dress within the enemy’s lines, the whole party were held as spies.  A court-martial was formed and the leader and seven out of the remaining twenty-two were condemned and executed.  The others were never brought to trial.  Of the remaining fourteen, eight succeeded by a bold effort in making an escape from Atlanta, and ultimately reaching the North.  The other six failed in this effort, and remained prisoners until March, 1863, when they were exchanged.

All sorts of stories have been heard from time to time concerning the supernatural side of railroading, and the peculiar and apparently hidden antics which locomotives occasionally are guilty of.  The following story is well worth reproducing, and may serve as an illustration of hundreds of others.  It was told by an engineer, who worked on the Utah & Northern Railroad years ago, before that road became part of the Union Pacific system.  The road was very rough, and save for a long stretch of sage brush along the Snake River north of Pocatello, it ran in canons, over mountains, and through heavy cuts of clay, which was often washed down on to the tracks by the spring rains.  It was, as it is now, a railroad rushed with business.

It was the only line into Butte City, which had been struck a short time before, and was then giving promise of its future distinction as the greatest mining camp in the world.  The shipments of gold and bullion were very heavy, and all the money for the banks in Butte and Helena was sent over this road.  There were no towns along the line.  The only stops were made at water-tanks, and such eating-houses as the railroad company had built at long intervals.  It was a rough, hard run, and was made especially lonely by the uninhabited stretches of sand and sage brush, and the echoes from the high granite walls of the narrow canon.  It was a dangerous run besides.  The James gang of train robbers and the Younger brothers had been operating so successfully in Missouri, Kansas and Minnesota that other bandits had moved West to attempt similar operations.

Finally, word came from the general offices of Wells, Fargo & Co. that several train robbers had been seen in Denver, and might work their way north in the hope of either securing gold bullion from one of the down trains from Butte, or money in exchange on an up train.  After detailing these conditions, the engineer went on.

“We got a new manager for the road, an Eastern man, who had some high notions about conducting railroad travel on what he called a modern basis.  One of the first results of his management was a train, which he called the ‘Mormon Flyer,’ running from Butte to Salt Lake, and scheduled on the time card to run forty miles an hour.  We told him he never could make that time on a rough mountain road, where a train had to twist around canon walls like a cow in the woods, but he wouldn’t believe it.  He said that if a train could run forty-five miles an hour in the East it could run forty on that