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The Buffalo Susquehanna bridge near Rushfonl Allegany county
Height of trestle 1S5 feet length 754 feet weight 1178000 pounds
AGENT PROVED BOSS
SIX SHOOTER HIS MOST EFFEC
TIVE ARGUMENT
For Once Conductor and Engineer Took
Orders from the Man Whom
They Had Considered an
Easy Mark
Twenty years ago the man who was
locomotive engineer on a freight
train under any circumstances
imagined himself boss of the freight
traffic for his especial jerkwater line
He would get his train out of the way
of a passenger train that ws coining
head on but he sware at having t do
It For the rest he dictated every
thing just as far as he could make it
go Ordinarily his dictation went
for awhile at least
The engineer always told the con
ductor in the terminal yards just how
many cars he meant to pull out on any
given occasion It went too At the
way stations both the engineer and
the conductor got together en banc to
oppose any orders of the station agent
relative to cutting the train and
switching in two or three lonesome
box cars on the country siding And
that always went with the new agent
for awhile
But away up in the northwestern
country one winter a new agent was
given the station at Blizzardino He
was a round faced jolly little chap
about 20 years old who looked un
usually easy He was too for about
a week when the siding at Blizzardino
began to bank up with empties which
the conductors swore they wouldnt
pick up for 1000 years at the least
The little station agent lay awake
most of one night figuring just where
he stood He wanted to hold his job
if he could But he couldnt hold it if
he couldnt get his orders obeyed by
the freight crews The result of that
sleepless night was that the little
agent was ready next morning for the
giants Conductor Bingham and En
gineer OToole who were due south
bound with No 21 about ten oclock
railroad time
Half an hour before the train was
due the Blizzardino agent had his yel
low flimsy orders for No 21 to pick
up five empties of designated numbers
on the sidetrack and pull them in to
the nearest terminal Half an hour
later Conductor Bingham was jumping
on the orders with both heels in the
snow and signaling Engineer OToole
to go ahead OToole was going ahead
too when suddenly dead ahead across
the track the red arm of the block
signal fell vibrated for an instant
and hung still
OToole shut off steam and jumped
from the cab for the station entrance
just one lap behind Bingham But as
he entered he saw something which
made him gasp Bingham had one leg
through the wide window of the
agents inner office and had stuck
there for some reason his jaw fallen
and his eyes wide The telegraph in
strument was clicking H C H C
H C the emergency call for the of
fice of the general superintendent in
St Paul Stepping to one side
OToole saw why Bingham was stuck
in the window The kid operator and
agent was using his left hand for the
sounder and in his right held a six
shooter of large caliber and at full
cock pointing directly at the man in
the window
Ah t ell said OToole Well
take em Jack Wots the blinkety
blank numbers o thim cars anny
how
Theyre on the flimsy somewhere
When the cars were shunted into the
train the little agent lifted the block
Hes not an agent now though Hes
a Chicago millionaire
Helped Out by Government
The Eastern Chinese railway has
been in serious financial trouble since
its profitable southern part has been
-under Japanese control The
t mining under Russian influence has
practically no more freight business
CThaxoad has therefore already sold to
the slate 2000 freight cars which are
low to be used in the grain traffic of
hiroDean Ruosia The line will re-
YceireAdi of 7500000 rubles from
hhe government for the construction of
Cthe Ussuri branch
0 fJ7efte Gallons to Mile
The engine of an express train con-
iUposlXater for each
mile traveled
WITH THROTTLE WIDE OPEN
Engineer Found That Locomotive Did
Its Best Work
Locomotives are curious things
said T B Brown at the St Charles
Sometimes you think they are almost
human They certainly can be as irri
tating as any human being Some
years ago I was up in Minnesota and
one of the short lines had only recent
ly purchased a half dozen new engines
When they arrived they proved flat
failures To make them steam and
draw anything like a decent load was
Impossible In consequence there were
a number of engineers who stood In
great danger of being broke through
no fault of their own But the officials
had bought the engines and then put
it up to the engineers to get the work
out of them or get fired That was the
situation when I arrived A friend of
mine was one of the engineers in ques
tion He asked me to go with him
one trip as a fireman saying that if
we could make good with the engine
I was certain of a job as engineer if t
wanted it I agreed to go Just be
fore we started the master mechanic
served notice on my friend that his
position hinged on the work he could
get out of his engine that trip We
got along well at the beginning of the
run and by careful feeding I was able
to keep steam up fairly well The en
gineers seat was not securely fastened
and somehow it broke down The en
gineer in catching himself gave a
hard pull on the throttle until it was
wide open When he tried to shut it
off he found it had caught so it was
impossible to move it We thought
we were up against it with the engine
