Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-17

had gone far and wide how that fellow
In the derby hat and plain clothes had
taken command OF a company of "me-
lishy," "tin understanding better"
and had so coolly handled them and in
so cold blooded n way had loaded up
with solid lead and given the gang to
understand that he'd let daylight
through their hides II they stirred n
foot through the company's gates that
the mob that went there bent on de-
struction, determined to burn and loot
the offices and warehouses, skunk away
completely cowed. 'That feller's boss
OF the Big Horn yards this day, boys,
and we amt in It," was the way the
leader OF the strikers expressed 1t, and
there was no sane man who cared to
put 1t to the test.
Ascribe 1t to whatever cause we may,
1t was a petrifed fact that from the in
slant Eric Langdon stepped out at the
head of that company the Big Horns
property was safe. The few willing
workers left to the management took
hold with vim. An experimental
train, guarded by mllltiamen from 9th
er companies, was started down the
Red Water. A construction train fol-
lowed with soldier boys manning both
brakes and shovels. Charming, the
hustling manager. tumbled clerks,
bookkeepers, switchmen and car
smiths into engine cabs, wired for 9TH
ers to meet them at Gunnison and ac-
tually had his trains moving at the
very moment when the Seattle sheds
We're going up in flame, and the great
general manager of that great corpora
ton, with curses in his heart and his
hands in his pockets, stood scowling
on the scene of ruin through which the
belated regulars were driving the last
vestiges of the mob, and Mr.. Barclay,
the general manager aforementioned,
was both thinking and saying I'M
wholesome things Of the regulars COM
mander, at whose hospitable board he
had been winning and dining but a
| month or so agone, the too deliberate
Captain Nathan.
What Melville would have said to
that crestfallcn officer when at last,
about noon, his train and command ar
rived cannot well be conjectured, but
that the long delay was of serious i'm
port there can be no doubt, for Cap
tain Nathan's explanation In writing
was demanded and forwarded day or
two later, and both the unique expla-
nation and old Gray FoX's 1.-THE name
of Gray Fox was given by the Indians
to the famous frontier soldier at that
time commanding the department Of
the PLATED telling reply was speedily
the talk of the department of the
Platte. Nathan said that 1t was. true
| he might have earlier reached the Red
Water valley, but he conceived that his
first duty was to protect the lives Of
his devoted men and prevent the posi-
bility of an ambuscade or pitfall To
this end every dangerous bridge was
plored, etc, before he deemed 1t safe
to proceed. He admitted long delay ut
the junction, but declared it necessary
because of the alarming reports brought
him by reliable railway officials" to
the effect that the tracks We're under
mined. the trestles "sawed" and every
mile Of the Semitic from the junction
to Brentwood thread of mines and
mantraps. 1t was true, he said, that
the train hearing some militio comma.
,iies Ind passed him Mt Cnnnison and
gone forward nv tho Ric Horn road
INF the wav was cIeorad for them hv
the sheriff and other ott,ciols whereas
nm tho couth- honu no fr,orIs raro =,
be hoped for