The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-07-18

* Oh llllClI WHISKY III the leHlSS
see mountains. eX- welsher turn
~ cd infOrmer and betraying his
neighbor lawbreakers TO the United
States revenue officers. eX-everythina
which made his continued stay in the
Cumberlands impossible, was n man OF
distinction in the Red desert.
In the wider field of the west he had
been successfully Il claim jumper, q
rustler of unbranded cattle, telc
graph operator in collision with q
gang of train robbers and finally a
faro lookout, the armed guard who
sits at the head of the gaming table in
the untamed regions TO kill, and kill
quickly, If dispute arises.
Angels acknowledged his citizenship
without joy. He tyrannized the town
yet no counter bully had come to chase
him into oblivion.
For Lidgerwood to have earned the
enmity of this man was considered
equivalent to one of three thlngs-the
superintendent would throw up his job
and leave the Red desert, preferably
by the first train. or Rufford would
kill him, or he must kill Rufford In
the Angels roundhouse on the second
morning following the attempt upon
Lidgerwood's life at the gate of the
Dawson cottage the discussion was
spirited, not to say acrimonious.
I'm telling you hyenas that Collars
and Cuffs amt going 10 run away"
insisted Williams, who was Just in
from the all night trip to Red Butte
and return. "Ie amt built that way"
Lester, the roundhouse foreman
himself man queller of no mean re-
pute, thought differently. Lidgerwpod
would most likely take to the high
grass and the tall timber. The alter
native was to pack gun" for Ruff
ford, an alternative quite inconceiva-
bic to Lester when it was predicated
OF the superintendent.
81 don't know about that" said Jud-
son, the discharged consequently
momentarily sobered-engineer Of the
271. Hes fooled everybody more
than once since he lit down i'm the Red
desert. L don't know but he might
even run bluff on Bart Rufford if he
felt like it."
Come off, Johnp' growled the big
foreman. You needn't be afraid to
talk straight over here He hit YOU
when you was down, and we all know
you're only waltin' for a chance TO hit
back"
Judson was red headed man. effu-
sively good natured when he was I'm
liquor and quick tempered fighter
of battles when he was not.
Don't you make any such mistakei"
he snapped. That's what McCloslxev
said when he handed me the 'goodby!i
You'll be one more TO go round feelin'
Tor Mr.. Lidgerwood's throat, sun.
pose says he. BY cripes, what I
SAID to Mac Pm sayin' TO you, Bob
Lester! l know good and well a-plenty
when I've earned my blue envelope.
III I'd been I'm the super's place the
I'll would have had n new runner n
long time ago.
say he'll chase his feet" puffed
Broadbent, the fat machinist. who vos
truing off the valve seats of the 1o5
IF Rufford doesn't make him there's
some others that will"
Judson flarcd up again.
WHO you quotin' now, Fatty-one
OF the shop 'prentlces? Or maybe IT'S
Rank Hallock? Say, what's he doin,
monkeyin round the back shop so
much latelyf I'm goin' to stay round
mere Till | get chance TO lick that
scrub"
You rail Founders "a better get NEXT
TO Rankin Hallock,' Broadbent warn.
ed Hes the next Superintendent of
the II. ID. w. You'll see the 'point.
neht circular the next day after that
jim dandy over in the Crows Nest
gets moved offn the map,
We'll I'm some afeared Bart Ruff. |
lords likely to move him." drawled |
Gay the six foot Kentuckian. who |
was ming the 1863 brasses at the
bench. Which the same I ain't re.
loicln' about neither. That little cuss
y SHORE mighty good railroad man
ana when you nin't rubbin' his fur
me wrong way he treats you white"
FOR instancer snapped Hodges. a
freight engineer who had been thrice
on the carpet In Lidgerwood's Office
Tor 0vcrrunning his orders