The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-04-22
ACONDUCTOR'SSTOR
MONEY COULDN'T STOP THE TRAIN,
BUT 1T WAS STOPPED.

There's a 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 OF hear of the mountains
that | do moi recall a story told by IA on
ductor OF IA train on the Great Northern
road. We were going to Butte. The
tram had just crossed the river at Great
Falls. From that point the road begins
lts eastern ascent of the range whose
taps ARE whitened with the snow all the
year round. A wide plain spreads out
petween the line of the road and the
range. AS the train was getting IA fresh
noid on the rails" as one of the party
expressed it. the conductor stood on the
e platform Of the coach and looked
.teadfastly at one spot until it was lost.
't1ot "A claim anywhere around there?'
asked a traveller who had noticed the
conductors longing look.
"A kinder of a 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 a year ago. | think it was, a
young man was put ON my train by the
conductor who had brought him to
where / take it. He had been east. His
folks lived down there. | believe. He
mad been west a good many years, was a
cowboy, then u deputy marshal, then a
boss of a ranch and then he got to spec
ulatin III Anaconda. He had lived the
sort of life out here that a maj was ex-
pected to live in them days. He was a
hard citizen and then a good one. Blest
If ! know Just where he quit off, but he
did. He finally got to lovin a girl, and
Just when ne was havin it the wust way
she ups and marries a good for nothin
dnde that came out here and got to
clerkin in a raghouse. Then the young
man that | am talkin about he goes east
TO wear ont his f~eelin's. ! reckon, And
ne was gone all summer. They said he
WAN at the seaside. | thought when |
heard chat as how he would not last long.
When II nan quits this climate to go to
the seaside. there must be something
mighty bad about his case. If n man
cant 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
MIN. They had heerd he was comm
mack. and they met him away down this
side Of st. Paul. And they nursed him
all the way and fed him jest a. If he had
Oeen n sick girl. He was lookin out Of
the w,nder Of the car all the time. day
ami night, but wasn't sayin nothin.
When we got to Great Falls. he looked
out OF the car winder and smiled. 1t
was the first time that the boys had see
MIN do that since they met him, and they
thought he was gettin we'll. He, asked
sun to ret him up in his berth so he could
500.
And III looked nj the mountain tops
out there covered with the whiteness of
,Aoi. and the foot of the mountains that
IN washed by the purest water this side
Of the divide. The train was just get
ting u good holt On the rails when the
pour fellow sank back. and the next
thing zee the boys was takin the piller
ont from under his head. Then
knowed 1t was all over. Then n Of the
Boys come to me and asked ME if | would
take 81 900 to stop the train. told 'em
| couldn't do anything of tibet sort. They
said money was no object. Then | asked
en- what was mp, and n Of EN- told
me that he, nieanin the dead man, had
made a last request that he be taken
from the train and buried in sight Of the
mountain that had the now or it, the
one that caught his eyes first after we
mad come over the river. They said they
nad promised him they would. | asked
EN- where they would get a box. and
they SAID a man IN good az he was didn't
need no box; that the angels would take
care OF him as Don ~ he was laid away.
4 asked EN- what they would do if
the train wasn't stopped. They held a
short parley and said in a most respect
fui way. which | understood. that they
mad To carry out the wishes OF the de-
ceased at all hazards; that they could
stop the train if didn't. understood
em. | pulled the cord and went for'ard,
and while the engineer was mendin the
locomotive. which got ont Of sorts jest
then, the funeral procession moved out,
and the dead was buried out there in
full sight. 1t so happened that we got
the locomotive fixed Just as the funeral
was over. and we took the pallbearers
mt Butte that night.
And | never pass that spot that |
don't look GU there where they laid him.
4 amt neyar seen any NJ kha pullhoorora