The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1909-04-30

Engineer Perdue and Conductor VIM
Deerlngeer are both improving nicely al
the hospital.
James Riach left Tuesday for HiTlyard
where he will take up the duties of hi,
new position.
j. j. Johns, head of the local engi
neering department, was in kalispell tn,
first of the week.
Switchman E. r. Bubble was called tic
st. Paul Tuesday on account of the severe
illness of his wife.
Engineer Udell and wife left Monda,
for Kalamazoo, Mich, where they vii
visit for several weeks.
Conductor Armstrong and Brakeman
Lewis came down from the Fernie brsncl
to spend Sunday in town.
1t Is reported that passenger Conductor
Louis Bruckhauser has purchased lGt
acres of land near kalispell.
G. V. Pinkley is taking Engineer A
ID. Paullne's place on the switch engine
while the latter is laying off.
Ed Hayes of Hilyard has accepted the
position of car foreman made vacant by
the resignation OF f. K. Grant.
Machinist Dave Phalcn has been in
charge of the roundhollse during Fore.
man Gossweiler's absence in Spokane.
An extra passenger crew in charge OF
Conductor Britton was put on Tuesday
on account of the tie-up on the east end.
Conductor F. w. Caldwell expects to
leave next week for Boston, where he
will attend the biennial convention of the
o. r. G.
Conductor w. w. McFadzen came in
from the Fernie branch the first of the
week and will take the local run out OF
kalispell.
A German tourist fell off of passenger
train No. 3 near Lake Five last Friday.
while the train was in motion, and re-
ceived severe injuries.
Passenger Conductor Steve Bywater,
who has been on the sick list for some
time, returned Tuesday from Spokane,
much improved in health.
Engineer H. T. Maytield sends The
Pilot post card picturing huge Ne
braska pumpkin, and states that he is
about to move on into Kansas.
Passenger train No. on Monday night
Was lighted by electricity throughout,
and was the first Great Northern train to
X through Whitetsh thus equipped.
Work on the new sidetracks has been
delayed some time this week on account
OF lack of material, but will be pushed
along Just as soon as supplies arrive
The resolution of the board of directors
OF the Great Northern, authorizing the
construction OF railroad from Coram to
the Canadian line, has been filed with the
secretary of state.
Machnist c. f. Coleman returned last
Friday from trip to st. Paul and other
points, where he accompanied his wife,
VINO is in ill health and will undergo
treatment before returning.
Traffic on the main line was tied IN
Tor about "a hours on Sunday and Mon
day by slide near Nyack. Passenger
train No. 3, that should have arrived on
Sunday, did not arrive until Monday al
ternoon.
Some malicious miscreant with diabol-
cal intentions filled the ink stand, which
Station Agent Hills uses in his brown
stone front office, with car oil one day
this week, and Slim has been muttering
vengeance ever since.
preliminary surveys for the line from
Butte, Mont, to Calgary, Alberta, back
ed by the Canadian Pacific, were COM
pleted last winter, says Winnipeg dis
patch, and upon the final location of the
line August |, work will be immediately
started and rushed to completion.
l.. G. Gilman of St. Paul, assistant to
President Hill of the Great Northern,
formerly general western counsel of the
road, located at Seattle, arrived in the
city Saturday night, and is here to take
part in the legal fight for right-of-way
now pending between the Great Northern
and the Milwaukee in the North Fork
kalispell Journal.
Conductor S. Mcpherson of the Havre
to Butte line went through town Satur-
day. He visited here about two weeks
ago, and likes the place 80 we'll that he
expects to transfer and take run here
when the Burlington passenger trains
start coming this way.
Suit has been started in the district
court by the administrator of the estate
of Nicholas A. Helm, J. H. Crum, against
the Great Northern Railway Co., to re-
cover damages i'll the sum of S25, 900
Helm was killed in the yards at Whtefish
last August. He caught his foot in between
a guard rail and the main rail of the track,
while switching in the yards, and was
run over, dying few hours later. B. +.
Maiden is attorney for the estate.
Roundhouse Foreman Jas. G. Riach,
who has been transferred from Whitetish
to Hillyard, was presented ON Saturday
with handsome Modern Woodman
watch charm by the employees at the
and on Monday the engi-
neers, tiremen and others presented HIM
with fine gold watch Mr.. Riach has
always been popular with the railroad
men, and has made many friends here
who regret to see him leave.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Cripple went to
Spokane the first of the week, where MIR.
Cripple was called as witness in the
United States district court, in the case
of Engineer McDermid against the Great
Northern Railway company. McDermid
IS suing the railroad company for $2O, 900