The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-06-01
An Iron.Clad Treasure Coach.

Says the Omaha Republican: Luke
Voorhees,, Superintendent of the Chey-
enne and Sidney Black Hills Stage
Lines, arrived in the city last evening
from Fort Pierre, where he has COM
pleted arrangements for a stage line
from that point to Deadwood, to con-
meet with steamers from Yankton. Mail
service has been ordered on this route,
and regular coaches will begin running
in few days carrying passengers and
mails, and arrangements are nearly
completed for a mail service on the
semi-weekly packet line running be-
tween Yankton and Pierre.
MIR. VOORHEES, is one of the best stage
superintendent in the Western coun-
try, possessing pluck and energy, which
qualities are essential to success in his
line of business. Under his admins
tration Is of the principal road agents,
who operated on the Black Hills road
last summer, were captured, and only
one-Reddy McKenna-managed to es-
cape through the carelessness of Sher-
if in Ohio, where he was traced and ar
rested. The remaining IA have nearly
all been convicted and are now serving
out long terms of Imprisonment.
Whether the stages will be plundered
again this summer remains to be seen;
but to prevent the depredations on the
treasure that will be transported, Mr..
voorhees, has taken the precaution to
have treasure-coach specially built. 1t
is lined with steel three quarters of an
inch thick, through which bullet can
not 90. In the inside is q burglar
proof safe, weighing 800 pounds, OF OBJ
long shape, with door in the end, Sc
cured by combination lock, the secret
combination being known only at each
end of the route. The steel lining of the
coach has two portfolios through which
the guards can fire. This coach is to
be run once q week between Cheyenne
and Deadwood, and is to be accompa-
MED by four guards, two of whom are
to ride on horses ahead of the coach,
while the other two are to "hold the
fort" inside the coach. These guards
are to be thoroughly armed. They have
been selected for the work on account
of their established reputation of being
brave, fearless men. Two of them have
had desperate fights with the road
agents. anu N-uny UcoI uOuOIoUA0 SCoIS
as the evidences Of their pluck. We re-
fer to Scott Davis and Boone May, in
whose lexicon there is no such word as
fear. Davis, it will be remembered, was
the man who, not long after recovering
from wounds received in a road-agent
fight, followed two of them and cap
tured them, together with eighteen
horses which they had stolen. It was
gallant exploit, equal to his previous
fight with the thieves on the road, and
was accomplished in the face of obsta-
cles which would have overcome almost
any other man. The soldiers who were
to accompany him returned as soon as
their rations gave out, but he kept on
alone, through snow-storm, and
caught the two men between Camp
Brown and Green River, while they
were sleeping in hay stack.
The other guards have good record,
and it is safe to say that this quartet will
make it decidedly hot for the agents
should they attempt to tackle the IRON
clad coach. No passengers are to be
carried on this craft.
ELIZABETH ALLEN, in . poem, asks,
" oh, willow, why forever weep7' Eliza
beth is little mistaken a. to the facts.
It isn't the willow that weeps, it is the
boy who dances underline timber end of