The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-06-03
BAMBOOxLED % ROAD AGENTS.
Trick By which . shrewd German Got Away
with o5S. o In Cash.

Trick By which . Shrewd German Got Away
with $4,000 In Cash.
when was attending to business In Phoebe.
New. twenty odd years ago said a veteran
miner. the town was a hundred and twenty
miles from q railroad and lacked a good many
OF the Of a real high civilization.
But the money part OF 1t was well represented.
and among the lucky chaps was Fred Schuster.
q thrifty German from Frisco who wandered
out there and ooppered the brewing business.
He had a brewery which. however good 4 II might
have been a. a producer Of beer. showed prom
ise enough for him to get 81. 400 In cash out OF
II, not to mention a note or two. and Fred con-
Guided at once to get out With his money and 60
back to the luxury Of San francisco. II was
easy enough to talk about, but there was that
hundred and twenty miles over q wild and lonely
road, and Phoebe. Just at that time, held twenty
Ave road agents who needed about S7s. 900
In their buMness and were hanging around wait
Ing for the Dutchman to start for the railroad
with his stun. They didn't caro- for the notes
especially. but they did want that cash. and
wanted It bad enough to have spilled blood for
II, sohuster knew all this a we'll a. they did,
and at the same time he did not let mp on his
proposition 10 get out Of town. The boss
saloon keeper and politician Of the town was
named Lynch. and be was q good friend Of
Schusters. So was the livery stable keeper.
Travers, the same one who has the ma. con-
pair Of fine horses that could 60 the distance
better than anything In that country. The
three friends talked the matter over. ana next
brate. his departure. which was to occur on
Tuesday Of the following week, by a Wide open
banquet the Friday night before ct the hall
Ssss Ly 70 me- '. sSS tod q sns T 20 Roia n nyssh
IN readiness TO 60 at a minutes notice TO q mine
OF his a dozen or so miles down the road to put
The banquet came OF according 10 an
n~ouncement and was the biggest social funo-
ton that Phoebe had ever known. All the
town was out. includips every road agent
water. Schuster was there In q dress suit-
think of that, will you. in Phoebe. twenty Ave
years ago, and nobody, offered to shoot holes
speak. which began at : in the evening, and
by 10 O'Clock most everybody. was drunk. in
Guiding Schuster. who seemed TO- be drunken
Than anybody. About this time / was called
out. being duly sober. as ! don't drink to ex-
cess, and going down stairs found Lynch at
the side door with Travers's team OF bays
the streets and | wondered What lynch was
doing there instead Of being. at the banquet,
where / had seen him not half an hour before.
a. ne o T%s'f sdr to ,h know %in /. | an wrs .l ,Ss q T. +, ', sss
entirely unexpected. I promptly told him l
was. didn't have on my working clothes.
but that didn't count for much there. He
self fixed. Schuster. in his dress suit and W sober
as | thought before he was drunk. Joined US
hnr5iedly and got into the buggy VIII me;
that he put on before he sgt down. didn't
quite understand what Sohuster had TO do
with tho pump. but before, / could ask any
after we had got started. and said IT was time
for us to be on.
We drove away slowly and quietly. as sohus-
s ssS said as . be aia as we ss sSt e S. yShd " x. TIC tsw police &c
told me We we're to drive 70 the railroad. and
that he had his traps and his ,5s 600 in gold
In s9ae ss' called IHIsfI for. ls Sn, w I sa %H!' s @sn ny tS back sSa.
out then, and hitune the horses q lick we flew
alone the road like a cyclone. had always
wanted SIS, 900, i seemed such a nice poetical
Of a sum OF money to have, but now that
knew that. II those road agents discovered
Schuster's absence, or guessed that he had
and ] did not like the idea Of being chased
for a few dozen miles and being shot out OF
2 bussy. would have much preferred not to
DRIVING, just warm enough, and a. we kept
the horses UP TO the best the road would al
low we kept our ears turned bach ward for
the sound Of .,oofbests. and each Of us had
we stopped for breakfast forty miles from
Phoebe, Schuster, changing his clothes as we
a good rest, with an eye on our buggy all the
time, and at noon we started again, making
forty miles by, dark, and the next day We
reached the railroad In time to catch the train
and as we pulled out Of the station and knew
we and the pa. ooo were safe. Schuster tapped
himself on the head. with a peculiar German
smile, and said: Meppe ! vas . putehman vat
don'd know Something's; aber nicht,' Then he
waved his hand toward Phoebe In farewell.
He wanted me 10 60 TO 'Friscco and stay a year
Nth him buf | had other business IN atfapH I'm
When ! got back TO my team. four days later.
they were as good as ever, and ! went into
Phoebe as though | had not driven more than a
dozen miles, but everybody knew where | had
been, The road agents had very little to say.
but one OF them told me-, in speaking incl
IDENTIFY OF Schuster. that he hated a liar"