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OBSERVER.
SHERMAN
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Napoleon boots, a sealskin cap drawn of tho western yard. It was good luck
Sinclair struggted with the throttle aad
anuggly over his straight black hair, to see the sun ag ain .
the air, Sankey gave the alarm through
watchlug, order,ug, signaling, while
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I..»tie Neeta up on the hill must have
tho whlstlo to tho poor fellows In the
No. 1, with Its frost bitten sleepers be­
•een them ns they pulled out. Surety
blind pnekots behind. But the track
hind a rotary, struggled to buck
she heard tho choppy, Ice bitten screech
was at tho worst. Where there w as
through the ten and tweuty foot cuts
'Stock Inspector
of the 500. That was never forgotten, no snow there were whiskers. .Oil It­
• All kinds of Reservoir and Cistern work in con­
which lay bnnkful of suow w est of
whether the service was special or reg­ self couldn’t have been worse to stop
McCloud.
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nection with water systems installed in first
ular. Besides, the head cab of the
Not until April did It begin to look ram carried thia time not only Georglo on. It was tho old and deadly peril of
Copyright,
class style and all work done guaranteed.
fighting blockades from both ends on
Oregon.
as
If
we
should
win
out.
A
dozen
I««, by
Sinclair, but her father as well. San­
DynamittTand powder work on all kinds of Rock Excavations
tim es the Hue wus all but choked on key could handle n slice bar ns well as a singlo track.
Frwik H.
Tho grent rams of steel and fire had
us. And then, when snowplows were a punch and rode on the head engine,
D epu ty Stock Inspector
Spearman
disabled and train crews desperate, where, if anywhere, the big chances dono their work, and, with their com­
Louis Schadewltx, Kent, Oregon
mon enemy overcome, they dashed at
there came a storm that discounted the
hovered. What he wna not capable of
worst blizzard of the winter. Aa tho In the train service we never knew, be- eib'h other, frenzied, across the Black­
rei>orta rolled In on the mornlug of enuse he w as stronger than any emer- wood gorge.
The flrenuwi nt the first cry shot out
z_ _ a
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1 1 ..^
L a v
.k z l
W. H. 8IM 0N,
the 6th, growing worse as they grew g r n ^ that ever confronted him.
laid
disposed
of their ^ slice
bar A aud
tho side. Sankey yelled at Sinclair to
H E oldest man shovel and given the tender a final thicker, Neighbor* drugged ouL played
M a in » t M O It O
O re g o n
Hm-klug snow Is principally brute -Jump, but Oeorgle shook bis bead. He
In the train sprinkle and the conductor had walk­ out, mentally and physIcaUy, threw up
N ex t door to H o te l M oro.
service d id n ’ t ed lekmrely forward, compared time hJs hands. The Oth It snowed all day, force. There Is little coaxing. Just ne.ver would Jump. Without hesitat­
pretend to say w ith the engineer aud cried, “All and ou Saturday morning the section west of the hl Offs, like code signals ing an Instant, Sankey caught him In
how long Sen- aboo<-urd!" then us your coach mov- . men r e t r ie d thirty feet lu the Black­ between a fleet of cruisers, there was Ills nrms, toro hjm i from the levers,
a volley of sharp tooting, und hi a min­ planted a m ighty' foot and hurled Sin­
key had work­ ed slo\*ly ahead you might notice un­ wood canyou.
ute the four ponderous, engines, tw o of clair like a block of coal through the
ed for the com- der tlx* receding cutalpas tho little girl
It was 6 o'clock when we got the them In the hack motion, fires white
gangway out Into die gorge. The oth­
waving a parasol or a handkerchief at word aud daylight before we got tho
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pa,iy
Incubators, Brooders, Bone Cutters, Shipping Cases, Egg Boxes,
and throuts bursting, steamed wildly er cutis were already emptied, but the
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P at Francis the ouigolug tr a lu -th n t Is, at Con­
rotary
against
It.
They
bucked
away
Leg Bands, Poultry Foods of any kind, Remedies, or good
Into the canyon.
