Morris tribune., 1906-03-03

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won't make you any trouble unless he
gets to drinking II that happens, don t
have any words with him" Bucks I'M
derscored three times. Simply crawl
into q cyclone cellar and Wire NE.
Sending you eighteen loads of steel to-
night and six cars Of ties. Blair re-
ports section 10 ready for track layers
and Mear's outfit moving into the Pal
isaGe canyon Push the stuff to the
front"
1t was getting dark, and Callahan sat
In that part OF the Benkleton depot he
called the office, pulling at a muddy
root that went unaccountably hot i'll
.udden flashes. He took the pipe from
his mouth, leaving his foot on the ia
BILE, and looked at the bowl resentfully,
wondering again if there could be pow
der i'll that Internal tobacco of Rube-
dos. The mouthpiece he eyed as
desperate man might ponder a final
shift.
The pipe had originally come from
GODS country, with a beautiful am
Der mOUthpiece and a beautiful bowl,
but it was present from his sister
and had been bought at d dry goods
store. Once when thinking-or, if you
please, when not Observation-Disclosures
had held lighted match to the beau
tiful amber mouthpiece instead of to
the tobacco, and in the fire that ensued
they had hard work to save the depot
Callahan never wrote his sister about
it. He thought only about buying
pipes at dry goods stores and about
being, when they exploded, a thousand
miles from the man who sold them.
There was plenty in that to think
about. What he now brought his teeth
reluctantly together on was part of
the rubber tube Of a dismantled ato-
miZer, III happier post-Christmas days
q toilet fixture But Callahan had
abandoned the use Of bay rum after
shaving. His razor had gone TO the
scrap, and on Sunday morning he mere
ly ran a pair Of scissors over the high
Johnston Callahan was railroading-
and on the front.
After losing the mouthpiece he would
have been completely in the air but for
little Chris Oxen. Chris was Callahans
section gang. His name was once
Ochsner, but that wasn't in Benkleton.
Callahan was hurried when he made up
the payroll and put it Oxen, as being
better United States | say United
States because Callahan said United
States in preference to English
Chris had been in America only three
years, but he had been in Russia 300
and in that time had learned many
ways of getting something out of moth
ing. When the red haired dispatcher,
after the explosion, cast away with bit
terness the remains of the pipe Chris
ae,acked 1t up and by judicious action
ION the at0mizer figured out new
sgnOuthpiece no:worse than the original,
etfers while the:second, like the first, was
:: OF rubber, it was not of the explosive
ii variety :@G
sa5i Chris presented the remodeled root
ito Callahan fas a surprise. Callahan, in,
s,sa. burst Of gratitude, promoted him on
+4he. spot.:t5 He4lnade little Chris fore
man. 1t didn't bring any advance in
pay, but there was the honor To be
foreman was an. honor, and, as little
Chris was he only man on the yard
force, he BECAME by promotion foreman
of himself. as.;...E az. ata: Ill
$50 Callahan sat. thinking Of the in
genuity of Chris, rejecting on the sting
or construction tobacco and studying
over Bucks letter.. sag ..s>T
z. The yard was his worry-not. that 1T
was much OLA yard just a dozen runs
OF the lead to take the construction MAJ
terial for Callahan to distribute fast as
The grade was pushed westward q The
trouble at the Benkleton yard came |
from without, not from within / W
: The road: was being pushed into the
cattle. ,countrY,i and it, was all easy.tHl
hey struck BenkIeton. :Benkletons was
Just a hard knot nfthe. yellow Grass
trail. ag,squally, 9sandy cattle town.
There were some bad men Tin sBen4tie- /
ton. They didn't bother often But
there were some men in Benkleton who
Thought .tfey were 7oad' And these were were |
source of constant bedevilment to the
railroad. men. 1879 sas'iast3 a3asE1 sle1aas9%s}
Southwest of. the yard, where the riv-
sF breaks sheer into the bottoms, there
lived and. still hives "a colony ofslraniil
r;pad Iahorers 81 Russians. They have
sianafted there. burrowed into theIfaca |
4he. bench like.esand smallowssasaa |
acgaped eages out ,ferathsms6lves;: and
fle name OF the place issI1ittle .R ussfa..
This WAS i1rstheotroublous dayse when
the cowboys homesick for, evil, WsoaIa |
ride around Little. Russia with rope
aDde gunf and scareslthe. pioneers cross
sXed- . Thescattle fellows spent the en-
sNeaWinter months, all sand and Asur13
shine. putting. up schemes to worry
6aiiaiaanahd the Little Russians. .The
headquarters for this restless gang
'aere at Rat Barlie,saplace, across from /
ne postoffice. sIt.was there that the
fowboyseioved to congrega te. TO CAP
than Pat Barlie's place was a wasps'
lest but to Chris it was,s,aa den of
Olives, and ]. of q dreader Sort than /