Mohave County miner., 1882-11-12
YANKED TO ETERNITY.

Once, when a section crew came
 down the mountain on the South
 Park road from Alpine Tunnel tc
 Buena Vista, very singular thing
 occurred. Riding down a mountain
 on push-car, descending at the rate
 of over two hundred feet to the mile,
 means utter destruction unless the
 brake is on. The section crew refer
 red to got on at Hancock, with their
 bronzed and glowing hides as full
 of arsenic and rain water as they
 could possibly hold. Being reckless
 ly drunk they enjoyed the acceler-
 ated velocity of the car wonderfully,
 until the section boss lost the brake
 off the car, and then there was a
 slight feeling of anxiety. The car
 at last acquired velocity like that
 of young and frolicsome bobtailed
 comet turned loose in space. The
 boys began to get nervous at last,
 and asked each other what should be done. There seemed to be absolute
 ly nothing to do but to shoot onward into the golden presently. All at once the section boss thought of something He was drunk, but the deadly peril of the moment suggest ed an idea. There was 8 rope on the car which would do to tie to some thing heavy and cast of as an anchor It was decided to tie it to some one of the crew and cast him loose in order to save the lives of those who remained. It was glorious oppor tunity It was 8 heroic thing to do. George O'Malley, the section boss, said that he was willing that Patsy Mcbride should snatch tlc laurels from outrageous fortune and bind them on kils 'g5fq2;-7zz. tjat Mr. Mcbride said he didn't care much for the en comiums of the world. lie ha,iifl lost any eneomiums, and didn't want to trade his brains for two dollars worth of damaged laurels. Every one declined. All seemed willing to go down into history without any milne local, and wanted some one else to get the efulgence, Finally, 1t was decided that 8 man by the name of Christian Christianson was the man to tie to. He had the asth- ma anyhow, and life wasn't much of an object to him: so they said that although he declined, he must take the nomination. as he WAS in the hands of his friends. So they tied the rope around Christian and cast. l anchor.
 Tbe car slowed up, and at last stopped still. The plan had succeed ed Five happy wives greeted their husbands that night as they returned | from the jaws of destruction. Christian Christianson did not le- turn. He will never entirely return. He has done so partially, of course, but there are still m ;ssing fragments of him, and it looks as though he must have lost his life-Bill Nye.
 Sine" Barnes tells racy story of his. experience at Santa Monica, in the Carson Appeal <. 1 was-down in that section a few months ago." said "Sinc"and pretty nearly busted when I fell in with Jones, the senator, aud told him my condition. He fell right up abreast of the situation told me he could give me a job. T want lot of men to keep in the water all day to show visitors how delightful surf Is. You see these people from he East have acquired a sort ot pre- udice against the Pacific Ocean, ,and want to counteracc the feeling. I want you to boss eight men and keep em tumbling around in fhe pillows, he sport of the laughing sea in stri- oed costumes-men who can run out ,n the beach every ten minutes and ell how warm the water is.' Well I :aught tie idea ana lSto furnish he c1bwd for twe Nday, nd Ta clossd ths gred ig1 to