Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-10
TALK OF THE TRACK.

Edward G. Merrill, cashier at the
Milwaukee. accompanied by his wife.
has gone to Lafayette, Iowa. te
spend Sunday with his parents.
Last evenings Milwaukee pas
ssnger arrived an hour-and-a-hali
late. The delay WAS caused by q
wash out'on the Dubuque division.
w. J. Lawrence, superintendent Of
the southwestern division Of the
Rock Island. was in the city yester-
day. HAhas Just returned from .
|1hfeh tbo3ths' stay at Hot Springs.
s. kA k S2isb. ne went ZOE inc 0'n'n'
Conductor Harry Lee, of the Rock
Island & Peoria, Is absent from duty,
his wife. who has been . patient at
the Jacksonville asylum for several
months. being in precsrious condi-
ton. His place 10 being filed by
Steve Murphy.
Officials Of the Chicago. Rock Isl.
and & Pacific railway are proud Of
the fact that they delivered to the
Southern Pacific at Ogden, Utah, be-
twee $4,000 and $4,000 Christian
Endeavor passengers without . single
accident and few late trains. Eleven
trains are still on the way, which
will swell the total to $4,000. It 10
claimed that this establishes the
worlds single track record.
The B., C. r. & N. has . number
OF lady station agents, and most Of
them are really pretty. The trouble
10 to keep them long. They get mar
risd about as fast Is the road can
break them in. There is another
case OF this sort now ON hand, and
fast eliminating. Postal Clerk John
Wilson threw . mail pouch out Of
the car at . little station above indie
pendence, about three months ago,
IN haste and with little care. It lit
in the mud. The pretty girl who
runs that station wrote him Q letter.
and told him what she thought of
him. He. Of course, replied. She
was lady enough to answer. So it
went on. The other day they met,
wearing roses 80 as to be able to
identify each other. Orange bios
SONS will soon be in order.
Conductor II. j. Hern and Brake
man Steve Murphy. of the Rock ISL
and & Peoria, have been handed over
$500 Of the reward money offered for
the capture OF the men who robbed
the bank 1t Orion several months
ago, and for whose apprehension and
conviction they were largely respon-
sible. After doing the job the rob-
bers boarded the train in charge OF
Conductor Horn, and on which Mr..
Murphy was then serving a. bag
gageman. They had . good chance
to look the fellows over, but never
dreamed at the time that they had
Just finished touching . bank. Short
~ afterward three suspicious charac-
tiers were held at Taylorville. The
authorities there notified Sheriff
Quinn. of Cambridge, that it was not
improbable that they were the part.
les he was after. Sheriff Quinn had
no description of the robbers. Horn
and Murphy were the only men who
got glimpse at them. They were
taken to Taylorville, and at once
identified the prisoners as the parties
who boarded their train at Orion
with swagger on the night Of the
robbery. The Taylorville authori.
ties then assumed the credit of ap.
pretending the robbers. and applied
for the reward money, and 30 did
Horn and Murphy. It resulted in
trials in the county and supreme
courts. Both tribunals said that
Horn and Murphy should have the
reward, 80 they have been given $3.50
each.