Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-07-07
BAD. The Eight-Fifteen will do. with

ISS,ASo are , II gong 10 pay IOE
that train, and what's more, I want
your written receipt for the money. /
need it in my business. Then, If
Chandler should happen to get gay and
dump me into the ditch somewhere,
! can u you for damages
.All right if you will persist in
joking with me it's going to cost you
something. How far do you want your
train to rum"
"Oh, / don't know; anywhere the
notion prods me-say to the west end
and back, with as many stops as II
see fit to make, and perhaps a run
Over the branches"
I saw the boss make a few figures
on a pad under his hand.
ut would cost anybody. else, rough
", something like five hundred dol
lars. On account Of your little Joke
it's going to cost you a cold thou
sand"
Mr.. Van Britt took out his check
book and a fountain pen and solemn
ly made out the check.
"Here you are" he said, Tipping the
check over to the boss desk. "Now
shell out that receipt, so that I'll have
it to show If anybody wants to know
how much you've gouged me. Since
you're making the accommodation cost
me a dollar a minute. how long have
I got to waltz
Mr.. Norcross said something that
sounded like 'd-n." scrubbed a men,
Orandum Of the thousand-dollar pay
ment on a sheet of the scratch-pad
and handed it over, saying: '"The or
der for the car includes my cook and
porter, and something to eat; We'll
throw these in with the t%ransporta-
ton, and if the car is ditched and
you sue for damages, we'll file a cross
bill for hotel accommodations. Now
go away and work off your little at
tack of lunacy. I'm busy
The C. S. & w. strike-as our wires
told us-went into effect promptly on
the stroke of noon, and a train from
the west, arriving late in the after.
noon, brought Ripley.
'The conditions all along the line
are almost revolutionary" was Rip
ley's summing-up Of the situation.
Generally speaking, the public is not
holding us responsible as yet, though
of course there are croakers who are
saying that it is entirely a railroad
move, and predicting that we won't
do anything to interfere with the new
graft"
"Cantrell says the public sentiment
is altogether on the side Of the G. S.
& w. strikers" the boss put in.
"It is; angrily so. There Is hot
talk Of a boycott to be extended to
everything sold or handled by the
Hatch syndicate. I hope there Wont
be any effort made to Introduce strike
breakers. III the present state Of af
fairs that would mean arson and riot
ing and bloody. murder"
II wired you because / wanted t.
consult you onc more about those
ground leases, Ripley. Do you still
think you can made them hold"
"If Hatch breaks the conditions
we'll give him the fight Of his life,'
was the confident rejoinder.
"But that will mean a long confess
in the courts. The Supreme court is 6
full year behind its docket, and the
delay will inevitably multiply YOU
, few 'croakers' by many thousands
But that isn't the worst of it. Hatci
has a better hold on us than the laws
! delay And to this third member O
) his staff Mr.. Norcross told the stor!
a of the political trap into which Col
, lingwood and the New York stock
, johbers had betrayed the railroad man
: agement.
Ripley comment was a little llk'
' Hornack's; less profane, perhaps, bu
4 also less hopeful.
f. "Good Lordw he calculated. "S'
that is what Hatch has had up NJ
sleeve? I don't know how you fee
8 about it, but 1 should say that 1T i
all over but the shouting. If the Dun
d ton crowd had been deliberately try
ing to wreck the property, they couldn''
8 have gone about it in any surer way.
"That is the way it looked to me
t Ripley, at first; but I've had a chanc'
VI " It-dS Soo -
gun that can't be spiked in some wa.
has never yet been built. ! have tn
names of the eleven men who Wer'
bribed. Hatch was daring enough t
give them to me. Holding the aft
davits which they we're foolish enougl
d to give him, Hatch can make then
e swear to anything he pleases. But ]
I could get those afidavits I'd go t
these men separately and make eacl
one tell me how much he had bee
d paid by Bullock for his vote.'
asWell, what then?'
ts1Then.I should make every mother
son of them come across with the full
amount of the bride, on pain of a.
exposure which the dirtiest POLITICAL
10 this state couldn't afford to face
That would settle it. Hatch couldn'
i work the same game a second time.
We were closing BUR desks to go +
dinner when Fred May came in to sa,
that a delegation of the payroll me