The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-03-04

came TO a stop, and wnen / reached
the engine the mountaineer had the
engineer and his man-of all-work lined
up with their hands as far from earth
as possible. He caught sight Of me.
and in a wink he had me doing the
high reach alongside the others.
Say growled the engineer, what
you want to 10? Steal this outfit?
There isn't anything on board you can
take, unless it's the coal in the tender
Don't you-al give me no sass, eau
toned the tall man of the mountains.
I'm going to borrow this train, and
you-unsll have to run it for me.
well, he made us all climb aboard,
packing us into the cab, and ordered
the engineer TO start up.
Say quered the engineer, with
his hand on the throttle, aren't you
going to ride?'
ono replied the mountaineer, I
hain't never been on one of those
pesky things an amt going to take
no chances. ] guess I can hoof it and
keep up to you; but don't yOu-all try
to run away from me, or III plug you
full of lead!'
THE engineer started up, and the
highland holdup man had no trouble
keeping up with us. The queer process
sion proceeded for several miles, then
we came to a place where track
branched off from the main line into
the heart of the wilderness. Here he
brought the engine to a stop by point
ing his gun at the engineer and shout
ing, Whoa!
"'Now. youall git down and move
the track over so we can 90 up this
ere way, he commanded, addressing
the man-ofall-work.
THAT worthy lost no time in climb,
ing down and throwing the switch, and
we moved along the old unused track.
"'What the nation dss that clon-
gated outlaw want to TYn us up this
old lumber line for?' growled the en-
gineer There hasn't been a train
along here since the road stopped TAX
ing out timber
Say you train robber' shouted
the man-ofall-work, addressing the
patriarchal pirate in his most courtly
manner, will you kindly inform us
whittier we are going and why, and
what is our doom.
'You-all II find out soon enough
he answered Shut up!'
1--WE proceeded for about three
miles, and then the grizzled guerrilla
commanded the engineer to stop He
told the fireman TO fix his fires so they
would last for couple of hours When
everything was ready he lined us up
in single file, with the lanky coon dog
in the lead, and made us pTecede him
along a path in the wilderness. I'm
about fifteen minutes we came to a
cabin in a clearing. In answer to
whistle from our captor, woman APP
peared at the door.
Mandy, he said I've brought com
pany for dinner Rustic around lively.
These gents is in q hurry
In short time the meal was ready,
and we all sat down. It knocked the
wind out of me TO hear that venerable
villain ask divine blessing on the re,
past, but it didn't spoil my appetite.
after we had finished and the table
had been cleared our host procured
writing materials and placed them on
the table.
81 want one of youuns to write o.
letter, he said. Guess you-all had bet
ter do it, he continued, addressing
me.
Il expressed my willingness to ac-
commodate him, and peTpared to stem
ograph his dictation.
This here letter. he said, is to be
wrote to the president of the United
States
81 indted the superscripuon and
waited for him to commence dictauon
Mr.. President he started. and
then continued:
Dear Sir:
This here section Of the country has been
pcstercd by a lot of no-accouut revenue
men huutin for mo10shuers. They made