The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1889-02-08
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Right.of-wayman Barnes was among the
city visitors, Thursday.
Engineers and iremen's time books for sale
at THE MCCOoK TRIBUNE office.
]. W.. Trammel, the Eating House nabob,
was up from Oxford, Saturday, looking over
the local plant.
Traffic continues light, in both freight and
passenger business, and extra men are un.
comfortably numerous.
Mrs. James McAlpine and Miss Maggie Nc.
Alpine visited their brother Dan, b. s. NJ.
agent at Indianola. the close of last week.
Mr.. C. P. Philbrick, with headquarters at
Wymore, will be the new Burlington train
master. Mr.. E. F. Highland will be roadmaster
at Nebraska City.
The topic of general conversation in rail.
road circles is the contemplated shops, for
which it is claimed, an appropriation of $780,
600 has been made.
Engineer W. D. Burnett, last week, purchas.
ed one of W.. S. Coy's dwellings on Upper Mon
mouth street, which will make him a comfort
able and cosy little home.
Extra postal clerks have been put on the fast
mail train over the Burlington line. They
will weigh all mail carried for one month, in
order to ascertain the average amount carried
each day, so that the company may charge ac-
cordingly. There is also a clerk employed by
the government on each train.
100 wOODE SIGNS.
Chief Irwin of the carpenter department is
now busily engaged in making one hundred
wooden signs bearing the following devise,
return TO DENVER Fer STONE, WHEN EMP
TY." These cars will be used in conveying
stone to McCookf for repair shops, upon which
operations will shortly be ~inaugurated, it is
now confidently claimed by those in position
to know whereof they speak.
American mechanics will regard with inter
est the experiment about to be made by the
Pennsylvania Railroad company in testing the
powers of a mammoth locomotive of British
manufacture. which has just arrived in this
country. 1t is built on the double expansion
plan. upon the principle of a marine engine,
and is an application of power which has new
er been employed in this country. The manu-
facturers of the engine claim for it a rate of
speed as seventy miles an hour.
A~BURLINGToN EXTENSION.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. Feb. Especial to The
Herald. l-Articles of incorporation were fled
with the secretary of Wyoming to-day by the
Grand Island s. Northern Wyoming railroad
company. The officers of the company are
directors of the Burlington system and the
road is a continuation of the Alliance, Neb.,
branch of the Burlington. a large amount of
work has already been done on the new road
and the line will be completed into Crook
county. Wyoming, this season. The oil fields
near Jennys Stockade are to be the present
terminus. The principal Office of the company
will be Cheyenne.
THE B~URLINGTONiS NEW
The new time schedule of tie Burlington,
which goes into effect Sunday, was completed
Tuesday and approved by General Superin-
tendent Calvert, who is in Omaha for that
purpose. This new schedule was arranged in
order to enable trains on the Burlington i
Missouri to make close connections with trains
on the Union Pacific and Chicago & Northwest
ern, according to their new schedules, and TO
suit the time of the new Chicago Omaha Dem
yer trains. Another change in the Burlington
will be the restoration of its Chicago Denver
train 10 its old route via Omaha. This charge
will give this city the benefit OF q large amount
of passenger travel bat will bring the western
mail to US an hour or two later than it does at
present.-Heraid.