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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-01-02

prodding the Mountain division, and
part of the stuff came in late on Black
burn and part Of it early ON fred, who
was almost coughing his head off about
that time, getting up at $3.50 every
morning.
FREQ at O'Clock took the steers and
sent chem train after train through
the Rat river country like bullets out
of Maxim gun. 1t was hot work,
and before he had sat in an hour there
was stumble. The engineer of a big
ten wheeler pulling twenty-five cars of
steers had been pushing hard and at
the entrance of the canyon set his air
so quick he sprung one of the driver
shoes, and the main rod hit it. The
great steel bar doubled up like a man
with cramp. 1t was showing day
light. They made stop and, quick as
men could do it, tagged both ways.
But the last section was crowding
into the canyon right behind They
were too close together; that was all
there was to it. The hind section split
into the standing train like butcher
knife into sandwich. 1t made a
mean wreck, and, worse, it made a
lot of hard feeling at the Wickiup.
When the investigation came it was
pretty near up to Fred Norman right
from the start, and he knew it, But
Blackburn, who shielded him when he
could, just as all the dispatchers did,
because he was boy, and a sick one
among men, tried to take part of the
blame himself. He could afford it,
Blackburn. His shoulders were broad,
and he hadn't so much as a fly speck
on his book. Bucks looked pretty
grave when the evidence was all in, and
around the second floor they guessed
that meant something for Norman.
Fred himself couldn't sleep over it,
and to .complicate things the engineer
of the stalled train, who hated Double
day, limited quietly that the trouble
came in the first place from Double
days newfangled idea of putting the
driver shoes behind instead of in front
of the wheels. Then the fat was in the
fire. Fred got hold of it and, boylike,
sore over his own share in the trouble
and exasperated by something Double
day was reported to have said about
him over at the house, lighted into
Doubleday about the engine failure.
Doubleday was right i'll his device, as
time has proved, but it was unheard of
then, and, moreover the assistant mas
ter mechanic, sensitive to criticism at
any time, was fearful man to run
against. Sunday morning he and Nor
man met in the trainmaster's office
They went at each other like sparks,
and when Doubleday, who had a hard
mouth, began cursing Fred the poor
little dispatcher, ranking with the
trouble. anyway half sick, went all to
pieces and flew at the big fellow like
sparrowhawk. He threw wicked left
into the master mechanic before Dou-
bleday could lift guard, but Walter
Doubleday, angry as he was, couldn't
strike Fred. He caught up both the
boys hands and pushed him. struggling
madly, back against the wall to slap
lalis zfaaau NIL lI1RzanlRstnpiS
fred's lips, and be fell fainting. Just
at that minute Blackburn stepped into
the room.
1t wasn't the kind of time-they
weren't the kind of men-to ask or
volunteer explanations. Blackburn was
on Doubleday in a wink, and before
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cool, clean white arms, one of them al
ways barred to the elbow, sanding his
points with the ash of San Francisco
cigar, and Neighhor would begin to
heaye from the middle up like hippo
potamus, and Callahan would laugh his
whiskers full of dew, and HALEY would
yell with delight, and the slaves in the
next room would double up on the dead
at the story, Blackburn would sit with
his laugh all in smile, but never a
noise or word. He enjoyed it all, not
a doubt of that, only 1t was all tenn
pered, l reckon, by something that had
gone before. AT least that's the way it
now strikes me, and l watched those
big fellows pretty close-the fellows
who were to turn while was growing
up among them into managers and
presidents and magnates and some of
them from every day catch-as-catch-ca
men with the common alkali f1ecking
their boots into dead men for whom
marble never rose white enough or high
enough.
Blackburn was four years at the
Wicki,cc on the night trick 1t wouldn't
have seeSGed natural to see him there
in daylight. 1T needed the yellow gloom
of the old kerosene lamp in the room,
the specked knotted, warped, smoky
pine ceiling losing itself in black and
cobwebbed corners, the smoldering
murk of the soft coal fire brooding in
the shabby old salamander and outside
in the darkness the wind screwing
down the gorge and rafting the shrunk-
en- easements to raise Blackburn in the
dispatcher's chair. Blackburn and the
lamp and the stove and the ceiling and
the gloom-in a word, Blackburn and
the night trick-they went together.
Before the short line was opened the
No. 1 and No. 5 trains caught practical
" all the coast passenger business.
They were immensely heavy trains
Month after month we sent out two
and. three sections of them each way,
and they always ran into our division
on the night trick. Blackburn handled
all that main line business with a mile
age of S05, besides the mountain
branches. say 400 more; and the pas
senger connections came off them,
mostly at night, for / and 3.
Now three men wrestle with Black
burns mileage, but that was before
they found out that dispatchers, al
though sopething toushar than steel, do
we2nrHi11a - W nzeRs;
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-01-02

