The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-20

Iating on what 1t would consist of.
When we were marched into the office
of the justice OF the peace, We confronted
kird-faced. gray-haired old gentleman
not overwhelmed with a sense of the ma
jesty of his office. He looked us over
Your names he said. ARE John Doe
relatives. ] assume. You are fined IS
apiece for vagrancy, an offense against
the laws of the state of Nevada consisting
of sleeping in a box car. Undoubtedly you
plead guilty; certainly you have not IS:
consequently sentence IS suspended. and
you are given until the next freight to
leave town"
He took large chew of tobacco
Times are pretty hard. amt they
boys?" He grinned as we walked out.
II this should reach his eye. I'm sure
ne will be glad to know that of his seven
John Does, six were deserters from the
United States navy, for whose detention
there is a standing reward of SO apiece.
At Winnemucca our internal distress
reached its height, or, rather, depth. We
were so hungry that it hurt. had reached
the point where 10 chew q dry bread-crust
was keen pleasure
There was a dead line 4bout the town.
with three acting deputy sheriffs watch
ing it lest we transgress and worry the
populace who. I honestly believe. didn't
have any too much to eat themselves.
Bits Easy Graft.
Bill sighted Mexican woman walk
ing up the track. putting into a gunny
sack the small pieces of coal which had
dropped from passing engines He en-
gagged her in conversation in pidgin Span
ish, and came running back with eiation
smeared all over his face.
Hey. youser' he yelled. THAT coal
stunt is worth piece of change"
So we sacked coal We Were fully three
miles down the track. however. before we
got our 120-pound sack full and il was
some work carrying 1t back to the old
| Mexican woman. who gave US six-bits
fO- OOH ygNn frrTn nr hrn -
| figure out that ii would have been a little
more intelligent to have walked out the
three miles and sacked the coal on the
way in.
| into town after the markings" and we
| had a fine mulligan. That night Charley
and /, desperate, shook the bunch while
| they were asleep and hoped the bump
ers of a manifest freight
Their Private Car.
1t was almost as good as a passenger
| schedule; and we knew that If we could
! find some place on il under cover we
1 could make the 400 miles into ogden with
! out q change The cold was bitter that
night, and we were not going to risk the
| ride clinging to the bumpers for more than
one station; there we intended to drop off
| and look the train over for a place of pos
| sible concealment.
| Then we noticed that the end door In
/ the box car in front OF US showed synlp-
| toms OF DelnS loose at one corner. stand
1 ind between the two cars on the bumpers
we wrenched away and hammered at II
| until our hands were bruised and spin.
| tered; after an hours work between those
cars. humping along at a thirty-mile al
1 hour schedule, we tore enough of the dool
| off for Charley to crawl through and kicl
out another plank.
The car proved to be box car half fui
| of lumber. We stayed in II until We
reached Ogden. thirty-six hours later By
| the time we got there, there were forty
| two buns cramned into that marrow
space. At each station a new contingent
of the ditched would spy the broken END
| door, hop II and crawl in.
As we stopped in the night at the shor'
| end of the cutoff, We dragged ourselve.
and each other out. I've never seen
crowd of men nearer "all in from star
walton, thirst and suffocation. Nobod,
said good-bye-just sifted out into tn,
| night by twos and threes Charley and
made for what q previous Utah exper
| fence had convinced me must be the light
of the electric light power house. and
/ kind old night fireman shared his luncI
with us
CTo be concluded)