Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-01-02

CONVERSATION Of DON ENRIQUE !
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Ell i most wonderful Nay. more
4 h marvellous. miraoubouzi Why, a.
hundred buazsos couhd not draw 81
grsat Z loadl No. mot even an hun
dred Of the best horses of Las Deliciasl
Come. my friend, let us INSTANTLY de
part OF truth. It IL the work of tia
Evil One himself, and to remainl longer
would bs 10 emdHnger the welfare Oh
our soallA let us never have rail
roads IN our Mexicol"
Don Enrique was provincial Mexi
can gentleman who had journeyed il
that good Old fashioned conveyance, 4
naDtle. TRAP of difigencha. from hii
PARKWAY rancho 10 the frontier towr
of Paso del Norte. where he had beer
persuaded, ndt little against his
will, to accompany q friend TO FL
Haso, on the TEXAS side Of the Rie
Grande, there to view the wonders be
ing wrought by the Americans. The
rta1s.oad to enter Ell Paso had JUS
been completed, and he saw for thu
first time in his life THAT wonderful
machine, a steam locomotive. Tia
strange noises filled him with alarm;
the foul smoke pouring from its stack
almost strangled him; and, awe
stricken by it's miraculous strength
he finally gave expression to his emo
tions, as shown above. He turned q
deaf ear to the laughing remonstran'
ces OF his friend, meanwhile piously
crossing himself, and insisted upon
returning to the Mexican
side of the river; there, he felt they
would be safe from the malignant in
huence of the diaboAical machine.
And, upon arriving in Paso de!
Norte, he Lost no time in starting
back home, but 1t was with a heavy
heart; he was oppressed with the feal
that he had committed heinous sin
A Jew months later he was informed
that a concession for the construction
of a railroad in Mexico had beer
GRANTED AN American company, where
upon he held up his hands in speech
LESS horror. Regakning use of his
tongue, he demon need the impioui
government of his country i'm term
both vigorous and picturesque, bu
that accomplished nothing. And whel
the engineers who locat ted the liint
of the road entered the bounds Of
Las Delicias he used all the diplomacy
ut his command to turn them aside
but to MO effect, for the road was sur
veyed to pass within a mile of hh
house.
I'm due time the graders came, .
motley croud of rude, rough men
who laughed in his face, and with
many ain outburst of impotent rage
he saw them tear an ugly trench
across the breadth of Las Delicias
Then came the trackhayers, and hi
raved and sbormed like one beside
himself as the lines of gathering stee
rails crept up to and past his home;
and he crossed himself IN pious horror
at sight of the telegraph wires. He
was not in the least Modified whel
the railroad company paid him .
good. round sum for it's right of way
across his property, and rejected with
a superb gest mre of scorn the annual
pass that was also rendered him.
''No, NO. senor!" he exclaimed, In.
dignnntly; ct was powerless to pre-
VENT this desecration Of my beloved
country, but I did What I could. A,
yet the Infamous government has MOI
enacted laws compelling me to patro
nize your railroad, and until that can
be done neither I, nor my family
nor yet my servants, shall impert
their souls by going NEAR your trains
Take back the pass TO those who SEN
1t, and tell them that I, Enrique de
Toro. do execrate it and them"
Don Eurique's opposition gave
the officials of road but little con.
Germ; his was was only one Of
many such cases, nevertheless u
was decided to propibiate him by es
tablfshing station convenient to hi
use, and a neat frame building wa,
erected mot far from his house. Whea
the time arrived to select "a man tt
have charge of this Station, Bob Evan,
a man who was thorough raiTroadeu
and with a reputation for GOODNESS
and NERVE" but who was utterly
lacking in respect for Mexicams, wa,
chosen. He was not the man to mak'
ovcrtures of friendship no Dom En-
riquc. most decidedly not-and Dor
Enrique would have repealed sucl
overtures had they BEEN made. Weeks
passed. with each seeming to be in
sensible TO the others existence; bu
there were agencies alt work that wer'
destined to break down the barriert
between them.
One morning ~ vaquero gaFlope:
madly to the hacienda, bringing Dol
Enrique the terrifying news that
large war party of Apache Indians
had swept down from the neighborbnl
mountains. lSi1Ilipg and burning, ant
were making for the hacienda. Many
years had passed since the Indians
had raided that country. and so Dor
Enrique was utterly unprepareh II
meet them.
"God of my soul, what am I to dor
he grdaned. 1--WE are too few to re
sist them. We must fly. but where:
Oh, my wife, and daughter! Truly il
is an evil day THAI has come upon us
We must fly from Las Dehcas, but
where can we find safety? There are
no soldiers nearer than Chihuahua
and Of truth the Indians would over
take us beofre we could go so far"
And the poor man wrung his hands In
despair.
You forget that railway, Don En-
rique," the vaquaro answered. LET
us hurry to the station; train may
come at any moment, and adj the
Apaches of the Sierra Madre could not
overtake that. 1t moves with such
swiftness."
THE railway Is device of Satan
for entrapping our souls" Don En-.
rdque siernly replied.
And are not the Apaches Satan's