The Hickman courier., 1878-06-14
VOL. XIV. NO. IS.
20 PUZZLE RoAp AGENTS.


An i'on-ciad Coach, Guarded BY -Four Brave
Nsn fer the Cheyenne and Black Hills Line.
Luxe Voorhees,, superintendent of the
Oneyenne and Sidney Black Hills stage
lines, arrived in the city yesterday even
ing irom Fort Pierre, where he has COM
pieted arrangements for stage line from
that point to Deadwood, to connect with
steamers from Yankton. Mail service
has been ordered on this route, and rcgu-
lar coaches will begin running in few
days, carrying passengers and mails, ana
arrangements are nearly completed for
mail service on the se,ni-weekly packet
line running between Yankton and
Pierre.
Mr.. Voorhees, IS one Of the best stage
superintendents in the western country,
possessing pluck and energy, which quail
ities are essential to success in his line of
business Under his administration
fifteen of the principal road agents, who
eperated on the Black Hills road last
eImmer, were captured, and only one
.Reddy BIcKenne-managed TO. escape
xhrou9 the carelessness Of a sheriff in
Ohio, Were he was traced and arrested.
The remauing fourteen have nearly all
been convlted, and are now serving out
long terms imprisonment. Whether
the stages vi be plundered again this
summer TemAls to be seen; but 10
prevent the deledations on the treasure
thst will be trasported, Mr.. Voorhees,
has taken the Preoution TO have 4 treas
ure-coach gpeciaiiy3uilt. 1t il lined with
steel tbree-guarten Of an inch thick,
through which bullt cannot 90. In the
inside il burglar proosafe, weighing 800
/ pounds, Of oblong shsp, with a door in
the end, secured by 4 coobination 10 k,
the secret combination beng known only
st each end of the rout. The steel
lining Of the coach has TIVE port holes
through which the guards csndre. Thii
| coach is 70 be run once a week between
! Cheyenne and DeadwOOd, and k TO b,
accompanied by four guards, two o
whom are 10 ride on horses ahead OF tb
coach, while the other two are to hol,
the fort " inside the coach. These guard
sre TO bs thoroughly armed. They hav
been selected for the work on account @
their established reputation as bein,
brave, fearless men. Two Of them hay
had desperate fights with the road sgents
and to-day bear honorable scars ~ tn
evidences of their pluck. We refer I
/ Scott Davis and Boone May, in who's
| lexicon there is TO such word az fear
Davis, it will be remembered, was III
man who, lot long after recovering from
wounds received in a road agent fight
followed two OF them and captured them
together with eighteen herses which the,
had stolen. It was a gallant exploit
equal 70 his previous fight with ia
thieves on the road, and was accomplish
ed in the face of obstacles which WQAy
have overcome almost any other man
The soldiers, who were to acccmpau,
him, returned as soon as their ration
gave out, but he kept on alone, througl
a snow storm, and caught the two me
between Camp Brown and Green river
while they were sleeping in q hay stack
The other guards have q good record
and it is safe TO say that this quartet vii
make it decidedly hot for the agent
should they attempt to tackle the iron
clad coach. No passengers are TO b.
carried Oh this coach.-IOmaha RePub
/ licsn.