Hftu Hps, Hlu Ht IeII IHIHtIlIS. 7Just
at that minute Blackburn stepped into
the room.
1t wasn't the kind of time-they
weren't the kind of men-to ask or
volunteer explanations. Blackburn was
on Doubleday in a wink, and before
Walter could right himself the night
dispatcher had thrown him headlong
across the room. AS the operators
rushed in Blackburn and the tall mas
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-01-02


men, If "a dispatcher took sick there
was no handy way of filing in; it was
just double up and do the best you
could.
One lad In the office those days every
body loved-Fred Norman. He was off
the Burlington, kid of fellow who
looked more like a choir boy than
train dispatcher. But he was all light
ning-a laughing, restless, artless boy,
open as book and quick as current.
There was better reason still, though,
why they loved Fred-the boy had con-
sumption. That's why he was out in
the mountains, and his mother in De
troit used to write Bucks asking about
him, and she used to send us all things
and as pink as mountain snow, and he
had brown eyes. He was a good boy,
and l called him handsome. l reckon
they all did. Fred brought out tennis
set with him, the first we ever saw in
Medicine Bend and before he had been
playing an hour he had Neighbor, big as
a grizzly, and Callahan, with a pipe
in one hand and a tennis guide in the
other, chasing all over the yard after
balls, and HALEY trying to figure forty
love, while Fred taught Bucks the Law
ford drive. | don't say what he was to
me; only that he taught me all / ever
knew or ever will know about handling
trains, and, though was carrying mes
sages then and he was signing orders,
we were really like kids together.
Fred for a long time had the early
trick. He came on at in the morning
and caught most of the through freights
that got away from the river behind
the passenger trains. There was no
use trying to move them in the night
trick. Between the stock trains east
bound and the both way passenger
trains, If a westbound freight got
caught in the mountains at night the
house saving fuel; there wasn't time to
get from one siding to another. So Fred
Norman took the freights as they came,
and he handled them like a ringmaster.
When Fred's whip cracked, by Joel
train had TO dance right along, grade or
no grade. Fred gave them the rights,
and they had the rest to door busi-
ness to do with the superintendent or
with Doubleday, Neighbors assistant
in the motive power.
There was only one tendency in Fred
Norman's dispatching that anybody
could criticise He never seemed, after
handling trains on the plains, to appre-
ciate what our mountain grades really
meant, and when they pushed him he
sent his trains out pretty close togeth-
er. 1t never bothered him to handle
heavy traffic He would get the busi-
ness through the mountains just as
fast as they could put it at the division.
but occasionally there were some hair
curling experiences among the freights
on Norman's trick trying to keep off
each others coattails. One night in
July there was a great press moving
eight or nine trains of Montana grass
ers over the main line on some kind of
time contract. We were giving stock
men the earth then. Everybody was
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-01-02

Bucks? Is everybody struck dunb?
Bucks spoke. There's lap order
out on 1 and the theatrical special, Cal
lahan. we don't know what's happen
ed," said Bucks sullenly. Blackburn
here has gone crazy-or he knows
somehow-there won't be any wreck"
added the superintendent slowly and
bewilderedly. "It's between OFallon's
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-29
CAUGHT IN THE CROWD.

A - -. \. I..------ - N, - -
a number nt gltlsenS seat+ lney saw
FolIcenat fhllIips Hoit nus nay 20 the
paraders ih yesterday al'eTlo"l'S pro-
c"ssIol-
Master Mechanic Franklin stated
this morning that nerhaps so OF tha
employees had remained faithful 10 tho
eoh'pahs-
Cameras AND kodak ks four stories
high were leyeIled ON the crowds all
norning as they rushed hack and forth
nj, Nrsin lilss Reiinn, Iat loose
Manning. some one mounted the front
steps OF the car and wildly shouted
Don't hurt the poor poIlces Don't
hurt the poor pclIcel"
e. ,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-29
HARVEST FOR
THE HACkNEN
Livery Stables, Bicycle Repair
Shops and Auto Garages
Working Over Time.
SEVEN DOLLARS FOR A TRIP.
One Driver Took n lasnt 10 Murray
with n Ture--ncnAand FOR
Cycles.

