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j1 ' 14th Yeae. McCook , Nebraska , October 18th , 1898. Number 22
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} Freight traffic is booming.
The round house whistle is suffering
with a severe cold.
Lineman Brown was at Oberlin , making -
ing repairs , first of the week.
Engineer and Mrs , A. J. Chambers arrived -
rived home , Saturday evening.
Engineer Jack Moore lus been under
the weather , part of the week.
' 1 F. B. Lewis drives a handsome team
of bays. Have you seen them ?
Mrs. C A. Dixon made a visit to her
sister in Denver , fore part of the week.
Dave Hulse made a flying visit from
Oxford , Friday night , between trains.
Hiss Clara Kleven of Culbertson was
the guest of Mrs. T. M. Mundy over
t Sunday.
C. H. Weible had charge of the Arap-
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shoe station , during Agent Edwards'
absence.
i 1t David Hulse is day operator at Oxford
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now vice E. L. Cann , transferred recently -
ly to McCook.
t Mrs. A. L. Knowland arrived home ,
Monday night , from a long visit to relatives -
tives in Montana.
Mrs. C. W. Bronson arrived hove , last
I Friday night , from quite a long visit to
' her mother in Iowa.
Maurice HeafY left for Goodland , Kas. ,
last Saturday morning. He has charge
of the Rock Island tin shop.
Dispatcher and Mrs. J. E. Robinson
went up to Denver , Sunday night , to
take a squint at the "Messiah" .
Mrs" Frank Kendlen and sister , Miss
Lizzie Stevens of Hastings , who is visit-
jug her , went up to Denver , last Friday
night , to see the wonder-working Schlat-
ter.
I Mrs. V. H. Solliday was summoned
s to Red Cloud , last week , by a telegram
, i announcing the illness of her brother ,
who was thought to be threatened with
typhoid fever.
Barney Sharkey's youngest child has
r been quite sick forsome time , and for
If 1 the past week its life was despaired of.
At this writing , however , the child is
getting along finely.
11tis. George E. Leming , wife of the
agent at Gillette , Wyo. , and who has
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been visiting relatives at Red Cloud has
returned home. Her sister , Miss Sarah
Knowles , accompanied her.
The Western railroads are making a
special effort and announce their expectation -
tation of having a heavy immigration to
Nebraska , this fall. This is reported to
, have been a disastrous year for eastern
renters. This fact wilt swell the exodus.
It transpires'that Edward Smith "the
I wealthy bachelor of Lincoln , Neb. , " who
married a Pennsylvania girl in response
t to an advertisement for a wife who was
1 not a new wont'an , is Edward Smith , an
employe of the Burlington shops at
Plattsmouth.
"Banda" , the Pullman coach on No.
4 , last Thursday night , was badly scorched -
ed , near Exeter. It was discovered on
fire , probably set by the explosion of a
lamp. The fire spread rapidly and only
prompt action prevented a serious fire.
The train was stopped and water carried
from the engine to subdue the flames.
The car went on through.
About nine o'clock last Thursday night
the large B. & M. ice house at this place
was discovered on fire and in a short
time was reduced to ashes. The flames
are supposed to have originated from a
torch carried by one of the employes
who entered the building a short time
1 before for ice. The man has since been
i discharged for his supposed carelessness.
- Owing to the large amount of ice consumed -
sumed here it is taken as a matter of
course that the house will be rebuilt.
One thousand dollars will hardly cover
the loss.-Oxford Standard.
l There was quite a celebration at Have-
l lock , this afternoon , which attracted a
crowd of people , many from this city.
The occasion was the dedication of the
first engine ever built in the Burlington
i shops. The locomotive is one of the
largest on the system and was completed ,
1 t o day , ready to go out on the track.
'very workmen in the shops had taken
art interest in the construction of the
I engine and the "launching of the huge
machine was an event" . The celebration -
tion will be continued , tonight , when a
grand ball will be given by the Burlington -
t lington band at Walton's hall. The ball
promises to be a social success of no
small magnitude , and many Lincoln
people have expressed a determination
to attend.-Lincoln Evening News , Fri-
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McLean is firing 317 on freight.
Tipton is firing 315 on passenger.
0. P. Yarger is operating at Akron
again ,
Mrs. Sheber returned home on No. 5 ,
Sunday night.
