The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-01-03
SIDEDOOR PULLMAN
By OVERLAND SLIM

Well, here am again at tbb
time, one week late. Tho nv Pull
man pulled into the PrcducD
Yards all right, it got sidetracEei
Now let's go!
After the yard policeman in Sw.
kane got thru with questions and
queer actions and decided We were
not such bad actors he got quite
friendly and told US when the next
freight pulled out west 10 leave
town on it. He said that there wee
already enough worthless BUNS
in the town without having Us
hanging around.
This statement made Jack and
myself sore and we let him know
it. We also advised him that We
were going to stay in Spokane l
while longer than we had plana
when We first arrived. When b
Gained down he had to admit that
Spokane was in the United Stats
the country Jack and | fought tz
in the World War; that this cour
try did not belong to him, He then
said that he had been in this cOul.
try thirty years, liked it and would
always be for Hoover, which VI
did not doubt judging by the way
he acted towards honest working
men.
We stayed in Spokane for a.
other day and went to the lwga
where a collection was taken Y
and two men were sent up towns
get the provisions. When they r
turned numbers were drawn ~
cooks and flunies and ! had %
good fortune to be a cook Jazz
drew the flunkey job.
After the silverware was WsS1sa
and polished there were Spessns
and singing and possibly a gam GAM
of cards. One speaker who CAM ~.
ed he was from North DaAs .,
warned us to be careful aDOu! w"
we said in this land Of the nSs !.
After supper Jack and WEN rA.',
the railroad yards Of the T T.,'
Northern to get a freight to n =,
atchee where the apple harV ,., ",
just starting. An unemPl0yn'.I,
agency advertised that 2OV S alr'
pickers were wanted there ,,I nov
ever when we arrived in m ss.',
chez in a box car we found ' .a@,
were 200 apple pickers 70 'p =.
there. We concluded that tn li.i =
son for advertising apple ,,or,
where there was ALREADY 2 ~ su Ttts
was to glut the labor mai I. N
workers and thus make !len
against each other for pUs' Vu
Jack and l agreed to leave Y. ~" ~.
atchee and we decided to e. !. N he
towards Seattle, so we wen ~ y "a.
wards and climbed into a DG I, q,
We did not know whether /" rsrs
going east or west but as We S Sr.
tired { we went to sleep. - IN 4.
enough en- the train Travelled sa, roa
stead stead of w west and when We s W..
up we found ourselves back ln r
ane. a. imgle,
had breakfast and dinner ~ .;Sn out
up town where we saw s 2 sls' asi
side an employment OLl n Es.
apple pickers were wanted .
atchee. cet to
attic Nb by til the way Of Pas'o o. Pss
ington, tho the memory 0UoiIicsnsr
slim, the notorious ya ara sor Is .
took the joy out Of lite E. II ;srsrd
we had heard that he ~, nav rent y
notches on his gun. we we pf
the railroad yards wneis tbst ves
several men of the roaa a. and md tbq
going to Pasco that nlgn t+s N . y
told us that he had gV stIs vel
as federal agent in Se az vas q
we didn't care where re- u 4 spOkans
as long as he wa, was mo IlG' and n We YER
The freight pulled out ''
on our way to Pasco' :, Over
(Another installmen' iii n be ppS
land Sims adventuTTsSs res, v"
Iished next week.-EO.I