Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-03-13
BIGGER THAN GOULD.
A Deal In Railroading Superior to Any
Ever Executed by K.ng JAY.

working somewhere in Dakota who in
certain branches of railroading is y
bigger man than Jay Gould. / don t
know what his name is. but he is n
large, raw-boned, square -corncred,
ugly-looking man somewhere between
six Ond seven feet tall and with u
wrong-font lower jaw-ono which was
in. ended for q man between seven and
eight fcot tall.
He always works on the front end of
a frcight-;rain and enj ,ys nothing
moro than collision with cattle
train occasionally. There cant any
tramps ride OH his train. He's done
more TO solve the tramp problem than
perhaps any other man in the United
States. Hits 'cni with q couplng-pin
and leaves them for The local auIhori-
ties 10 bury. Ile can't remember tho
time when lie was small enough to
take back talk.
was on his train one day in 1877
going on tho Northwestern road from
Tracy. Mimi, TO Watcr,own, Oak.
He was feeling n little cross about
something, aud one of the first things
he did wils TO twist off two brallc-rols
and throw them off on the prairie. At
Gary, just across the Territorial line.
some forty or fif y Sioux Indians
boarded the train. They were from
the Sisseion reservations, and had been
on the Lac Q ii Parle river hunting;
they were ra.her uncivilizcd. but they
had made progress enough to SEQ tho
advantage of riding on the pale-facc
freight rain over walking They
scorncd the caboOsc. however, and
scattered themselves along The top of
tho b0x-cars near the center of tho
tr'Iin. They were, of course, sufli-
ciently civilized to know enough not 10
buy ticket. .tf.. -a .s...f
When the train pulled out of Gary
the angular brakeman camc into the
caboosc and took of his coat. His face
II guess S5 @SSSqiEhh @SqiEhhuy..
Indians ride" said the conductoi..
"Of course. we can't put them of till
W. ~ "IN' ''''.'"' ",'u esen
way 10 leave them alone "Tho
brakeman gave him one wiIhering
W",nlinoi I NV "'i' ;nto o' d. '"o a., ilons uool.
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The train was now going full speed
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on,wmnIonf "
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roI,lo sovnro Uo hod no. ,anto % 80
hiooJ onI ho maJo e. Lrich, "o5 d
for Indians '
1uo hcgnr to wall r;rht ,,rorc,,
thoso Indioms and ,hro., ,Lon, III,
woys ot onco Thov so, ,Lnir oUI,,
bnno wos IN oot M and GrLt h.,
This WAS what hc wan,cd' Fnrtho nnTf
bnlf.hopr he stood mn tborc on Ton of
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,".l P,"'Iie gr'ss' o.ners he roi'eu OH
in'o 'no us.o", "uu sun o'nors ne IosSe,l
up anu iSiT hanging on thG teleSraph
w're' "nu ioohcu pacN ~ 'nem sauly'
US II regret'.ns 'h"s io i"oh ume 10
s'op anu 'Just u cio'hes-plh on them'
someone's ,, whon nc struck car
wheIo lnui'.s were p",ticu'ariy plenty
anu ho was ior'u"a.o NJ getting goou
nolus on tneN', nc siiot ',em up so iast
'hat 70 US Duck II, III ,ne c'.oooSe II looked
rs II Volcaho had broken out ahead
which uischarSco hothihS Dut Nortn
American aoorisihoS IN mahgIeu