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Meadows Eagle.

The SalzerFord Co. have toelr 1900
FOO cable for their areal tramway on the
ground, being taken in by George Russell
AS soon as it can be put in place the
plant will be reaey for operation. They
are now employing a force of about
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co-partners doing busi-
ness under the Arm
name and style of M.
E. Sommercamp d Co. Alias summons.
Plaintiffs
Boston and Seven Devils
Copper Company, cor
poration,
Defendants
The State Of Idaho sends greeting, to Boston
and Seven Devils Copper Company, Defendant.
You are hereby required to appear in an ac-
ton brought against you by the above named
plaintiffs in the said District Court, in and for
the County OF Washington, State Of Idaho, and
to answer the oLnplaint filed therein within ten
days exclusive Of the day OF service), after the
service on you OF this summons IL served with
IN this county; or Il served out OF this county
but in this judicial district, within twenty DAYS
otherwise, within forty days, or Judgment by de.
fault will be taken against on according to the
prayer OF said com plant
The said action is brought to recover of the
said defendant, the sum OF t2S45 81 on the fol-
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| On account OF balance due X. Tori Il Co. and
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wares and merchandise sold to the defendant
1855. 10.
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Beaver, S113.74
by one Ben Jones, and the account therefor sold
to plaintiffs, e105,00
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PENDANT, in favor of w. H. Slaffer and accepted
by defendant, $40 90: in all the sum OF s2345 81
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which is served herewith and made part here
of.
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the rate OF seven per cent per annum, and for
costs,
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hand and affixed the seal OF said District Cour 1T
this 9th day OF August, 1902.
/, f. SMITH.
Clerk.
John W. Ayers, Attorney for Plaintiffs.
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In the District Court of the Third Judicial
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VIM. F. Sommercamp and /
Jas. A. Sommercnmp, |
co-partners, doing BUSH
ness under the firm
name and style of NJ.
+. Sommercamp d Co.
Plaintiffs.
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It looks like a glass of spring water
If it happened to be Sankey's run
and regular west end day, sunny
and delightful, you would be sure to
see standing under the eatalpas a shy.
dark-skinned girl of ii or 10 years, 81
lently watching the preparations for
the departure Of the Overland.
And after the new engine had been
backed, champing down, and har-
messed to the long string of vestibuled
sleepers; after the air hose had been
connected and the air valves exam
ined; after the engineer had swung
out of his cab, filed his cups, and
swung in again; after the fireman and
his helper had disposed of their slice
bar and shovel, and given the tender
a final sprinkle, and the conductor
had walked leisurely forward, com
pared time with the engineer, and cried,
All Abo-o-O-ardl'
Then, as your coach moved slowly
ahead, you might notice under the re-
ceding cataipas the little girl waving
a parasol, or a handkerchief, at the
outgoing train-that is, at Conductor
Sankey; for she was his daughter, Nee
ia Sankey. Her mother was Spanish,
and died when Meta was a wee bit
Meta and the Limited were Sankey' s
whole world.
When George Sinclair began pull
ing the Limited, running west oppo-
site Foley, he struck up a great friend
ship with Sankey. Sankey, though he
was hard to start, was full of early
day stories. George, it seemed, had
the faculty of getting him to talk;
perhaps because when he was pulling
Sankey's train he made extraordinary
efforts to keep on time-time was a
hobby with Sankey. Foley said he
was so careful of it that when he
was off duty he let his watch stop
just to save time.
Sankey loved to breast the winds
and floods and SHOWS, and if he could
get home pretty near on schedule,
with everybody else late, he was hap
py; and in respect of that, as Sankey
used to say. George Sinclair came
nearer gratifying Sankey's ambition
than any runner we had.
