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Show A DANGEROUS RIDE. "Let me our of here, for Heaven's sake," said a voice which came in suppliant tones from a loaded cattle car, as Jerry Nicholas, who seals cars, etc., passed along a cattle train which arrived here from Wells yesterday. The car from which the supplication came was loaded with steers and Mr. Nicholas could not believe that a man could be locked in there with the cattle and live. He investigated the matter however, and found that an ingenious tramp, who was determined, at the risk of his life, to beat the railroad, had fixed a piece of board, just large enough to sit on, in a corner of the car, and on that perch he rode from Humboldt Wells, some two hundred miles. Had he lost his balance, or in any way got down on the floor of the car, he would have been stamped to death beyond all doubt, as the most reckless vaquero will not venture into a car among cattle, even when armed with a good stick.-Nevada Silver Star. |