Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-08-10
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: RAILROAD NEWS. :

f. Fritz, Of Viborg, goes to Browns S
Valley as agent.
Conductor Costello is On Hackett's
run. on the Aberdeen.
T. c. Paine will 20 to viborg to oc-
'upy the position as agent.
\ good many Of the railroad boys
are camping at Green Lake.
we are sorry to state that Chief
Clerk Shesgreen is on the sick list.
Miss Marion Sammis, Of Redwinc,
is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. c. L. Horn
beck.
Chas. Reiss, agent at Browns Val
ley, ~ha5 resigned on account OF fail
ing health.
Conductor Boyd is taking a short
vacation before the rush Of business.
which will soon be here.
Engineer Pat Gallagher is back on
the Sioux Falls passenger run. lie
knocks out Engineer Kelly.
I. Fritz, caller at the round house,
Is taking a few days vacation and ha;
gone to St. Cloud to visit his folks.
Conductor Rogers children were
quite sick last week, which prevented
hin from going to St. Cloud with the
ball team.
About twenty-five extra brakemen
have been hired On this division and
the extra lists begin to assume their
usual fall appearances.
Work has commenced on four mod
ern coal chutcs, Of the pocket pattern,
to be placed at Breckenridge, Morris.
Willnlar and Smith Lake.
The west-bound passenger business
has been SO heavy for the past week
that it has been necessary to run two
sections OF No. for several nirnts.
Miss Lydia Hardy went to St. Cloud
Monday morning TO visit friends, &C
companied by her brother Gnas., who
was visiting his parents here Sunday.
-1aee41essers. - 1Ea2 Be lilaiia, > ollace and
Leslie Mcdonald borrowed an oil stove
last week and then tool, leave for Green
Lake, where they expecs to fry fish for
awhile.
Engineer Kelly goes en the Yankton
run, knocking out Eagixecr J. e. " at
soD, who will, we suppose, come to
Willmar and knock out some Younger
engineer.
The Great Northern is making pre-
parations for the usual fall rush by
enlarging the yards at Breckenridge
and Willmar aud lcnythcning all the
passing tracks west OF this point.
Dispatcher W. II. 1IcCune broke all
records, last Monday, by wheeling
from Crescent Beach to Wil]mar. a
distance Of II miles, in the remark
able time OF i hours and 80 minutes.
Everybody is talking Of going to
Marshall to take in the ball games to-
morrow. That's right. The boys are
a good team and should be encour-
aged, SO let every body 60 and have a
good time.
Aug. Alstrom was summoned to the
general offices at St. Paul last Satur-
day to have an Interview with Gen.
Pass. Agent Whitney. There is a
probability that August will shortly
be called down to take charge Of a
city ticket Office.
Geo. H. Pietch, tine]zeeper in the
! uperintendent's Office, is kept quite
| busy filing applications, personal rec
ords, etc. He is q good tempered fel-
low, but might prove dangerous if he
were troubled, especially if you try to
say anything ''sweet.'
A man named O'Rei1ly, from Clon-
tart, while walking on the track last
Sunday, found the body of an un-
known man on the track between Han
cock and Clontarf with both legs cut
off and his head badly smashed. He
Is supposed to have been Killed by one
OF the night trains. 4.
+ Last week, at Clontarf station, Con-
ductor Brooks called on Ole Lien, ex-
marshall of .Willmar, to assist in un-
loading a car load Of travelling men,
who had taken possession OF an empty
stock car. Ole responded brave as a
lion. Reaching the car he climbs on
top with a gun g in each hand, and woe
to any hobo who dared to put his head
outside the ca: 's.sz5 81
During the recent hail storm the
large garden owned al and operated by
w. Garner, Of the uperintendent'
Iofice, was struck by the hail and CON
lsiderably danagged. Nearly all Of his
|=cabba heads were split IN two, his
Ibeets were beaten q own and the world
|srenoWn G Garner onions were complete