Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-11-06
AN AeLE-BopiEp LIAR.
He Tells . Yarn tho Like OF Which Has
Never Before Been Heard.

He Tells Yarn the Like OF Which Has
Never Before Been Heard.
Among the recently invigorated liars Of
the town is one who has just returned from
a session with ozone in Colorado, says the
Omaha World Herald. 1t was his first trip
through the mountains and he was much
affected by the feats of engineering skill
there manifested, as witness the following:
'sI had heard of the curve on the Pennsyl-
vania, where according to the time-card
schedule, the engineer is obliged to lean out
of his cab and exchange tobacco with the
brakeman on the rear end, so 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 jerked
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 yere track down yam is the one
we're onto, but we won't tech il for an
hour. We run up the ravine an down the
side of the mountain an double back.
Down thar is wher' Jim Lyle saved the pay
master o. the road
"'HowP l inquired.
I" 1T were this way: The paymaster's car
was hitched onto the hind end o. the freight
train, his own engine havin' had q little
trouble with her runnin' gear an bein'
abandoned fer awhile up the road. Well,
the train was snortin' and crawlin' aroun'
the mountain, when all of a sudden the
back brakeman comes a runnin' up an yells
to Jim:
"'"Pull outI Pull outl They's gang o.
ruStlers has caught the engine an are
humpin' after usl Pull!'
NGWell Inn T.vle n0fIcad that He eaen
at wunst that the engine had been fixed up
an that tue rustlers had took her to ketch
him an git the dust in the paymaster's car,
so he pulled out right peart an tried to
OUTRAGE 'em, but it want no 90. They KEEP
gittin' up on him.
":Pretty soon he struck the beginnin' o.
this yere curve. He didn't slack breath
an the conductor come rushin up an bel
! Tered:
"'''Fer Gods sake, what kin we dot II
we run this We'll climb rail-"
&c "Sallright," said Jim Lyle. "If I cal
clate rightly that cars saved" an he gave
her another pull out an just as we reached
right here he Jerked her wide open. Then
| we see what was what Lookin' back
! bein' on the train, seen the last coach go uI
in the air, there was a jerk, an away over
into the canyon she went
"'Well, where does the salvation Of the
coach come lnF asked. Il don't see any
| particular advantage in being spilled over
a mountain-side and being shot by train
| robbers
"Now, don't git frisky,' said the ole
man. I'm tellin' this yere an l ant done
That there coach, as l say, sailed over
offin the track just like the hind boy die
when you used to play 'crack the whip'' al
school. 1t f1oated down as nice as you
please an lit on the track below in the val
ley, 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 towns
people was waitin' fer 'em an the new
| cemetery was started in good shape"