Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-05
stein came in, flushed as from rapid

stein came in, flushed as from a rapid
walk.
IT'S all settled?" asked the general
manager, with slow left Of the eye
brow to betray his anxiety.
ITO the queens taste, I should say
was the secretary's not too deferentiai
reply. "Ford's out Of the way, TO be
gone ten days or a fortnight and
tFrisbie has gone back to dicker with
marlborough, and to survey the new
route up Horse Creek. Ford doesn't
know: I doubt if he will ever know
until we spring the trap on him. The
one thing | was most afraid OF was
that, he would insist upon going over
the new line himself. Then of course,
he would have found out-he couldn't
help finding out"
The general manager squared his
huge shoulders against the back of
the chair.
You think he would call it off if
he knew" he queried. you give him
credit for too much virtue, Eckstein.
But [ think we have him now BY
the time he returns it will be too late
for him to hedge Marlborough viii
see to that"
Ecksteiu nodded. 81 made a point
Of that with Brain" he said. "The
minute the word is given he is TO
throw little army OF graders upon
the new roundabout. But Ford won't
find out. He'll be too busy on this
end of the line with the track-layers
I'm q little nervous about Merriam,
though
He's the man who talked Frisbie
into chamrioning the new route.?''
Yes. He did it pretty skilfully:
made Frisbie think he was finding It
out himself, and never let the little
man out of his sight while they were
in Copah. But | am afraid Merriam
himself knows too much'
Get him out of the country-before
Ford gets BACK was the crisp order
IF he isn't here when the gun goes
off. he can. tell anybody how it was
loaded "
gan.
THAT is what l mean" said the
general manager. turning back to his
desk. I'VE need traffic agency up
in the Oregon country. See Merriam
TONIGHT. Find out if he'd like to
have the general agency at, say, TWEEN
ty-fve hundred year; and if he
agrees get out the circular appoint.
ing him.
Hell agree, fast enough" laughed
the secretary. But III nail hinl-to
night
Ford spent rather more than two
weeks in his roundup Of the eastern
steel mills. and there was terrifflc
accumulation OF correspondence wait.
ing him when he reached Denver. At
the top of the pile was an official
circular appointing one George z.
Merriam, man whom Ford remem.
hered, or seemed vaguely to remen-
Der. as one Of the MacMorrogh hook
keepers, general agent of the P. S-W..
with headquarters at Portland. Ore
gon. And at the bottom of the ac-
emulation was a second official print.
ing. bearing the approval of the presi-
dent, this: and Fords eyes gloomed
angrilY when he read it,
PACIFIC SOUTHWESTERN RAIL
WAY co.
Office of the President.
New. York, August "a.
AT a called meeting of the stock
holders of this company, held in New
York, August 80. Mr.. John C. North
was elected First Vice President and
General Manager of all lines of this
company. operative and under con-
struction. All officers and employees
will govern themselves accordingly.
BY Order OF the Executive
Committee.
Approved
Sidney ]. Colbrith, President.
Standing in the Pacific portal Of
Plug Pass. Oh the old snow-crest
which, even in midsummer. never en-
tirely disappears at altitude ten
thousand feet, they could look away
westward over bllowing sea Of
mountain and mesa and valley break
ing in far distant, crystalline space
against the mighty rampant OF the
Wasatch range, two hundred and 9TH
er miles nearer the sunset
1t was an outlook 10th inspiring and
Christening; the scenic grandeurs to
give the exalted uplift, and the still,
gray-green face Of the vast noun
famous desert to shrink the beholder
to microscopic littlcness in the face
Of it's stupendous heights and depths.
its immeasurable bulks and inter.
spaces. Miss Alicia said something
like this toFord, in broken exclama-
tions, when she had taken her first
quailing eve-plunge from the lofty
viewpoint.
yes; quite So" Ford acauiesced, in
the unresponsive tone OF one who
says what he must, rather than what