The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-09

Golden State Limited-the greatest
wheel-palace running through Kansas.
One day when it was time for the
Golden State to arrive in Topeka Mig
was anxiously pacing back and forth
on the platform-cuSSing the railroad
because the train was late, kissing the
bulletin board because it told lies and
acting the real part of an eXasperated
passenger. The station employees of
|: the road knew that something was the
matter. And there was because Mig
took the train when it arrived finally
and didn't come back to Topeka for
more than a week. He spent his whole
time in Harrington where he courted
many a Heringtonite and where many
a black cat remains to tell the tale.
When Mig returned it was on the Gold
en- State Limited
Sometimes he will remain on the
diner long enough to get a bite to eat
and entertain the employees then he
will jump off as the train leaves the
yards. Other times he will go to some
far away station and take the next train
back. Mig hasn't a pass or ticket
he beats his way with his purr and
his Jet black fur.
All of the officials of the Rock Is
land who have private cars know Mig
too Mig is no judge of Glasses he
feels just as free and easy to jump on
the rear end of President Mudge's car
as he would a section handcar.
The presidents car was here a few
months ago and Mig spent the whole
afternoon with the car crew. It was
a proud tomcat that strutted around
the station grounds after that event.
Another time Mig leaped on the rear
end of a Topeka officials coach and
squeezed in the back screen door en-
route to the pantry. 1t was too much
about black cats. Jumping from his
chair he drew back his foot and swing
ing it back and forth several times he
made a lunge at Mig. Mig lodged and
the angry officer almost fell to the floor.
Before he could recover himself for the
second kick the cat was out of the door
and back on the platform.
But the hoOdoo was there and the OF
fetal was tied up almost a week behind
three wrecks away from home.
The railroad men can tell hundreds
of stories which are woven around Mig
Some of the train crews are superstl-
tious of him and others will take him
up on the engine with them Whatever
there is in the hOOdOo connected with
black cats-the railroaders Will never be
able to accuse Mig of being in anything
when it happened.
Mig has been on trains and left them
before a wreck and he has boarded the
platforms of Inflated cars but never in
his history has he been on the injured
or Jared list of a Kansas wreck-he
has not bothered the busy brain of
Claim Agent Cartilage.
Mig can give highballs with his curly
tail, he can flag an engineer to stand
still, running back and forth in front
of an oncoming train and he can cause
CONSERVATION among the negro en-
ployees of a dining car. At night his
shiny eyes peer here and there beneath
and around standing trains. He can
claim relationship to practically every
black cat along the lines of the Rock
Island in Kansas and he can tell din
ing car and business car a mile away
when the average railroad man would
have little time to brush up on the ar
rival of a brass collar"
Mig is great cat-ask Depot Master
Cartright if he isn't-or any passenger
train crew of the Rock Island in Kan
sas. Or else ask Nig-if he knows car
numbers and car construction he ought
to know enough to brag a little.