Instant's delay in front cost Sankey’s
was a very old conductor, but old man ductor Sankey, for she was his daugh­
till noon, with discouraging results,
Six hundred feet from the first cut life. Before ho could turn tho rotary
"up-to-date” Poultry Books on the different branches of Poultry
Saukey was a veterau when F at Fran­ ter, Neeta Saukey. Her mother was
and came lu with their gear smashed
All work guaranteed, and cis began braking. Sankey ran a pas­
and died when Neeta w as a and u driving roil fructured. It looked, Sinclair’s whistle slgmil<*d again. Burns crashed Into the 5»Ul. They reared like
Keeping, consult our latest catalog No. 301
Free • * ngeert.
prices satisfactory. Bring in your senger train when Jim m ie Brady was Spanish
and Cameron and Keuuvdy answered, mountain Hons and pitched headlong
w ee bit. Nocta atul the limited were as If we were beaten.
articles for mending while you wait. running, and Jim m ie afterward enlist­ Sankey’s v hole world. ‘
und then, literally turning the monster^ Into tho gofge. Sunkey w ent under
No. 1 got Into McCloud eighteen
ed and w as killed In the Custer tight.
When tieorgle Sinclair began pulling hours late. It wus Huukey's und Sin­ rum loose against the dazzling moun­ them.
There was an odd tradition about tho limited, running west opposite Fo­
IIo eouhl have saved himself. He
tain, the crews settled them selves for
Portland, Oregon
clair's run west.
Sankey’s . * name.
H e w as a tall, ley, he struck up a great friendship
ehoso to save Georglo. There wasn’t
the shock.
Spokane, W n.
There w as a long couucll In tho
swarthy fellow and carried the blood with Sankey. Sankey, though he was
At such u momeut there Is nothing to time to do both. Ho had to chq^e,
of a Sioux chief In hla veins. It was hard to start, w as full of early day roundhouse. The rotary was knocked be done. If uuy thing goes wrong, eter
G RASS VALLEY, O R E.
In the tim e o f the Black H ills excite stories. Georgia, It seemed, had the out. Coal was runuiug low In the nlty Is too close to consider. There
ment, when railroad men, struck by faculty of getting him to talk, perhaps chutes. If the lino w asn’t kept open couie a mil Hied drumming op the
the gold, fever, were abandoning their because when he w as pulling Huukey's for the coal from the mountains. It was steam chests, a stagger and a terrific
plain we should be tied uutil we
. L ‘
' * > trains, even at way stations,.and strik­
train he made extraordinary efforts to
Impact and then the recoil, flfte the
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ing across the divide for Clark’s Cross­ keep on time—time Was a hobby with could ship It from Iow a or Missouri. stroke of a trip hamjners The snow
West
of,
Medicine
Pole
there
wus
an­
ing. Men to run the trains were hard Sankey. Foley said he w as so careful
•hoots Into the alt* fifty feet, and the
to get. and Tom Porter, trainmaster, of it that when he wus off duty he let other big rotury working oust, with wind curries a cloud of fieeey’ confu­
plenty of coal behind her, but she wus
w as putting In every man he could
sion over-the ram atul out of the cut.
PRICES R E A S O N A B L E --•» pick up without reference to age or his watch stop Just to save time.
Sankey loved to breast the winds reported stuck fust In the Cheyenne The cabs were hurled,In white, nnd the
hills.
color.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
the flood« and the snows, and If
great steel frames of the engines
Conducted on Best Principles Porter—he died at Julesburg after­ and
Foley made suggestions, nnd Ited sprung like knitting needles under the
he could get home pretty near on
Slnclulr
made
suggestions.
Every,sxTy
Both in Workmanship and Price
ward— w as a great Jollier, aud he was schedule, w ith everybody else late, he
frightful blow.
C o a a a i e r e la l T r a S . s « l l c l i e <
not afraid of anybody on earth.
w as happy, and In respect of thaL ns hnd a suggestion left. The trouble
l ’nuslng for hardly a breath, the sig
Office at Furniture Store.
O ne-day a war party of Sioux clat Sankey used to say , G o r g l e S in clair wus. Neighbor said, they didn't amount naling again began, then the hacking,
tered into town. They tore around Could com e n e a r e r g ra tify in g S .in k ey ’s to anything or were Impossible.
up and up und tip the line, nnd ngaln
“It’s u dead block, hoys,” tiniiouuved the 'm assive machines were hurled
like a storm and threatened to scalp ambition than any runner we had.
everything, even to the local tickets.
Even the firemen used to observe Neighbor sullenly after everybody had scream ing Into the cut.
