The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1902-11-29

ssTba tsp-erscting Pullman car Por-
ter. sre the recipients Of q good
n.1v IrnocIrs from press and public
NM Anew are not the worst 10 the
world. . remarked commercial tray
eler 20 Washington Star man
They may have pretty heree way
Of drilling for tips but when = comes
70 the matter Of honesty know one
Of them that's there with tha goooa'
e. the saying goes.
81 left San Francisco, or, ratner'
Oakland, on the Santa Re line TOT
Chicago at 8 o'clock IN the evening
a couple Of weeks ago last Sunday.
The gang that met in Frisco hao
been rather too enthusiastic IN CIV
ing me a good time Of II out there
on the day of my departure, 80 that
when I woke up on The train along
toward 7 o'clock the next morning
the sleeper bunk felt pretty warm
and NV coppsra q whole lot warmer.
The nearest, in fact, the first stop
Al which would have . chance TO NIX
those hot eOpPerB out was MolaVe'
and 90 I hustled into my clothes 20
"A ready to hop OF the train during
The stop at Mojave for one Of those
Satzeniammer alleviatorS.
at asked the Pullman conductor
low long the train. would stop at
Moiave. and he replied that the stop
would last ten minutes. I raced into
the station cafe when the train
pulled into Mojavs, and instructed
the man in charge Of the bar to rig
me mn one Of those long. long damp
things. He went at thefiob in q pref
" scientific manner, and the piece of
vet work that he set before me was
a rare thing 20 find right alongside
of the California desert. II was such
a fine and effective creation, IN fact,
that I asked him 70 frame mp an
other one, and I got away with this
with equal Joy. Then leiSurely
stroIled to the door 20 take look
at my train-and saw the end OF 1t
curling away In the rarefied distance
on itS way toward the land Of the
rising sun. II had pulled out without
notifying me. hustled into the
ticket Office TO ask the man IN the
window when I'd be able TO corral
another eastbound train, and he said
that It nd be along at O'Clock the
next morning-the mate 70 the train
that had departed without me; there
wa only one Of the overland 'sx-
presses per diem. So there I saw my
self stuck in Mojsva CAL, the most
miserable little sand dune on 1.-THE
globe, for q fun tWenty-four hours.
"But that wasn't the worst Of Il.
7 had left my Gladstone bag wide,
open on my bunk, with my wearing
apparel thrown around the section
every which way, and I'm the bag Il
had placed, on the night before, 500
in gold coin, the stun being too
heavy TO carry around in my pockets
with any comfort
1--we got q chance. Of getting the
bag back said to myself, but what
the black porteru do TO those 500
In gilt money viii be something
swoOpingly seandslOus.
II had no idea on earth that I'd
ever see q dollar Of that money. !
figured It all out that the porter
would corral the money and then
stuff my wearing apparel into the
bag and hand It over to the conduct
or. I knew then I wouldn't be able
to prove any such fact that / had
200 in gold money in the bag, and
{ gave Il up for gone. I told the
station agent at MojaVe about the
bag, and he Immediately telegraPhed
to the next station to be made by
nv lost train along the line, q place
called Barstow, n. Mex directing
that the bag be shipped back TO No
lave on the west-bound overland
The bag was returned 20 Mojsve
ON the west-bOund late that night,
and I eagerly opened It up 70 see
what had left in the bag. Every
thing was there, including the stack
Of gold money. I counted the gold
roll, and II amounted to an even $3.50.
The porter. ] felt certain, had apprO-
priated Just one Of the $40 gold pieces
to compensate him for his trouble
n packing the bag, and I aftsrward
found out that I waS right in this
suppoalIon-
81 caught the train east on the FOL
lowing morning. and when I got "a
Kansas City got on 20 take q bit
of q rest at q hotel. "A / was get
ting on met the porter OF the train
that had left. MojsYe without me. he
was walking about the station, wait
ing TO 60 aboard his car for another
western trip. He saw and recognized
. me a. soon as recognized him, and
he grinned broadly when he saw me
BOSS, said he, coming over 50 me
. 'Ah suah did look eve'yWheah 70 dai
othuh ten dolluh goP piece, but Al
suah couldn't IN Il noWheah,' and
then ne burst into . happy darlCy
laugh and slapped his thigh joyously
I told him how welcome he was 4
the $40 piece that he had pinched out
for himself, and I'm not certain thai
{ I didn't give him another couple Of
. dollars N nhovV nv nuuFecfnt ton Ol