The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1908-07-03
RAILROAD NEWS

Claim Agent Edward Tenner spent Sat
urday at Stryker.
Engineer Roy S. Eberly has been nurs-
ing a poisoned hand for the past week.
Car Clerk Z. A: Reilly will take va
cation and go to the coast for a month.
f. l. Blair, formerly chief dispatcher
here, left Wednesday for Grand Forks,
N. u.
Earl Plymate is acting as yardmaster
in the absence OF r. II. Raymond, who
will visit Seattle.
Fireman Ole Sletten was in town last
Friday from Troy, where he has been
working as hostler.
The work of installing the new turn
table at the roundhouse has been prac-
tically completed this week.
Car Clerk Harry Hamin returned
Wednesday from Carroll, Ia, where he
had been for several months on vaca-
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chauncey Bryant re-
turned last week from the east, and Mr..
Bryant is again at work rs switch for,-
man. 50.
Business on the railroad is in normal
condition this week, On account of the
Northern Pacific traffic having been re-
turned to that road.
Z. d. Reinking's bridge crew is in the
field for baseball honors. The nine from
this crew played game with Browning
Sunday, at that place, and came out
victorious bv score of to 4.
The case of Albert Sherman Redman
against the Great Northern and A. O..
Westberg, in which the plaintiff claimed
damages for stock killed at Half Moon,
was tried in the district court at Kalis-
pell, Tuesday, Attorney B. F. Maiden OF
Whitefish appearing for the plaintiff. A
judgement was rendered in favor of the
plaintiff for $50 per head for the stock
killed. 7h
While the main part Of the work on
the Billings 4 Northern railroad has
been completed, there are still between
! 800 and 1900 men employed on the
new roadway, says the Great Falls Tri-
bune. About l 900 of this number are
working on tracklaying and ballasting,
while the remainder are working ON the
grade toward the Laurel end of the line
The track is now we'll into the Mussel.
shell country, being about rs miles south
of the Judith Gap.
The case of Perry 0. Collier agains
the Great Northern was settled today
and dismissed. The case had been set
for trial on Monday, but a conference
between the attorneys and Mr.. Collier
resulted in satisfactory agreement
Collier was injured in a wreck of the
branch passenger train in January, 1907
on which he was running as engineer
The amount paid Mr.. Collier in thu
settlement has not been made public
He expects to leave soon for Seattle t.
take treatment under a specialist there
Inter Lake
Conductor John Donaldson and hi
train crew had very unusual and al
most phenomenal experience recently
Their train broke in two while some
where near Rock Hill, and the front sec
ton was backed up and recoupled to tn
other section, there being nothing to in
dictate that there was anything els
wrong. The train was about ready t.
again start out, when Conductor Donald
son happened to book down the embark
ment towards the river, and notices
three freight cars lying there. He nat
urally wondered where they had com
from and how they came to be there
and went to make an inspection, whel
he discovered that the cars we're iron
his train. They had broken loose with
out breaking drawbar and withou
leaving any indication of the accident.