Brakeman W. D. Beyrer is on the sick
list , this week.
Mrs. J. H. Burns was a Hastings visitor -
itor , Monday.
Mrs. Will Brown is entertaining her
father from Colorado.
210 is on the Red Cloud run while 66
is in the shops for repairs.
Assist , Supt. C. H. Harman was down
from Holyoke , Wednesday.
CallerBlanding , , wife and mother went
up to Denver on No. 5 , Monday night.
There are no men on the Trainmen's
extra list now. The boys are all at work.
Frank Harris is expected home tomorrow -
row or Sunday , much improved to
health.
W.W.Webster made his first trip as a
passenger brakeman , Tuesday evening
on No. 5.
G. A. Noren made a trip on the 315 on
No. 3 , while Engineer 'Bailey was in
Lincoln.
Brakeman. Cox of Republican City is
braking for Couductor Washburn during
the rush.
Roadmaster Hagberg has quite a rep.
utation among the railroad men as a
sportsman.
Mrs. Sam Gildner went up to Haigler ,
Tuesday evening on No. 5. Sam is there
as extra agent.
The Holbrook Herald says that all the
section men but the bosses have been
discharged , as is the custom , in each Oc-
tober.
Engineer Dunavau attended the Potato
Day celebration at Greeley , this week ;
and Jack Burton pulled the throttle on
the 238 during Dunavan's absence.
Ananias and Robert Paver are not "in
it" with Culbertson , night foreman , for
anecdotes and railroad lies. All of them
are pastmasters in that line , however.
Freight business is looking up wonderfully -
derfully since the inauguration of cut
rates. There were two sections of No.
77 , a special from Red Cloud , and 63 ,
Sunday afternoon , and they all arrived
within a short time.
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GOING EAST-CENTRAL TI IFJ-LEAVES.
No. 2. through passenger. . . . . . . . . 5:55 A. M.
No. 4.local passenger. . . . . . . . . . . . 9:80 P. M. .
No. 76 , freight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:45 A. M.
No. 64 , freight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:30 A. P. ! .
No. 80 , freight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10:00 A. Df.
No. US , freight , made up here. . . . . . 5:00 A. D1.
GOING WEST-MOUNTAIN TIME-LEAVES.
No. 3 , through passenger..11:4o P. 3f.
No. 5 , local pasaseuger. . . . . . . . . . . . 9:15 P. M.
No. 63 , freight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SOb : P. bf. .
No. 77 , freight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:20 P.M.
No. 149. freight , mae up ore..8:00 A. P. ! . .
IMPERIAL LINE.-MOUNTAIN TIME.
No. 175 , leaves at. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:00 A. bt. .
No. 176 arrives at. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:40 P. bl.
'NoTE : No. 63 carries passengers for
Stratton. Benkelman and Haigler.
All trains run daily excepting 148,149 and
176 , which run daily except Sunday.
No. 3 steps at Benkelman and Wray.
No. 2 stops at Indianola , Cambridge and Ar-
apahoe.
No. 80 will carry passengers for Indianola ,
Cambridge and Arapahoe.
Nos. 4 , 5,148,149 and 176 carry passengers for
all stations.
When No. So is annulled No. t4S will leave at.
S.oo a. m. central time.
You can purchase at this office tickets to al.
principal points in the United States and Canada - .
ada and baggage checked through to destination -
tion without extra charge of transfer. For
information regarding rates , etc. call on or
address C. E. MAONB. Agnetl
To California in a Tourist Sleeper.
The Burlington Route personally conducted -
ducted once-a-week excursions to Colorado -
rado , Utah and California are just the
things for people of moderate means.
Cheap , respectable , comfortable , expe-
ditious. They leave Omaha every Thursday -
day and go through ; without change , to
San Francisco and Los Angeles. The
tourist sleepers in which' excursionists
travel are carpeted , upholsteredin ratan
and have spring seats , spring backs ,
mattresses , blankets ; curtains , pillows ,
etc. Only $5 for a double berth , wide
enough and bigenough fortwo. Theroute
lies through Denver , Colorado Springs ,
the wonderful canyons and peaks of the
Rockies , Salt Lake and Sacramento.
