Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

| de hobo Killer. lie Dig SlX-loOIer
an he kills more tramps than you kin
count l bet he's done for twenty
tramps this summer His names Carr
Jack Carr-an' it don't make any
difference where You go so longs you
run across an old professional hobo an
mention dat you bin to Cheyenne, hell
want to know if y seen Jack Carr.
Dat feller's terror. Why, when l was
in New York an was starting fer de
west Teller says to me:
"'When you get to Cheyenne look
out fer de big Irish marshal
"An' he was right, too, for dat fell
ler'll run a bobo ten miles to put him
| in Jail an like as not he'll shoot him
comm round the corner Of car l
got out of dere, you bet.
Down in little coyote town in COL
/ orado l struck 1t pretty rich, though.
/ I'm a printer, an de town marshal Of
dat place runs weekly paper. When
l struck the town he was about crazy.
| His paper had to come out mex day
an his regular printer was drunk. Dat
print was regular rat whisky para
| lyzer Well, dat marshal tried to
roun' me up ter go to work fer him.
| I knew l had cinch on him an held
| him up fer S. fer de one days work.
1t come high, but he had t have me
an he put his hand down deep an
ante'd up. | did a good hard days
work dat day fer me five an got de
marshal all Strengthened out wild his
| paper"
Didn't he offer you a permanent
job?'
Nav. l stuck him fer de flyer, an
1t d made him mad, but he didn't say
| nuthin'-an' de minute de paper was
| all fixed up hunk he kicked me out of
town.
Il was down in Albuquerque. Say,
OATS a town fer your whiskers. Moth
de brakes had heard us singin' an
Indians. | had ter stay dere from 6
in de morning till night. Couldn't get
away. Didn't have any money to speak
! of, neither. Coming down dere was
twenty hobos in de freight RATHER, an
de bakies had heard us singin' an
f; yellin' inside, but they didn't say nuth-
in till dey struck water tank. Den
dey got about ten more fellers from a
switching crew an come over an held
de whole crowd of us up fer anything
dey could find. Dey got every cent
dere was in de crowd. | had a 81 bill
hid in my shoe, but | didn't bring it
up, not in dat crowd. Dey'd made me
buy fer de whole push. In Alburquer-
que fourteen of us got locked up, and
I'm a millyonare if l was one of the
quartet dat got away from de push
you left town that evening,
thought"
well, should say. Why, dere amt
house in town OATS made of anything
but dried mud. Desc here 'dobe houses.
Why, we didn't do ting to dat Jail.
Dere was smart Teller wild us dat
took de door to pieces an got out
long iron bar, an we just waded all
through the walls Of dat Jail. AS we
went through de Office an Outen de
SlIttL SOlllt VI ut ltlltlo lulIlldStu
around an found some revolvers. Dey
was pretty good ones, too, about seven
of em, an we made a break fer de
railroad. A passenger come along a
good while after dark And we boarded
de blind"
"The blind?"
Sure, up in between de vestibules
We climbed up on de roof an rode till
mornin' widout stop. Say, but we
was a fine lookin' lot. De cinders and
dirt covered us all over an dere wasn't
nothin' white on our faces except lit
tie rings around de eyes. But de dirt
wore off after while and de cinders fell
out all right.
But dat wasn't nuthin'," resumed
the reminiscent hobo. 1.-THE crew
found us dere in de mornin' an stopped
de train an ditched us right dere-
right in the Rattoon Foot hills-an'
dat cold mountain dew was cold. Jes'
like thin slush all floatin around you
-b-r-r-r-r," and the tramp shivered so
violently at the remembrance he had
to stop talking till his tongue and wits
wer loosened by a copious supply of
thirst-reducing liquor.
"Yessir Dat was cold all right" he
said as he gave a reflective shake to
the big glass, and he had to hold it
with both hands. But you see de
worst of it was that we was right in
dc middle of nowhere. Oh, you might
think it funny; but it wasn't. We was
hungry, too, I'll tell you, an dere we
was wild dat cold fog bumpin' up
against us an we started out to count
ties to de mex station
WELL" and tear trinkled down his
left cheek, eve walked fifteen miles to
water tank. 1t took till night an
dere was a train crew waitin' fer lis
at dat"
did you ever get anything to eat?'
well, if We hadn't der'd been a |
new railroad run trough dere. We'd |
atom dat old narrow gauge streak
O. iron all to pieces from Albuquer-
que t. de odder end"
"And then?"