El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-30
Written Especially for the HERALD.

| e God meal on any rock around there
an an overcoat was about the most
US eless article that could be imagined.
"Moses didn't understand this and
he offered to go get the coat from the
coach sad show it to them. All the
time he was telling them what q fine
garment it was, just as though he had
been standing behind q counter in a
clothing house, as he probably had,
many times.
HE finally got the highwsymen
mad with his persistency, and they
swerd they wouldn's take the coat, that
they didn't have any use for 1t; and l
expected to see them run from him be-
fore he could charge them for it. But
they didn't. Instead they went throug b
his pockets and removed twenty
dollars that he had sewed up in the
lining. Moses was copgratulating
himself that anyhow he
had his coat left, but only for few
minutes. Before the gentlemen of til e
road departed they ransacked the coach
and deported the heavy overcoat, re-
! marking that IL might come In handy
, to sleep on, and they told Moses that az
he had insisted so on their having if,
| they thought it was little as they
could do to accom- modate him and re-
lieve him of the trouble of carrying ii
any further.
"Afser the road agents had gone we
started on again. The ieweler was q
the loss of his rings and watches inter
fere with his enjoyment. He started
in imm diately to tell Moses of what
other danger he might expect to meet,
and as poor Moses had already one ex-
perience he was more than ever ready
to believe every thing that was said.
"When we got to Socorro we gave
old Joe Klngsinger, the proprietor of
the hotel, the wink that we had a
tenderfoot On board, and he started in
and told the most marvellous stories of
Indian depredations and bloodthirsty
recitsls OF how cruelty they treated
prisoners. BY the time we had chang
Ell horses and were ready to 60 on
Moses was worked up to such a pitch
that he was almost crazy.
SIT was pleasant, warm night, and
the jeweler gave me the wink and then
climbed up on the seat with the driver,
displaying his six shooter as he did 80.
He told US to be very quiet and make
no disturbance as we were going
through q bad Indian country. Well,
Moses was almost scared to death.
"After while the jeweler and the
driver began to talk Indian. They
carried on . conversation and pretend :
ed to see something very suspicious
in the surroundings. The jeweler would
say: That was q narrow escape that
time. thought they almost had US
that time. Do you think they saw US?
Say. can't you go faster, drive?
think we can beat them If we try as
the horses are fresh and the road not
the worst 1 have ever seen
although it is pretty bad,
and then the driver would swear and
make the coach lurch over on the side
as though it were going Gown into q
canon. and IL he could drive over a
rock he always did it. Their conversa-
ton gos more bloodourding the fur
Their they went, and really you could
almost imagine that the Indians were
right close by US, and that they were
fairly sneakiug through q whole band
of them.
''All of a sudden the jeweler began
firing off his gun and he and the driver
kept upa perfect fusillade between
them. both of them swearing aud cur
sing the Indiana, and telling each other
to be steady and not to fire without
making every shot tell. OF course 1
was on to their game, and will admit
that If 1 hadn't been 1 would have
been almost scared to death, while
poor Moses, he almost died OF
fright. He sat in the corner Of tie
coach all drawn up In q bunch, and he
face was as white as ghost. His
teeth chartered In his head, aud he
tremb ed all over, while all the time
that pair OF jokers up on the box were
fri ng off their guns and making hor-
rible noise. 1t was really very realis-