Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-09-21
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ION Carney is doing day switching.
supt. Bowron went East Saturday,.
Brakeman Tom Strike is laying off.
A: E. Harris is on the Browns VAL
ley local.
Chas. Tute is breaking on the west
end.
Robert Branton is the name of the
new call boy.
J. T. Branton spent day at Ben
son last week.
Holly Mcdonald was in Minneapo-
lis the latter part of last week.
j. B. Johnson is agaiu acting as
night yard master.
1t is rumored that the passenger
trains on the St. Cloud run will be put
on again. IL
Mrs. Willis, wife of Brakeman AL
W ILLS of Marineth, Wis, is in the
city.
A new siding has been built on the
kallspell Div'n, two miles west of
Haskell pass. It is named Lucerne.
Harry Thomas has resigned his run
as passenger brakeman and expects
to go to work in freight service.
Joe Cleary is working in the superin-
tendents office, having accepted the
position vacated by Ed Bake.
Ed Bake has resigned his position
in the superintendent Office and is now
braklng on the Sioux Falls passenger
We understand that there will be a
school telegraphy started in this city.
W1llmar is getting quite a reputation
as an educational centre.
The boys in the superintendent Of
fee, chaparoned by Chief Clerk Shes
green, spent Sunday hunting near
Pennock.It is needless to add, there
is little game left in the vicinity of
PennOck.
Anton Zimkowske, section foreman
at Benson, had the misfortune to lose
his left leg Saturday. He was en-
deavoring to move box car, with a
crow bar, when his foot slipped and
he fell under the wheel. Medical aid
was procured and his wounds dressed
and we understand he is doing splen-
didly at this writing.
There is sort of an epidemic going
the rounds of the railroad boys at this
place OF late. In conversation with
one OF these gentlemen last Monday
he said the only thing he could attri
butte as a cause of this epidemic is
bad water. The disease is of a pecu-
liar nature and causes it's victim to
take to his bed and if he gets up too
other portion of the body. Their re-
covery it slow and they are ailing
similar to the grip.-Barnesville Rec
ord.
From the Breckenridge Telegram.
Ed Henry is running out Of Minnea-
polls on the $500" and has a good
One of the water pipes burst this
morning in the house and flooded part
of the engine room.
Engineer Al Smith and Conductor
Dan Nee brought a special from St.
Paul to Benson in record-breaking
time one day last week. A boy there
had been badly hurt and they were
bringing up doctors.
Joe Voseka, better known as Joe
Sheep, was quite badly hurt in the G.
N. yards Monday afternoon He was
at work at the rails in the east end of
the yard, when the switch engine
pulled out with a string of cars. He
stepped off the track, but when the en-
CINE was about eight feet away he
stopped to pick up something In ris-
ing up he seemed to lose his balance
and stepped on the track in front of
the engine. The foot-board threw him
off the track, and then rolled him over,
cutting his head considerably. He
was taken home and the report got
around that he died shortly after, but
that was mistake and he is doing
nicely.