Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-10-26

OCTOBER IA, 1898.


come and gone since l donned my
regal travelling togs and was escor
ted to the depot by my frisky at.
teEtant, the night clerk of the
Commercial house, where a"special
car was in waiting to receive my
royal self. My objective point oil
destination was Plankinton, s. D.,
at which place | was requested to
meet one William Alley, and with
him, together with three others,
repair to several of the different
Indian reservations west of the MIS-
souri, river, in South Dakota, to in
spect some contract government
surveys made last spring. My
gentlemanly friend Koerner, of your
railway station, kindly presented
me with a pass, good for one first.
class fare from Webster to Plankln-
ton, but not until | had tIckled the
palm Of his business hand with
seven dollars and thirty-seven cents
did he produce the required paste
board.
Well, the iron horse finally snor-
ted, the bell rang, and | was at last
moving on to the west to join the
party and with them rough it for a
time in the land of the far famed
savage Sioux.
For the enlightenment of my
many dear friends, as well as those
loving acquaintance less dear, do
| undress the very best English ex-
presslons upon paper OF which my
very limited vocabulary of thought
rather, my cranlal think tank is
naturally possessed of, or that my
becoming modesty will allow me to
throw off. To begin with, pardon
me for saying that at the very head
end of my journey, my exceedingly
and somewhat sensitive dis
position was considerably upset, or
Inverted, as it were, by causes over
which l, unfortunately, had no
control.
AS before remarked, the iron
horse snorted, the bell rang, and on
moved our train, on up the track
Aberdeen, at which place l
to "'change cars for Mitchell
and all points south and west" but
on arriving at Bristol the lightning
wire conveyed the-to me-harrow-
ing intelligence that the freight
train ahead of US was off the track
at Andover, and that there was no
alternate but to sldetrack and wait
for the wrecking train to right
up again. "Just my luck"
says | to myself, while a sweet
honey-like smile played over my
unrufled countenance, and l thought
here it is 5 o'clock A. M.
Tuesday morning, Oct. 3rd, with
train off track and no possible show
to catch morning train to Mitchell
and thence to Planklnton." OF
course, there were on board our
train all shades and phases of hu-
mainly, and the writer was amused
pnd grieved as well, to witness the
gross display of anger on the part
of some of the passengers, who,
imagined that time, the
world and the Milwaukee road were
in existence expressly for their es.
pecial benefit and ought not to fail
in moving at their instance. Final
" the word arrived track all clear"
and again the life-like locomotive
sp:t forth a volume Of smoke and
as it went rushing Kissing OH
up the iron track toward its Aber-
deem livery-stable.
Arriving ut the club" city was
escorted to a freight train caboose,
where | met and acted Godfather,
the journey from thence to
Mitchell, to a family of Bohemians,
of whom could a word of En-
speak. Ye gods! kind friends,
you ought to have seen me then;
! felt like a married man, or one
Iost in an onion patch; to my right
the father of a very large family
while at my left sat his wife, and
al around me clustered no less than
,ight children of assorted sizes.
lad I been blindfolded and unin-
formed of my surroundings, | could
- ,a;sad nv right hand above