For rates and also for illustrated folder
giving full information , call on the nearest -
est agent of the Burlington Route or
write to J. Francis , G. P. & T. A. ,
Omaha , Neb.
Special Rates.
General Missionary Convention of the
Christian Church , October 18-25. Texas
State Fair and Dallas Exposition , October -
ber 31st to November 4th. Corbett-
Fitzsimmons Fistic Exhibition , October
31St , 1895. For the above meetings , to
be held at Dallas , Texas , we will sell
round trip tickets to that point at one
limited first class fare. Tickets on sale
October 16th to 31st , inclusive , limited
for return to November loth.
C. EE. MAGNER , Agent.
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The Pennsylvania railroad company
will build a $2,000,000 passenger station
at Pittsburg.
The Pennsylvania road lately made a
run from Landover to Anacosta , 5.i
miles in 3 minutes , even , a rate of 102
miles an hour.
The use of green lights to indicate
"all clear" at night is approved by the
American Railway association. Hurrah
for progression.
The "Panhandle" has a rule that requires -
quires trainmen to report the kind of
coupling when a train brakes in two on
the road.
The new bridge of the Gulf , Colorado
& Santa Fe across the West bay at Galveston -
veston , Texas , was completed and opened
for traffic the first of the month.
Chicago has 1352 trains leave and arrive -
rive daily. Of these 294 are mail and
express , 640 are accommodation , and
418 are miscellaneous freight trains.
The depot and roundhouse of the R.
N. & 0. at Cape Vincent on Lake Ontario -
tario were wrecked by a storni , lately ,
injuring twenty people , two fatally.
Engineers on the "Big Four" are in
clover owing to the revival of business.
They are earning$13o tot6o per month ,
while conductors earn $ t2o to $130.
Russian interests have secured charters -
ters and will build several railroads in
Persia. Turkey will sooner or later be
gobbled up by the Bear. England's not
in it for all the bluffing.
The Erie canal will shortly have a
trolley equipment and the tow-path mule
will be canned for European consump-
tion. Everything obsolete goes to the
"scrap heap" , nowadays.
THE TRIBUNE is nothing if not at the
head of the process. What do you tltinkof
our railroad supplement ? To keep in
the "head-set" you must subscribe for
this household necessity.
It is reported that a Russo-American
company will establish a locomotive
manufactory in Russia , to be managed
by Americans. Their first order from the
government is for 300 locomotives.
Train robbers , last week , in Indian
Territory , held up a train and after three
hours hard work secured 85 cents for
their trouble. If they had tackled the
"peanut" they might have got more.
The Russian government has placed
with the Baldwin Locomotive works an
order for forty engines , twenty each for
passenger and freight service. Thus does
the Eagle gradually encircle the earth.
Storage charges upon baggage were
lately abolished by the Burlington. . It
seems strange not to get your leg pulled
now when you go after your "turkey" .
Remember this or you'll get your head
bumped just the same.
On October 6th the C. , B. & Q. put on
a new train from Chicago to Texas points
via the M. , K. & T. from Hannibal. It
leaves Chicago at z p , m. , arriving at
Dallas on the evening of the second day ,
and at Houston on the following morn-
ing.
The drought in the region of Altoona ,
Pa. , is so severe that the Pennsylvania
railroad company is drawing eleven train
loads of water daily to that city from
Hollidavsburg , which is the only town
for miles around that has water to spare.
All the wells in several districts are going -
ing dry- .
At Sioux City , Iowa , they are building
the Pacific Short Line bridge which ,
when finished , will be the handsomest
bridge over the Missouri river. Its
length is 1goo feet , four spans , two fixed
spans in the center of 500 feet each ,
with a draw span on each side of the
river of 470 feet each. The two draw
spans will obviate the expense of keeping -
ing the channel at one point.
DIFFERENT METHODS OI EXPRESSION.
The Foundry is responsible for the
following :
The German-Dunder and bhlitzen !
Run me the stairs down , shut me der.
water off , its leaking a whole lot much ! !
The Frenchman-Zounds ! Stop ze
watair. Ve air so foolish zat ye work
not right ! !
The Englishman-Shut hoff the water !
The bloody pipe his leaken hall hover
the blooming 'ousel !
The American ! ! ! Shut off the
stop , the water is squirting
allover ! ! !
