The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-07-28
TIME TARIE.

The steel gang has completed its work
about Edison.
Magner takes Holidays engine and gets a
passenger run.
Bert Goodwin is down from Denver, and is
uncertain as TO future movements.
Two or three more enginemen have been
set back on account of slack business.
Another gang of overland tourists passed
through here from the west last Friday.
Roadmaster Josselyn of the Orleans branch
was among the visitors at headquarters, Satur-
day afternoon.
J. D. McAlpine, Assistant Supt. Highlands
efficient chief clerk, is down from Denver, as
sisting on July pay rolls.
The railroads of Nebraska have decided to
make fight on the enforcement Of the New
bury maximum rate bill.
MIR. and Mrs. Frank Jordan made a f1yinp
visit to Hastings, Wednesday night, returning
home on No 1, yesterday noon.
The number of tramps that have recently
passed over the western division from Colora-
do is unprecedented in the history of the road
Miss Shabby, who has been visiting her sister
Mrs V. H. Solliday, for few weeks, returned
to her home in Red Cloud, Wednesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. S. Perry left Wednesday,
for Chicago, where they will remain couple
OF weeks seeing the sights of the exposition.
The Burlington road has ruled that no en-
ploye riding on pass will be allowed to ride
on any of the fast trains during the Worlds
fair.
Chief Dispatcher Forbes went in to Lincoln
on E, Sunday night, on business at headquar.
tiers connected with the new time card which
goes into effect on Sunday.
Engine 326, B. II. Douglass manipulation,
broke an eccentric strap, last Friday afternoon
Just as he was bringing No. E into the McCook
yard. Johnson pulled the train in
Alex. McDonald's only remaining child, a
little boy, is quite seriously i'll with diphtheria,
disease which has already carried off two
daughters within the past two weeks.
Last Friday was "bad Friday of verify on
the western division. That new steel seems
to be causing considerable trouble, indeed,
these excessively hot days. The record is one
bad and two slight accidents
Since Tuesday evening No. q does not have
a Pullman car in her train. Now now drops
her sleeper at Lincoln instead of bringing it
on to this place. Thus the policy of retrench-
ment continues to operate.
special rate Of SIG. s. for one way ticket
to Chicapo for the worlds fair has been made
by the Burlington, good on July II, "a, 81, and
August J. These tickets are not good for
sleeping cars. The round trip rate for same
dates is one fare for the round trip, s21.Io;
good for about 10 days for return. No sleeping
car privileges. o-3ts.
Another of Alex. McDonald's children-a
daughter five years of age-died early Satur-
day morning of diphtheria. The remains
were laid away in Longview cemetery the
same afternoon. This makes the second death
in the family from the same disease. Only a
little boy remains. The bereaved and sorrow
stricken parents have the profoundest sym
pathy of all.
The idea held out by the populists that rail-
road men have no souls is effectually squelch-
ed by the action of Superintendent Campbell
of McCook and Bignell of Lincoln in passing
the miners of Colorado who were thrown out
of employment by the mine owners for bun
combe in silver legislation, over the B. & NJ.
from Denver on their way to friends IN the
east.-Culbertson Republican.
1t is touching spectacle to see SO many
evidently honest and industrious labor1ng man
forced into idleness as is the case in Colorado.
and the people generally, regardless of party
affiliations sincerely. hope that the worst is over
and that the men who are by reason of existing
conditions forced to accept aims from the
public will be enabled to secure the employ
ment necessary to the maintenance of them
selves and their families.
The failure of the western passenger asso-
citation to make a rate to the worlds fair leaves
the way open for any road belonging to that
combination to establish reduced rate of its
own and force the remainder of the roads to
meet. At the Chicago meeting the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe objected to the Sc addi-
ton to the one fare rate, and it is understood
that 1t proposes to fix rate to suit itself after
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