The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-07
LICKED THE OPERATOR
TRAVELLED THIRTY MILES IN THIR-
TY MINUTES.

How Trainmaster Carver Sailed Forth
to Punish a laundering Employe-
A Laughable Tale from Bleeding
Kansas.
From the Chicago Herald.
WICHITA, KAN, Nov. 25-The extra
ordinary action of Trainmaster Carver in
clearing the tracks between here and
Mulyane in order to come on a special
engine to whip Frank Lindwall, train
DISPATCHER here, has been explained it is
said. According to this explanation Lind
wall did send Carver a most insulting tele-
gram. but wholly through mistake in
manipulating the switches on his key
hoard. Lindwall was only working
temporarily in place of a sick operator,
and the mistake was one which could
easily occur without especi al blame to him.
Since the explanation has been made,
however, wonder at FIR. Garver's extra
ordinary haste in travelling 20 Wichita has
greatly lessened The telegram which
and while quite harmless in itself, read by
Carver it had a most offensive bearing.
The true cause Of the assault, it is
claimed, was ascertained only to-day by
Billv Calvin and Fred Laffiin, two we'll
known horsemen, calling at the Western
Union telegraph office to ascertain why a
telegram which the latter had sent to the
former had not reached its destination. 1t
appears that Calvin was at Winfield, Kan,
negotiating for the purchase of a trotting
mare named Jennie Marvin, an animal that
has shown considerable speed at the county
fairs in Southern Kansas during the past
season, but not having sufficient knowledge
of the mare he had photographed to Fred
Iaffiin, who is remarkably well posted and
could probably give not only the pedigree.
but the past history OF every race horse in
Kansas Calvin had received the following
telegram from Wichita:
WICHITA Nov. 22-Jenne is all right. No
on time. F. L.
Mr. Calvin had no reason to doubt that
the telegram was from Latin, who would
naturally not wish to put his name to a tel
egram affecting the reputation of horse
with the possibility of making enemies Tor
himself. Calvin accordingly purchased
Jennie Marvin, paying $4,000 for her. He
tried her speed tie day following, however,
and found that she could not beat three
minute gait, and on passing too near her
heels, when she baked in the second heat, be
had received kick that knocked him sense
ess. Subsequent information showed that
Jennie Marvin was anything but 'all right
and while she had a reputation for making
some very fast spurts, owing to her bad
temper and ather causes she was almost
worthless on the track He came up to
Wichita to get even with Latin, but the
latter denied the telegram so strenuously
tat Calvin postponed his intended ven
geance until inquiries could be made at the
telegraph office The telegram which Fred
Latin sent was found in the office, and was
wholly different from the one which Calvin
received.
After reading the true telegram Calvin
went away satisfied with Latin, but breath
ing threats of suit for damages against
the Western Union Telegraph Company.
The agent of the latter, in looking the mat
ter up further discovered that the telegram
sent by Latin to Calvin had been sent all
right, but had been DETECTED from its true
course, somewhere in the city. Having
heard of the Garver-Lindwall trouble, he
assumed there might be some connection
between this and the disappearance of the
Iaflin-Galvin telegram. He at once called
Carver up and found this to be the case.
Llndwall had, it was LEARNED, received
telegram TO be delivered to Miss Jennie
McPhee, a most estimable young lady of
Anthony, in this state, who is said to be the
intended bride of the tralnmaster, and was
en- route from her home to Topeka. Lind
wall was instructed to deliver the telegram
to her on the train when it stopped at the
Union depot IN this city, and also let Gar
yer know how the young lady was. He
did so, but in the telegram which Calvin
received the mo. l on time" referred to
train No. instead of the speed of Jen-
ME Marvin as he had supposed. IL
appears that Lindwal had in
some way accidentally thrown the
switch of the commercial wire on the
board. so as to take the place of the one
which he intended to use, and vice versa.
He had thus sent Lahin's telegram to
would have been of the utmost use to the
latter, it can readily be seen that it was
likely to give great dissatisfaction, coming
to a trammaster from one of his subordi-
mates, with;whom he was mot even on
terms of intimacy, and referring to his
fiancee.
The telegram which Mr. Carver received,
and which caused his extraordinary ire, was
as follows:
WICHITA Nov. Gold boy, have nothing to
do with Jennie if you take my advice l know
her well, having frequently had her in my
sulky. She has villianous temper, and has
more than once kicked me over the dashboard,
AT the Abilene fair in October she kicked Tom
oBrien in the jaw and landed him in the
judges stand. l am well aware that she is fast,
but not profitably so. She will never bring you
In dollar as the result of her spurts. Her
Veys stable, and you can see that she has had
usage if you examine her TANKS and back. They
are covered with scars. She is a regular old
skate, and cannot be let alone too well
When Mr.. Carver had read this telegram
he longed for process by which he could
telegraph himself to Wichita. But this
being impossible he thought of the next
best way of reaching there in a hurry.
Ordinary means were altogether too slow
for his purpose. He longed ardently for an
opportunity to mop the floor with the mau
who dared to SO viiely cauniate his
sweetheart He was advised by his friends
TO be calm, but the advice fell upon I'M
needing ears. He few to the telegraph in
stTument and at once gave orders to clear
the track for a special engine. A passen-
ger train was side-tracked just after it left
here for Winfield and freight No. 43 was
ordered held at a small station south of
Mulyane. A mogul engine was ordered
out Of the round-house and Mr.. Carver,
together with an operator to take the place
OF Lindwall, stepped on board. just ten
minutes from reading the last word of the
morse telegram the engine bearing the irate
ualnmaster was pulling out from Mulvane
With orders to keep the throttle wide open.
Ihe locomotive flew with lightning speed,
put all too slow for the impatience of Mr..
darver, who leaned far out from the cab
window in his haste to place his hands upon
LlndwalL The thirty miles were passed
over IN 30 minutes, being about as good
tlne as has ever been made on any railroad
track in Amarica