The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-04-08

disgust, modification and disappoint-
ment of Henry Fortune.
When the detective agency was in
formed of the death of their operative,
and learned that he had met the pc
culiar and mysterious fate of SO many
brakemen, they became more deter
mined than ever to sift the occurrence
to the bottom, and sent several of their
best men to the section of the country
between G%regson's and Warm Springs.
In the latter part of February a
man claiming to be a buyer of cattle
for a Chicago packing house, put up
at '"The Rangers Rest" and, on the
pretext of awaiting the arrival of i'm
portant letters remained for several
days at the little hotel. He saw that
whenever a crew of freight trainmen
patronized the bar, Carlos would in
yariably place two bottles CT liquor
upon the counter, pushing a square
bottle in front of where n or more
brakemen stood.
One day when the opportunity Of
fered, the pseudo-stockman filed sew
eral TASKS from the bottles of liquor
standing on the shelves beneath the
bar. These were sent to Chicago for
analysis, and a few weeks later Dunn
my Carlos" was awaiting trial in the
Jail at Templeton on a charge of poi
soning, and the mystery of Dead
Mems Section" had been solved.
A curious story was brought out al
the trial of the vindictive ~half-bresd;
a story too long to here tell in detail.
but which was substantially as fol-
lows:
The analysis of the liquor in the
several tasks showed that it was all
of the same cheap brand of whisky,
but the contents of one flask was
foundto have been heavily STEPPED with
the woolly loco weed, commonly called
crazy weed, 3 plant native to the
Great Plains region, and which causes
much damage to the stock of ranch
men. The action Of this poison on
man in small doses is to cause a short
period of hallucination or mania, ac-
companied by defective eyesight, dur
ing which the affected person is seiz-
ed with an irresistible desire to run.
1t was the administration Of this de-
coction to the brakemen Of the Mid
die Division that had caused them to
run along the cars of their train and,
being unable to see where they were
stepping, invariably fall to their
deaths.
Carlos admitted the fact that eight
years back, when the C.. and ]. was
first built through that region, he was
beating his way on a freight train
from Gregson's to Warm Springs,
when he was discovered by two brake
men who threw him from the train.
Until that time he had been possessed
of his full powers of speech, but he
was so severely injured about the head
that the portion of the brain controll-
ing the vocal cords became in time af-
fected, and he finally lost the power
to articulate plainly. The Indian in
his nature became aroused, and after
he opened "The Rangers Rest near
the railway station at Gregson's, he
determined to become Tevenged on all
freight brakemen running eastward
from that point. His devilish, savage
cunning led him to use the loco weed
as the best means to secure that re-
venge. as ne was familiar with Its eff
feet upon the cattle and horses which
roamed the plains of Texas. He was
declared insane by the jury which
tried him, and he was sent to the state
asylum for insane criminals for life.