The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-12-13

N Ia ~ u w D-OOO h1N n IL. II M
brakeman and former Norfolk boy
who was crushed between two freight
cars at Blair several weeks ago. has
recovered from the injuries which at
the time were thought to be necessar.
fly fatal Wednesday Dlngman left
the hospital at Blair and was taken
to the present home OF his parents
near Missouri Valley He was able to
walk without the aid of crutches. Nor
folk friends will be very glad to learn
that he has recovered sufficiently to
leave the hospital for injuries we're
known to have been very serious.
"Tm organized against horse
thieves" said Sheriff Bauman OF Dodge
county in Norfolk Thursday, comment
ing on the recent revival of horse
grabbing in north Nebraska and the
widespread attempt to organize against
1t. "The records will show that II is
many years in Dodge county since n
horse thief got away with his booty,
Quick work. open eyes and cooperation
is the prescription for horse stealing"
Sheriff Bauman came to Norfolk to
get the two Fremont girls with ambi-
lions theatrical, who ran away from
Fremont homes to join show troupe
at Winside and who were stopped in
Norfolk. He took the girls back to
their parents.
Manager C. ]. Haviland Of the Nor
folk Office of the Western Union tele-
graph company is to be transferred to
Concordia, Kan His transfer will take
place as soon as his successor, p.
PAUL. arrives in Norfolk and is
checked into the office. This will be
within a week. The transfer will be
a promotion as the office at Concordia
handles a greater volume Of work and
carries an increase In salary over the
Norfolk office. Some weeks ago ar
rangements were made to transfer
Manager Haviland to the managership
of the lola, Kan, Office and when the
expected vacancy did not materialiZe
he was kept in Norfolk to await the
next vacancy in better paying Office.
Haviland has been in Norfolk since
last January.
A railroad man sees in a reduction
of business volume which may follow
a possibility that a greater effort will
be made to install motor cars on many
lines of railroad in Nebraska says the
Lincoln Journal. He believes that
nearly to the stage where they may
be relied upon for strenuous everyday
service, and that the time is not far
distant when they'll be used on many
lines of road where they are not now
In prospect even while the railroads
were hauling all the business that they
could handle it was hard to talk mot
or service to the general manager"
he says. "They had no other problems
to look after. When the time comes
that they must scheme to reduce ex-
penses they will turn to the motor car
for many lines where frequent service
must be maintained and where motor
cars would answer, but where lighter
operating expenses are desirable
There are many such lines in Nebras-
ka. 81 understand that orders have been
placed in the Union Pacific shops at
Omaha for twenty motor cars of the
McKeen type. These motors, propelled
by internal combustion engines, have
been in service On number of Ne
braska lines during the past three
years, and on the line between Kear-
ney and Galloway regular service has
been maintained for all of this time.
"The McKeen motors are not per-
feet, but for that matter one may say
the locomotive is not perfect. With
as many motors as the service of
road would naturally require it is pos
sible that the operation could be car
ried on with little more irregularity
than is sustained in the use of locomo-
tives. A number of steam propelled
coaches are being experimental with
in the United States. The Rock Island
now has one in use in Iowa. | under
stand one is being experimental with
by the Pennsylvania in the east. Var
ious types of motor cars are being eX-
perimented with in the east, and the
Northwestern is now giving the Nc
Keen motors a trying out. The r3e of
these cars is bound to become more
general"