Even the firemen used to observe
that the young engineer, always neat,
looked still heater the days that he
took out Sankey's train BY and by
there was an introduction under the
catalpas; after that it was noticed
that George began wearing gloves on
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till noon with discouraging results, and
came in with their gear smashed and a
driving rod fractured. 1t looked as if
we were beaten
No. I got into MeCloud eighteen hours
late; it WAS Sankey's ana Sinclair's run
west
There was a long council in the
rOundhouse The rotary was knocked
out; coal was running low n the chutsas-
If the line wasn't kept open for the
coal from the mountains il was plain
we should be tied until we could ship
it from Iowa or Missouri. West Of
Medicine Pole there was another big
rotary working east, with plenty Of
coal behind her, but she was reported
stuck fast in the Cheyenne hills.
Foley made suggestions. Everybody
had suggestion left; the trouble was,
Neighbor said. they didn't amount to
anything or were impossible.
IT'S a dead block, boys announced
Neighbor, sullenly, after every body had
done. I'VE are beaten unless we can
get No. through today. Look there;
by the holy poker, it's showing again."
The air was dark in a minute with
whirling clouds. Men turned to the
windows and quit talking; every fellow
felt the same-at least, all but one.
Sankey, sitting back of the stove, was
making tracings on his overallS with a
piece of chalk
You might as well unload your pas
sengers, Sankey," said Neighbor.
You'll never get 'em through this win
ter
And it was then that Sankey pro-
posed his doUble-header.
He devised a snow plough which
combined in one monster ram about all
the good material we had left, and sub
mitted the scheme to Neighbor- Neigh
Dor studied it and hacked at it all
he could, and brought It over 70
the Office 1t was Ike stalking
everything or the last cast of the
dice, but. we were in the state Of
mind which precedes a desperate ven
ture. 1t was talked over for an hour,
and orders were finally given by the
superintendent TO rig UP the Double
Header and get against the snow as
quick as it could be made ready.
All that day and most Of the night
Neighbor worked twenty men on
Sankey's device By Sunday morning
it was in such shape that we began
to take heart.
IF she don't get through she'll get
back again, and tAats what most Of
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But the great and desperate effort Of
the company was to hold open the main
line, the artery which connected the
two coasts 1t was a hard winter on
trainmen- Week after week the snow
kept falling and blowing. The trick
was not 10 clear the line; it was to
keep it clear Every day we sent out
trains with the fear we should not see
them again for week.
Freight we didn't intend to move;
local passenger business had to be
abandoned. Coal, to keep our engines
and orr towns supplied. we were
obliged to carry, and after that all the
brains and the muscle and the motive
power were centered on keeping and
,, our through passenger trains, run
min.
Our trainmen worked like Americans;
there We're no towards on our rolls.
But after too long a strain men be-
come exhausted, benurpbod, Indifferent
reckless even. The nerves give out.
cision-but decision is the life of the
f7s. TRAN
None of our conductors stood the
hopeless fight like Sank.y. Sankey
was patient, taciturn, until ing. and, in
a conflict with the elaTnsnts, ferocious.
All the fighting blood of his ancestors
seemed to course again in that struggle
Win the winter hlIaS- can see MIN
yet, on bitter days. standing alongside
the track, in a heavy pea jacket and
Napoleon boots, a seaIsl1in cap drawn
snugly over his stra. sshS, black hair,
watching, ordering, signaling, while
No. I, with its FROST bitten sleepers be-
hind a rotary, struggled to buck
through the ten and twenty-foot cats,
which lay bankfui of snow west of Nc
Cloud.
Not until April did it begin to look
as if we should win out A dozen times
the line was all but choked on US. And
then, when snow ploughs were disabled
and train crews desperate, there came
storm that discounted the worst biz
card of the winter. As the reports
rolled in on the morning of the 5th,
growing worse as they grew thicker,
Neighbor, dragged out, played out,
mentally and physically, threw up his
hands. The 9Th it showed all day, and
on Saturday morning the section men
reported thirty feet in the Blackwood
canyon.