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TILE LONGEST LOCOMOTIVE RUN.
A correspondent in London has sent
us the following announcement of a long
distance run by a locomotive , which has
been published in several English papers
"Tltelongest continuous run of a locomotive -
motive was accompliohed by a Webb
compound engine , the Ionic , on the London -
don & North Western railway , September -
ber 8th. In the recent races between
London and Aberdeen the trains on this
road stopped at Crewe to change engines -
gines , losing three mimutes by stoppage
and about two minutes more hi stopping
and starting. On the date named the
unparalleled feat of running from Euston
to Carlisle , a distance of 2993 miles ,
without changing engines or stopping a
moment on the road was "accomplished.
The experimental train , consisting of a
guard's van , two composite carriages ,
two sleeping saloons , another composite
carriage and guard's van , weighing in
all about 112 tons. It left Euston at 8:45 :
p , m. and reached Carlisle at 2:38 : a. nt. ,
having performed the journey in , seven
minutes less than the scheduled time of
six hours. The speed averaged nearly
SI miles an hour. The only alteration
made to adapt the engine for its long run
was to fit larger oil boxes on the larger
parts , but it was afterward decided even
that was an unnecessary precaution. Mr.
Whale and Mr. Earl , assistant locomotive -
tive superintendents from Crewe , traveled -
eled on the train. There were no passengers -
sengers on the train except the officials.
The previous record long distance run
was between London and Crewe-I58
miles. The officials expressed the opinion -
ion that the journey could have been accomplished -
complished in an hour less time if high
speed had been attempted" .
We dislike very much to strip this
"unparalleled feat" of its glory , but the
fact is that a continuous run of nearly
twice the distance was made on the
Pennsylvania railroad nearly 19 years
ago. To be accurate , it was 438.5
miles , the distance between Jersey
City and Pittsburg. The train was
the Jarrett and Palmer transcontinental -
al special train , which left New York
on June I , 1876 , and made the run
of 3,313 miles to San Francisco in 84
hours and 17 minutes , with 72 stops , at
the rate of 40 miles an hour.
We are indebted to Mr. Theodore N.
Ely , chief of motive power of the Pennsylvania -
sylvania railroad , for our information
concerning this performance.
The special train which was to be used
for the trip was taken from Pittsburg to
Jersey- City,43Smileswithout a stopin
about I I hours. No special mention was
made of this run at the time , as it was
only incidental to the Jarrett and Palmer
trip. The west bound run of the special
train , from New York to Pittsburg , a
copy of the schedule for which appears
below , was also made without a stop ,
and at no time was the speed of the train
less than 30 miles an hoar. The schedule -
ule was not very fast , it being part of the
throughschedule from New York to San
Francisco. The same locomotive and
cars , which were brought east from
Pittsburg , hauled the Jarrett and Palmer
Company restward , but one locomotive
being used for the entire round trip of
877 miles , and but one stop being made
in this distance.
Miles. ' Actual time. Schedule.
0 Left New Fork 12 40 a. m. 12:40 a.m.
1.0 " Jersey City 12:53 " 12:50 "
b.8 " Trenton . . . .2:00 " 2:02 "
8d " Mantua.:39 " - 4o "
154.4 Lancaster..4:25 " 4:26 "
191.2 " Harrisburg.IS " 5:2o . " ,
322.8 Altoona . . . :12 St' 5
439.5 Arriv'dPtttsburg10:53 " itoo "
A WIDE RAILROAD.
Colonel James Andrew , general manager -
ager of the Pittsburg Steel & Iron Co. ,
is said to have devised a novel means for
the transportation of freight between
Pittsburg and Lake Erie. His plan is
described as follows : There would be
four rails laid equl-distant , at the present
gauge. The cars would be wholly of iron
and steel , and have trucks with 8 or 12
wheels , placed under each corner of the
car. Thus each car would have from 32
to 48 wheels , carrying from 200 to 250
tons each. The locomotives would each
consist of three boilers , with from 24 to
30 driving wheels of small diameter.
This would give great hauling power but
slow speed. They would be capable of
hauling a train of from 3,000 to 5ooo tons
at a speed of from to to 12 miles an
hour. The inventor figures that the cost
would be less than a double track road
and that the capacity for traffic would
be four times greater than at present.-
The Railway Age.