HIts an Id Wind" etc. Is these days
exernpllfed In the faces OF She hack
men, tina bike men and the auto gar
age managers While expressing SYM
pathp With the car men they are over
looking no opportunity to hustle busi-
mesa and they are getting IT, too The
depot hacks take care OF most OF the
Incoming passengers AT the railroad
stations new, whereas their portion
wss very smaIl comparatively speak
Ing during the days the cars were
running,
One happy hack driver said he had
already been out to Murray this
morning with seven dollars worth OF
business on the one trip. One livery
stall BILE hHS ghree shifts OF drivers with
every vehicle obtalnable pressed into
service, Other hack hoa dQuarters are
correspoudingly busy, Teaping the
harvest ot The people who must ride
The bicycle shops present busy
scenes, The demand for two wheel
ers is far beyond tho supply. cid
wheels long since thrown in the dis
card are trotted out frr repair, and
new wheels arc in constant demand
Several dealers report they could
have sold and rented hundreds OF
wheels during yesterday and today II
they only had them.
The automobile establIs hucnts are
also sharing the sudden nctIvlty IA all
things whcelable at this time, Ono
garage alone has 20 machines out, to
take care OF tho depot and street
business outside OF the regular city
and tourist call,
Even dray wagons ana bugstes and
express wagons OF oil descriptions arc
brought into requIstion by tired pe~
dostrians, ana any delivery wagon un~
fortunate enough to get caught in the
suburbs Is invariably boarded by men,
women and children bound Tor town,
and It were useless for the drivers to
protest, for mary times the passeng-
ers so claiming transportation are car
men or members OF their families and
these have the right of way through
out the city.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-29
Masked Men Raid John Inns
Layout on Trapper Greek,
Wyoming.
BLOW 400 ANIMALS no ATOMS.
Herdcrs Tied up Some Distance From
Camp Witness the Wholesale De.
structlon Of Property.
CspeeIal to the @News. .

Cheyenne. Wyoa April 2e.--word has
just been received here of another sheen
raid.
This time John Linn's camp. on Tray
per Creek In Big Horn county. was at
lacked by masked men and the camp
outfit and tOo sheep blown MP by dyna-
mite.
The raiders tied up the hcrders, ut \
distance from Inc camp then placed
sticks of dynamite under the WAGONS
ana camp outfit and a numerous places
In the vicinity Of the camp. and attach
ed a long fuse. Retiring to distance,
they proceeded to drive the sheep into
camp and whom several head had thus
been cOrralIed they lighted the fuse
The explosion tore q great hole In the
ground. completely destroying camn
wagons and euuipage and killed 4OO
sheep; the bodies were MANNED and
nangled In horrible manner This Is
the second raid made upon sheep In the
Trapper Creek section In the last two
years, the other being upon the Lou
Gantz outfit in September, 1905. The au-
thorities are working on several clues.
and II ia believed a number of the raid
crs win be arrested shortly
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-29
KANSAS BREWERY
RECEIVERS MAKE REPORT.

Topeka Kas., April 29.--The three a.
Teotors appointed by the state supreme
court last week 10 take charge OF the
property In Kansas Of eight outside
brewing companies and real estate
concern, run by liquor firm, made it's
report to the court here today. The re-
port shows that the receivers are hold
Ing nine buildings, four In AtcbIsOn and
five Mt Leavenworth, They also are in
possession OF a large assortment Of
bars. fixtures and mirrors Not much
liquor has becn TAKEN Most OF the
places where seizures were made were
saloons and the llquor was claimed by
parties other than the brewing compan-
les:
The receivers believe that the brew.
Ing companies VIII take some action 40
protect their property NOW that the
first report OF seizures has been formal
~ fled
The brewery attorneys say they are
waiting for definite authority as to how
to proceed. On Thursday next the meet
ing to appoint receiver for the Anheu-
ser Busch Brewing company was the
only enc OIL the foreign concerns to
fight the move for receIvershlps, and
II was not Included IN The list OF conn
pnnIes for which receivers were named,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-29

