Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1895-09-13
A COACH LOAD OF TBRRoRs.
Prom Now York Sun.

From New York Sun.
POMoSA, Cal-"Yes, " said the doc
tor to party at the Pomona Hotel
II was held up once 1t was in 1879
That was the widest year the Black
Hills Of Dakota ever expereuced--one
OF the widest and wooliest in the his.
tory of the west. Deadwood was Ia
its glory and Custer was a good second
in enthusiasm and lawlessness.
Stages we're running from Kearuey
and Sidney, Nebraska, from Bismarck,
Dakota, and from Cheyenne, Wyom-
Ing, all loaded inside and out with
men hungry for gold and willing to
take their chances with the terrible
Indians and scarcely less terrible road
agents. 1t was, indeed, taking
chances. for the coffee. coolers aud
the tax collectors spared no one that
fell into their clutches aud the air
was full of reports and rumurs or trag-
edies and robheries. Still the stages
ran regularly, and all were filled with
passengers.
"When we left Cheyenne there were
twenty men crowded inside and out
OF the big Concord coach, each one
armed to the teeth and not tender
foot in the crowd. Superintendent
Voorhees, looked to see that the pie
box, as the little iron safe containing
the treasure was called, was safely
locked and securely bolted fast
through the floor to the axle and then
sung out all right, to the driver and
bade us farewell with the parting in
junction to look out for Bignosed
George, and keep our scalps on; then
the whip cracked and we were off,
There was the usual tedious toll down
the Chugwater, the grateful rest for
an hour at Fort Laramie, the climb
over the low divide past Rawhlde
Buttes and down to Lightning Creek,
and we were all well acquainted.
each man sized up his neighbor
and contributed his share Of yarns, in
which the narrator always came out
on top, and all were satisfied with the
result. In fact, the crowd was unus-
udlly well supplied with whiskey to
keep their courage up and with fire.
arms to back up their valOr. 1t was
generally conceded that we were about
as brave and well seasoned a set of
frontiersmen as had gone into the
Hills, and that Blgnosed George and
his gang of road agents would be a
surprised and demoraliZed set If they
attempted any monkey work with our
crowd. In order to be sure about this
each one of us stated emphatically
what he would do and how many he
could get away with in case George
with the enlarged proboscis let his
valor prove larger than his discretion.
$50 confident did we become that a
feeling of pity stole over the crowd, to
to think that at last the terror of the
road was likely to meet his Waterloo,
and the way to the mines was at last
to be made monotonously safe through
the accident Of our going to the Hills
together 1t was nearly Sundown,
and we had reached the hank of
the Elque Court river and were just
about to descend when one of the
crowd said:
+" Boys, we're all right. If George
was goug to try to run his little bluff
ou this here crowd he'd "a footed his
baZoo before this
"'You bet your sweet life, pard,'
said another, and he'd IA bin the
worst surprised cuss 10 this region il
he had called, too And there was no
dissent from this opinion.
"The road pitched down sharply
into the little valley and after a short
run and an S.shaped twist it started
up the further bank. The horses,
knowing the road as well as the dr-
yer, dropped into a walk ready for the
heavy pull up the steep grade, and we
all settled back resigned to the tedi-
BUSINESS Of long pull up hill. My ri
ie was in one corner of tue coach, and
as we were three in seat, it would
have been impossible to move it un-
less some one got out first: but my big
revolver was in my belt just under my
fingers. In the side of the coach was
a little window just big enough to
poke ones head through. Suddenly
the coach stopped, and turning to see
what was the matter / found my eyes
staring down the barrels of a sawed
off shotgun, held by as disreputable a
wretch as ever cursed the face Of ma
ture by his presence.
"There was a shouted suggestion
Poor Digestion
Leads to nervousness, fretfulness,