The head braves dashed In on Tom that the young engineer, alw ays neat, doue. “We ure beaten unless we cau
“You're getting there, Geofgle!" ex
Porter, sitting In the dispatcher’s o f­ looked still neater the days that ho get No. 1 through today. Look there! claimed ftaukey when the rolling ami
fice upstairs. The dispatcher w as hid­ took out Snnkey’s train. Ily and by By the holy poker, It's snowing again!” turchlng had stopped. No one else
The air was durk In a minute with could tell a thing about It, for It was
ing under a loose plank In the liaggage there Was aif Introduction under the
room floor, Tom, being bald as a sand catalpas. After that It was noticed whirling clouds. Men turned to the snow and snow and snow* above and
hill, considered him self .exempt from that Ceorgie began wear'ng gloves on windows und quit talking. Every fel­ behind nml alidad and beneath. Sin­
STO P A T
scalping parties. H e w as working a the engine»—not kl»l gloves, bjit yellow low felt tho same- at least all hut one. clair coughed the flukes out o f his eyes,
gam e of solitaire when they l»ore down dogskin—and black silk shirts.
He Sankey, sitting back of the stove, was and nose and mouth; like a batlbd
on him and Interested them at ouoc. bought them In Denver.
making tracings ou his overalls with a collie. He lookial douhtfiil of the claim
That led to a parley, which ended In
Then—an odd way engineers have of piece of chalk.
until the mist had blown clear and the
“You might as well unload your pas­ quiverlug monsters were again recalled
C o rn er 7th and Stark S treets. Porter’s hiring the whole band to pacing compllinents — when Georgie
brake
on
freight
trains.
Old
man
San­
pulled
Into
town
on
No.
2,
if
It
wna
sengers,
Sankey,”*ahl
Neighbor.
“You’ll
for n dash. Then It was plain that
I t la new and Ha r o o m i are provid ed w ith
Send your oroer» to a house that understands Western conditions
key Is said to have been one o f that San key’s trnln, the big skyscraper never get ’em through this whiter.’’
ru n n in g w a te r and lo n g distance te le ­
Sankey’s Instinct was right.
They
and you will get sattafartion.
would
give
a
short,
hoarse
scream,
a
original war party.
phones. E u ro p e a n plan . Rates
And It was then that Sankey propos­ were gaining.
F obtland S i l C o .,
r
Starbuck. W ash.. Fab. 7. 1906.
most
peculiar
uote,
Just
as
they
drew
- f l per day and u p w a rd
Now, thia la m erely a caboose story,
ed Ills double header.
C e n d .m .n ; I am aandlnr you an ordor for aoeda this »print aa I llkad
[ Again they weut In, lifting n very
your aaada vary much laai »print
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H ig h e s t priced room $ 3
told on winter nights w hea trainmen past Snnkey’s house, which stood on
H e devised a snowplow which cone avalanche over the stacks, packing the
Y o u r , tru ly .
per
d
a
y
.
M ar L. F. FaiiataoTOH.
get stalled In the snow drifting down the brow of the hill w est of the yards. blned In one monster ram about all banks of the cut with walls hard ns Snnkty hurled Sinclair through the
gangway irut Into the gorge.
Our new. 100 page Annual Seed Planter's Guide tells all. It's
from the Sioux country. But what fol­ Then Neeta would know thnt No. 2 the good material w e had left and sub­ Ice. Aiftnln as the drivers stuck they
up-to-date and lull of good things. Ask for book No. 30c
and her father and naturally Mr. Sin­ mitted the scheme to Neighbor. Neigh­ raced lu a frenzy, nnd Into the shriek and he chose Instinctively. Did he,
low s la better attested.
Chas. Wright, President.
Sankey, to start with, had a peculiar clair were In again and all sa fe and bor studied It and hacked at It all he of the wlmLweut the uuenrthly scrape mii.\ He, think 111
flash of Neeta
could und brought It over to the office. of the overloaded safeties.
and of whom '-.she needed most, of a
M. C. nicUuson, Manager. name — an unpronounceable, unapell- sound.
When the railway trainmen held It was like staking everything on tho
able, unmanageable name. I nevor
Slowly and sullenly the machines young and a sialw art protector better
heard It, ao I can’t give I t It w as aa their division fair nt McCloud, there last cast of the dice, hut wo were In were hacked again.
than an old and a fulling one? I do
was
a
lantern
to
be
voted
to
the
most
the
state
of
mind
which
precedes
n
bard to catch as an Indian cur, and
“She's doing tho work, Georgie!” not know. I know ouly what he did.
popular
condnctor-a
gold
plated
lan­
desperate
venture.
It
was
talked
over
thnt name made more trouble on the
cried Sankey. “Fbr thn.t kind of u
Every one who jumped got clear.
payrolls than all the other nam es put tern, with a green curtain lu the globe. for an hour, und orders were finally cut she’s as good ns n rotary. Look Sinclair lit lu tweuty feet o f snow,
together.
