New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-05-11

people. and of course the railroad men
were after us. It was big haul Some |
Of our people bought through tickets |
from Purcell, and they didn't worry.
But about 400, maybe more, Of the
crowd that always haggles over 10
cent dicker concluded to take the Santa
Fe from Purcell to Oklahoma City, pay
the short haul, and then take the COM
peting line at Oklahoma, the agents of
which were active and full Of promises
'sThen the Santa Fe man fixed it SO
the dickerers couldn't buy amy tickets
from Purcell to Oklahoma, for the train
we we're to 60 on was a special. The
diokerers said that was all right; that
they would wait for the regular. In
less than five minutes bulletin was
slapped on the board Of the station to
the effect that the regular Santa Fe was
10 hours late. That made the fellows
who were dickering for cheaper rate
turn white around their gills
''In another five minutes I saw man
on track velocipede scudding down the
stretch. Every man to his business So
I thought the railroad people knew
what they were doing, and they did.
That chap on the velocipede was going
down the track to flag the regular and
hold it indefinitely. Smart trick, wasn't
it? Wait till tell you. There was a
smarter trick than that.
'When the special got ready to pull
out, the dickerers asked the agent if
they could pay on the train from Pur
| cell to Oklahoma, and he said Cert.
So they all boarded the train at Pur
cell, intending to get off at Oklahoma.
just before the train pulled out the
agent walks down to the engine and
asks the old man at the throttle how
long he had been on the road and about
the capacity of his iron horse, and so
forth. 81 :a.ssz.. @- a.
"'How many miles an hour can she
go at her best?' asked the agent.
| "'On good track, IS miles.
'''Is it a good track through Oklaho-
ma City, g.
eyes, pretty good z ...1 80
"tA1l right. You've got no orders to
stop there nor to slow up, have your
"'Not yet
We'll, when you get to the edge of
the town you let her go. Don't stop for
any thing-fags or teams or cattle.
Scoot through the town at 65 mile
gait, or more if you like, and don't
slow up until you strike that strip Of
desolation about 1 miles t'other side
and you smoke box of the finest cigars
in Chicago. Is it go?'
s. If don't get no orders fore
start r
!. "'Well, you are five minutes late
now.'
elm minute, and calculate it was
less, the circus special was under way.
It went around curves like q scared
snake. It shot across straight lines like
a gazelle that had been singed. II
; whirled the dust Of that country into
! the sky. After awhile we saw town.
II Then we went through it like the WON.
an that's shot from the catapult, only
, more so. One of the dickerers, who wa.
smiling to think the conductor had no,
yet come round, asked brakeman al
the train was going through the street
What town is this?' The brakeman
SAID, oklahoma City. $50
"The dickerer's smile faded as j
! came. as the poet says, and his hal,
! stood up, and turning to the brakeman
} he says:
> g Jezecrimini! Stop her! Here
!. where we get off Z
She doesn' even hesitate at towl
: like this, said the brakeman.
Well, about II miles on this side
: in q strip Of country where crow cam
live and where an Indian wouldn t b
2 caught dead, the old iron horse began 4
slow up. The conductor came through
just then and said:
8 Tickets!'
Well, say, that was funny Gght
! Them that had tickets showed up an,
then went to sleep But the dickerer
began to kick. They said they shout
t have been let of at Oklahoma City
81 The conductor said the train didn't sto
at Oklahoma, that itwasn't schedule
to stop there, and that he WASH t goin
to go back that trip The leader OF tk
dickerers for cheap fares wanted t
9 know what was to be done. ss
d The conductor was an old timer. 81
!. had face on him like a woman VIII
! never loved anybody. He just toll
them, Pay or get off. Then they aske
him where they could pay to. And b
: said the train wouldn't stop any NOR
until it got to Kansas City the nes
Y morning unless it stopped to put ther
of. And he reached up and caught ID
bellcord.
And every one Of the dickerers PAL
to Kansas City. And, OF course, unde
s the railroad law, they paid more tina
they would have paid il they ha
= bought tickets at Purcell. And the CON
!. pany was that much ahead. And that
: what / mean when say that the hari
:, est man to do is 3 live railroad man.
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