The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-05-08
ACONDUCTOR'S STORY
MONEY COULDN'T STOP THE TRAIN,
BUT IT WAS STOPPED.

There's q Grave Somewhere at the Foot of
the Long Range of White Capped Noun
tains Over Which the Trains of the Great
Northern Crawl.
never read or hear Of the mountains
that do not recall story told by con-
1uctor Of train on the Great Northern
road. We were going to Butte. The
train had just crossed the river at Great
Falls. From that point the road begins
its eastern ascent Of the range whose
tops are whitened with the snow all the
year round. A wide plain spreads out
between the line of the road and the
range. AS the train was getting ga fresh
hold on the rails" as one Of the party
expressed it, the conductor stood on the
rear platform of the coach and looked
steadfastly at one spot until it was lost.
Got claim anywhere around therer'
asked a traveller who had noticed the
conductors longing look.
"A kinder of claim. he replied, but
not the kind you're thinkin of"
How he came to tell Us makes no diff
terence now Here is what he told:
Bout year ago, think it was, q
young man was put on my train by the
conductor who had brought him to
where takeit He had been east. His
folks lived down there, l believe. He
mad been west good many years, was a
cowboy, then deputy marshal. then
boss of a ranch and then he got to spec
uiatin in Anaconda. He had lived the
sort of life ont here that man was ex-
pected to live in them days. He was a
hard citizen and then good one. Blest
If ! know just where he quit off, but he
did. lie finally got to lovin girl, and
Just when he was havin it the wust way
she ups and narries Il good for nothln
dude that came out here and got to
cIerkin in q raghouse Then the young
man that am talkin about he goes east
to wear out his feelin's, reckon. And
ne was gone all summer They said he
was at the seaside. ] thought when
heard that as how he would not last long.
When "a man quits this climate to go to
ne seaside. there must be something
mighty Tad about his case. If man
can't get cured here. he needn't go any
where else.
We'll. when he was put in my care
there was four or five of the boys with
Mira They had heerd he was comm
Dack. and they met him away down this
side OF St Paul And they nursed him
all the way and fed him jest as if he had
been a sick girl He was lool1in out of
the winder OF the car all the time, day
and night, but wasn't sayin nothin.
When we got to- Great Falls, he looked
out of the car winder and smiled. 1t
a.. l. L.
him do that since they met him, and they
thought he was gettin well He asked
EN- to set him up in his berth so he could
zee.
And he looked at the mountain tops
out there covered with the whiteness of
God and the foot of the mountains that
IL washed by the purest water this side
Of the divide The train was just get
ting good holt on the rails when the
poor fellow sank back. and the next
hing see the boys was talzin the piller
,ut from under his head Then l
znowed it was all over. Then one of the
boys come to me and asked ME if would
axe $1,000 10 stop the train. I told 'em
couldn't do anything of tibet sort. They
aid money was no object Then | asked
EN- what was mp, and one of EN- told
ne that he. meanin the dead man, had
made last request that he be taken
rom the train and buried IL sight of the
mountain that had the snow on it, the
me that caught his eyes first after we
lad come over the river They said they
lad promised him they would. asked
sm where they would get a box, and
hey said a man as good as he was didn't
iced no box; that the angels would take
are of him as soon as he was laid away.
Il asked EN- what they would do if
he train wasn't stopped They held
hort parley and said in a most respect
nj way. which understood, that they |
ad to carry out the wishes of the de- |
eased at all hazards: that they could |
top the train if / didn't. understood |
I'm | pulled the cord and went furard, |
nd while the engineer was mendin the |
which got out of sorts jest |
hen. the funeral procession moved out. |
nd the dead was buried ont there III |
ull sight. 1t so happened that VIC got |
be locomotive fixed just as the funeral |
YES over, and we took the pa!ibearers |
ato Butte that night
And | never pass that spot that |
ont look out there where they laid him
amt never seen any of the pallbearers
ince, and don't know the name of the
Dung man that they buried Do you
now. gents. that his grave is green all
be year round? | once thought of put
in up gravestone at the head, but
kinks [, it's none of my business. and
'esides, the boys said the angels was goin
o TO take care Of his body, so | thought
la
usiness. 1t was the only time, though,
hat my locomotive ever got anything
he matter with it."-Chicago Tribune
Criticism Of "Cymbeiine."