Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-27

choose the weapons "All right said
Mann. tell the jigger to bring an AK.
Dan Mann dragged the first locomotive
across the Red river, on the ice. The ice
has gone out, but the locomotive, in
glass house. may still be seen at Winni-
peg.
Mann had pneumonia that winter, and
when the fever was high dreamed that
he went out on a construction train Be-
ing impatient, he rode on the locomotive
On high trestle the train left the track.
and went smashing down through space
to the bottom of a rocky gorge, eighty
feet below. Mann, looking back, saw
seven cars loaded with steel rails and
ties leave the track and follow the engine
in its wild plunge. Lying there at the
bottom of the gulch he watched the cars
drop upon him. one by one. and when
the cabooSe arrived he marveled that
he was not yet dead. Always he had
prided himself upon his great strength
He was at the dawn OF his career-he
wanted to do big things. He didn't want
to die With strength born of despera
ton he threw the locomotive off his chest
and kicked the caboose from his ankles.
brushed the rails and ties to one side.
and with a. final effort swept the seven
cars of steel from his limbs and stomach.
He stood glorified in his great strength.
Plasters Wall With Poultices.
Then. out of the darkness a face ap-
lures of the little camp doctor bending
over him.
Wasn't that hell of a wrecko" he re-
marked.
mo, no." answered the little doctor;
there was no wreck-you've been dream
ing: you'll be better soon
on. wasn't there" said Mann, s'just
you look at my chest, where all the traf-
fic lay
Yes. replied the little doctor land
just you look at the walls of this tent"
Ihe sick man glanced about and saw
that they We're plastered with the poul-
tees he had torn from his chest.
Bill and DAN" that is. Sir William and
Sir Donald. have never had a quarrel or
a misunderstanding. and it is safe to saw
that no two men in America, beginning
entirely without capital, except their
heads and their hands, ever accomplished
more than these two bold and canny
Scotch-Canadians. They have not only
gone on and on, building and operating
railroads across the prairies through the
wildernesses and over the mountains hut
have engaged in many smaller and equal
ly profitable enterprises in the towns
their roads have developed. They own
the street car system OF Winnipeg and
several other cities; they have steamboats,
on Lake Superior; they have electric hgnt
and power plants at various places: they
have built and managed hotels: they have
exploited several summer resorts and
have made millions Of dollars in selling
town lots at the stations along their rail-
roads. They have received as gratuities
several million acres Of land upon which
they have realized large sums of money.
Locate Good Wheat Land.
Two years ago Mackenzie and Mann
remembered that the original charter for
the late Manitoba Railway and Canal
C0mnany which had beep aba pd onod ~ =
was picked up by them for little or moth
eighty miles. and wherever the lands that
lay along their right of way are not
fairly fit for settlement they have the
privilege of taking scrip to be located
upon any unoccupied public domain.
They got the scrip and located it upon
4so, 900 acres of the best prairie wheat
land in Canada, which they are now
selling from SIS to $50 an acre.
During the recent session of the Cana
dian parliament law was passed guar
anteeing the interest upon s21.0Oo.ooo OF
Canadian Northern bonds to pay for
lines that are necessary to fill the gaps
between Quebec and Winnipeg, and when
| those gaps are filed the third transcon-
| tinental railway will be completed.
has been chiefly built with a view e
betterment later on, and the policy OF
the management has been to make every
| mile of finished road earn something from
the start. Not day has been wasted
Passenger and freight trains trod on the
heels of the construction trains. In thai
| way the gross earnings are now abou
ST., 100000. which is sufficient to pay al
| operating expenses and the interest upof
all the bonds that have been issued with
| out government guarantee. .
| The most remarkable fact Is that NJ
share of Canadian Northern stock ha
ever been seen on tho market Not I