The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-05-18
RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS.

No. L, Tuesday, had twelve cars anC
was double-headed.
Engine 269 is out of the shops, aftei
receiving a general overhauling.
Conductor w. c. Pope has Conductor
George Beck's run, temporarily.
Engines 3oS and 225 are being thor.
oughly overhauled in the shops, now.
Engine al, after a general overhaul.
ing, is out of the shops, and will go to
Denver.
Trainmaster Kenyon has $50 men un-
der his jurisdiction, according to the
board.
This week, the Chicago & Alton rail-
road company filed a mortgage for $22,-
600 900.
Agent Stokes of Akron, who has been
off on a vacation, has returned to work,
this week.
Agent Chris Lawritson of Palisade is
off duty on a visit and Extra Agent Tint
is relieving him.
Sup't of Bridges James Rivett Of Lin
coin was up, Tuesday, sizing up things
at the new shop.
The Burlington is reported as having
recently bought the line running from
Fairbury to Alma.
Brakeman w. w. Webster returned
home on I, yesterday, from Red Cloud,
where he has peer attending the we'd
ding Of a friend.
Engineer J. A. Harris was up from
Oxford, yesterday, having some work
done on his branch engine.
Master Dare Kenyon has been suffer-
ing with a light attack of appendicitis,
this week, but is improving.
Operator Albert Thorgrimson was
down from Eckley, part of the week,
taking in the Field-day jollities.
Asst General Sup't G. w. Rhodes was
up from Lincoln, yesterday, looking over
matters at the new machine-shop.
Supt. Campbell went up to Denver,
Wednesday on No. I, his car No. 10 be-
ing attached to the regular passenger
Dispatcher D. J. Best is sick i'll Den
yer, and Operator c. S. McElherron of
headquarters has gone up to relieve him.
Dick Carroll is in the city looking
after a job, having just recently returned.
from a visit up on the Wyoming divis-
ion.
Conductor George Beck is off duty, on
account of the illness of his mother-in-
law, whose condition is very serious
again.
Sidney Cole is engine inspector now.
He had to give up his position Of engi-
neer on the road on account of heart
trouble.
Forty-one car loads ofties were shipped
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Alliance to be used on the Bridgeport
Brush cutoff.
Engineer William Wood is having an
addition built to his West McCook
dwelling, which is being reprinted and
otherwise improved.
been laid up for some time with rheuma-
tism, has been taken to the sanitarium
at Lincoln for treatment.
Conductor Steve Dwyer relieved Con-
ductor E. F. Caffrey at Oxford, a day or
two this week, while the latter was called
away from duty by the death of his
fa~ther-in-law, the late John Real.
The steam shovel has been in the yard
for the past week, undergoing repairs
and to receive a coat of new paint. 1t
will be sent to Brush to work in a cut to
fill up the yard at that place.
James Chambers and sister-in-1aw,
Nora Gait, came down from Newcastle,
Wyoming, to attend the funeral of Mrs.
Thomas Gait. Mrs. Chambers was too
i'll to come to the burial of her mother.
The fast eastbound mail train on the
d., ,lj,ofo,, racapf1v coveraH tho distance
between Burlington and Chicago, 1887
miles, in 2o5 minutes, including I4H
minutes consumed in stops. The run
was made with engine No. 1910 with
four cars.
Conductor c.. w. Bronson, who has
been visiting in Iowa and attending a
meeting of the Advisory committee of
the Burlington Voluntary Relief associ-
alton in Chicago returned home, Tues
day night, and returned to duty on 2,
yesterday morning.
F. R. Shuman of Guide Rock arrived
in the city, Tuesday. He will probably
work for the company and coach the
Athletic ball team. Shuman was a
member of the First Nebraska, and
pitched for the base ball team of that
regiment in its games in the Philippines.
Three new machines have arrived and
are now being placed in position in the
new machine-shop: A wheel press, a
wheel borer and an air compressor.
Other machines are being gradually
moved over from the round-house, and
things are gradually assuming ship-shape
in the shop, a force of men being con-
at work. An enclosure for tools,
in course of construction, this week, is
about completed. The new machines
being added to the equipment of the
shop will quite largely increase the
amount and kinds of work that can be
done in McCook.
The death of Mrs. John w. Bennett of