, swing­
“Take
him
over
to
tho
roundhouse
suddenly leaped from across the track
♦
through to Denver T’
ing down. Nicholson followed, m atter­ to the side of I t That le ft the buggy Into hla pocket, took It out. felt hur­ and mermen are represented as le e r­
and see w hat he knows." ,
W e looked a t each other. A t last all
ing angrily. I hoped we were out of quartering with the rails, but not riedly In the other pocket, and, w ith ing the water and living with human
I
walked
over
w
ith
the
new
find,
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some confusion, acknowledged be was
eyes gravitated toward Neighbor, our chatting warily. Whan wa reached a the ecrape; but, to my conaternatloo,
twelve Inches clear. The way the short F elix Kennedy Intervened with beings, but more frequently they are
mechanic.
Railway Ticket Office in the Lobby.
live engine I told him to look it over. Foley*, picking np hla oil can, got right wheels were cramped a single atop a ala4>, and tbe three men fell at once pictured as being so attractive that
The train dispatcher was waiting. H e threw off hie coat picked np a down behind them and began filling hla
they «omettmes w ill lure human being»
ahead would throw the hind wheels to talking alniut the accident.
"W hat shall I say?" he asked.
to deatructlon In the depths of the aea.
piece of waste and swnng Into the cab. caps without the least attontloo to Into the train; a step backward would
T . N . C R O F T O N , P r o p r ie to r .
A
long
tlme^afterward
some
of
the
The division chief of the motive pow-
myths have been nMMs«a w
"Run her eut to the swlteh,” said L anybody.
f
Shore tbe front wheels Into I t It waa striking
sinaing
engineers
were
taken
back.
-
'7
Nicholson sprang an him like e tiger.
r waa a tremendously big Irishman. stepping up myself.
appalling. '
J,
hut none of those who had been guilty
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