L GREAT RAILROAD BRIDGE IN NEW YORK tfr - I- ai lywim iiiii iO 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 j3aBwrttoa 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 fs A Guaranteed Cure For Piles Itching Blind Blooding or Protrud ing Piles Druggists rofuud money if Pzo Ointment fails to cure any case no matter of how long standing in Giol J days First application gives easo and rest T0e Tf your druggist hasnt it Bond 50c in stamps and it will bo for warded postpaid by Paris Medicine Co 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 Royle it Eldreil attorneys PiMf A if - 9 i All the OUR i Si Tt -- yM News of the Wor woTICEOKHEFEKEKSSALi reisaenwSVrJiouVhhnf tho north u Itir and I ts one and two section two s of twcitjwiiiHS x wns two north ranue I e s xth nrincipal meridian - bdder V w ill oiler for snlu the I fclt y of Marc h - t the rr cash on the 15th day 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 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