Nobody at headquarters Cal Stewart and Ben Doton, who were given by the superintendent to rig up everything over now while I go hack and they pulled him out with a rope.
could handle I t It w as never turned very swell conductors and great rivals, the double header aud get against the aud see how the hoys are standing It. He w asn’t scratched. Even the bridge
In tw ice alike, and they were alw ays were the favorites and had the town snow ns quick ns It could be made Then we’ll give her one more nml gtvo was not badly strained. No. 1 pulled
It the hurdcst kind.’*
writing Tom Porter about the thing. divided over tholr chances for win­ ready.
over It next day. Saukey was right—
P ro tlan d , O reg o n .
AH thnt day and most of the ulght
Nearest Hotel to Business Center, Banks and Depot.
Ami th e y did g iv e h er one m ore, and then* irns no- more snow, not enough
Tom explained several tim es that It ning It.
Neighbor
worked
tw
enty
men
on
Rnn-
But
during
the
last
moments
Georgia
OSCAR. ANDERSON MANAGER
another. Meu at Santiago ¡mt up no to hide the dead engines an the rocks.
w as Sitting B all’s ambassador who
stouter fight than they made that Sun­ The line was oia*u.
w as drawing that money and that be Sinclair stepped up to the booth aud
S u n d a y D in n e r 35 cente.
cast
a
storm
of
votes
for
old
man
day mornlug III the canyon of the
usually signed the payroll with a tom a­
There never was a funeral In Mc­
Saukey.
Dotou’s
friends
and
Stewart’s
Blackwood. Once nnd twice more they Cloud like Sankey'«. George Sinclair
hawk.
But nobody at Omaha ever
laughed nt first, hut Hnukey’s votes
went lu, nnd the second time the ami Neeta followed together, and of
knew how to take a Joke.
kept pouring In amazingly. The fa-
bumping drummed more deeply. The mourners there were ns many ns there
The first tim e Tom w ent down be
s grew frightened. They |H>oled
drivers held, pushed, punted and gain­ were pdople. Every engine on the di­
Free bus to and from trains
w as called In very solem nly to e x ­ vorlti ssues by throwing Stew art’s vote
their
ed against the white wall, heaved and vision carried black for thirty days.
plain again about the name, and, be­ to Doton, but It wouldn't do. tieorgle
Rates by the day
stumbled ahead, nnd, with a yell from
His contrivance for fighting snow has
ing In a hurry and very tired o f the Sinclair, with u crowd of engineers—
Slnclulr nnd Sankey and the fireman, never yet been beaten on the high line.
60 c, 76 c, $ 1.00, $ I .60, » 2 . whole business, Tom spluttered:
Cameron, Moore, Foley, Bat Mullen
the double header shot her nose Into It Is perilous to go ngatust a drift be­
“H aug IL don’t bother me any more and Burtts—cam e back at them with
the clear over the Blnckwmwl gorge
European Plan
hind It. Something has to give.
•bout that name. If you can’t road IL such a sw ing that In the final round-
As engine after engine flew past the
But It gets there, as Sankey got
make It Saukey and lie done with IL”
up
they
fulrly
swamped
Doton.
Sau­
divided walls each cab ,<s>k lip the
ether e the people »top
A Good Clean Family Hotel
there, always, and lu time of blockade
They took Tom at his word. They key took the lantern by a thousand
cry. It was the wildest shout thnt
aud d«‘s[iera,lon on the West End they
actually did m ake It Sankey, and that’s votes, hut 1 understood It cost Georgie
ever crowned victory.
how our oldest conductor came to bear ami his friends a pot of money.
Through they went und halfway still send out Sankey’s doublo header,
the name o f the fam ous singer, and
Sankey said all the tim e he didn't
across the bridge before they could though Sankey—so the conductors tell
more I may sa y —good name us It was want the luulern; hut. Just the same,
check their monster catapult. Then the children, traveling east or traveling
i i »«.' D n l l e e ,
O r e g o n ,
and Is. the Sioux never disgraced I t
he always curried that particular lan­
at a hnlf full they shot It hack nt the w est-S au k ey Isn't running any more.
Steam H e a t.
Electric L ig h ts
Electric C all Bells.
Probably every old traveler on the tern, with his full name, Sylvester Sau­
cut. It worked as well one way as
I lu « « r M n n V e r s u s l lu a r W a s .
system knew Sankey.
He w as not key, ground Into the glass Just below
the other.
