Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 9, 1923, Page 13

~ Wh up most of the stations, and ks SUNDAY, SEPT. 9, 1923 Che Casper Sunday Cribune PAGE THREE HOW PONY EXPRESS RIDER WAo (Continued from Page One.) @rate, when I heard a stirring !n the nearby room, and very soon Billy Fisher appeared at the door. The old Pony-Rider could not have weighed more than a hundred and twenty pounds, and he was a bit crumpled with painful rheumatism, but he was still full of pluck. We helped him across the room to the other big chair his solicitoue wife had drawn up on the other side of the fire for him. Hw eat there a few moments thawing the pain out of his anets, before he added arything to the * d mornin’ " with which he bad first greqced me. Then he said: “Gia@ to see you! The school uperiutendent, John Condie, ‘old me you was comin.’ What can I do for you?” “Oh, I'm just hungry to hear some real stories of the Pony Ex- press from one of the boys tha rode in it. I know you are full of them. Mr. Fisher.” “I used to be,” he answered; “but this blamed rheumatism has been takin’ all my attention lately, I ain't had much time to think about the old days since it got me. But go ahead: mebbe I can answor scmo of your questions.” “Where did you do most of your riding on the.Pony Express?" I began. “From Faust station into Salt Lake City. But I rode over all the other parts of the Utah and Nevada desert trafl too. Once I made near- ly a 300 mile run from Reese River clear to Salt Lake. I used eight horses on.that trip and one mule— ‘earned my passage on that darned mule, too; he was a mean devil.” “Why did you have to make such @ long ride as that? ‘The damned Indians tea cleaned a the ones that were left tu ¢it the mi through.” “Did you get into any tight places during that ride?’ Not so very. The Indians was layin’ for me, all along the trail. But I managed to keep my scalp by takin’ cutoffs and getting off the regular trail when I could.” “What is the most exciting ex- perience you had while carrying the mail?" “It was all more or less exciting, only we didn’t think much about it that way. We just took things as they came. But I guess the time I had the closest call wan't with the Injuns at all; it was when I was @aved by a jack-rabbit.” “Saved by a jack-rabbitt’ I echoed him; “How did that happen?" “Well, it was this way. You see ‘we'd given our word of honor that we'd carry the ma!l through. That ‘was our slogan! The mail's got to go through.’ And we carried it through, but sometimes it tested our mettle to do it.” The intrepid old rider’s voice had N.@ real ring of youth in {t as he con- nued— “Ong morning the rider from the West ‘chased out’ of Faust Sta- tion—over there in Rush Valley, about 60 miles from Salt Lake City —and I started on the jump for the next place. “I hadn’t gone mor'n a mile when a storm struck me; wind and bliindin’ desert dust at first, then snow. It was about the fiercest Diizzard I ever faced. But I kept my horse plugging away over the bare hills till we made the next sta- tion, then I got a fresh pony and away I went again down towards Camp Floyd, where old Albert Sia- ney Johnston had his soldiers. By the time I got there the snow was coming so thick I could hardly find the station.® “*¥ou'll never make {t through this storm,’ the hostlers sald; ‘bet- ter wait here, Billy, til) ft clears.’ “The mall's got to go through,’ I said; and they got me my horse. I started out, battlin’ my way rough the snow until finally I into one of the Russell, Majors and Waddell oxtrains headed west with freight for the soldiers. I pretty nigh bumped into the lead team; the blizzard was so thick I couldn't see a rod ahead of me.” “The ‘wagon boss and the boys begged me to turn back to the camp with them, but I said, ‘I guess I'll wake it all right,’ and I kept on for} about an hour, I guess. Then I found myself off the trail, up on the hills among the cedar trees. I @idn’t know where I was, so I just got off my horse and sat down to test by a thick tree which part! sheltered me trom the driving snow. | | J “As I mat there holding the reins|the drift that warmed me up a I began to get drowsy. Tho snow|little, I finally made it up the other bank looked like a feather bed, 1/D°"K Over to the cabin. guess; and I was just about to top- ple over Jumped on my legs and scared me.| I looked up in time to see a jack| rabbit hopping away snow, -o-—-—=--u—___ come out. It was colder than pening to me. n't brought me back to my senses I should have frozen right there. I jumped up and began to beat back and after about an hour I found myself on the banks of the Jordan river. | “I knew now where I was so I followed the stream until I came to the bridge that led across to the| town of Leh!. When I got there, I ‘was nearly frozen to death; but the| good woman at the farm house I! struck first filled me with hot cof- fee and something to eat and I soon| felt better. “When I called for my horse, they sald ‘Why you can’t make it through this storm; better stay with | us till it clears.’ | “The mail's got to go through,” I said, and I jumped on the pony again and struck out as I thought towards Salt Lake. But as bad luck would have it I wound up about an hour later in front of a deep gulch half filled with snow, I bad got this time up into the north- east corner of the Utah valley, near the little town of Alpine, off the trail about eight miles. “Looking across the gulch I caught sight of a light shining’ dim through the snow. So I left my horse and plunged down into the gulch, and after a struggle through When |they opened the door, I told them jot my fix. The man went around and got my horse while I sat there thawing out again. 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