The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1909-05-21

Conductor w. H. Bernard is taking
Conductor G. T. VANS run OH the Kali
lspell branch this week.
Conductor Ben Hundley laid off this
week to Ike on hand at the institution of
the Knights of Pythias lodge.
Engineer H. 7. Mayield went to Eu-
reka last Friday on business, and the
following day went to Essex.
Fifty extra men have been put to
work during the past week surfacing the
| track east and west of Whitetish.
Engineer L. G. Sauter arrived in town
Saturday from Hillyard to take a position
here. He expects to locate permanently.
f. r. Grant left Monday for Van
couver, Wash. where he will take po-
sition as car foreman on the S. z. 4 S.
road.
Burlington passenger equipment has
been passing through tins week, bound
west, to be ready to start in on regular
work Sunday.
The Burlington has carried II, al peo-
pie west during March and April, the
Great Northern IL, 1888 and the Northern
Pacific 26, 1872
Freight Conductor Jess Dewar, who
has been on the Kalispell branch, will
move back to Whitefish and take run
on the main line.
Assistant Roadmaster L. NJ. Lepper is
in the kalispcll hospital with broken
leg, received yesterday by falling from a
train near Marion.
Great Falls is going to hold big cele-
bration on June 2, in observance Of the
beginning of through passenger service
over the Burlington line.
J. A. Yates is new passenger brake
man to locate here. He comes from
, South Carolina, and has rented the
Soutar house at Lakeside.
General Manager j. M. Gruber and
General Superintendent E. L. Brown
: were in town Tuesday making arrange
ments for faster freight service.
Engineers Frank Babcock, VIM. Lock
er and Gus Sauter of Spokane will take
regular passenger runs out of Whitetsf
after the Burlington trains start coming
this way.
Express Messenger G. A. Nelson Of
Great Falls expects to arrive in White.
fish on the first Burlington train, and
has written here to secure a house in
which to live.
The greater part Of Italy must bt
strung along this division of the Great
Northern, Judging from the number o.
natives OF that country who have beer
seen to come and 60 during the past two
weeks.
Credit is due the local railroad officials
for the spick and span condition in which
the yards here are kept. A cinder dress
ing covers the yards, which is packed
down hard, is as smooth as floor, ant
always looks clean.
Another set of train dispatchers will g
to work here Sunday. Operators Hardin
and Depew are two of the new men win
will take positions. The new Burlington
trains and other increases in traffic make
the additional force of dispatchers neces
. sarY.
Brakeman w. w. Smith was caugh
between two cars at Midvale Tuesda
night and severely injured. He wa
taken to the hospital where he wa
found to have broken collar bone an
+ three ribs broken. He was out on tn
street yesterday, however.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Gipple of White
fish, who were on their way to Seattle
were passengers on the train which wa
held up near Hillyard. Mr.. Gipple re
ceived bad scalp wound in the collisio
which followed the hold-up, but was til
first to offer his services to Conductc
Robertson.
Conductor BuckshOt Robertso
states that nothing but the stronge
equipment could have withstood the co
lision caused by the train robbers nes
| IIillyard running the detached engir
and mail car back into the train. An!
thing less substantial than the moder
Great Northern equipment would ha,
been shattered to splinters and man
~ people would have been killed or Injuries
20 as the force of the collision was som
% thing terrific.
10 Rewards aggregating 81, 600 have bee
25 posted by the Great Northern Railws
* company and the United States post
O5 service for the arrest and conviction
25 the men who held up passenger train N
X near Hillyard Saturday. The Gre
Northern offers SIC, 900 for the arrest al
conviction of each OF the men who pa
u ticipated in the holdup. Four arc know
to have taken an active part in the jo