New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-08-19
CHAPTER XVII-Continued.

b"iii''1tnS. HOW IdF no You want your
trHin to run"
"Oh. | don't know; anywhere the
notion prod, me-say to the west end
aud back. with * many stops rs |
see tit to make, and perhaps a run
over the branches"
saw the boss make a few figures
on = pad under his hand.
1T would cn>; anybo'!y else, rough
~, something like five hundred dol
lars. tu account of your little joke
ifs gaiuE to cost you a cold thou
sand
Mr.. Van Rriit took out his check
book aud y fountain pen and solemn
~ made out the check.
there you are" he said. Tipping the
Cl'o, pv,r ia the boss desk. Nov
sl,ril plt that rrrripr. 81 that I'll have
a. 10 sh,w if anybody want To know
hnv much you've gougcd me. Since
you're making the accommodation cost
az , dollar II minute. how long have
go - waltz"
M Nnrrro-S said something that
6ormrl'd ike "d-n" scrubbed n mem
orluium ~ the thou~and-dollar pay
mrnt IN = sheet of the scratch-pad
aud handed II over, saying Tile or
der for the car Includes my cook and
porter. and something 10 eat well
throw these in with the t%ransporta-
ton and If the car is ditched and
Nnu sue for damages, wen file a cross
iill for hotel accommodations. Now
~ away aud work on your little nj
Jack If lunlcy. I'm busy
The q. s & ". Strike-as ON wires
foll uS-wrut into effect promptly on
ihc stroke or noon, and a train from
Ia, west. arriving tate in the after
noon. brought Ripley.
'@Fhe conditions all along the line
are almost Revolutionary was Rip
Iry's summing up of the situation.
'Grucrl!ly speaking the public IS No
holding Us responsible as yet, though
of course there are crnakers who are
saying that IL i, entirely n railroad
move. and predicting that we won't
do anything to interfere with the new
graft"
"Cautrcll say, the public sentiment
~ altogether on the side of the {. 5.
& W. strikers the boss put in.
"lt Is; angrily so. There Is hot
ak 0f y boycott ia be extended to
everything sold or handled by h
Hatch syndicate. | hope there won't
ic any effort made to introduce strike
breakers. IN the present state 81 af-
fairs that would mean arson and riot
ing and bloody murder"
II wired you because | wanted 10
consult you once more about those
ground leases. Ripley. DO you still
dunk you cnn made them holdF'
~ IIltch breaks the conditions,
we'll give him the fight Of his life"
was the confident reiolndcr.
"i,ut that viii mean n long contest
IN the courts. The supreme court Is n
fun year behind it, docket, aud the
delay viii Inevitably multiply your
few 'rr,iters' by many thousands.
I,n. that Isn't the worst of IL. Hatch
has a better ,old op us than the laws
dcliy" An1 &" thi, third member of
III. staff Me. Norcross told the story
OF tie political trap into which Col
iiue.poI aud the New York stock
lahhrrs had betrayed the railroad man
ssrmeut.
Ripley comment was a little like
Uornsrk's; les, pr"tanr. perhaps, but
slsn less hopeful.
"G.ri Lnrd." hr calculated. :
th,i l. what Hatch has Ind up his
slprvr2 ( don't know how you feel
al over but the shouting. II the Dun
TOO crowd had been deliberately try.
inE 10 wreck the property. they couldn't
ltayo gpn, about 70 ia any surer way"
THAT q, fhr way n looked 10 me.
tipIrl. ~ first hut I've had n chance
fo slrep 'u .t-as you haven't. The
sun tiitr can't De- Spiked iu some way
has meyer yet bccn huili. I have the
namrs or ihe eleven men who were
HATCH was daring enough to
them q" me. Holding the ain
i,,ifs which they were foolish enough
10 give him. Hatch can make them
swear to anything lr p%leasr~. But If
] could ct those ahidavits Id 90 10
mcn separai ~ aud make each
,ur tell mr how nuch he had been
paid by Rullock fpr his vote.
well what them
Then I should make eve riother's
sen " thea come across With the fun
ampuuf OF the brii-. a rain " an
exposure which the dirf, Il politician
IN this state couldn't "A "a to face.
would settle ". Hatch couldn't
she same game = second time
We were closing our desks to go 10
when Fred May came 20 10 say
= delegation 81 the pas roll men
vas outside and wanting 20 have a
with the Big Boss Mr.. Nor
-ros. stopped Wlth his desk curtain
ssif drawn down. !
What IL g. Freds~ be asked. I
Il don't know" said the Pitts
,urgher. 4 should call II q grievance
n Il wasn't 80 big. And
hey don't seem 20 be rnsd about any
hing Bart Hoskins is doing the talk I
for filem-
"Send them in" was TIE curt con- |
nsnd. and y minute later the inner :
'ffcs vas about three-fourths filed I
Nth q Shutting crowd of r. 9. L. Z
~.
The chief looked the crowd over.
There was q bunch Il train and engine /
men. . squad frora the shops. ar a
Igger soe from the yards. Also. lie I