The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1908-04-17
RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS.

CONDUCTOR fdnIlOru Is DdCh from Ills
claim and at work again.
A. G.. Arnold, late with the Adams at
Lincoln, is now located at Kearney.
Engineer Harry DUNCAN took the
Shrine degree at Lincoln, this week.
Helper A. L. Loshbaugh will be at
horne in Riverton to spend the lay.otf.
Walter StilweIl, timekeeper for Fore
man Wiehe, was a Denver visitor, Sun
day.
Conductor and Mrs. E. 0. Scott left,
Wednesday morning, for Lincoln on a
visit.
Walter StiIweIl says its a mistake in
the printer-he is not a member of the
white-wash gang.
Engineer Schenck and family were in
Denver early portion of the week, going
up, Saturday last.
L. T. Harding, agent at Trenton, has
been transferred to Haigler, where Mrs.
Harding will be operator.
The round-house, machine shop and
blacksmith-shop all show the effects of
the recent house cleaning.
Engineer w. w. Archibald was up
from one of the Kansas lines, over Sun
day, visiting the wife and son here.
Thomas O'Neill, general boiler in
spector, was at these headquarters,
Wednesday, on business of his position.
Kempster and Foyer of the store de-
partment were in Akron, closing days
of last week, taking a general inventory.
Chief Dispatcher Pa.e was in Lincoln,
part of the week, Oh business connected
with the issuance of the May time card.
w. o. Browns, the engineers griev-
ance man from Denver, was in town,
yesterday, looking after B. of L. E.
affairs.
Engineer Schenck and family left,
this week, for Dodge City and Preston,
Kansas, to visit his parents and other
relatives.
Earl Newkirk and G. w. Shirley,
machinist apprentices, are enjoying a
touch of high life in Denver, and will
return to work, Monday.
Bulletin No. 2O4 that the
locomotive shops at McCook close on
Friday and Saturday, April II and IS,
and Saturday, April 25th."
Fred W. Schultz. now master mech
anic at McGehee for the Iron Mount
ain line of the Missouri Pacific, was a
brief visitor here, this week.
A spark from a switch engine set fire
to the Wymore freight depot, Sunday
afternoon, doing about 800 damage
before the fire was extinguished.
The company's importation of Ital-
ians and Greeks for section laborers Is
not meeting with the glad hand in every
instance. Indeed several communities
have evinced Enthusiastically an aversion
to the foreigners.
A gang of dago section hands was I'M
loaded at Riverton, Monday, but was
run out of the town and came to Red
Cloud, Tuesday. The railroad boys
here got after them, however, and they
soon left town.-Red Cloud Chief.
Effective Monday of this week, F. B.
Miller of the Sterling division was pro-
noted to the superintendency of the
Sheridan division. E. P. Bracken has
been transferred to the Brookfield, Mo-,
division. L. B. Lyman, trainmaster of
the Sheridan division, has been made
superintendent at Sterling.
Edgemont, S. D., is excusably excited
and delighted over the success Of the
new deep we'll just completed in that
burg. The water question has long
been a serious one with them. The new
we'll has the two requisites, volume and
quality, it being especially free from the
deleterious substances which cause
scales in engine boilers.
1t is rumored that when the COM
pany sought to rebuild the coal chutes
at Holdrege, recently destroyed by fire,
they found themselves unexpectedly
within fire limits. The Holdregese got
the scare of their lives during the late
fire, which prevailed during a high
wind, and they have no desire to again
undergo the experience.
Arthur Douglass, ar engineer on the
Missouri Pacific out of Wichita, Kan
sas, with his wife, is visiting in the
city a few days. He will also visit Den
YER relatives and here again briefly on
his way back to Kansas. Mrs. Doug
lass will spend some time visiting her
parents and other relatives and friends
here.