, 1889-12-10
CUT IN TWO.
The Fate of Switchman DibbIe at
Green River.
Arrival of the Big Clock for the
Cheyenne Depot Tower.
The Northwestern is to Tap Sun
dance in the Spring.
FATALITY,

been employed in the Union Pa
cifn yards at Green River, a long
time, was killed while on duty
Sunday morning. He was making
a coupling when treacherous footing
caused a fall. The wheels passed over
him, cutting his body in Two.
Sweetwater county's coroner held an
inquest yesterday and exonerated the
company from all blame.
Dibble leaves a wife and three children.
He was a sober, industrious man and
would soon have been promoted.
THE BIG CLOCK.
The depot tower clock was received at
the store department here Yesterday morn
ing and its four dials will SOON smile from
above the Union Pacifc's splendid Chey-
enne home.
An even LOCO pounds is the weight of
this monster time piece and it occupied
four big packing cases. 1t is from the
workshop of the Seth Thomas company.
Superintendent Barr has asked the
Omaha office whether a man will not be
sent to place the clock or if this lob is to
be given to home talent. A reply will in
all probability be received to-day and the
work of setting the big time piece will
commence at once. 1t is figured that a
person whose eyesight is unimpaired can
tell the time by the depot clock when ten
blocks away. 1t will be lighted at night.
Mr.. CUMMING.
The Omaha Bee has given publication
to a rumor r%eciting that Manager G.. NJ.
Cumming, of the mountain division of
the Union Pacific is to be relieved by Su-
p~erlntendent Ressiguie, of the Nebraska
division. This is doubtless incorrect,
though the best railway calenders racite
that changes may be expected about
this time" The Omaha Bee is thicker
than four families in a cottage
with some people who never
overlook an opportunity to backcap Mr..
Cumming and the paper gives him a
slap whenever it can. MI. Cum
ming's services are very satisfactory to the
administrative officers and he is extreme
ly popular with patrons, while coming
right home, he is a firm friend to Chey-
enne. Everyone here would regret his
retirement or removal, unless the latter
were back to the Magic City, and this is
not unlikely in the future. as Cheyenne is
prominently the station for the manager
Of the mountain division.
MIR. Cumming came in from the west
this morning with the government direc-
tors of the Union Pacific.
IN CROOK COUNTY.
Northern Wyoming people have the
word of President Marvin HuRhett, of
the Northwestern, that the Fremont, Elk
Horn y Missouri Valley will be extended
or 'spurred" from Whitewood, OAK, in
the early spring, to Sundance, the seat of
government for Crook county, and next
to Buffalo, the best town in the territory
without a railroad.
The road gets a subsidy of 1000 acres
of good coal land near Sundance and
forty acres for depot grounds, ETC., in.the
city limits, together with all necessary
rights of way.
Beulah, a spirited little burg near Sun
dance, has offered the Northwestern a big
lot of choice land in consideration of the
Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri valley tap
ping that place.
CHEYENNE Il NORTHERN.
Some time since THE LFApER gave it
red hot from the frying pan that the
Cheyenne & Northern would be extended
to a Douglas connection SO soon as the
frost Of 1SS9-90 was out OF the ground.
Nothing new has developed in the prem
ises since the announcement.
As a member of the Wyoming Acade-
my of Arts, Sciences, Letters, Literature,
Research and Study might remark, this
is not from a railway point of view, a
case of great pushency. 1t is sew
eral thousand dollars a mile more cos
tive to build railway in winter than in a
warm season, and the corporations don't
believe in paying more for anything than
it is worth.
1t comes from a very good source that
several hundred miles of Cheyenne &
Northern may be built next year.