The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-08-12
FOOL KILLER IS
NEEDED AT MINOT
UNFORTUNATE SLOW wTTEp
MAN MADE TO JEoPARDIzE
LIFE BY HIS "sMART"
FRIENDS.

Minot, N D., Aug. 12.-Jos Ernina
would-be detective would-be railroad
er and altogether some bugs, is again
in the city after having spent a forced
vacation OF about q year at Grafton.
Ernine was sent to Grafton to take a
course of sprouts at the state institu
ton that 10 located there. but later was
given his graduation papers by tho
of1cialA To state the matter more
plainly Ermtne is not just exactly
right In intellect. The officials at
the school for the feeble minded have
sssdted his case thoroughly and say
that there is no chance that he will
ever be any more brilliant than he
II at present, but they consider him
harmless in every respect and have
turned him loose.
Ermine has great ambitions to be-
core =ailroader and has been
looking for a Job on the railroad for
years. 1t is understood that he was
at one time given a job by the Great
Northern at the local roundhouse,
Whether this is so or not makes
little difference. At any rate Joe iE
the man who run one Of the big
l400-class passenger engines into the
turntable pit some three years ago,
He Is the subject OF a great deal of
advice from those who enjoy his an
tics and he was told by some one that
all he would need to do would be to
learn how to pull the levers on one
of the big engines when he would be |
given position as passenger engi- |
neer. Joe set about to learn the trick |
He found one OF the big engines sit |
ting over the cinder pit after a run |
and climbed into the cab and COM |
menced looking around. He tried a |
few OF the valves and levers but had |
little success until he got hold Of the |
throttle, when his locomotive educat- |
ton was completed. The engine hap |
pened to be set to go ahead and when |
Joe pulled the throttle wide open the |
big engine shot ahead. The turn
table happened to be turned cross
ways and the engine went head first
INTO the pit. The turntable was so
badly broken that It had to be re- /
placed and It was over a week before
he big battleship was on the rails
Igain, all this time those engines
hat were in the roundhouse at the |,
ime Of the accident being bottled |,
lp as effectively as was Cevera's
leet at Havana. AS a consequence
hey were out Of commission and il
vas necessary for the Great Northern L
o run ali their engines from Devils
lake clear to Williston without a l.
hange. 1t II thought that Joe's first
and laSt--real railroad experience
ost the railroad in the neighborhood
4 $4,000.
Since Joe's recent arrival he has ,
lsO been given some advice which |,
While given humorously, might have
esNlted In the poor fellows death, and
hould be a lesson TO the practical /
Okers, to be careful how they advise
he young man, Someone, no one seems
o know whom, told him that a passen-
er brakeman was needed on the Soo-
pokane flyer and that IL he wanted II
he could have 1t. Did he want the
Dbl? Well he rather guessed he did. 4
lis adviser told him, however, that be- !
ore he could secure the position he
'ould have to show some ability in !
he way or getting on a train that runs 6
8 fast as the flyer runs, that IL he
ould make connections with the rear .
nd OF the rear car Of the train he !
'ould be furnished with a uniform and :
fter a months probation would be :
iven steady job, provided that he 7
ad become married In the interval. :
he getting married stunt did not seem ;
} bother Joe In the least-he has got
Is girls hame written down in a
emorandum book and knows just I
here to find her. He went down to
lie 500 depot the other night for his
yout. He waited until the fast mail
as pulling out and made a grab at the
liling on the last car. He caught
ld held 1t for q little while. BY Q
anders say that he was thrown clear II
ross the depot platform. v
Joe's case Is really pitiful and those r
no must put up jokes on him should n
} little more careful in giving him 4
Twice. While msntally deficient he is n
IT altogether to the bad. He owns Il
quarter section of land near Carpio s
Id says that IL he cannot get a lob j
lywhere else he will take a position
night Waterman at carpio for the t
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