The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-07-23
SEEING THE WEST.
Two Youthful Kentucky Tour
iStS' Who Saw a Man
Killed.

- DALOO TepOThoT III HIS IOuuuS
CHANGED upon two youthful tramps
yesterday who hailed from Covington,
KY, and who are bound for Cali
tornia. Both boys have excellent
homes, but fired with love of adven-
ture, they prefer to become "trayel-
ing tourists, as they term themselves,
rather than to stay in the hum drum
round of the staid old Kentucky city.
They stated that this is not their first
journey of the kird and about
a year ago, they made a similar
one, but were induced to return
home before reaching the acme of
their desires. They told of many
curious adventures in their tourist
life, one of which is as follows
While in box car on the Santa Fe
road with two tramps smart brake
man swung himself into the car and
after discovering that the tramps had
10 money with which to buy his
silence, he told them they would be
made to shit the ground" Immediately
To this the tramps objected as the
train was going at the rate of 80 miles
per hour, and to be thrown of, meant
certain death. The brakeman would
not listen to their pIotestatiOn,
but drew bis revolver and ordered
them to get off Immediately
or die. One of the tramps then
struck the brakeman a terrible blow
with coupling pin on the head which
the boy thought must have killed him
as he did not move afterwards. If it
did not, he was killed anyhow, as the
body was Immediately thrown from
the train. The tramps then threat
ened to throw the boy of, as he had
witnessed the encounter, but they
were finally prevailed upon to let him
ride to thelnext station on his prom
Use to skip at once and say nothing,
which he was glad enough to have a
chance to do. Another adventure
befell the same boy in Emporia, Kan,
be applied to a good natured looking
Irish woman for "hand out" but in
stead of giving him one she took him
into her house and gave him good
warm supper. While he was eating
she drew the fact out of him that he
was a runaway and when he finally
finished his supper, and was express
ing his thanks for the same, she
said "Divil a bit do / want your
thanks, but / am bint OH giving you
the Elegant whipping which your
mother wud do if she had howld of We
this minute" and she thereupon seized
a cane and began to belabor him
with will which made him dance
with pain. He finally escaped from
the justice loving lady and ran for
dear life: Among those most to be
dreaded by tramps the boys declare
are the brakemen, of whom they say
not one is honest. They will take
every cent from tramp they can lay
their hands upon and then put the
same in their own pockets. They de-
clared that brakemen had frequently
made them undress, even to the tax
ing off of their shoes, for the purpose
of seeing if nickle, or other sum,
was not hidden. When the money
was not forthcoming they were struck
with whatever the brakemen chose to
use and in proof OF the assertion one
of the boys showed deep wound over
his eye, which he said brakeman,
who had failed to find any money on
him, had given him. Altogether the
boys have had enough advent ures to
write first class dime novel and
when they return from this trip they
propose to astOnish even the readers
of "Sixteen Stringed Jack" and
BILLY the Kid" They left last night
for Kansas City via of lean to on the