1t was O'Clock when we got the
word, and daylight before we got the
rotary against it. They bucked away
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together. Nobody at headquarters
could handle il: it was never turned
In twice alike. and they were always
writing Tom Porter about the thing.
Tom explained several times that it
was Sitting Bulls ambassador who
was drawing that money, and that he
usually signed the payroll with a toma-
hawk. But nobody at Omaha ever
knew how TO take a joke.
The first time Tom went down he
was called in very solemnly to explain
again about the name; and, being in a
hurry and very tired of the whole
business, Tom spluttered:
Hang it, don't bother me any more
about that name. If you can't read it,
make il Sankey, and be done with it,
They took Tom at his word They
actually did make it Sankey; ard
that's how our oldest conductor came
to bear the name of the famous singer.
And more I may say: good name as it
Was-and is-the Sioux never dis
graced it.
Probably every old traveller on the
system knew Sankey. He was not only
always ready TO answer questions, but.
what is much more, always ready to
answer the same question twice: it is
that which makes conductors gray
headed and spells their chances for
heayen-answering the same questions
over and over again. Children were
apt to be a bit startled at first sight
of Sankey-he was so dark. But he
had very quiet smile, that always
made them friends after the second
trip through the sleepers, and they
sometimes ran about asking for him
after he had left the train.
OF late years-and it is this that
hurts-these very same children. grown
ever so much bigger, and riding again
TO or from California or Japan or Aus
tralia, will ask when they reach the
west end about the Indian conductor.
But the conductors who now run the
overland trains pause at the question,
checking over the date limits on the
margins of the coupon tickets, and,
handing the envelopes back. will look
at the children and say, slowly, He
isn't running any more"
If you have ever gone over our line
to the mountains or to the coast you
may remember at McCloud, where they
change engines and set the diner in
or out. the pretty little green park TO
the east of the depot with a row of
catalpa trees along the platform line.
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EN- don't DO" growied Neighbor,
he and Sankey showed the new RAJ
to the engineers.
They had taken to- 566, George Sin
lars engine, for on head, and Burns
49, for the other. Behind there wer
kennedy with the 81 and Camera
with the 296- The engines were Sc
in pairs, headed each way, and buck
led up like pack mules Over tn
pilots and stacks OF the head engine
rose the tremendous ploughs whic
where 20 tackle the toughest drift
ever recorded. before or since on tn
west end The ram was designed
work both ways Under the coal eacs
tender was loaded with pig iron.
The beleaguered passengers on No
1, sidetracked in the yards. Watche
the preparations Ssnkey was maxim.
TO- clear the line. Every amateur O.
the train had his camera swapping a
the ram. The town, gathered in a singh
great mob, looked silently on, AM
listened 70 the frosty notes OF the sky
scrapers as they went through thef
preliminary maneuvers. Just as tn
final word was given by Sankey, il
charge, the sun burst through tn
fleecy clouds, and a wild cheer fol
lowed the ram out OF the western var
it was good lock to see the sun again
4@AANAC ~NCCNcts = ~ vi NAAE MIL NUS
have seen them as they pulled cut
surely she heard the chOppy, ice bit,
ten screech Of the sec; that was never
forgotten whether the service was spe-
cial or regular. Besides, the head cal
OF the ram carried this time not only
George Sinclair but her father as well
Sankey could handle a slice-bar as vel
as a punch, and rode on the head en-
CINE, where, if anywhere. the bis
chances lowered. What he was not ca
pabIe OF in the train service we never
knew, because he was stronger thar
any emergency that ever confronted
him
Bucking snow is principally brute
force; there is little cOaxing. Just wes
OF the bluffs, like code signals between
a feet of cruisers. there was a vOliey
Of sharp footing. and in a minute IN,
four ponderous engines. two of then
in the back motion, fires white anC
threats bursting, steamed wildly int
the canyon
Six hundred feet from the first Gu
Sinclair's whistle signaled again
Burns and Cameron and Kennedy an
swered, and then, literally turning the
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DOUBLE HEADER, {

Copyright, 1900. by Frank H. Spearman)
THE OLDEST man in the train
service cidn't pretend to say how
long Sankey had worked for the
company
Pat Francis vas q very old conduc-
tor, but old man Sankey was a veteran
when Pat Francis began braking. san
key ran a passenger train when Jim
mic Brady was running-and Jimmie
afterwards enlisted and was killed in
the Custer fight
There was an odd tradition about
sankey's name He was tall, swarthy
Fellow, and carried the blood of a
Sioux chief in his veins. It was in the
time of the Black Hills excitement.