being pounded along with the throttle
wide open while even by nursing be
fore it had been hard to make steam
There was nothing to be done but let
things go until my friend could get the
throttle Into working order This
took some time and all the while to
our great surprise the engine steamed
more easily than it did before That
was all that was needed just to be
pounded along wide open and there
was no trouble When we reached
the end of the run there was a mes
sage from the superintendent compli
menting nim for the excellent time he
had made It was found that the
other engines worked equally well
under similar conditions and from
that time on there was no further
trouble about their hauling good loads
and making time Milwaukee Senti
nel
Famous Accidents
A famous runaway disaster that
near Barnsby on the Manchester
Sheffield Lincolnshire railroad on
December 12 1S70 by which 14 per
sons lost their lives was proved to
have been due to a broken coupling
pin while the failure of the vacuum
brake through cold caused the wreck
of a runaway L N W express near
Carlisle in March 1890
Probably too some such contre
temps was the proximate cause of the
appalling catastrophe the worst re
corded in railroad history which hap
pened through a train running away
on the Morelos Mexico short line on
the night of June 24 1881 The driver
was seen to be in difficulties at a way
station and an inspector jumped on
the engine which was then traveling
at a comparatively low rate of speed
in order to try and render assistance
Almost immediately afterwards the
locomotive was observed to in the
words of an eye witness leap for
ward like a thing of life A few min
utes later it tore through Cuartla at 60
miles an hour and on to a trestle
bridge built on a curve over the San
Antonio river which was in flood at
the time The heavy train crashed
through the flimsy structure as though
it had been of glass and every living
soul aboard to the number of more
than 200 perished London Tele
graph
Roads Easy to Build
The Canadian Pacific road from Ar
eola to Regina Saskatchewan a dis
tance of 75 miles is a perfectly
straight line from terminal to terminal
Another straight line is on the New
South Wales Government railway 126
miles long The Canadian National
Transcontinental road has a straight
stretch of 120 miles
Long Railroad Bridge in Africa
A bridge recently built for the Cape
to Cairo railway over the Kafue river
is the longest in Africa It measures
1400 feet
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EVER MAKE A BED
HERES MAN THAT SAYS JOB
LOOKS EASIER THAN IT IS
After Strenuous Time at What He
Thought Was Simple Undertak
ing He Had to Give Up
the Job
Say spoke up the man whose
wife went home to spend the holi
days djever try to make a bed
Did yuh
If you did said the lonesome look
ing man then I dont need to say
anything to you But aint it the
tricky job Looks easy too How
djuh spose a woman ever manages
to get away with making two or three
beds in a house and then get any
thing else done that day
Now the other morning when I
got up and found all the bed clothes
pulled loose from their moorings at
the foot I says to myself Five days
is long enough for a bed to go with
out bein made Ill just make it Id
never tried on the bed making propo
sition but it looked simple enough
My wife used to make the bed in our
room just while I was putting on my
collar and then slip in and make up
the childrens beds before I cd get
my hair combed
Well I tried smoothing out the
sheets and blankets first from one
side of the bed and then Id race
around to the other side and rub em
down But did they get smoothed
out They did not They got more
askew every time I touched em Then
I tried tucking em in at the foot so
that I at least wouldnt have my toes
sticking out into the chill atmosphere
when I went to sleep that night When
I got em tucked I found a big welt
across the foot of the bed caused by
some kivvers that I failed to get hold
of Then when I saw just how ruf
fled up they were all over the bed I
decided to pull them all off and start
over again
I took em off and then put em all
on again one at a time and the bed
looked pretty solid and even except
for one quilt lopping over a little too
much toward the floor on one side
but the operation took me just 40
minutes by the clock over on the
dresser
Then I thought while I was at it
I would make the pillows stack up
plumb the way Id seen em before
the missus went home Say I wonder
how thats done I would pick em
up and lay em down again just as
easy like and try to smooth them out
real slick but still they persisted in
looking as if they were just about all
n They didnt seem to be up on the
bit at all I dont know when Ive
seen a more anemic wilted looking
pair of pillows
After this when that bed gets rum
pled up and lumpy Im going to pull
off the kivvers and roll myself up
like a bug in a cocoon and let it go
at that Cleveland Plain Dealer
New York Foe to Race Suicide
Fifty dollars when you get mar
ried 50 for every baby Thats the
offer J B Martin proprietor of a
fashionable New York hotel has made
to his employes In case the babies
come in twos or threes each one
stands to collect 50 just the same
Mr Martin has paid 5150 in bonuses
within the last year and is willing to
pay as much more this year Once
only he has paid upon twins Ive
found the plan to work out admirably
