El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-24
A TRIP FROM
LORDSBURG,
New Mexico, Over The Southern
paclfiC,sIn Cupo1d OF Caboose
566 As The Guest Of montana
Bill" [Wm. Weedon.]
BY TOM MAHER.
Continued from Yesterday
Continued from Yesterday

All is q fore-warning to Engineer Joe
COrbett to use plenty OF air and very
little steam. Two short, blasts OF the
whistle answering a red signal ahead
and our train come to daad stop. Inc
faithful fl agm an, Fred Riekert with the
water running from his clothes like
mill race aud as weak as a piece OF wet
paper from exposure, informed US that
his train two hours ahead passed
through bowling storm; that his
conductor, Harry Crankshaw, who, by
the way has always been true guard
ian to mis- fellow railrOadmen, sent him
back with instructions to keep going
until We met, so as to guard against
any possible wreck, death on injury,
A long shrill whistle, occasionally
muffeled by the constant pealing
thunder, is the approaching signal for
Pantano. where we set out our ten
cars of cattle and, as an extra precau-
ton, take siding until the fury of the
storm is spent. Close to Pantano sta
tion Dutch Bill sells little refresh
Bill'' had not spoken word since his
encounter with the two young ladies
at Drsgoon Summit, in fact we all
needed bracer, so with nod from
"Bill' we dropped into Dutch Bill's.'
He seemed little excited and
although ell were eutire strangers to
him he betrayed great pleasure at
our money for the rounds and,
thanking him, we turned to leave,a but
he insisted on US taking round after
round. AS one drink OF that Ajax
defying-the-lighten stuff, was 9 uf-
fcient, we dipped into his cigar box.
His effort seemed to be to deta1n US. rms
was becoming so sppearant that Mon
tana Bill" and all present extended
him fair-well shake, aud as
the fury of the storm
was spent, we pulled out for Tucson
twenty miles distant. We stopped at
the next station, Walls, in order to saw
by trains first and second twenty-three
in charge of Conductors julie Vest and
Frank Garland. Added to our num-
Der at Pantano was San francisco
drummer, but he was not noticed un-
till we were starting away from Walls,
He listened for some CINE to our co m,
ments on Clutch Bills" liberality and
he stepped forward and gave US some
information that put the finishing
crimp on Montana Bills" shattered
nerves. With broad smile he com
menced: "BOys, l spent the afternoon
around Dutch Bill's'' saloon, wait
ing for this train and I noticed thre
hoboes hanging around the saloon.
Thev were telling every one the ter
rible time they had beating their way
from Ell Paso. They were put
off the RAYMOND WbitcOmb excursion
at Pantano, kicked off at every water
tank and shot at five or Elk times .
Continuing the drummer said "When
this train pulled into Pantano, the
Dutchman posted the hoboes to throw
off lot of coal from the coal cars In
your train, agreeing to pay g,,t them R,1 1NI
was treating and j,llying you fell
lowe, the three st. Louis buns
threw off nearly two tons of lump coal.
dutch Bill" gave each OF them one
dollar and they jumped into the very
coal car they partly unloaded. They
are in that car now. 1t is the third cal
from the engine"
s'Montana Bill, ''pale as a wax figure
staring at the drummer with the
speechless and tremblingl reached fol-
his fsvorite hose, and with mad wish
was out of the caboose, like an Alp
fne goat, was soon bounding from Goa
car to coal car. But just as he reached
their car Corbett slowed up for the oil
adobe town of Tucson, while the hoboe
who had never lost sight of point
jumped off and were flying II
in all directions before the rattle OF 8
regular hail storm of chunks OF Goa
thrown after them by poor old dis
appointed Montana Bill"
At Iast here il old adobe Tucson
where we remain for fifteen hours be
fore commencing ano; her trip to Yum
One of the first signs that struck m
eyes after daylight was the followln
over a kind of holet or inn and wa
gon yard:
Welcome here all who passes.
Horses mules and jack-asses;
Look at this sign and you'll see its funny,
Don't come in unless you have money