The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-04-29

!, with iron with him, and he kept this betwee
;. ms 1eet all the time, and took It in to Dime
y Win MIN, and wOuldn't let the cOnduct0
I nor no one handle it. One time he went int
D the baggage car to find the bow with th
I. | cigars he left the box with me and told me
De all hred particular that no one else didn'
! touch 1t, for it was filed with money as b
was using, buying up wheat for shipmen
: : 70 Cnicag0. No woman with her fust bab
! Wornt SO particular as he were about tina
DoX. When We get to the hotel and slicket
ourselves down some, he says, Ny friend,
> want You to come along with me to the bank
wnlie 1 take this box and deposit 1t there.
don't Know but what, out West here, som,
evli-0isposed person might not attack me II
the street, II they saw me carrying it.
you are with me it will be safe.' I waited
OUTSIDE While he took the box in; and aftel
awhile ne come out and said that was al
right, and his mind was easy. Then he went
back to the hotel to eat, and he said he wa
the irsishs-agent I've Of s aS' rs Il sIt
ne, says the lying scalawag; he
olcn't want no freight-agent. Pm a-going
70 see him to make arrangements for the
shipment Of some carloads of wheat have
down here to the depot, to 60 through by
the freight-train tonight. When I've fixed
tnat Ill come back, and we'll 20 together
70 the show up here, to the theater.' GOOD
1or you,' says l, for 1 thought he was little
on the minister side Of the trail, and didn't
go 10 no shows, leastwise not to that kind,
as the pictures was about all over the walls.
wall, waited about an hour, having drink
or two with the boys round, for they had q
lust'rate elegant bar down to that hotel,
wnen back come my friend all of lather, as
ne,d been running afore war party.
Whats the matter?' says I.
"'It's real bad,' he says. 4 must find
That bank cashier somehow; the freight
agent won't let the wheat 20 on tonight to
De paid on delivery. He wants the freight
charges paid In advance or the wheat can't
60; and it's got to go, for it's sold for deliv-
"And then he stood thinking, a. gathering
MS brOws, and then figuring on a slip Of
paper, and muttering about dollars and
cents and carloads, and every once in q
while saying as it was too provoking he
hadn't left his money with the hotel clerk in.
stead OF taking it to the bank.
"'Why in thunder don't you take it out
OF the bank again" asked him.
~ can't he says, the banks closed and
l can't get it till the morning. And then he
began walking up and down the room again
ana mutter1ng all about figures and bushels
and such like, and once and again looking
over at me. At last he says, III you'll wait
here for me I'll go up to that bank cashiers
private residence and explain the case.
Mebbe he'll come down to the Office and let
me have that box out again this evening; for
get 1t l must, or Pm clean busted on that
%That's all right, pard,' I says; 'step
right along. I'll come with you, and If he
won't come, by thunder, it wouldn't be much
selves
NO, no, no; that won't do,' he says.
II ne saw another person he might think we |
bank till the clerk did it in the morning. |
iii 60 alone and you'll wait for me here.'
WAL, was agreeable, and so stepped |
down and set 'em up again with the boys at |
the ban; and then it came over me why in |
thunder didn't lend him the money till the |
morning instead Of fooling away the time
arter that cashier, when we might have been
having high old time at the show. So when
he came back in half an hour, looking as If
he'd seen all his relations scalped before his
eyes, and said that the bank cashier had
gone into the country for the night, and that
II ne couldn't get that wheat on he was q
ruined man, cos wheat had risen ten cents a
bushel, owing to some scalawags cornering
It.. l says right off:
elbow much does that freightman wantr
Let me see,' says he, looking, as bright
81 new dollar: six car loads, sack freight,
TO Chicago And then he got to figuring
again, and says at last, with what have in
ny pocketbook, Iguess can fix it with $3.50.
It's new proprietor at this hotel, or guess
could have borrowed it at the office till the
morning. Ive the best part of S., 900 left in
)ox up at the bank
"'Four hundred and eighty says I; well, {
Pll let you have it till the morning;' for / I
OOtf ho hoc !
hat iron.bound box myself; sand then ,
veil git right away and see that Show !
II took out bear-skin pouch had, and !
counted out what money I had left. There
vas $500 rolled up there, and 1 asked him if I
4S0 would fix it up. ,
"'Let me see,' he says, .&so;' and then :
le began to figure again. yes, that is more
han enough with what I have. -Four hun.
Ired and seventy-five will do. Ineed only
.eep enough to pay the theater, because in
he morning I shall 60 to the bank to once.' q
"Waal, gentlemen" he continued, adj :
ressing us all collectively, including the !.
onductor and the boy that sold the cigars, :
ut $475 to that everlasting thief; and when f
q had taw'd his thanks for my timely aid, g
nd told me to wait quarter of an hour =
7hile he paid the freight-bill at the depot, '
Q went of. Wait! waited, guess ibid. Q
waited until I felt kind of cold sweat over b
AC WACu AC ulOu COIuc DdCks ana went ID
own, pale and trembling, as weak as a calf q
1st born, to the Office, for thought if anv-
hing goes wrong with this here business NV q
alps chance is busted. I kinder staggered Il
p to the Office and told the clerk / was Il
teard something had happened to my friend. q
hen he asked me the particulars, and got f
} looking mighty cross as told him. :.
Il guess you'll not see him again, said II
le clerk. There's always some galoot 20 n
g through the greenhorns in this hotel, n
Thy in thunder they don't try the other b
ouse don't know. Here, put on vour a
It, said he, madder'n Texas cow. ssnd
,me along with me-
There was bit of crowd had gathered Il
'und the counter, and one of the bows *
anted me to have drink to set me up d
t, for felt pretty bad, but hadn't no o.
cart to drink. f
SHE amt got no time to drink n6w.' said ~
e clerk, as he came out of the side door. II
Here, hurry up, and We'll 60 to the depot o.
3" WAL, gentlemen, we tried the depot. -,
I'd found there warn't no such wheat going y
rough; we found the chief Of police and !"
Id him, and he said he'd set his crowd on 81
% tracks, but 1t was pretty slim chance. r
Id went back to the h0tal and houlad m