The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-27

bully the crew into submission to their
wishes They got the conductor and
brakeman "buffaloed" back about a
dozen car lengths and then started to-
ward the engineer to make him dip up
some coin. But the fireman had seen the
whole performance and tipped off the
affair to the engineer, who turned on a.
small stream and slowed up to see the
fun. The white mist had no sooner struck
the hoboes than they made a dive off
the tops Of the cars. The two fellows
with guns, who were back with the con-
ductor and brakeman, "rubbered" ahead
to see what caused all the excitement
when they got few stray splashes OF
hot water in the face and also jumped
The trainmen knew what was coming.
and they turned their backs to the spray
and covered their heads with their coats.
Ihey We're too far back to get much of
the water, so they escaped. That DEM
onStration of the cooker is a matter of
comment among all the ranks Of hobo.
dom from the Missouri to the Pacific,
and all knights Of the road are warned
to brush up their Chesterfeldian behavior
before tacklng a Rio Grande freight
train for free ride.
The express companies are keeping
pace with the railroads In the matter
OF protecting their treasurers from the
robbers. Two years ago, when the Mid
land road was tied UP for seventy-seven
days by the great snow blockade, the
express men got the greatest shock of
the last century. Way up on the sum-
nit OF Hagerman pass, with trucks off
the rails and hopelessly showed In, was
an express car containing $265. COO In silver
dollars The silver was West-bound to
catch steamer at San Francisco, and
over the rough-looking boxes containing
the specie were piled many cases of
dressed fowl to conceal the real nature
of the shipment. Cheap goods of various
kinds came next, and at the bottom
of the car were the treasure chests
When that car was abandoned up near
the very tip If the crest of the continent
there wasn't a man there to guard it.
Receiver Ristine, of the Midland, did not
know the treasure was there until the
blockade was two or three days old Then
he received a cipher message from Chi
cago that set him almost frantic He
hurried out in his special car and tried
to get up west of Leadville but the car
was too long to get through the walls
of snow and ice on the curves and he
was compelled to make his headquarters
at Colorado Springs, where he had a
private wire cut into the car, and he
directed the battle night and day until
his strength gave away and he was
compelled to come to Denver for a rest
General Superintendent B. H. Bryant
went up in his special car to the highest
point he could make on the eastern
slope. Trainmaster s. S. Morris. now
trainmaster of the Alton at Bloomington,
Ill, was given charge of the fight on the
western slope. There was an old style
rotary on the western side and an oln
JUL plow on the eastern Hundreds of
men We're sent up to shovel out the drifts,
but the wind shifted the snow faster
than they could throw it out. 1t was a
fight of man against nature, and nature
Won for time Three or four times the
plows and men on the eastern side got
within few feet of the treasure car,
but each time little increase in the
storm drove them back At all times