The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-24
TRIEBER'S TROUBLES.
The Fate Of a Peanut" on
the Missouri Pacific
hallway.
He Violated the Downing Law
oy Selling Newspapers on
the Sabbath,
And Fearing Arrest, Threw Up
Lucrative Job and Retired
in Disgust.

There are a number of Sedalians who
have trav,led over the Missouri Pacific
road and had occasion 10 patronizc young
man named Trit Der, who passed through
! SedalIa every other day as peanut" on
either an east or west bound tram. Irieber
is small in stature for even news agent,
but what he lacked in size it was sup
posed he more than made up in natural
shrewdness. He is something over twenty
wears of sge, and has been bulchering quite
lengthy period.
1t was Trieber who came out from St.
Louis ON Conductor Jim Kings train
on Sunday last, and when the
Jefferson City depot was reached he
SET about selling iobe-Democrats, Repub-
licsns, etc., and Was Immediately Stopped
by Sheriff Wagner, who informed him that
he was violating the Downing Sunday law,
and the sale of single paper laid him liza
BILE to arrest and fine.
AT first Trieber hooted at the idea of
suspending operations, but seeing that he
was liable TO be locked up, he finally lett
the depot platform and stepped inside OF
one Of ,he coaches, where he disposed of
more than the usual number Of papers and
was not molested by the law-enforcing
Hsherifi or is deputies.
Trieber was given a pointer" how
ever, that a warrant would be sworn out,
and when he again passed through, on his
return from Kansas Civ, he would be ar
rested at Jefferson City and made to pay the
penalty for violating the sunday law.
Monday morning Trieber again passed
through Sedalia, going east on Conductor
Smiths train, and was met at the depot by
BAZoO reporter.
"Do you expect to be arrested when you
get TO Jefferson City," asked the item grab
Der.
IF the authorities catch sight of me they
will probably run me in, he replied, but
/ will take good care to keep out of their
way. l was given pointer before we
pulled out from Jefferson City last Sunday,
and / don't have to let house fall on me
to take tumble"
That was all the conversation the reporter
lad with Trieber on Monday, and the out
yome of his violation of the Sunday law at
the capital of the great state of Missouri
was not learned until Yesterday, when
Trieber should have been on Conductor
Knowlton's train, en- route to Kansas City
on his regular run. He was not ION deck"
however, and the BAzoO man suspected
something unusual had happened, so
hunted up the new peanut" and inter- ga
ted him as to the whereabouts of Tri-ber.
"Oh, he's quit" was the reply.
"What caused him TO do sO?r asked the
reporter.
SWELL, it's pretty good joke, and don't
mind telling you. When he went east on
Monday he was badly scared, fearing he |
would be arrested at Jefferson City for hav. |
ing sold papers there on Sunday last. The |
III & Il
circumstances, SO determined to have lit |
Gle fun at the butchers expense: Accord
ngly bogus dispatch was fixed up by the |
who was let into the secret. The
message asked if news agent
named Trieber " as on the train, and was
signed By Sheriff Wagner and dated Jeffer.
SON City.
"Then the bsgagemas;er went to Trieber
and told him that the conductor had re-
ceived telegram from the sheriff of Cole
county, asking about him (Trieber). In
stantly the news agent was as white as
sheet. He sought Conductor Smith, and
was shown the alleged dispatch by that gen.
tleman Triebers worst fears were confirmed
He was to be arrested. and there was no
way out of it. He held consultation with
the train men, but they could offer him no
consolation. Finally happy idea struck
the baggagemaster. Triel er could conceal
himself in one of the huge chests in the
baggage car and remain hidden until
Jefferson City was passed. To suggest was
to act, and Trieber was only too happy to
comply
"When tie train reached the first sta.
ton west of Jefferson City, Trieber stepped
into the chest, but the lid was not closed
down. When the train reached the state
capital, however, Trieber was securely
locked within the chest, and the thermom-
eter stood al 5O0. The train stopped twenty
minutes for dinner, ba. not a sound came
from the chest. AT last, however, the en-
|gineer pulled cut, and Trieber commenced
q vigorous kicking to attract attention.
The train men, however, heard him not,
and half a dozen miles were travelled
before the bagssgemaster unlocked the
trunk and Trieber stepped from his IN
comfortable quarters, almost sufsocated. ,
After he had cooled off somewhat he
made numerous inquiries regarding Sheriff !
agner, and was informed that he had J
earched the train in vain, and on discov-
ering he had been thwarted gave it out that Z
he would watch the train for a month but i,
what be succeeded in making the arrest. |;
This was enough for Trieber. He went ;
to ST Louis on his run and at once threw z
up his position on the road, and wher /
talked with him this morning he said if
Sheriff Wagner wanted him he would have \
to come to st. Louis after him."
1t any person in Sedalia desires to see :
the fly young man who has for months past $
sang out Texas Siftings, Kansas City q
papers and Police Gazette" they can hear
OF him by addressing in care of the Union
News company, St. Louis, but it is safe to v
say he has made his last trip over the Pa
ci6c road. IL
from Eminent Wilmer Brinton,
NJ. D., Baltimore.
UI HAUH ucod HolAo~,. r.