Those who tell you they “always are
only
alw
ays
ready
to
answ
er
questions,
the
greets
mnutle.
l
’retty
Boon,
Neeta
“The
thing
Is
done,’’
declared
Sau
HOTEL RATES TO SUIT YOU.
but, what lBunuch more, alw ays ready being theu eighteen, It wus rumored
key. Then they got Into position up rushed to death” usually ncompllsh the
to answer the sam e question twice. It that Sinclair wus engaged to Miss Sau­
tho line for a final shoot to clean the least, and largely because they are Im­
All O R & N Trains Stop at Front -Door
key- wus going to marry her. And
eastern cut and to get the head for a aginative. The really busy man, who
Every kind of rig to order, Is that which m akes conductors gray m
any her he did, though that w as not
beaded aud spoils their chances for
dash across the bridge Into the west turns off an Immense amount of work
Railway Ticket Office in the Lobby.
and all orders prompt and satis­ heaven—answering the sam e questlona u n til after the wreck In the Blackwood
end of the canyon, where lay another with the quiet nml precision of a per­
fect machine, must huve the Imngtna-
factory at reasonable prices.
over and over again. Children were gorge, the time of the big snow.
mountain of snow to split;
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T . N . C R O F T O N , P r o p r ie t o r .
Farmers teams fed as welt as apt to be a bit startled at first sight
It goes yet by Just that name ou the
“Ixxik the machines over close, tlou to look ahead a day or a month or
they are fed at home, if not better. o f Sankey, he w as so dark, but be West End, for never was such a whi­
boys," said Sankey to the engineers :i year. At the least, his thought Is al­
Telephone at our expense.
had a very quiet sm ile that alw ays ter anil such a suow known ou the
“If nothing's sprung we'll take a full ways a few . seeonds nhead of his ac­
made them friends after the second plains mid In the mountains. Ouo train
head across the gorge the bridge will tion:., hla head saves bis heels; he la
carry anything -nnd buck the west not coiit.uu.illy tripping over his own
trip through the sleepers, aud they on the northern division was stalled
six
weeks
thnt
winter,
and
one
whole
cut.
Then lifter we get No. 1 through feet. But tho huzzy man can never
som etim es ran about asking for him
coach was chopped up for kludllng
this afternoon Nelghlwr can get his understand the busy man. H aving no
after be had left the train.
Imagination himself, he saves his own
Of late years—and It la thfs th a t wood.
baby cabs ln here and keep ’em clias
The cubs ucre buried In white,
But the great and desperate effort of
hurts—these vary sam e children, grown
lag nil night. But It's done snowing.” face by saying thnt the inan who never
fusses over his work has little to do.
ever so much bigger aud riding again the company was to hold open the key’s device. By Sunday morning It lie added, looking Into the leaden sky.
Let us hear no more nliout Imagina­
Ho had everything figured out for
to or from California or Japan or Aus mnln line, the artery which conuectod whs In such shape that wo began to
tion being Impracticable. It 1« on« of
the master mechanic the shrewd,
trails, will ask when they roach the tho tw o coasts. It w as a hurd winter take heart.
“If she don’t get through she’ll get kindly old man. There’s no man on the most practical things In the world.
W est End about the Indian conductor. on trainmen. Week after week the
A dm»-pRiportlon of It used with Judg­
But the conductors who uow run the snow kept falling aud blowing. The back again, and thnt’s what most of earth like a good Indian and, for' that ment '’will from ninny a blunder fr«o
overlaud trains pause at the question, trick was not to clear the Hue; It was ’em don’t do," growled Nelglilair ns he matter, none like a hud one. Saukey us nnd foolish notion.” The only con­
checking over the date lim its ou the to keep It clear. Every day we sent and Sankey showed the new rum to knew by a military Instinct Just wha, dition umler which It may seem «u-
hail to be done and how to do It. I f he
m argins of the coupon tickets, and. out trains with the fear we should not the engineers.
They had taken tho 600, Georgie Sin­ hnd lived he was to hnvfc been assist­ perfii|oiia Is thnt of one who tins soma
handlug the envelopes back, will look sec them again for a week.
clair’s engine, for one head and Burns’ ant ■ sii|»erlntendeiit. That was the monotonous task to perform automatlc-
Freight we didn't pretend to move
at the children and say slowly, “He
497 for the other. Behind these were word which leaked from headquarters all, day after day Don,»»less If one Is
Local
passenger
business
had
to
be
Isn’t running any more.”
to be In an automatic Job forever tho
Kenuady, with the 314, nnd Cameron, after he got killed.
abandoned.
