Cañon City record., 1906-03-15

The Simpsons We're at the end of the
street. and the end of the street was
up the mountain. Maize SIMPSONS lot
''raired.' as Neighbor put it stood OH
its hind legs. His house had II Startling
tumble over aspect as You approached
it. The back end of his lot ran up into
the sheer, but he marked the line sharp
ly by Il kind of horizontal fence be-
cause the clff just above belonged IL
the corporation that owned everythin.
else on earth around Medicine Bend.
Maize Sampson did not propose 10 let
any grasping corporation encroach on
/ his lines. so he built md added to from
time to time. cluster of things on the
hind end of his lot-an eruption of
small buildings like pimples on II boys
nose, running down in size from the
barn to the last drygoods box the boys
had heaved up the slope for II doghousc.
To add TO the variety some one of the
structures was always getting away in
the wind, and if anything smaller than
a hotel was seen careeninc across lots
in a Medicine Bend breeze il was spot
ted without further investigation as
Maize Simpsons When the gale abated
Joe McBracken, who conducted the To-
cal dray line, was pretty sure to be
seen with a henhouse or Il wood shed,
or something likewise. loaded ON his
trucks headed for Maize Sampson :.
once the whole leau-to of the house blew
off. but Joe McBracken stood ready
for any emergency. He met the may
erick addition ut the foot of the grade.
loaded it on his house moving truck,
hitched on four bronchos, crawled in
side the structure and, getting the.lincs
through the front window, drove up
Main street before the wind had gone
down. Joe was photographed in the
act and afterward used the exhibit in
getting judgment against Maize Samp-
son for his bill
Now, man like Maize wouldn't be
likely to have very much of 4 run nor
very much of an engine. He bad the
264 an old pop bottle. with n stack like
tepee turned upside down. For run
he had always trains Nos. 20 and 80.
the local freights. with an accommoda-
tion coach east of Anderson. There
We're times of stress frequently on the
West End times when everybody ran
first in first out. except Maize sampson.
He always ran Nos. 30 and 30 west to
Silver River and back. A pettifogging.
cheap Jerk water run with no rights to
speak Of not even against respectable
handcars.
The only things MAZE Sampson did
not have to dodge were tramp,. blanket
Indians and telegraph poles: everything
else side tracked Nos. - and 80 and Maze
Sampson Almost everybody on through
tt,,,.. has
Maize Simpson putting on a siding as
Moore or Mullen shot by on No. ] or
No - Maize was so big and his cab
so little that when he got his head
through the window you couldn't see
very much OF the cab for shoulders and
whiskcrs and things. From the ear
window he looked like a fourteen-year
old boy springing out OF II fen-yearold
jacket Three things only made Majc
tolcrablc First. the number of benevo
lent orders he belonged to; second. De
LARGO: third. Martic.
Maize Sampson WIS Joiner and
sitter up. He would join anything on
the West End that had a ritual. II grip
and n password. and lie would sit up
night after night with anybody that
had n broken leg or fever. and. if
nothing better offered. Maize. rather
than go to he'd would tackle man
with the stomach ache. This kind of
took the cuss of but he was that pe
culiar he would sit up all night with a
sick man and next day make everybody
sick talking the money qucstion-at
least every body but Delaroo. If De-
LARGO was bored he never showed it,
\f1f,
would listen. That single word was. in
fact. the key to Delaroo. Delaroo was
listener: for that reason nobody knew
much about him.
He wasn't railroad man by birth.
but by adoption. Dclaroo came from
tn" mountains; he was Just plain
mountain man. Some said his father
was trapper: If so. IL explained every
thing-thc quiet. the head bent inquir
ingly forward the modest unobstrusive
ness of n man deaf. or II size and
shape nothing remarkable. Delaroo--but
great listener. for though he looked
like n deaf man he heard like a dis
patcbcr and saw marvclously from out
the ends of his silent eyes. Dclaroo
for all the world was n trapper
Tie came into the service as round
house sweeper: then NcighbOr. after n
long time. put him at wplng. Dclaroo
said nothing. but wiped. for years and
years and was in n fair way to be-
come liked when instead he became
one morning pittcd with umbilicnl YES
iclcs, and the doctors. with DcarOo's
breyity, said smallpox. The boarding
house keeper threw him out bodily and
at once. Having no better place TO go.
Dearoo wandered into Steve Boycr's
saloon, where he WAS generally wei