Chief among this noisy gang was one
Kid Bernstein. who calls himself q
prlEehighteT. That the police did NOT
ARREST him and throw him In cell at
the city jail Is one OF the mysteries
This fighter, who Is regarded as q
worse egg than any thrown by the
crowd, bullied, beloved and rushed
through the streets trying his best to
jncite others to deeds of violence He
took a controller from a car and
hrandishing it he ran down State
street yelling 'ISill MINI" and ''smash
zap the ear This WAS IN full view OF
police officers, yet no attempt was mazda
10 put q stop to the fellows rawlings
Wherever there WAS possibility Of
property being destroyed or some one
getting hurt by excited persons, BERN
stein was IN the thick OF 1t, When
tho crowd attempted to assault car
man on Second West and Fifth South
street, and the patrol wagon with Off
GERS responded to a call for help Bern
stein was the first TO sneak away. But
he turned up at many other places
ready and willing to keep up tbs
vicious work This fellow came hero
several months ago and posed as a
prizefehter, lie managed to engage
in ono or two unlmportant bouts of the
ranleest kind. and soon demonstrated
his unfitncss along various lines.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-29
SALOONS OPEN ON SUNDAY,
Splendid Work on the Part OF tho
american Police Force.

IN spite OF the fact that yesterday
was Sunday and there was a strike
on, the noisy hoodIuIns who went
bowling through the streets found no
difficulty in securing all the Dutch
courage" they required, A number
of saloons We're reported 10 be doing
business yesterday a fact that was
apparently overlooked by the jealous
police officers on duty who actively
engaged in "quellIng' incipient riots
al over town by the simple process of
leIsureIy appearing on the scene after
IA non union man had been beaten up
and telling the mob to quit and
move on
With considerable show OF zeal,
however, drunken men were hauled to
the station at Intervals, most OF them
In TOO maudlin condition TO resist
The result was that an even dozen
plain and assorted drunks were book
ed on the charge sheet and one saloon.
Keeper. j p. Arnowitch, Is under ar
rest on the charge OF violating tho
Sunday closing law, That the Amer.
lean party police force distinguished
Itself is patent 10 all who remarked
upon the rushing business being done
by the saloon keepers yesterday-the
police arrested one lone saloonkeeper
and l2 DRINKS.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-29
NEW STRIKE LAW.
State Protection Guaranteed 10 Strike
breakers After May il.

A change in the strike situation in Salt
Lake, should 1t become prolonged, will Oc.
cur on May IA. On that date the new anti.
strike law passed by the legislature will
30 into effect It specifically gives the
protection of the state 10 any man who
wishes TO accept employment and guaran-
tees that the state win not allow him To
be interfeTed with. The law did NOT carry
the emergency clause and therefore does
not so into effect until May 16, 1t follows;
Chapter rs, Laws Or Utah, 1871 Protect
lng the personal rights Of citizens. An
act protecting every citizen In abe enjoy
rneut OF personal rights;
BE 1t enacted by the legislature Of tho
state Of utah! Section /, Unlawful to
Interfere with the rights OF any Individual
II shall be unlawful Tor any persons. paT-
sons association ~ persons. com blnation
II persons or body ~ persons to inter
1cfa With abe rights % any Individual en-
gagged In labor, 10 exercise his full priv
sleeeF under the constitution OF this
state or Of The United States, rs to where
he shall be employed, by whom he shall
he employed and nt what compensation ne
shall be employed
Section 2 Penalty Any one violating
the provisions OF this act SHAH be guilty
~ a mlsdemeanor-
Approved this 18th day OF March 1907
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-29
STATEMENT REGARDING
TAFT-F0hAKER CONTROVERSY

Toledo. o., April 2a.-Chpirrnan wal
ter Brown of the Republican state CEN
tral committee. issued the following
statement today regarding the Taft
Foraker controversy.
No request has been made to me as
chairman Of the state central committee
to call 4 meeting of the committee for
the purpose Of considering state pri-
mary election t. determine the choice
Of the Republicans OF the state for
presidential candidate Until some such
request is made ! have nothing to add
to what I said when such state pri.
mary was first signed, that IN my opin
lon 1t would mot be feasible to conduct
primary election upon a general cleo
ton day and that the sentiment OF Re
plbhcans of Lucas county. as expressed
through the newspa pers and otherwise.
is opposed TO engaging in any contests
within the party, save such as relate
wholly to municipal matters, until the
municipal election IN November
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-29
MEN IMPRISONED IN MINE
ARE STILL ENTOMBED

