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Las Vegas Age, September 2, 1905 [Courtesy of John McCulloch]
"KILLED BY TRAIN - DAVE GARDNER FOUND DEAD NEAR GOOD SPRINGS"
A telegram to The Age states that Salt Lake train No. 2 found the remains of Dave Gardner lying alongside the track two miles west of Good Springs Tuesday morning. There was a large hole in the side of his head and the face was badly bruised, indicating that he had been struck by a train during the night.
Gardner was employed as a pumper at the Borax station. He is well known on the desert, is almost 35 years of age and recently resided at Barstow and Daggett.
The remains were taken to Good Springs for inquest, the result of which has not been learned.

Las Vegas Age, January 18, 1908 [Transcribed by and appearing courtesy of John McCulloch]
HOLDS UP TRAIN LEGALLY - "LIMITED" TRAIN STOPPED ON DESERT BY PROSPECTOR - DEMANDS THAT WATER BE GIVEN TO HIM UNDER OLD LAW IN ARIDSTATES, UNKNOWN BUT STILL IN FORCE.
LOS ANGELES, Cal. - Stories of how the limited train was stopped out in mid-desert and held for twenty minutes while a thirst agonized man obtained water were related by passengers who arrived in Los Angeles, Saturday evening.
"The peculiar feature of it was, the holdup was perfectly legal and nothing whatever like a holdup." Explained George R. Daly, a well know broker of Chicago, who was one of the
passengers on the train.
"We were stopped about sundown, where there was no station. The afternoon had been a glorious one and several of us had been standing on the platform of the observation car."
"The ladies at first grew a bit nervous, thinking that another holdup was being hatched up in front at the baggage and express cars. But at my first view of the stranger who was talking with the conductor I jumped to the ground and allayed their fear entirely."
"He was an elderly man and apparently in some distress - which I could not make out at first, of course. I heard him explaining to the train crew who gathered about him, together with the men from the smoker, that he needed a supply of water."
"The man gave his name as Frank C. Walker and stated his legal right to flag our train there, in the center of nowhere, for he had been an attorney and had known of the law on which he based his extraordinary action."
LAW IN DESERT STATES
"It appears, as he pointed out, that there is a law compelling all railroads running through desert land anywhere in the southwest to stop their trains when flagged and either furnish water to the party who has run out of his supply or carry him freely to the first station where his needs may be supplied."
"The former course was the one our conductor chose and they soon had his two empty water kegs on his little burro filled with the coolest water the diner could afford.."
"The conductor told me afterward that to his knowledge this law had been resorted to only once in the past five years, but that he knew the old prospector was right."
"It was worth the lost time to see that old fellow stand in front of the ice cooler on one of the Pullmans and drink his fill while they repleted his kegs."
"I've seen champagne dinners, watched clubmen wash down some of the fanciest drinks that even Chicago and New York barkeeps could concoct, but none of them seemed to get the real satisfaction out of it that this old fellow did from that ice cooler combination. Why, you couldn't have made him take a 'chaser' for a dollar a second."

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