Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-01-24

slipped Donahues fingers aside from
the key to cut in with peremptory
"G. s." order suspending, in favor of
the fast mail, the rule which requires
a station operator to drop his board
on following section that is less than
ten minutes behind it's file-leader.
THE fun is beginning" said the
train-master FISCHER has his tip
from Durgan to keep Callahan's tall
lights in sight. With the mail tread
ing on their heels the gentlemen in
the Naught-seven will be chary about
pulling Patsy down too suddenly in
mid career. They have just passed
Morning Dew, and the operator re-
ports Fischer for disregarding his
slow signal"
Cant you fix that?" asked Kent.
"Oh, yes; that is one of the things
I can fix. But there are going to be
plenty of Others"
Still we must take something for
granted, Mr.. M'Tosh. What I have to
DO uptown won't wait until Callahan
has finished his run. I thought the
main difficulty was safely overcome. :"
"Umph!" said the train-master;
the troubles are barely getting them
selves born. You must remember that
we snapped horses at the last minute.
We were ready for the race to the east.
Everybody on the Prairie Division had
been notified that special was to go
through tonight without stop from
Lesterville to A. & T. junction.
"We1l?"
"Now We have it all to straighten
out by wire on another division;
meeting points to make, slow trains
to side-track, fool operators to hole
down; all on the dizzy edge of strike
that is making every man on the line
lose his balance. But you go ahead
with your newspaper business. I'll
do what man can here. And If you
come across that right-of-way agent,
wish you'd make it case of assault
and battery and get him locked up.
I'm leery about him."
Kent went his way obviously re-
Elective. In the moment of triumph,
when Durgan had announced the sue
cess Of the bold change in the pro-
gramme, he had made light of Hawks
escape. But now he saw possibilities.
True, the junto was leaderless for the
moment, and Bucks had no very able
lieutenants. But Hawk would give the
alarm; and there was the rank and file
of the machine to reckon with. And
for weapons, the ring controlled the
police power of the state and of the
city. Let the word be passed that the
employees of the Trans-Western were
kidnapping their receiver and the gov
ernor, and many things might happen
before "Red" Callahan should finish
is long race to the westward.
Thinking of these things, David Kent
walked uptown when he might have
taken a car. When the toxin of paE.c
is in the air there is no antid0te like
vigorous action
Passing the Western Union central
Office, he stopped to send Ormsby a
second telegram, reporting progress
and asking him to be present in per-
son at the denouement to put the facts
on the wire at the earliest possible
instant Of time. Everything depends
upon this he added, when he had
made the message otherwise emphatic.
IF we miss the morning papers, we are
| DONE" ~ al $@
While he was pocketing his. change
at the receiving clerks ptgeon-hole, q
cab ratified up with a horse at a gall
lop, and Stephen Hawk sprang out.
Kent saw him through the plate-glass
front and turned quickly; to the public
writing desk e hoping to be overlooked.
IL was. For once Il sa;sway the *