Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-07-20
: RAILROAD NEWS. !


last week.
w. Garner tried his luck fishing at
Foot Lake Sunday.
Jack Sullivan expects to buy team
of Shetland ponies.
Danny Nee and Billy Gushing got a
brickyard turn around Sunday.
Geo. Peitch of the superintendent
Office made a flying trip to Benson
Monday.
Fred Thatcher spent Saturday at
Granite Falls and reports having had
a 81 Jim dandy' time.
Last Sunday, at Foot Lake, Brake
man Jim Vaughan established quite a
reputation as a swimmer.
A. A. Carver, of Minneapolis, has
accepted a position as clerk in the
uperintendent's Office here.
Conductor A. W. Burr is at present
taking treatment at the St. Anthony
Hospital, in Denver, Colo.
Chas. Hornbeck has purchased a
| new bicycle and can be seen every
evening taking ride around town.
H. S. Wakeman has been appointed
chief train dispatcher of the Terminals
division, vice J. F. Branton, trans
ferred.
Tom Johnson: the musical brake
man, will give a dance at the opera
house tonight. A large attendance is
expected.
Peter Dalen, who was firing engine
| No. $50 on the Sioux Falls local, was
taken sick at the latter place Tuesday
and Ole Alstrom was sent out to take
his run in.
J. w. Branton has been appointed
chief train dispatcher of the Brecken-
ridge division, vice H. S. Wakeman,
! transferred.
G. A. Smith, stenographer in the
superintendents office, has caught the
gold fever and may leave for Alaska
next March.
T. Goodmonson, who was in charge
of the bridge builders crew at this
point, has taken charge of crew on
the main line.
!: Albert Pierce, formerly a brakeman
at this place, is in the city and ex-
poets to 20 to work again as soon as
business picks up.
August Alstrom, amateur photog-
rapher, took a picture of the Willmar
baseball team, on fiat car, just be-
fore going to Granite Falls, Saturday.
Line Repairer Chas, Abendschein,
''du kline sweigel' from Brecken-
ridge, spent Sunday here assisting
Young to rearrange wires in the dis
patcher's Office.
T. P. Johnson is getting tired OF
braking and wants a situation as dis
patcher. We think Tom would make
a dandy, as we have already seen
"orders" signed by him
Robert Mcdonald, brakeman on
the Willmar division, met with a fatal
accident while at work on a train in
Minneapolis, last Tuesday. He was
walking on top of a string Of cars,
when he fell from the roof of a box
car to a fiat car. He struck on his
head and was rendered unconscious,
and remained in that condition unit
the next morning, when death relieved
| him. An inquest was held the follow.
ing day and the jury returned YER,
dict Of accidental death caused by his
own carelessness. Mr.. Mcdonald was
we'll known in Willmar, having beer
working out of here for several years
II From the Breckenridge Telegram1
| Roadmaster Mayors was in towr
Monday -.
" Dan Sullivan is laying off and, O.
icourse, he came to Breckenridge tc
Visit. ~ -. #
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Willmar again, having come up witt
Huffman Monday. + h >T.*, -. 4.
j Three work trains and asteam shove
will be put in the Absaraka gravel oil
! soon, giving more work to the boys
I here. <.s=@ f. ~ ..: >.:.ss .=t t #5#e@:
The Great Northern will begin work
on $50, 900 depot at Fergus Fails
j soon. What's the matter with Z new
one here? # S= y ..s5 # sss
Ed. Dwight, formerly day operator
/ here, who has been at Devils Lake
recently, IS now working in the dis,
!, patcher's office at = rimore.
ID /. II
1 The Painless dentist Of ST. Cloud,
will be in AtWater. ] ii and 28
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