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Show CALIEXTE General Foreman Richter is down with an attack of the influenza, which we hope is not serious. He.is being relieved by Machinest J. T. Pettee ' who was general foreman here several years ago. The paint gang of Wm. Kloos has finished painting the exteriors of the houses on company row, and is now engaged in tinting and painting the interiors. After they are through with company row, the depot Is to receive a much needed coat of pain; and some minor repairs. A first class pool table has been installed in the reading room, next to the hotel, and the charge to railroad rail-road men is only ten cents per cue per hour. Engineer Love, of the Pioche hranch, has been confined to his home for the past week or ten days, 'with the flu. He is improving rapidly, rap-idly, and expects to be on his r next Monday the 3rd. Jack Card, day yard engine foreman, fore-man, reported for duty March 1st.. after an absence of two or three weeks, due to an injury he received .while switching. Barnett will re-,turn re-,turn to Milford since Card has come back. v The snow storm last week, accompanied accom-panied by rain and lightning, played play-ed havoc with the automatic block signals and-wires between Caliente and Crestline. No less than six track relays were burned out, and the Los 'Angeles to Salt Lake quad wire No. 2 was grounded for a dav. Mr. Mitchell, formerly manager of the Salt Lake Hotel, Is here again, relieving Manager W. P. Corkery, who has gone to Los Angeles on a business trip. Mitchell has been conductor on a diner for some months mon-ths past. Walter Ernst, formerly third trick operator at Lynndyl, is visiting with his folks in Caliente. He is on the extra board S. L. division. A |