Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-05-24

lowsl Are you any good at all on the
west Endr And we thought we were.
Sitting I'm the dispatcher's Office. we
tagged her down the line like a swal-
low-liaryard. oxford. GAINESVILLE. Ash
ton-and 4 thousand people at the Nc
Cloud station waited for 9 O'Clock aud
for Foley's muddy cap to pop through
the BlackwoOd bluffs. watched him
STAN the valley NAPLES with stream
OF white and black. scream at the Juno
ton switches. tear and crash through
the yards and slide kissing and pant
inE up under our nose. swing out OF
his cab and look at nobody ut ali but
his watch.
We made IL $50 a. IN, Central time:
the miles, 1876; the minutes. l2l. The
schedule was beaten aud that with the
l1b miles the fastest ON the whole
LUG Everybody In town yelled ex-
cept Foley. He asked for a chew OF
tobacco and. not getting one handily.
bit into his own piece.
While Foley melted his weed George
Sinclair stepped out or the superln-
tendents otllce-he was done I'm a
black silk shirt. with blue four.In-
hand streaming over his frout-stepped
out TO shake hands with Foley as one
hostler got the 466 out OF the way and
another backed down with a new sky
scraper. the 800
But nobody paid much attention TO
all this. The mob had swarmed around
the ratty, old. blind eyed baggage car
which. with an ordinary way car. con
stituted the McWiliams Special
Now. what does man with Nc
Williams money want 20 travel spe-
cial I'm an old photograph gallery
Ike that forr asked Andy Cameron.
who was the least bit hufred because
he hadn't been marked up Tor the run
himself. You better take him in n
cup OF hot coffee. Slnkers." suggested
Andy to the lunch counter boy. "You
might get ten dollar bill II the old
man isn't feeling too badly. What do
you hear from Denver. Neighbour no
asked. turning to the superintendent
or motive power. lis the boy holding
outT'
I'm not worrying about the boy
holding out; it's whether the Five Nina
Will hold out"
Aren't you going 20 change engines
and crews at Arlckareef"
mot today" said Nelghbor grimly.
I'VE haven't time"
Just then Snkers rushed at the bng-
gage car with cup of hot coffee for
Mr.. McWilliams. Everybody. hoping
To get peep at the capitalist. made
way. Sinkers climbed over the train
chests which We're dashed 10 the plat
forms and pounded on the door. He
pounded hard. for he hoped and be-
heved that there was something I'm IL.
But he might have pounded till his
coffee froze for all the impression IL
made on the sleepy McWnliams.
Hasn't the man trouble enough
without tackling your chicory?" sang
out Felix Kennedy, and the laugh so
discouraged Slnkcrs that he gave over
and sneaked away.
At that moment the editor OF the To-
cal paper came around the depot cor
ner on the run. lie was out for an in
tervicw and, AZ usual. Just n trlne late.
However. he insisted on boarding the
baggage car TO tender his sympathy TO
McWilliams.
The barbados bothered him. but he
mounted them all and began nm emer-
gency pound on the forbidding blind
door. Imagine his feelings when the
door was gently opened by sad eyed
man. who opened the bail by showing n
rifle as big ms "A pinch bar under the
editorial nose.
"My grief. Mr.. McWnllams." pro
tested the Interviewer In trembling
voice. don't imagine / want 60 hold
you up. our citizens are all peacea-
ble"-
"Get outw
"Why. man. I'm not even asking FOR
n subscription. | simply went To ten
"Get OUT snapped the man with the
gun. ana In foam the ncwsman
climbed down. a curious crowd gath
cred close 10 hear an editorial version
Of the Ten commandments revised on
the spur OF the moment Felix Ken
nedy said II was worth going miles to
hear THAT'S the coolest deal ever
struck on the plains. boys" declared
the editor Talk about your bereav-
ell parents. II the boy doesn't have n
chill when that man reaches him
miss my guess. lie acts TO me M If
he was afraid his grief would get
away before he got 10 Denver"
Meantime George Sinclair was ty-
ing a silk handkerchief around his
neck, while Neighbor gave him part
Ing iniunctlons. As he put up his foot
to swing into the cab the boy looked
for all the world like II jockey. toe In
stirrup. Nc.ghbor glanced ut his watch.
"Can you make It by II o'clockY" he
growled.
"Alake whntr
Denver"
"Denvcr or the ditch. Neighbour"
laughed George. testing the air Are
you right back there. PATTI he called
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