Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 21, 1923, Page 15

PAGE THREE as his bond. His character is as|to this four-square old mail carrior ‘craggy and as solid as the granite| and frontier fre'ghter tell of h's ex- hulls. And his heart is as whole-| periences along the pioneer trail. some aS a child's. He is tender, Spray heralded Overland Champion has ar- too, even though he does delight in} yes. Sparky will be present at rived and may be seen at any time pioneer roughness.” the auto show, but he will be in- at m on East Yellow It was a rare privilege to listen cognito. Try and find him Another new baby. The Wyo- ming Oldsmobile company, ts the | proud father. The new and much the salesr ' stone. line was put through. Then I tend- ed a station for about six months.” “What other troubles did you help the Pony Riders through?” “About the worst tussle I had for) any of them was when I got mixed up with one drunken rider at a/|my pack mule loaded with mail go- bad turn in the trail.”’ Ing ahead, and me leadin’ the Pony BAD TURN IN 4s ‘ {| Rider’s horse packin’ his drunken I tl t the Ri gag ah yee Gers didn’t) vider, I jogged. along the trail mak- | “Well, they had no business to| ime *% S0od time as T could for the : ‘fink; and most of them did keep - |their word that they would leave whisky alone when they were on HUDS I ny C | ; | (Contmued From Page One) Iasects thece beets irs ce ora On the Finest Super-Six Chassis Ever Built hitch now or not, but I could. “No matter. I tied that fellow tight enough to hold him for the rest of that trip all right. I got on to my mule, ‘Muggins,’ and with think I “After we had jolted him along eight miles, the fellow began to wake to the situation. And then how he did beg me to untie him. # you damned cuss, I won't "You have given me trouble enough for one day. And I kept a jogging on, joltin’ him as much as I cou'd. As we got near the station, he began to cry and beg me so hard to set him ffee, that I finally yielded. When we rode on into the station; he was sober enough. | “He was behind with the mail, of course. I don’t know whether they } ever found out why. I didn't tell.| And I don’t know whether he lost his job or not, He should have done. for he broke his word. i've, got no use for a man on whose word you can't depend. A man’s word| ought to be as good as his bond. “Bill Streeper’s word is as good| ’ I said; REVELATIONS OF MR CONOCO —the most contented motorist in six states? “Funny thing about Hills— HEY’RE not nearly so bad as they look—not since I discovered what a ‘powerful’ lot of: means ing there is in that word CONOCO. “It used to bother me to see Neighbor Bill slip by whenever he caught me on a steep up-grade. I couldn’t quite figure it out—same make and model of car, mind you—until one day in town I saw him pull up in front of the CONOCO sign. “Bill admitted, with a smile full of meaning, that he had taken it for granted I knew the answer to the gasoline question. He showed me a little record! he’d kept on mileage last month, too. That alone, was enough for me. 1 age to put a letter through in a/-<ellows would set up their dives! hurry. The regular mail was car- close by the stations to tempt the ried on pack mules from Camp boys, and the other folks that were Floyd to Carson City—that {s un- takin’ the trail.” til the Overland stage got to run-| “One time I was carryin’ the mail| ning. The notion most folks have between Mountain Springs and a| is that the regular mail was car- station about a hundred miles far-| ried by the stage; but until 1861 the ther out into Nevada—the toughest | stage did not run any farther than’ part of the trail—that's what old p Floyd, just out of Salt Lake yfajor Egan always gave me. Well, City southwest about forty miles. |when I rode up to a station out “I was one of the regular mail there in the desert, I found a Pony | carriers. We had to make a ride Rider off his horse drinking whisky. of a hundred miles each. The Pony| «Come on, Bill, he said to me; Express boys had their home sta-! ‘come and have a drink.’ tions only fifty to sixty miles apart.| + -]¢ ain’t my drinkin’ day,” I said, We were passing one another all) «Oh, come on, and be sohiab'e,’ the time, and naturally we got into/ne went on, but I wouldn't have the same sort of troubies.’’ lanything to do with him. “What kind of troubles did you, “Then he said, ‘Wait a minute have?" and I'll ride on with you." “Indian troubles mostly. bain be-| "1 didn't want to be responsible | gan because white people started o, the drunken cuss, so I just Ht} them. ‘The Indians were all right. out when I got ready, leavin’ him| when they were treated right. I: drinkin’. About an hour later, just| could always get along with them.|45 1 got to a place where the In-| Ola Du-ditch-a-mo, ‘Black Hat,’ ani qiang had ambushed some of our Freightand-Tax-fytra At practically open car cost, the Coach combines all closed car comforts with famous chassis quality. 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I couldn't very well leave him in that dangerous place, even “I don’t want to be as tight about a good thing as’ he was.” if he did deserve it. But how was was broken up for a time. That/r to get him out of it I didn't know. time I. went all the way trom be-|* \y Sumnned off THE CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY “I jumped off my mule and tried ° ex. NW Yond Reese river into Salt Lake ¢ rouse him out of his drunken Custom Built Qualit (A Colerado Corporation) City. The word had been sent weep, hut nothing I could do would 3 i ‘ Marketing a complete line of high-grade Sieger ee ee iene bring him to his senses. I kicked at Quanti i ces Freight and Tax Extra products in Colorado, Wyoming, got into the 8. 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