The Huttig news., 1908-08-15

I'll lay. But bet Collis p. beats him. 1 bet on Collis P every time. Read this:' She tumbled over pile of papers, found recent copy of the Clarion and pointed out short tele- graphic dispatch. Read 1t aloud honey. like to listen when our fellers spouts at the government powwow."
 It was an appeal from Mr Hunting ton to Andrew Johnson, as the head of the outgoing administration. on behalf of the Central Pacific railroad
 Likely it's ter spike that gun, that Macs been east. The boys says so. But I bet on Collis P. all the same. Ding that Clariont" she continued. whipping from one topic to another with astonishing suddenness They're cluckin' to the U. P.'s now to pass us and come on to Galiforny; an howlin' about pushin' the Southern Pacific to bust the c. P If was Gov. Stanford I'd mortgage my chance O heaven, maybe little bit O the other place, but what I'd git holt O that Southern Pacific
 What is the Southern Pacific ex- pecting to do?"
 Build across the continent and have competin' line"
 What? Two railroads? Surely. one will be enough"
 'If them four git a holt of it, they'll put it acrost all right. One lil ]? They'll be half dozen some day An you bet the c. P's won't let nobody git the start of them if they only git g fair show"
 The strange town stirred Esther's ugly birds, the shacks and flimsv wooden houses squatted on the inhos- pitable mountain top or huddled ba side the crawling stream. The most pretentious places were saloons. A very long tent caught Esthers eye.
 That's the danoehouse, Sally E said They've got an extra big troupe of hurdy- -gurdies in now-there's the place where they sleep just to the left there. Sufferin' ears! They make racket at night, they an the men. Aint nothin so bad's you might think bout them girls though. Most of 'em comes from turin parts, where their job ain't considered disrespectable.
 All in the town carried arms, and there were occasional brawls; yet no stranger was molested who did not first molest Night drew on. and the sleepy town awoke. Wood teams from the mountain ehopping camps rattled in. The chatter of animals feeding, human and otherwise, stirred the air The evening train whistled in from the west. with mail, passengers. few workmen. much forage and supplies.
 "Collis Ps done the job," cried the first trainman to enter the hotel. His little game O talk with the president won the tin. The bonds are issuedl"
 When was it?" asked Sally B., ex- citedly.
 "Oh. weeks ago, probably It was done fore Andy Johnson went out of the White House, anyway"
 How much bonds?'
 Two million four hundred thou sand" the man said, rolling out the words slowly and respectfully.
 small sum enough for eyes that read today. Yet to railroad of the present, forty millions could not mean more than that sum meant to the struggling Central Pacific.
 The train came in from the Front a lot of empty cars pumping over un- settled track Tonight came Louis McLane. a distinguished-loo looking gen tleman; yet great man as he was, and earnestly as Sally B. tried to make him comfortable, other matters over shadowed him.
 Them U. P fellers laid seven and a half miles of track the other day" The story ran from lip to lip.
 Huh I bet game rooster George Gregory'll beat that when the iron comes. It's on the way now, they say" Sally B. looked challengingly