Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-02-16

which rolls along 600 feet below it.
AT Savannah, ILL.,, we had twenty |
minutes wait and realized It by walk |
ing up town in quest OF some fruit for
the children. Forgetting that We were
ia fruit country we called for a
quarters worth of apples, but hastily
changed our order when the boss
picked up q bushel basket. concluding
that a dimes worth of extra mics ones
would I'LL all requirements, rs we'll as
ourselves which they did to repletion.
1t was also at this point that we re-
ceived our first set back. All the way
down we had been Dragging of our
fine climate, and especially of Da-
kota's wonderful fertility and pro-
ductiveness, ETC., ETC., but here a
couple boarded the train with nine
children, all apparently under ten
years of age, and silently we were
forced to conclude that Dakota, after
all, wasn't the "whole thing We
had no need to be told when We
crossed the Missouri. It's turbid, yell
low colored water and muddy banks
sufficiently proclaiming its identity.
We had heard a good deal of Kansas
City, but Courier readers will have to
go elsewhere than here for any des-
cription of it. The wind was blowing
towards US, and about all we saw was
vast cloud of murky smoke that
darkened and polluted the air. The
masses of soft coal belching from
hundreds of chimneys, proclaimed it
a manufacturing, and a very dirty
city.
The potion of Missouri that we
crossed was very attractive from q
farm house. One popularity that we
noticed was large number of little
creeks that we crossed. Most of these
run in what are literally little
crevasses in the ground, being from 2
to feet deep, and many Of them not
over 2 to feet wide, a few inches of
water with nothing in the way of trees
or sloping ground to indicate their
presence, until you are right onto
them. One engineer, who from modes
ty does not wish his name published,
says thatthis coming onto a ditch before
you know of it, is very trying, esyeci-
ally to Young engineers, as it is only
by months OF practice that they can
jump sucl, cracks and be sure of strtk-
the rails square every time TN the
other side.
Our railroad journey ended at
Topeka, the capitol of Kansas of
which we may have something to say
hereafter. in conjunction with some
remarks on farming in the south, the
crops, country prices, politics, etc. /,
but for the present will close with an
incident that happened in Missouri
the state of Jessie James and ''hold
ups" It was after dark, the Cal. was
crowded, brilliant with electric lights
and running at high rate of speed.
We we're thinking of the days gone
by and wondering of any of the per-
petrators of the recent hold-up were
at large, when our attention was sud.
denly arrested by the entrance of two
men at the front end of the car. They
first carefully fastend the door behind
them. We noticed that one carried a
lantern while in the other hands of the
other appeared the CLEAN of steel.
The cold chills were beginning to
chase each down our spine,
when the one with the lantern raised
his hand and in voice loud enough
to penetrate every corners of the car
called out -. x.
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tensly interesting and dramatic story
will be found in some future issue O
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