The New York , Pennsylvania & Ohio
railroad at Cleveland has built a novel
unloading chute for handling cars of
coal in unloading vessels. It has a long
cylinder into which cars run and are fastened -
ened , then the cylinder is revolved sufficiently -
ficiently to tip the cars so they will unload -
load immediately , when the cylinder is
rolled to its former position and cars
withdrawn. IS cars an hour , though 5
cars were unloaded in It minutes , is its
record.
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The Russian government has had fir e
church cars built for use on the Trans
Siberian railroad , They make two sto p s
a day and are embellished with the accessories -
cessories of the Greek church.
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So many workmen in the Col'iimbu
shops of the P. , C. , C. & St. L. came to
their work on bicycles that a stable had ,
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to be built to accommodate the steeds"
ISO are housed and checked each day.
China has authorized a railroad to be
constructed from Peking to Chin Kiang ,
and possibly to Shanghai , a distance o f
750 miles , Crossing the Yangtze river
will be the principal engineering obstacle
in the way.
The Santa Fe will put on a limited
train from Chicago to Los Angeles , Cal. ,
on October 29th , to make the run in
three days. This is in opposition to the
Southern Pacific's Sunset Limited train
from New Orleans.
The Railway Gazette published , last
week , a record of accidents upon railroads -
roads in the United States for the month
of August last. It includes 53 collisions ,
71 derailments , and 8 other accidents , a
total of 132 , in which 49 persons were
killed outright and 140 injured.
The "Big Four" has issued instructions -
tions that if a married man is killed in
the company's employ his wife , or cliil-
dren , if old enough , shall be given employment -
ployment , wherever' ' possible , to aid in
supporting the family. A number o f
widows are now employed under this
order.
The British government will construct
a line of railroad in Africa from Mom-
brasa on the Indian ocean to Victoria
Nyanza , a distance of 65o miles , at a
cost of $9GOOo0O. It now costs that
government $ i85,000 per year to transport -
port its stores to the lake. Labor from
India will be used.
In England , after the Dorchester races
in September , is an annual difficulty for
the traffic managers , owing to the enormous -
mous crowds in attendance. Some idea
of the mass of people handled can be
realized by the following. Between 3:30 :
and II p. m. 120 ordinary and special
trains were dispatched to all parts of the
country in one day.
The Pennsylvania railroad operates a
line ofeabsin connection with itsdepot in
Philadelphia , to protect its patrons from
the exorbitant chargesof the city hack-
men. Withi the opening of their new station -
tion at New York City a similar service
will be establised. A cab costs 25 cents for
a mile and a half , a four wheeler4o cents ,
same distance ; baggage extra.
The C. , B. & Q , at Aurora , Ill. , has established -
tablished a novel brass foundry , exclusively -
sively for truck journals , in connection
with their shops. It contains six furnaces -
naces whose tops are flush with the floor
as usual. The draft is supplied by a fan.
The is out-of-door
plant practically an - -
affair , although perfect in all its appointments -
ments , and has a capacity of 300 brasses'
per day.
On the Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean railway -
way in France they have recently fixed
clocks outside of its locomotives , on the
side of the locomotive next to the station
platform , in order that passengers can
observe the time and that agents can
more conveniently note the exact time
of arrival and departure. In spite of
the great vibration the clocks are said
to show no variation.
In 1841 the Great Western railroad , of
England , made a contract with a firm
at Bristol to stop all passenger trains ten
minutes at Swindon for 99 years , in consideration -
sideration of the erection of suitable refreshment -
freshment rooms for which a rent of a
penny a year was to be paid. This has
become such a burden that , as they could
not break the contract by law , they paid
$500,000 to the firm to release them.
A high wind at Milwaukee , September
23d , caused a fatal and most unusual ac-
cident. While a laboring man was returning -
turning home from work , in the evening ,
and walking a half a block away from
the C. , M. & St. tracks , he was picked
up by the wind and blown down the
hill over the track. Just as he landed
on the track a switch engine with fife
came cars along and passed over him ,
killing him instantly.
Festival of Mountain and Plain ,
Denver , Colorado , October 16th to
19th , 1895. For the above occasion we
will sell round trip tickets , October 16th
to 19th , inclusive , good for return to October -
tober 21st , for $9.4o.
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