Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-20

-~--~-s ~~--------~-~-> >~~~~--~-~- robbers. He tells of the time when Horace Greeley was making a tour of the Pacific coast and was scheduled to make a speech st Placerville. He went aboard the stage driven by quaint Hank Monk. and as he stepped in he shouted:
 Got Greeley There on Time.
 MT. Monk. must deliver lecture In Placeryille tomorrow night Can you get me there on timer"
 Monk assured him that he could, and started otf the team along the old corduroy" road, paved with small sap lings, half buried in clay. Miles and miles they went. with Monk whistling merrily. and Horace Greeley. the only passenger, being pumped about within the rolling coach without being able to help himself in the least. At last the dignihed passenger could stand 1t no longer. When he had been thrown for the fortieth time against the wood en frame of the coach door he cried out: MT. Monk, don't you think you are going pretty fast?" Monk let go a mouthfui of tobacco juice, and. giv- ing a sharp crack with the whip to the leader. replied unsteady: Keep your seat, Mir. Greeley, I'll get you there on timel" Greeley got there on time, as he had demanded, and the lecture was jolted clean, out of him. He arrived in PlaceryiIle seasick and brain-fagged.
 Hodges was associated with the fa- nous twin stage drivers, Curly Dan and Curly Jerry, fearless and careful men. whose innocent deception, owing to their extreme likeness, of passen- gers was the cause of great hilarity. It happened that Dan would start out with the stage in the early morning from Placerville, and at midnight would arrive at the changing station, where he would give his seat on the box to his brother, likewise curly-hair- ed and featured. The passengers be- ing asleep they were not aware of the exchange, and next morning, when they spied whom they thought was Curly Dan upon the seat, they sup posed he had been driving without sleep since the morning of the day be- fore. Jerry used to have 8 great time convincing the curious passen- gers that he was not his brother, but bis brothers brother.
 Drove President Grant
 When President Grant did a little staging in the west in 1879, there was great rivalry among the stage drivers ss to who should handle the reins on the coach that took him from Placer vile to Virginia City. Billy Hodges got the honor. which was also a plum" because of the additional money in the job, and when they start ed out Grant looked at the frisky six. horse team and then at the driver, sho at the time was looking as sporty and frisky as his animals. That's a frisSy team and a frisly driver, but he's got a good eye and a white nosei" exclaimed the president.
 Grant marveled at the speed with which they travelled, and the way they dashed into Virginia City on that mem orable day just suited the old war rior. He complimented Hodges on his work with the reins.
 During the years from 1870 to 1884 Welis-Bargo lost. incidental to robber- lee. se27, ,726.55. There were during this time SIS stags holdups. 34 attempted robberies and four train Tobberies. More than 15 guards were killed or wounded, while more than two dozen bandits were killed, besides those sent to state prison.
 Some of these facts are here publish ed for the first time. for Billy is not much of talker uEtil he Is poked up bit and quizzed. He nanipulates that lever and calls out the floor" not understanding or caring little for the power that lifts and lowers this strange modern coach.