The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-04

Yesterday the EAGLE young man heard
good story told at the expense of Tom
Anderson, passenger agent of the Rock
Island road at Topeka. Some years ago
Tom had prominent position with the
Santa Fe when it was the only road in
this section of the state. A gentleman in
this county knew Tom well and he
thought his old friendship was worth a
pass over the road. This gentleman,
whose name might be put down as Jones,
had farm adjoining and in putting up a
fence he took into his farm good slice of
land from the Santa Fe right of way.
About this time he applied to Tom for a
pass, and his letter, like a number of
others, was consigned to the waste basket
unanswered. A few days arfter this letter
was mailed Tom was making tour of in
spection of the road and seeing the en-
croachments of Jones on the company's
right OF way he got as mad as a hornet
and pulling out a note book he wrote
note giving Jones a lively cursing for
his intrusion and when lie arrived op-
posite his house he saw him and
fired the note at him. Now, then, it hap
peds that Tom Anderson is the legitimate
successor of Horace Greedy in the art of
writing unreliable manuscript and when
Jones picked up the note thrown TO him
he could read nothing but the signature
and, of course, concluded it was the pass
he asked for. He never in his life carried
such document aud he concluded to use
it at once. He came down to Wichita one
day, went 10 Newton another, ran up to
Topeka and Emgoria frequently, made an
annual trip TO Kansas City, in fact he
went wherever he pleased over the Santa
Fe. When the conductors would come
around he would present the document
and the conductors not being able to read
it, except the name, they took it for grant
ed that it was pass. particularly when il
was presented as such, and walked away
making no note of IL for really they could |
make no notes from it. For about two /
years this went on and Jones was as famil- |
lar character on all trains as the news |
boy almost. Finally Tom Anderson was /
on the train that Jones was |
on one day and when the |
conductor came to the latter and received /
his hen track document he took it back to /
where Tom was and said very meekly, |
Mr.. Anderson. here is pass that has /
been bothering me for two or three years,
and | want to know when il runs GU: aud /
all about it." Tom took the note. read 1
il over and saw what IL was, called the /
conductor 4 blockhead Jones fraud and /
raised thunder generally when be found .
out that the scientific cussing he compiled
for the head Of Jones was accepted, with
out question. on an average of three times
b week for two years as pass over the
great Santa Fs system. From that day
till this, Jones has been paying his fare,
aud doesn't travel a tenth as much as he
used TO do.
a very comical incident was related 70
the EAGLE young man few days ago by
one OF the neighbors of W. 7. Dando.
Dando, it appears is dog fancier and re-
Gently he paid SIS for fac spaniel pup.
Now then spaniel pup in itself is too
common for Mr.. Dando's blood, SO he sets
about making pointer OF it. In accord
ance with this desire 10 have novelty in
log flesh he spent nearly two months try
ng TO have "Biddy" as he called her come
% point at the sight of bird. His lAbors
we're great, but they were attended with
remarkable success for Biidy n the sivht