The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-11
BEATING HIS WAY.
Jasne. Hall's Lonely and Exciting Trip
AcrOss the Plains.


Jam~. Hali's Lonely and Exciting Trip
AcrOss the Plains.
Prom the San Francisco Chronicle.
was wrong in saying that l was not i'm
q carriage from Columbus tai Ogden, for !
paid my way tn North Platte. where i
knew there were lots OF Glasgow boys,
machinists and engineers. l no sooner
got to this little town of North Platte, situ-
ate az the junction of North Platte river
with a smaller river from the southwest,
than I found myself at home. These fell
lows are all shrewd. intelligent men,
Scotch still and not nearly SD much
..chemicaily deranRcd' ar Americanizcd
II use the word with no deroRsstory mean-
ing hut only as respect ScotchIncnb as
their richer and more priRRish fellow
eountryrncn. ready To help and be helped.
One engine driver says To me: "be at
hand and when the bell rings jump up
and sit ny me-" ] got tai JulesburR. 15O
mile. from Platte very co,nforta bly,, the
weather by thist time being mild aud de-
licious. l would like to mention the en-
9ine drivers name. he was such u gcntle-
man in the native sens.. OF TIE word. NJ
ness. hut hunted up the next conductor
engine and caboose both change mt each
%;sS h;m " e made aam my i sr r ms n i% =
caboose, and very comfortable il was
from J~ulesburg to Cheyenne. nearly 24O
When one meets with such unobtrnsivc
goodness at the hands of u perfect strnn-
ger, the only bond bcing that Of country.
u casts it's sunshine ON all the world.
Moral-''Thc Scotch are clannish. 'Amcn;
so he il. l am wrong. or rather. leave u
wrong impression.. All the way tn Chey-
! changed at Pine Bluff-thef friend in the
first introducing me tai the second.
cheyenne. when | passed il i'm II, was IL
few shanties. the usual germs of "a city,
only "A grocery and u smiths shop and n
saloon. is now "a robust, thriving town, or
city, as ALI towns are designated here, and
n lAN,snnifltr sasna M thnf s.ls..at m M mel 1nisl
out. The Union Pacific ~cornpany's ma
chine shops are being built here and some
foundation stone was only laid lately.
You may guess. therefore. that l had
little d~ciiicmlty in crossing the paths Of
lots of Clyde ladies. Did You ever
notice there il "a more distinctive love of
cotntry-not 81 much patriotism as ,isii-
ally applied. but positive love for country
small countries such as switzerland. Scot
land. Belgium and Holland, unor, mark
edly in the mountainous. as in the first
two, hut decidedly i'm them all. Ii is he
cause the confines arr. not too extensive
"a he enclosed Within the grasp of q hui
man heart. the whole nation seeming hut
as one family:
I never met a Scotchman but one who
deniol his country. bonny Scotland, and
she Is a 6onnY n n.,i' mn moi Ii;,;: In si,ssc cir,
or three days in getting on To Laramie.
l had only tn wait till the right man came
Having passed through Nebraska and
just impinged upon the northeast corner
of Colorado; at Cheyenne. straight north
into Wyoming. The main problem now
is, how to get ont of this Wyoming:
Well. i'm Laramie lived the brother of
North Platte to Julcsturg, and who did
me So many kind services. This brother,
just az good a fellow, ran his engine from
into the saboose of the train going west,
SO that l was only one night in Laramie.
Three or four other Scotchmen gave us
their company To the train. by their good
help i got on to Rawliris, 15D miles farther
west. The conductor was "a silent man.
so at Rawlins j was left to try my own
strategy.
II was at this point I had my next adj
venture. Being thus left To my own re-
sources at Rawlins. but also being deter
mined To move west at all hazards, I got
into "a car loaded with harvesting nlac.hin-
cry. thought l was hidden and safe hut
no.. The brakemen had seen me going i'm
among the Jagged arrangements, and
when the train was i'm motion he came
along the. roofs of the cars and looked
squarely down upon me. He asked:
Have You any stuff :"
Stuff means money. / fccbly and cow
.rs .So sn must ~H s., of Th %ea, he .,s sn'a;
said "All right. and he went away.
Next stoppage | really did get of, but AS
and as the place was SO weiri and out.
lnndish. as the train began to move l
jumped i'm again. He came by-and-by,
lboWeNeTs ttihtiG aloilR the GHoIs AGnltts
looking SO large To my terrorized and dis
tracted eyes that [ quailed at the sight of
him.. "Didn't ] tell you to get OFT AT last
stoppage?' Eyes. and SO ] did get oil,
but as You did not come along l got ON
again. thinking you had repented OF your
h~arshness and would not set q fellow
down i'm such a wildcrness." He: "r1l
see that you get Oft Mt the next stopping
place." 'tDn we go, still WESTWARD, ho!"
! said to myself and calmly waited the
outcome. In about t-hree-quarters of AN
hour the engine whistles. snow comes
the tug of war;" say To my other ego.
comes along. "Ay. come along. Out
you go, you old bum" i
nau9ht. The place was dreary i'm the
extreme. A huge. round water tank
at which the engine WAS imblbinR the
necessary fiuid-and notbinu more.
The pump shanty, about half a mile
was the only other object to he seen.
I lay down by the tank and watched the
train tiIl il Disappeared. i chumped a
crust of bread I had i'm my pocket. and
though nothing OH earth could have been
more lonely or dreary, no a blade OF
grass. not q tree. not a shrslb. bare dirt
only to br seen. ! did not feel 10 wretchcd