The Washington times., 1923-11-28
GIRL OUTF|GHTS
RAILROADS
IN COURT
''Fightin' Terry" Dunn's
Granddaughter Gets Permis-
sion to Run Buses.
By PATRICIA DOUGHERTY,
Cosmopolitan News Service.

BELLE PLANE, Iowa. Nov. y.
Terry" Dunn's grand
daughter hung another scalp on her
smart leather belt today and set
out in her high-powered bus look
ing for more Indians to kill. She
smiled as she stepped ON the gas
and gave her head" to the cream
colored motor gliding so smoothly
over the cleaning concrete ROAD
that runs out Of Macon City. Fer.
hans she smiled at the ghost OF
ssFightin' Terry" who must have
been somewhere about to celebrate
the victory of his little grand
daughter. Because IL there was
any1 hing Terry Dunn liked it was
good stiff fight and he never
"When the lawyers for the four
railroads and the two interurban
fines arrived in court the opening
day Of our hearing they seemed
very cocky," Miss Helen Schultz,
owner of the Red Ball Transporta-
ton Company, said laughIngly.
Not BIuffed Out.
"My dear young woman" one OF
them said, you're very foolish to
fight powerful railroads. You
don't Think we're going to let you
run your motor buses all over
Iowa at a lower rate than the rail-
roads charge, do you? You
haven't any right to q francnlse
and a young girl like you Is our
of place in a court fight. Wnere
did you come from, did you say
Nashua l said. i am Terry
Dunn's granddaughter.
"'Oh, my Cod the nice OLD laWyer
said softly. Terry Dunn never lost
n fight or missed an Indian.
."sAnd neither have !, I said.
'And I'H win this one and get your
scalp and I did. The Iowa State
railroad. commission granted me the
franchise to operate fifteen motor
'husses between six cities, and IN
spite of the big lawyers for the
Great Western, the Northwestern,
the Rock Island, and the Minneapolis
and st. Louis railroads, and the
Mason City and Clear Lake inter-
urban liues:
"I'm awflliiy happy over it because
it's been a long fight and 'Fightin'
Tefry'st courageous spirit was just
about TO weaken in me. You see
my mothers father was one of the
bravest Indian fighters of the pioneer
DAYS in Iowa, and he used to ride his
horse over the same trails drive
my $4,000 buses over. So all dur
ing the time / was waiting for my
hearing before the commission !
used to keep reminding myself. while
drove the car. of the stories grand
pa used to tell me about fighting
Indians.
Not First Fight.
The thing to remember when
you're fighting Indians he used to
say to me, Asis that, Indians scare
awful easy II you show 'em you've
got nerve. Indians is awful scared
of brave men, Nellie So when the
railroads began fighting me I tried
to show 'em I had nerve and they
scared awful easy, all right.
This isn't the first fight I've had
by any means, and I don't think it'll
be the last. The mayor of Waterloo
stood in the middle of the road the
| first day. I ran bus there from
Mason City, and told me he wouldn't
| let me in the town. got out and
| argued with him. but he wouldn't
get out OF the way.
"'All right, you old fish, said,
III run over you then
/ But he whistled for the sheriff
and had me put in Jail. My brother
! bailed me out and sued the mayor
for false arrest and got a $1,000
/ judgment"