When railroad men struck by the gold
FEVER were abandoning their trains
even at way stations. and striking
across the divide for Clark's crossing
Men to run the trains were hard to
get, and Tom Porter, trainmaster, was
putting in every man he could pick up,
without reference to age or color.
Porter-he died at Julesburg after
Wards-was great jollier. and he
wasn't afraid OF anybody on earth
one day war party of Sioux cIat-
tered into town. They tore around like
a storm, and Threatened to scalp every
thing, even to the local tickets. Tie
mead braves dashed in on Tom Porter
sitting in the dispatcher's Office up
Stairs. The dispatcher was hiding un-
der loose plank in the baggage room
hoor Tom, being bald as a sand HILL
considered himself exempt from scalp
ing parties. He was working a game
of solitaire when they bore down on
him, and interested them at once That
led TO parley, which ended in Por-
ter's hiring the whole band to brake
on freight trains. Old man Sankey is
said to have been one of that original
war party.
Now, this is merely a caboose story
told on winter nights when trainmen
get stalled in the snow drifting down
from the Sioux country. But what fol-
lows is better attested.
Sankey, to start with. had a peculiar
name-an unpronounceable, unspell-
able unmanageable name. never
beard it; so I can't give it. 1t was as
hard to catch as an indian cur, and
that name made more trouble on the
payrolls than all the other names put
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the engine-not kid gloves, but yellow
dogskin-and black silk shirts. He
bought them in Denver.
Then-an odd way engineers have OF
paying OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES George
pulled into town on No. 2. if it was
Sankey's train, the big .skyscraper
would give a short, hoarse scream, a
most peculiar note, just as they drew
past Sankey's house, which stood on
the brow Of the hill west of the yards.
Then Meta would know that No. ,
and her father, and naturally Mr..
Sinclair, were IN again, and all safe
ard sound
When the railway trainmen held their
division fair at AEcCloud, there was a
lantern to be voted to the most popu-
lar conductors gold-p plated lantern
with a green curtain in the globe Cal
Stewart and Ben DotOn. who were very
swell conductors. and great rivals,
were the favorites. and had the town
divided over their chances for win
ming it.
But during the last moments Geor-
gle Sinclair stepped up TO the booth
and cast a storm of votes for old man
Sankey. Doton's friends and Stewards
laughed at first, but Sankey's votes
kept pouring in amazingly. The favor
ties grew frightened; they pooled their
issues by throwing Stewards vote TO
Doton; but it wouldn't do. George
Sinclair, with crowd of engineers
Cameron, Moore, Foley, Bat Mullen
and Burns-came back at them with
such a swing that in the final round
up their fairly swamped Doton. san
key took the lantern by thousand
votes, but I understood IL cost George
and his friends a pot of money.
Sankey said all the time he didn't
want the lantern, but, just the same,
he always carried that particular Ian
tern, with his full name, Sylvester
Sankey, ground into the glass Just be-
low the green mantle. Pretty soon
Meta being then 1S-it was rumored
that Sinclair was engaged to Miss
Sankey-was going to marry her. And
marry her he did; though that was
not until after wreck in the Black
wood gorge. the time of the big snow
1t goes yet by that name on the west
end; for never was such winter and
such a snow known on the plains and
in the mountains. One train on the
northern division was stalled six weeks
that winter, and one whole coach was
chopped up for kindling wood.
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