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Show CY WARMAN. (Pocatello Tribune.) A good many years ago we knew a genial railroader in sunny southern Colorado. His name was C.v War-man. War-man. When Cy was not pulling the throttlo he was gritting his teeth and working over a piece of paper and "wicldiur mystic phrases from the wrecks of other years." Then something happened and Cy became a newspaper man and went down to Crccde, whore he published a dally paper during the boom days of the camp, and Ihore was Soapy Smith, Bob Ford, Slanting Annie and Olio, all made Sfamous through, Cy's pleasing jingles jwhCn he' coined the expression "It's day all day in the daytime, and there is no night in Creede." r And there wasn't in those days of the gold camp. But its day passed, the old characters drifted, and Cy collaborated with some individual and put a new wording to an old Canadian I tunc and turned it out as "Sweet : Marie," and cleared something like $20,000 on tho production while It was still popular. After that he hung onto New York.' where in the moro recent years, his magazine stories of railroad life proved prov-ed the best part of his literary productions. pro-ductions. He died yesterday, and as wo read the dispatch during the busy hour there was recalled many a pleasant memory of the old days' In the canyon can-yon of tho Grand, "where one could paint a picture that a child cpuld understand," of Warman and his laughter apd merry jingles of the Sangre de Chrlsto, and interesting anecdotes of railroading In the Rockies. Rock-ies. It was like turning back a few pages. He 'was of the typical western type. 00 |