Johnstown Pa April 29.-The seven
men Imprisoned by a rush Of water in
mine No Is OF the Berwind-WhIte Coal
company at FoustWell. Friday arc stll
entcmbed although scores OF rescuers
have been working night and day In an
effort to pump the water out and effect
thelE freedom
The work Of pumping proceeds slowly
and until the rcScuerS can effect an IN.
trance 1t viii not be known whether thc
miners are dead or alive. The milne mouth
Is besicged constantly by the relatives OF
the entombed miners The mine officials
are hopeful an VIII be taken out alive
ON account &c the enormous quantity or
water In the mime and the slow gains
made by the pumps, the theory is now
held that the How comes from an abau-
doned working Relief parties who re-
turned TO the surface this morning said 1t
would he evening at the earliest before
the entombcd men could be reached,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-29
BELL COMPANY PREPARED.
lHstalls Gas Engine Plant for Gcu-
Grafton of Electricity.

The Bell Telephone company is pre-
pared for emergencies II has been de-
pendent on the Utah Light q Power
company for Its primary supply OF cleo
tricity but General Manager Murray,
not proposing to run any risk OF being
deprived OF supply Installed q gas
engine plant yesterday, which Will pro-
vide without difficulty all the electro
city desired
The management OF the telephone
company does not anticipate any strike
by its linemen The telephone ConsITuc-
tlOn Is being shu. down all over the
country. and the company can get along
with considerably less number Of men
than are now employed This Is on aC-
count OF the aencrnlally high price OF
copper and lead which is resulting in
an abbreviarIon OF construction opera
items generally, 1t was reported today.
that Vice President Sullivan OF the
Electrical Workers at San Francisco
had wired his people here to go slow IN
striking on account of 50 large Il NUM-
Der OF men In that class OF employ
menr being laid OF everywhere
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-29
TODlY'S NONE MARK

New York. April 2e.--Nloncy On
call. ca-5, 202io por cents real ra''-
IA; closing Did ;; Offered M l'.
cent. 90 days s9l al pes cent? SIX
months. I x per cent ~
Close: Prime mercantile pupcF, o.
q per cent I'm. .,,,,,.,
s,orling exchange, iirm- with acllIel
business i'm bankers bills at 1-Sv.ID @
SO 30 for demand and NJ Iss.SnG
1885, for 90 day bills; posted f,iIss
Asa and 1871; eonlmcrcl"l p'il
s.S3 *.
ISaf silver. GG5S
Mexican dollars. 81,
Government ana TaliFohu p''U1
steady.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-29
MAIII CAR MAKES RUN.
Fort Douglas Route Covered Under
Police EsCOrt--N0 Passengers

\ successful attempt TO run a. mail
car to Fort Douglas under police pro-
lection was made at | o'clock this at
ternoon, The car left the postoffice
for Fort Douglas, and returned with
mail from the post for the central of
flee, reaching Main street at 2;20
o'clock. Four policemen made the
ride and no attempt was made 20
moo the car except I'm Isolated cases
where the crew was jeered- The po-
licen1en detailed to make the ride we're
Officers Simpson. Carlson, Woods and
Pierce. No passengers were picked up.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-29
A BIG RANSOM.
s,eycnty-fiyc Thousand Dollars Paid for
Release of Robert Abbott.

ConstHnt.noplc April s9.-Seventy-nyc
thousand dollars was the ransom paid
for the release OF Robert Abbott. the son
Of 4 prominent British subject residing
e. theirs garden March a and eventually
liberated when the demands OF his abduc.
tors had been conceded The brlgands
originally demanded 10000.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-29
"Kld' Bernstein Who Calls Him
self c PrIzetighter Is the
Rlngleader.
POLICE LEAVE HIM ALONE.
Make $50 Attempt 20 Pnt u Stop ~
HIS RRvings--ls Hank
Tulth-.

pne thing that reflects strongly 90
the police officers of thiH city is the
stLet that they made no effort to pre-
vent a gang Of noisy hOcdluns and
Nulies from destroying property and
teening up the disturbance yesterday
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-29
LATE LOCALS.

Bank Ciearlngs--Today's local bank
clearIngs amounted 10 1851 ,3Ga.Jj as
against S7Sl223.15 for the same day
last year.
MIIl Consider school Eonds--The
city board ot education VIII hold an
adjourned session tonight To further
consider the matter OF The special
school bonds recently authorized at
an election In this city.