The bee., 1901-10-17

lOupts W. DONnc1 duO lIdln MdbttI
went to Guthrie last Fri
day on business for the company.
Engineer Fitzgerald says if some
girl will marry Jim Sparrow he will
buy the license and give them a COW
and a sewing machine.
Flagman Morris Colbert is expect
ing a house for the Main street cross
ing. He will need it this winter.
Mr.. J. E. Broville is working a
trick on the north end since Mr.. j.
H. Devny was promoted.
The new Assistant Superintendent
the new Train Master and the new
Chief Dispatcher are all right, there
are no flies on them.
There will be a switch engine put
on at Guthrie within the next few
days. This Will fill a long felt want
and obviate the necessity of chain
gang trains switching in Guthrie
yards from three to five hours.
Mr.. Geo. Hooser has gone to Ash
ley, ILL.,. on visit.
If the party who feloniously and
premeditatedly removed the small
piece of broken mirror from the
operators table will return 1t no
questions will be asked.
Don't forget the Bible Class at the
Christian church Sunday afternoon
at 2 o'clock. Come if you can, if
you can't come send some one.
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spect.
On account of the rate war among
the roads leading out of Memphis,
Tenn, and consequently reduction
on coal rates to that and other
Southern points the earnings of the
Henderson Division will not be SO
large this quarter as usually.
A plan to build railroad between
Paducah and Mayfield, KY, is be-
ing agitated by the business men Of
both places. The road will be twen-
ty-two miles long.
The Interstate investment Co., Of
Louisville will build road to con-
meet with the L. & N. and Virginia
Southwestern near Grab Orchard,
Va.
The latest reports concerning the
Kentucky Western Railroad are to
the effect that the necessary capital
has been secured to erect it from
Dixon, its present terminus, to Ow-
ensboro, distance of forty miles.
Irving H. Wheatcroft is President
of this company.
Ten miles of the extension If the
b. S. & N o. railroad has been
graded and track laying has begun.
1t is expected to complete the line
during the present year. 1t will be
a branch of the Louisville & Nash
vile system; r.. Montfery of LOUIS
vile is the engineer.
1t is reported that several short
lines will be constructed in the Bir-
mingham district this year includ-
ing seven miles in Blount county to
be built by the Louisville & Nash
vile and about ten miles by the
Southern railroad to coal mines in
the vicinity.
The extra men are kicking now
because there is nothing to do. In
two months they will be kicking
because there is too much to do.
In August last forty-three locomo-
tives, valued at $4lO,S99, were ex-
ported from the United States,
against sixteen, worth $le8,944, for
August, 1900.
"English railways must be taken
in hand by Americans and worked
under their methods declares
Charles t. Yerkes, "or else they
will succumb to enormous capital
ization and wasteful methods"
Some of the more expert railroad
men in the country believe that tie
limit of sustained speed with the
existing style of locomotive has
been reached.
Mr.. Wilbur F. Browder, Of Rus
sellville, is being mentioned as the
possible sue, essor of Mr.. Walker D..
Hines the assistant chief attorney Of
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