Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-01-29
RAILROAD NOTES.


Judge Amidons of the United States
district court handed down a decision
Monday in the case Of Michael Cor:
rrigan VS.. the Northern Pacific railroad,
in which the plaintiH was awarded
.$7,625 damages for the loss Of q leg
in the N. P. Fargo yards. The attor-
neys for the defense presented a mo-
ton before Judge Amidon for a new
trial last November, Attorney Hildreth
appearing for the plaintiff. Judge
Amidon denied the motion, sustaining
the contention Of the plaintiff and
holding that the rule under which the
defense held Corrigan was negligent,
applied to. car inspectors and not to
oilers and other employees and the fact
that he. knew the rule was violated by
inspectors in no way hampered his
ability to ecover. Corrigan, it will
be remembered, sued the N. P. rail-
road for $4,000 damages for the loss
of a leg, occasioned by being crushed
by a a which he was repairing hun
ming over him, it being struck by a
switch engine. He was awarded the
verdict as above.
Ashley Tribune: The extension of
the Milwaukee railroad from Eureka
in a northwesterly direction is the
common talk at Eureka these days.
The company's surveying party have
been there the greater part of the time
the past two weeks and present indica-
lions r that a number of new towns
will be established along a new line to
be built by the c., M. & St. P. This
will cut off considerable of the north
ern trade Eureka now has, but local
men there claim the benefits to be de-
rived by the roads extending will
more than compensate them for their
loss. This line of road, if built, Will
tap q, rich part Of the state along the
Missouri ss'c slope. :. -.
Men in from Pollock, the new 500
town on the Missouri, say that 500
engineers GERS have been sounding the river
for solid bottom and claim to. have
discovered a good crossing opposite
Pollock, which will be utilized for a
bridge. This report is, in, line with
1rumors that have been current for
some time that the 500 intended to
cross the river in the spring. North
ern Pacific surveyors are nov at work
in the southwestern part Of Mcintosh
county, North Dakota, about two miles
north Of the state line. The survey
leaves the county through the north
west corner Of section Z, township 12s,
range q.
The 500 Line has issued an attract
i've folder, which tells all about its new
ties. There are 199, 500 of them,
made in all the conventional and
proper shades, and of various widths
and styles to suit the most fastidious,'''
the folder says, "as you will own when
you cast your eyes on them lying side
by side for a distance Of seventy miles,
stretching all the way from the town
Of 'Wishek, N. D., by a ,detour south
and west, to the Missouri river" The
folder is descriptive OF the territory
along the Missouri river extension Of
the 500 line. Nv
A travelling man up from Braddock
reports the first signs of activity in
500 circles, five cars of ties brought up
from Braddock and stored there, as the
beginning Of the storage of supplies
presumably for the building Of the 500
to Bismarck.
A sleigh load of surveyors are at
EVarts, $. d., reported to be mapping
out a road from Bismarck to Pierre.