El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-02-22
FLAGS SPECIAL
To STEAL RIDE
Texan Stops Train of Rail
road Presidents-E. P.
& S. ". to Ballast
the Track

Pasture, n. NJ, Feb. 22.-For I'M
mitigated nerve Jerry Wells, 10 year
old boy from Wichita Falls. Texas.
takes the blue ribbon in the tramp
line.
When the Golden State Limited
pulled ont of Tucumcari the lad climbed
boldly onto the pilot, suit case in hanG,
carefully adjusted the suit case directly
in front of the engine number and sat
down on IT. As the Golden State was
pulling into Hanley. II miles out OF
Tucumcari a COW on the track just
ahead, caused the kid to shift his po-
sition so that he attracted the atten-
ton of the enginemen who promptly
slowed down and unloaded him.
President James Douglass special was
following the Golden State just few
minutes behind The boy unceremoni-
ously drove the bunch Of cattle back
on the track when the special came in
sight, hid himself in a culvert nearby
and when the special slowed down he
crawled on the pilot, again carefully
adjusted his suit case for a cushion, sat
quietly down and rode into Pasture, SO
miles, without change. The special
stopped at Pasture to take water, the
enginemen came around oiling up, and
Wells was put, off. He quickly went
TO the Pintada Trading Co.'S store, and
assuring the manager, Mr.. Wolff, that
he was not hobo, but only a youth
shy on funds, he was given a job or
cutting wood for his dinner. About the
time he had surrounded himself with
a square meal a light extra headed
west arrived. He grabbed his suit
case and made for the water tank, re-
marking as he went that that was his
train and that he had 10 be in Carri-
zoZo that night, as he had written TO
his sister that he would be there and
that she would be at the depot to meet
him. He craWled on the head end of
the light engine just as it was pulling
out. The crew saw him, slowed down
and put him off Just west of the depor,
but as the train went out of sight
some section men saw him hanging TO
the back end Of the tender, his suit
case dangling by enc small strap.
The z. P. & S. ". IS going to put on
a force of several hundred men be-
} tween Santa Rosa and Vaughn ballast
ing track right away. The ballastins
force was cut off during Decembec in
order TO reduce expenses before the
ending of the fiscal year, but it was
understood at the time that the WORK
would be completed in the spring.
About % miles of track will be raised
and rock ballasted, and il will prob
ably require a foorce of 200 men two
or three months. The headquarters will
be at Aragon, three miles from Pas
tura
~ c. Ortega, bookkeeper for the Pin
tado Trading Co., was in Tucumcari
recently.
Dr. l. F. Elicit, government cattle
inspector. and Bill Davis. a prominent
rancher of Los Tanos. were here re-
Gently
Senior Don Senobia Gonzales, of Pin
tada, was in town lately and received a
box of oranges which were grown by
his son in old Mexico.
Mrs. Frank Ujhelji. of Chicago, has
arrived and taken a claim at the Hun
garian colony near here
Mrs. Peter David, of the Hungarian
colony. has secured a leave of alb
sence from governmental authority and
is going to visit her husband who is
tailor in Lincoln, Neb.