The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-07-21


The Atlanta gravel train has been taken off
and <. Q. Robie is at home now.
Freight train No. 76, yesterday, brought in
point.
No. 3 of Wednesday night did not reach
here until Thursday morning, on account of a
journal burning off at Sutton.
Miss Richie, Postmaster Troth's obliging
assistant. is visiting relatives and friends in
Omaha, going down Sunday.
We are under obligations to the Enterprise
for the use Of ordinance IS which we publish
on our inside pages as matter of news.
Captain Adams little bay mare won the
running race, last Saturday, over Kings gray
mare. Two or three hundred people witness
ed the sport.
Summer excursions to the Black Hills, one
fare for the round trip to Deadwood and Hot
Springs, on sale July IS to August I6. Limit
for return 80 days. oats.
Tuesday night, large shipment of cash for
the Denver banks, passed through here on
passenger train No. 3. 1t was in charge of
guards carrying Winchesteis.
Miss Renah Lawrence,of Superior, Nebr., a
sister of our handsome and popular express
messenger, came up Saturday with her brother
to make short visit.-Oberlin Eye
The remains of Brakeman Casey were es-
corted to the train by committee of brethren
from c. W. Bronson lodge, B. of r. T., of
which the deceased was a member
isreported that IS cars Of freight train No
I48 went into the ditch between Edison and
Arapahoe, this morning, about 10 o'clock. No. 2
also had a sleeper off the track at Axtell.
Engineer and Mrs. w. W. Archibald arrived
home from their trip to Chicago on the noon
train, Sunday, having enjoyed delightful time
seeing the fair and visiting relatives and
friends
There will be another time card, July goth.
We understand that among the changes No.
will leave here about 20 minutes later than
at present. The card of the 10th made no
changes at this point.
Joe McKeever, formerly B. & M. fireman,
now on the U.P out of Julesburg, was in the
city, early part of the week, renewing old ac-
quaintances and looking after some business
matters. He is the same old Joe.
Conductor Frank Quigley and Miss Grace
May Cummins of Red Cloud were welded in
Red Cloud, on Monday, the 18TH instant
They are now In Chicago, and will be at
home here after the 18TH of August
A dispatch from Chicago states that wes-
tern roads have capitulated on the Worlds
fair rate question. Monday a demand was
made on the chairman Of the western associa-
ton, signed by the requisite number of roads,
requesting him to call a special meeting of
the association, to-day, for the purpose Of
considering the subject of Worlds fair ex-
cursion rates at reduction from the original
agreed basis, tickets to be sold every day by
regular trains and good for return passage
from Chicago any day up to and including
the final return limit of say thirty days.
The Camden and Atlantic Railroad Com
pany has hit upon novel scheme for refusing
passes over the road. When an applicant for
dead-head privileges enters the Office, instead
of receiving the desired pass, he is gravely
handed a card on which are printed the follow
ing Biblical quotations:
Thou shalt not pass. Numbers 2o:IS.
''Sufer not man to pass" Judges 3:2S.
''The wicked shall no more pass"-Nahum
I:I5.
"None shall ever pass."-Isaiah 34:Io.
"This generation shall not s."-Mark IA:
30.
'Thoughy they roar, yet can they not pass
Jeremiah, 5:22.
$50 he paid the fare and went Jonah 1 4.
There was well attended meeting Of rail-
way presidents held in Chicago, Tuesday, to
consider what was to be done in reference to
freight rates in Nebraska in connection with
the maximum freight bill which soon goes in
effect The president of nearly every road in
that state was present and the whole matter
was gone over carefully. All thought Of re-
sisting the application of these rates was
abandoned and the result of the meeting was
the instruction to the freight agents to go
ahead and prepare new freight schedule
based on the requirements of the Nebraska
law. The preparation of that schedule en-
braces a good many difficulties, and the
freight agents who took up the problem that
afternoon In the general meeting have before
them a complicated task. The law provides
for definite mileage rate, and one of the
troublesome complications that follows the
putting of such law into execution is the diff.
Guilty of equalizing the rates on the roads run.
ming to the same point, but reaching it over
varying mileage. The question arises as to
whether or not the longer line will put in the
rate based on the mileage schedule provided
by law, and thus have higher rate than the
shorter line, or whether it will ignore that
schedule and meet the rate of its more direct