Martin declares Marriage and babies
bring responsibility and that increases
the reliability of my help My men
are not looking around all the time
for another job their habits are bet
ter than ever before and I can al
ways depend upon them I used to
have lots of trouble in keeping my
people Now they seldom make a
change The plan is worth the
money
Capital of Cardboard
Every time I come to Paris I am
struck with the unreal appearance of
the town especially in the less busy
quarter which lies all round the
Champs Elysees says a writer in the
London Sketch The tall blank gray
houses with their gray wooden shut
ters look no more real than the card
board houses in a stage play More
over it seems impossible that anyone
is alive inside the houses You never
i see a face at a window and no one
ever seems to emerge through the
great brown doors doors which are
obviously made of painted cardboard
and not of wood The grayness the
j monotony the absence of colors the
comparative silence are incredible
after the warm colors the red brown
skies the portentous seething move
ment of London
Where Reform Should Begin
The studious looking man passed his
order to the waiter The latter glanced
it over His usually placid face as
sumed a puzzled frown
Excoose me sare he said in
choice restaurant French but I do
not comprehen vat is zees
The stranger glanced in the direc
tion pointed out by the waiters stubby
finger
That he replied is egg I have
followed the reformed way of spelling
11 c sj Da
The waiter nodded and brought the
egg The stranger attacked it with a
fork Then he suddenly leaned back
and turned pale
Waiter he feebly gasped take it
away In this instance it is quite evi
dent the reform should be in the egg
and not in the spelling
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Itching Blind Blooding or Protrud
ing Piles Druggists rofuud money if
Pzo Ointment fails to cure any case
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Bond 50c in stamps and it will bo for
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St Louis Mo
SCHOOL LAND AUCTION
Tln following described hinds in Ited Willow
enmity will he oilered for lea e nt pulilic mic
tion at tho county treasurers otlice McCook
Nebraska Tue day March tilth at Z p lit
Terms of lea iiik and appraised value may ho
had on application to the county treasurer at
McCook or to the commissioner at Lincoln Tho
west half and west half southeast piartcr
northeast quarter
H M Baton
Com Public Lands and Buildings
YOU WOULD DO WELL TO SEE
J M Rupp
FOR ALL KINDS OF Rpj Qr
l O Box LJl McCook Nebraska
NOTICK
Statu of Nebraska Ked Willow county ss
To all iMir ous interested in tho citato ol
Harriet Humphrey late of said county deceas
ed You are hereby notified that on tho twenty
ilfth day of February IMte Worth Humphrey
Hied his petition in the county court of saul
of
county for his appointment as administrator
theestateor Harriet Humphrey Into of Mild
count j deceased and Hint tne same wui no
heard at the county court room in the city of
McCook of -aid county on me win nay
Mtrl tikis nf the Iniiir of ten oclock ll III
It is further ordered that notice of said hear
ing ho iriveii all persons interested in Mild es
tate by publication of tlti notice lor three suc
cessie weeks in the McCook Tribune a neus
paper printed and published and of general cir 1
dilution in said county
Dated this 2ith day of February 1U0S
siaiJ J C Mooitii County Indue
ORDER OF II BARING
In tho district court of Red Willow county
Nebraska In the matter of tin- estate f Ella
A I tuck deceased
On reading and lilinirtlie petition of John K
Helm praying that administration ofsaid es
tate may bo granted to him as administrator
Ordered that March llth HOS sit nine oclock
a in c assigned for hearing Miid petition
when all per oiis interested in -aid matter may
appear at a count court to be held iu and for
saiil county and cause why thopraerof
petitioner should not be granted and that notice
of the pendenc of -aid petition anil tho h arinu
thereof be ien oall persons interested in said
matter by publishing a copy of this order in the
McCook Trib a weekly newspaper printed
in said county for three successio weeks prior
to said day of hearing
Dated 1 obruury lilt li 1XS tMS Hs
1 C Mooim County JuiIkc
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house in Mc ook m
rront door or tho court
county at two oclock in the afternoon tho
nbovo described real estate
Dated this 11 day
REFEREES SALI
5y virtue or an order r sale to mo feeed
by the clerk or the district court or Red illow
county iu the state or Nebraska on a judgment
11 in fiivor of Minnie
tilda Miller plaintiff mini list Albertina Kiit7
Rov Rogers John S Miller Freida Phillippi
Ubert Phillippi Daisy Phillippi and Edwin
Phillippi defendants on the eleventh day or
December PJOT Tor the partition and sale iff tie
follow iiiK described real estate to wit I he
east half or the west hair of sect ion two tho
northwest quarter iff section one nil in town
ship two north raitfe twenty nine and lots one
and two iu block ten in tho fourth addition to
McCook all in Red Willow county Nebraska
I will offer for sale to the Iiiirlicst bidder Tor
cash on the liith day or March IMS at the front
door of the court house in said county at two
oclock in the afternoon tho above described
real estate
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