The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-17
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passengers bound for Stockton and tins
way stations who were going ON the Pied
mont. Al the same time he pointed to =
tall. we1l-dresscd youth Of about II, who
looked a. II he had becn zap all night.
"Yes, ! sac him, Of course. What about
him ?"
"Well, he lives at Livermore. and the
story I heard told of him to-day by u friend
of his from up there In one of the most
comical / ever heard, IL it's true, and j
think IL IL, as tho man that told me In per
fectly reliable, George, that's his name,
il, next to a reporter I know, the most
colossal prcvaricator this side of the
Rockies"
Lets hear the story. sergeant"
well. will, il you won't mention amy
names"
"All right, go ahead"
'Yon see: Georges father Is a large
rancher and vineyarlist near Liyermore.
He is getting pretty old now, and George
family Consists OF the father and mother,
the son George, and his two sisters. For
the latter the old man employs u gov
erless. The old man Ia very fond of dogs.
and about three months Y had one, n
New Foundland, of which he was particsi-
larly fond. 1t was so Intelligent 1t seemed
almost human. One day George told his
father about a piece he had read in the
Call Of two dogs down i'm the city that had
Ssen S fs%sn So to talk, tx a shs T Rav eS1 ss sei Il he he
could not he made to talk, too. The old
man pondered awhile, and then told
SeOTKe II Ie tlOtlKnt Ue cptilN ittu -
human and Jim Comfort, the teacher of
the other two dogs, he might take Don
down. He gave him. some money and he
"When George got to Oakland IN met
some old chuIns he used to- know at the
;,av 5sh h Hs s sSld ,i tine dog Ef for S Ss w ana
home he told his father the dog was all
right and Comfort Thought he would have
old man was delighted. A month ago he
gave lid hoy some money and told him to
come down and see how the dog was pro-
good time for two days and then returned.
In answer to the old gents inquiries he
.aid: .rhe dogs all light, father; he can
when the wound made where the little sill
yer diaphragm was inserted Is healed up,
they say he will he able to talk as well as
you and me- The old man was tickled to
death.
"Two weeks ago he insisted that George
should come down to the city and bring
the dog back with him, speak or mo speak.
George was In a dnandary. He came
,,cwn da st"if ae over wen, PSashss' Without shS Mt ,he n %ss
and the governor met him at the depot.
"'Where's Don, George" was the first
".I haven't got him. father
How that, you rascal. How dare
Father, hate To tell yo" he's dead. /
"You-shot-him,' said the old gentle
man, greatly excited: =,
Is W.
You how IL was,' and IA tear came i'm his
eye as he spoke. You see, when I got to
kept in training and told him we were
going home. He seemed pleased tn see
me and could talk like anything. He
and how Liverrnore looked, and then he
got confidential and began To tell me a
iifsis s story |. x ns1 ,,n, y"s sa,ie ,ne q sHyer cn%:
sSes DON dead. Father. forgive me.
an. W . %S fSfSiye about Ss"; ny Z Il, %oc sen noy mo a /,
yo,l can take n few days holiday and go
and see the soldiers camp at Santa
sGeorgc had been thcrs. or somewhere
else and is just returning ho'ne.'
Among the recently invigorated liars of
the town il one who has just returned
from a session with ozone i'm Colorado,
says the EOmaha Wortd-Herutd. 1t was
his first trip through the mountains, and
he was much affected by the feats of en-
Rineering skill there manifested, as wit
ness the following:
~ had heard Of the curve on the Penn
~sylvania, where, according tn the time
card scheduled, the engineer is Obliged Ia
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 1 now believe il. There was
am old honest, h~orny-handcsi miner rode
over the road out of Denver with me and
he told me several tnfnRS. sSnce WH1le We
were being jerkch around the edge of tho
mountains and could look out from under
the roots of our hair at the track opposite
i'm the valley he told me IL tale. Said he
"'That ycre track down yam is the one
we're onto. hut We won't tech il fer an
hour. We run up the ravine an down the
side of the mountain an double back.
Down thar is wher' Jim Lyle saved tho
paymaster % the road
"tHow - l inquired.
at were this way: The paynastcr's
ear was hitchcd onto the hind end o. the
freight train, his own engine hayin' had a
little trouble with her runnin' gear am
helm abandoned for awhile up the road
Well, the train was snOrtin' an crawlin
aroun' the mountain when all of a s,iddeT
the back brakeman comes a-runnin' uI
am yells to Jim:
s.sPull out! Pull ont! They's a gans
n ~rlstlcrs has caught the engine am arr
humpiu after us. Pullr
"Well, Jim Lyle noticed that: He seer
at wunst That the engine had been fixe<
mp an that the ~r1istiers had took her Il
ketch him an git the dust in the payuhas
ter's car, SO he pulled ont right pe;srt an
tried to OUTRAGE 'enl, but il want no go
They KEEP Hittin' up on him.
sIPrptty soon he struck the beginnin' a
this yere curve. He didn't slack IA breatl
am the conductor came r,ishin' up AN
beilercd:
ssFer Gods sake, what kin we do: !
we run this we'll climb "a rail-
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