The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-05-04

her mother.
Mrs. NJ. Carmony is back from her
witt to Amboy.
Conductor Coy was up from Holdrege,
Monday, on business at division head
quarters.
Engine 36 with a broken driver is
| down from the high line for an over
hauling.
Mrs. Forbes is much better, and. the
baby is improving, it is a great pleasure
to note.
1t is pretty hard to keep house prop
er1y without THE McCooK TRIBUNE.
Don't try.
Mulhall says that the life Of a locomo-
tive is usually fifteen years, and its earn
ings 100000.
Joseph Dick has gone to Red Cloud to
take the position of switchman in the
company's yard there.
Quite a change in ticket punches has
taken place on the high line in the last
week.-Curtis Courier.
Will Archibald is confined to the bed
with an attack Of malarial fever, and
has been quite i'll for a few days.
Mesdames L. c. Wolff and Joseph
McMenigal went down to Lincoln, yes
terday, to visit a few days with relatives
and friends.
Roadmaster Haley is laying heavier
steel between here and BARLEY. They
are putting down IS pound steel in place
of the old 20 pound.
Night Foreman Henry Culbertson has
had a severe tussle with the measles; but |
is now better. Harry K%ingsbury acted
in that capacity during his illness.
Dispatcher Townsend expects to have
his electric circuit for power in operation
within a few weeks. A number of peo-
pie have already applied for power.
Mrs. Catherine Garner was called to
McCook, Sunday, on account of the ILL
ness Of the child of her daughter, Mrs.
Harry Conover.-Red Cloud Argus.
Mrs. George Conner of McCook is Wis
iting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Roy. She will visit in Kansas City be-
fore her return-Falls City Journal.
Business is looking up. Freight trains
63 and SO have both been run through a
number of times lately. Steel from
Pueblo for the company's northern ex-
tension is one of the items of increase
in the volume Of business.
John Phillips, a fireman of the Phila-
delphia & Reading railroad at Tama-
rend received his pay April nth, about
$50, says the Philadelphia Record. AS
he mounted the engine with the money
in his hand the whole amount, which
was in paper, was pulled from his grasp
into the fire box by the draught and
burned.
The contract to build the Stratton
school house has been awarded to Nc
Adams & Rooney, Messrs- O'Niel &
Fitzpatrick having thrown up their inter
est in the matter on account of some
thing in the contract that they would
not sign. Mr.. Rooney has been up
there, this week, arranging for the burn
ing of brick for the structure,
Frank Quigley took his wife and her
mother out for a buggy ride Sunday.
The horse became frightened and Mrs. |
Cummings was thrown out and suffered
a badly sprained elbow. Frank and his
wife ''stuck to the engine" and the horse
was stopped without further mishap. ....
The item clipped from the McCook
paper some time since to the effect that
Frank Quigley had resigned his place
on the road, said Quigley by a mistake
Of the McCook compositor. It should
have read Rig1ey.-Red Cloud Belt.
The completion of the Burlington's
northwestern line to a connection with
the Northern Pacific at Billings is ex-
pected to result in a marked increase in
the smelling business of the Black Hills.
Ores needed for mixing with the pro-
ducts of the hill mines can then be
brought in from the far west to good
advantage, and in a few years the largest
smelling center in the northwest can be
built up in the Deadwood district. The
Black Hills region has a great future
before it, and the depression of the pres
ent will soon give way to a period Of
unprecedented activity. Lincoln Journal.
The Burlington railroad has announced
two special homeseekers' excursions
from all points on their system east of