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Show 111 1 H I Q tt l V ft" 1 ft 'Wi -m MAN PASSES H 1 Moses Brinkerhoff Dies tt After 66 Years in the k'LJ Service M Spokane, Wash., May 27. Moses H Drinkerhoff, S7 years old, said to bo H tho oldest railroad man in tho United H States in point of service, and who H -punched the first ticket on the North- :H em Pacific out of St. Paul westward, H Is dead at his homo hero. He had H been 66 years in railroad service, for- H ty years In train service. Brlnkorton was pensioned by tho Northern Pa- H clfic when his hearing began to fail H several years ago, and slnco that H time up to three weeks ago, when he H was forced to givo up activo work on H account cf falling health, has been JM acting as coal agent at Fargo His H death was due to tho Infirmities of H fH While working as conductor on tho IH Panama railroad in California in 185ft M he saved a tralnload or bullion rrom H an attack by brigands and Indiana. He locked the passengers on his own train in a building and, disguised as H an Indian, made his way for soven H miles through a country overrun with - brigands and warned the crevr of the H bullion train For this ho was ro- fM warded by tho railroad company JH |