Morning journal and courier., 1889-10-08
COLORADO OZONE.
1t Invfg0rates an OEdtnary Liar Until
He Breaks the Record.

1t 1nvfgOrates an OEatnary Liar Until
He Breaks the Record.
Among the recently invigorated liars of
the town is one who has just returned from
a session with ozone in Colorado, says the
Omaha WorldsHerald. It was his first trip
through the mountains and he was much sf-
fected by the feats of engineering skill there
manifested, as witness the following:
81 had heard of the curve on the Penn
sylvania, where, according to the time.card
scheduled, the engineer is obliged to lean out
of his cab and exchange tobacco with the
brakeman on the rear end, 80 as to give the
passengers something to talk about, and
now believe it. There was an old, honest,
horny handed miner rode over the road out
of Denver with me and he told me several
things Once while we were being ierked
around the edge of the mountains and could
look out from under the roots of our hair at
the track opposite In the valley he told me
tale. Said he:
"'That vere track down yam is the one
we're onto, but we won't tech it fer an hour.
We run up the ravine an down the side of
the mountain an double back. Down thar
Is whar' Jim Lyle saved the paymaster o. the
road.'
"'Howa' inquired.
"'It were this way: The paymastsr's car
was hitohed onto the hind end o. the freight
| train, his own engine havin' had little trou-
| Bile with her runnin' gear an being aban-
| doned fer awhile Hp the road. Well, the
train was snortin' an crawlfn' aroun' the
mountain, when all of q sudden the back
| brakeman comes a-runnin' up an yells to
Jim:
"'Pull outl Pull out! They's a gang O.
rustlers has caught the engine an ere hump
| in after usi Pulll'
"Well, Jim Lyle noticed that. He seen at
| wunst that the engine had been fixed up, an
that the rustlers had took her to ketch him
an git tho dust in the paymaster's car, 80 he
pulled out right peart an tried to OUTRAGE
em, but it wants no so. They KEEP gittin'
up on him.
"Pretty soon he struck the beginnin' o.
this yere curve. He didn't slack a breath,
an the conductor come rushin' up an bel
Tered:
"'Fer Gods sake, what kin we dos If we
| run this We'll climb rail-.
"'Sallright,' said Jim Lyle. IF I calc-
late rightly that cars saved an he gave her
another pull out, an just as we reached right
here he jsrked her wide open. Then we see
what was what. Lookin' back I, bein' on
the train, seen the last coach 60 up in the
air, there was jerk, an away over into the
| canyon she went
| coach come ina" I asked. 7 don't see any
particular advantage in being spilled over q
! mountain side and being shot by train rob-
bers.'
"'Now, don't git risky said the old man.
'Im tellin' this yers, an l aims done. That
there coach, as I say, sailed over ofdn the
| track, just like the hind boy did when you
used to play crack the whip at school. It
| f1oated down as nice as you please an lit on
she track below in the valley, an with the
| force it was slung rolled ten miles to the
next station. When we got there it was in
on the sidin', an we pulled by, an when the
| light engine load O. rustlers come bullin'
along the townspeople was waitin' fer 'em,
an the new cemetery was started in good
| shape'"