Coal,
to
keep
our
engines
If you have ever gone over our line
less Imagination the better, blit If ho
with the 290. The engines were set In
And,
with
a
volley
of
JVkes
between
and
our
towns
supplied,
we
w’ere
oblig­
to the mountains or to the CoSst you
puirs, headed each way nnd buckled the cabs nnd a laughing aud a yelling Is ever to get out of It the quicker bo
may remember at McCloud, where they ed to carry, nnd after thnt all the
up like pack mules. Over the pilots between toots, down went Saukey’s cultivates some Imagination the sooner
change euglnes aud set the diner In or brains nnd tho muscle ninl the motive
will he get out.—Chicago Tribune.
and stacks of the head engines rose
out, the pretty little green park to tho power were centerisl on keeping Nos. 1 the tremendous plows which were to double header again Into the Black
east of the depot, with a row of catalpa and 2, our through passenger trains, tackle the toughest drifts ever record­ wood gorge.
I lls L a c k o f M o d e a tr .
At the same moment, by an aw ful nils
trees along the platform line. It looks running.
“Tlint inan has atisolutely no «eoao
ed, before or since, oil the West End. understanding of orders, down came
Our
tralnineu
worked
like
Americans.
like a glass of spring w ater.
of shame.”
The rani was designed to work both
If It happened to be Sankey * run There were no cowards ou our rolls. wavs. Under the coal each tender was the big rotary from tho West End
“I kuow It. When be wa« In college
with
a
dozen
cars
of
coal
behind
It.
But
after
too
long
a
strain
men
be
and a regular W est End day, sunny aud
he allowed him self to be photographed
loaded with pig Iron.
Milo
after
mile
It
had
wormed
east
to
Come
exhausted,
benumbed,
Indifferent,
delightful, you would be sure to see
In his sprlutlug su it" — Lippincott*»
The lielengucred passengers on, No. 1,
, standing under the catalpaa a shy, feckless even. The nerves give out, sidetracked In the yards, watched the ward Snnkey’s rum, burrowed through Magazine.
the western cut of the Black wood,
and
will
power
seems
to
halt
ou
lnde-
dark skinned girl of fourteen or fifteen
preparations Sankey was making to
I l l s S to rlo a .
years silently watching the prepara­ £ ! ; n, but decision Is the life of the clear the line. Every amateur on the crashed through the drift Sankey was
aiming for and then “Whirled out Into
__ train.
favorite
Yeast—Who Is your r w ife’« fa
tions for the departure of the over­
train
hnd
his
camera
snapping
nt
the
the
open,
dead
against
him,
at
forty
Noue of our conductors stood the
author?
land.
ram.
The
town,
gntherod
In
a
single
miles an hour. Each train. In order to
hopeless fight like Sankey. Sankey
say« I make
Crlmsonbeak—I am. Ihe
ftie «ays
And after the new engine had beon
Was patient, taciturn, untiring nod, In mob, looked silently on and listened to make the grade nnd the blockade, was np some of the most wonderful storl«»
backed, champing, down and harnessed
the
frosty
notes
of
the
skyscraper«
as
addressing the Sherman .County Observer and
straining the cylinders.
a conflict with thé elements, ferocious.
«ho over heard. Tookers Btateeman^
to Its long string of vestlbuled sleep­
Through the swirling snow which
All the fighting blood of his aurestors they went through thqlr preliminary
enclosing $2.50, when w e w ill send you the Sher­
ers; after the a ir hose had been con­
maneuvers.
Just
as
the
final
word
half hid tha bridge and sw ept betweeo
seemed to course ugaln lu thut ^’.^^kgle
A n c t s a t I’h l l « » « o p k y .
nected and the air valves examined)
man County Observer, price $1.50 an<^ Htie w eekly
With the winter khig. I can see him was given by Rankey, In charge, the tho rushing plow« Sinclair saw them
“The inan,” wild Epicurus solemnly.
a
fte
r
the
engineer
bad
swung
out
of
tun
burst
through
the
fleecy
clouds,
Oregonian, price $1.50 ea£h for one year, you sa v ­
coming He yelled. Sankey saw them “who utilized the nutmeg bad a grad»
yet on bitter days standing ulvngslde
his cab, filled hla cups and swung In
a wild cheer fo’lowed tho ram out a fraction o f a second later, and. while
W e track I p * h«nvy pen tacHet aad
ing 50 cents b / so doing.
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