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Show CALIENTE ITEMS The second flu wave which struck Caliente a couple of weeks ago, has aparently blown over, as no new cases have been reported for several days, and all those who wpre down with it are up and around again. Effective Sunday, March lfifh. Caliente Cal-iente telegraph force was reduced to three straight eight hour tricks. The fourth man, A. J. Locke being the youngest man in point of service was pulled off. He went to Los Angeles, An-geles, and will probably be placed somewhere on the Los Angeles division. di-vision. Spring is here. Manager Welker of the telegraph office has started to dig up the real estate surrounding his company house No. 11, and from present outlooks, a good garden should result, if he would only leave out the inevitable spinich and parsnips. pars-nips. The paint gang has finished painting paint-ing the depot with the standard colors col-ors yellow and brown and we now have the best looking "depot on the whole road that is. if you are on the outside. The force at the yard office has been increased by the addition of another clerk, making three all told, each of whom works eight hours per day. Rapei is on from 8 a. m. to 4 p. m.; Locke 4 p. m. to 12 m.; and 'Wallace 12N to 8 a. m. Manager W. P. Corkery of the Salt Lake Hotel, "Beanery," has returned re-turned from Los Angeles. Ed Mitchell Mitch-ell who relieves him, returns to his run as conductor on one of the diners. din-ers. Operator B. L. Welker Jr.. went up to Pioche on March 8th, to take the second degree in Masonry. Soon, he will be able to ride the goat with much skill and proficiency. Miss Edna Himsreet, one of Mil-ford's Mil-ford's school teachers, was in Caliente Cal-iente Inst week to see her folks. She reports that the school building at Milford was about to fall down, so she thought it advisable to get out and give the poor building a chance to be saved from disaster. Have you paid your income tax vet? Even two of Caliente's operators oper-ators with honored with the usual slip of paper, saying that they owed nid tax. Anders was the hardest bit. His tax was somewhere around thirty dollars, and Welker Jr. hod I to dig deen down into his jeans and rive the collector the sum of 39r ctbirtv riirp! cents. After all. the (l:w compelling us to nnv income tn j is not such a bnd one nrovidhip vou have to pay only thirty-nine nts. |