The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-04-18

soon come into general use, as it will
check accurately every passenger that
takes a seat and keep check on him as
long as he retains the seat, whether il
be for one minute or a dozen hours,
and an unfailine record of the time of
his leaving and Of his return is made.
y
The Nebraska. Wyoming & Western
Railroad company filed articles of in
corporation with the secretary of state
of Wyoming last week. The capital
stock Of the company is $1,000. 900.
The incorporators, officers of the Bur-
lington system, are G.. ". Holdrege.
J. &. Taylor and W. P. Durkee The
articles Of incorporation recite that the
company proposes to puild line of
railway along tile valleys of the North
Platte, Sweetwater and other rivers
from the Nebraska line, across Wyom-
ing, through the counties of Laramie,
Converse. Natrona, Sweatwater and
Unnta, to the western boundary line ,,f
Wyoming.
James j. Hill. president of tho Great
Northern railroad. and j. Kennedy
Tod, director in the road. have both
been elected directors of the Baltimore
y Ohio. Local interest in the matter
is heightened by the fact that both of
these men have large Montana inter-
ests, Mr.. Tod being heavily interested
in real estate in and around Great
Falls and in one or two Montana banks,
while Mr.. Hill has many Montana
holdings. Their election to the direc-
torate of the great B. & O. system is
construed to mean that the Great
Northern will have hand in the man
agement of the property and that the
operation of the two systems jointly is
not among the impossi
From source usually reliable comes
the information that plans of the 500
line include all extension not only to
Bismarck, but beyond into the great
COW country of Montana, eventually
connecting with the Canadian Pacific
SO far west that the Great Northern
will be paralleled much more closely
than by the present Soo-Pacitic route,
says the Minneapolis Times The line
will be pushed a long way past Bis
marck before any hard or expensive
construction work is encountered. That
is. it could be built through a growing
and rich country cheaply.
The Northern Pacific road ex-
perienced serious wreck on it's Lew
istown extension last Thursday, when an
engine, tender and four cars of
freight train went over an embank-
ment. Engineer Mat Ralston and Fire.
man Fred Lemon were killed. The
locomotive and cars lie half
in the stream 100 feet below
the track. Fireman Lemon was killed
Instantly and his body shockingly man
gled. Engineer Ralston was still alive
when found. He said: Hold my
head for me. am dying. Take my
hand; I don't want to go alone.'' He
was taken to Vollmer and died three
hours later. His body and that of
Lemon were taken to Spokane on a
special. Ralston leaves a wife and
child. Lemon had a wife and two
children living in Spokane. The wreck
was caused by recent heavy rains.
1t is rumored in railroad circles that
the surveying party working on the
proposed line between Alliance and
Brush, COL. is making much better
progress than was anticipated, and that
TO head off proposed competing lines,
work on construction of the line may
oe started much sooner than official an
would indicate. One
story is that the old steel to be taken
rom the A. & N. line in southeastern
Nebraska will be used in part of the
of the new line.
Col. G. H. Gould, live stock agent of
he Burlington for eastern Montana
md North Dakota, has returned to
Niles City from the east and will re-
main in that city until the shipping
eason is over.
The Northern Pacific had four east
'ound passenger trains to arrive here
friday night, all coming within one
our's time.
The Burlington sent out four large
rains Of freight Saturday night, the
rst since Sunday a week ago.
!
Conductor Hammond of the Rnrlinu-
on arrived home Saturday night in
barge of special train, after being
ut on the road a week, Oh account Of
he washout. He got in some good
lme, running each day between Sheri-
an and Edgemont. He did not get to
lay home long, being sent out Sunday.
ut reached home again last night and
'ill now have a days rest.