The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-01-16
VOL. 39.--NO. 13 !.

Logan, following Dreamys revengeful
hint, unearthed several things He prompt
ly had Braconi and two other men arrested
and taken below" as going down to Pa
ley Fork was called The resistance at
the Pass augmented rather than decreased,
however Dreamy himself fell foul of the
strikers; they began to suspect him of
sending reports 'below' inimical to their
interests. On August 81, the day before
Logan and Burke were going to attempt
to land American workmen on the Pass, a
group Of strikers captured Dreamy and the
Muley Point headquarters.
Matters were bitter. \ piece of writ
Ing was placed before Dreamy on the tele-
graph table, pistol was put to his head,
and he was ordered to wire the writing
down to us at general headquarters. Dreamy
promptly aequiesced but added, without
pause, at the end of the message: "a
pistol Is at my temple and an extremely
ugly gentleman is holding it, but most of
this message is a lie. Tell Logan the Ter
rible to come ahead
We liked Dreamy for that. For week
We had expected that he would desert his
post and come down to Paley Fork if he
had to come afoot But he stuck to the
hornet s-nest like plaster
When Dreamy volunteered that odd
postscript to the message Of the strikers,
he had couEted on there being no one pres
ent beside himself who could read Morse,
but one of the committee could read
the telegraph little and Dreamy came
near losing his life However, he escaped
up the mountain side and secreted him
self That night about midnight he came
down the mountain and crept into the iron
shed on his hands aud knees and called. l
was at the dispatcher table down in Pa
ley Fork and answered him.
Where have you been and what 5 the
situation p | asked
:. Been lying on my stomach up among
the chaparral for the last ten hours, he
said, Situation is rocky. They got on
to my Morse and had to duck. Most of
the men here at the Point are quiet
they be o. X. if let alone, but there's
fifteen or twenty mighty bad ones here
regular reds-looks ike dynamite
experienced queer thrill Of frost
along my spine. Where IS that carload
Of dynamite that was sent up there on al
most the last train of supplies before the
strke2 asked
Here on the siding. I've had my eye
on it lately struck me they might take
notion to DO some damage-blow up the
bridge or someJhing-to keep Yellow and
his men away But guess it will be o.
X don think think they viii 60 50 far
a. that
Are they drinking much 7?
Most of them are quiet, some are
boozing like sailors. Where is Yellow and
the old man ?
Both are here; Logan got in tonight
with a lot Of men from Denver He and
the Superintendent will take the men up
to the Pass tomorrow night; get there
about midnight or one o clock; sheriff and
filty shooters Can you stay on hand
now
.Nixy; it ; me back TO the brush and
solitude I'm about starved aud don't
know when II eat. Oh, for pie! Say
I'll wriggle down to this coop tomorrow
night, if they don't get me, and call you
up and give YOU the statu quo. I'm un-
easy about the nitro Say. there a fell
low among the reds here who understands
Morse, | think. If any swift operator
gets on the wire and begins to tell you
fairy stories about things here, you II know
it : not me. Say, give my love to old
yellow eyes and tell him L IN not mad. I'll
have TO creep out of here on my solar
plexus; hear some reds out on the
track
Dreamy was certainly waking up He
was becoming a creature of action smiled
when | thought of Logan demand for his
removal on the ground of disloyalty On
the morrow we tried many times to raise
Muley Point on the wire, but the Point
was silent. At 10 80 that night, Logan
with train of twenty seven fiat cars load
ed with men and drawn by two engines,
pulled out for the Pass; an hour later
Burke followed with another trainload of
men
just before midnight, as bent over the
train sheet in Paley Fork, a hurried, uu-
steady call came down from Muley Point,
forty miles away, had my ear cooked
for Dreamy and hit the wine quick in re-
sponse.
''Who is at the key I asked
Dreamy. Say, but I'm hungry =
Yes? How are things p
''Nawsty. Most of the men want
peace; the boozers and soreheads tried this
p. N TO marshal EN- to resist elbow when
he arrives. From my lair among the
chaparral looked down on some pretty
fights A handcar Of sympathiaers ar
rived from below about an hour ago. [
crept down and laid in dark place and
listened. Looks like some sort of trouble
I've kept my optics pasted to the car of
nitro. don't think they know the car
has dynamite in it. -
Bridge Is must be all right?
yep; handcar came across
''Well, keep me posted if you can.
think things will turn out all right.
But they did not; save for Dreamy they
wnul1 have crona ho1l, ;rlaol WI. l.