Show MoO MUON AHMON JUNCTION A remarkable relay on the S L railroad from conr on corr carr L arton him this place was originally known aa as the toll tollgate ate oil harkness toll road which had one cud end in the salt lake valley and the other end somewhere in the arctic regions freighters to montana used to pay mr harkness Har kneas for the privilege of passing between TWO LARGE LAUGE LAVA LAXA HOCKS rocks near the and an additional 00 for passing between where there was a good place lace for two more a little further along I dont know whether the charter of this toll road company has ever b been en repealed or not as at one time it was generally conceded that in order to repeal it the present constitution of the united states would have to be abolished and a new one adopted containing special P powers a r for that purpose well all thia i is of the past the present is the matter now IS 13 after the second assistant U S attorney general or some ot other her party in washington who has bas done some official pleased the officials of the oregon short line co or knobbed them thein most unmercifully er ci I cant make up my mind which forborne for tome men inen might lie constitutionally authorized to think it complimentary to have thia this railroad antion named after them and then again others might be or organized ionized like lik e myself and co consider 11 cider it good rounds for defamation of name and p facter to have bavo their name placed i juxtaposition with that station these thoughts and conclusions caino came into my mind on the occasion occasion of being a Im menger on the oregon short line recently on oil which occasion I was forced to lay over oue day a y at mccammon un station and the tho though lights la being of such a weighty nature tile public are entity d to them the station at mccammon McCamm ou is a good one and the operator and aud agents seem seeni to have a comfortable time in a largo jarge office well seated and heated when I arrived I stepped in by the stove VO po OCT our A WA WARM but stepping for a moment to look after some baggage I found on mv my return the gentlemanly agents agent had locked the door leadill lending to the room in which wad was the stove and an empty chair stationed in the hall suggested c very plainly that pawn gers were expected to take outside quarters said hallway ia is about div five feet wide and fifteen feet long nt and aired with first class december air of a temperature of about 20 below zero the cracks crack hug of the fire in the tile office suggested warmth and one could realy reaffa got gat up tip pluite a comfortable feeling on imagination like col sellers were it not for the occasional entry of an agent whose looks immediately OX A VIrt and rind caused the oer to al aidt au a u drop several inches further down if the agents at mccammon oa junction only knew enough they could make a fortune travel ing as refrigerators with fresh meat ment in the summer beason itis it is curious to note the importance az assumed by these railroad employees ichen none otheir superiors are pr I laid occasion to note movements all da day when in the evening mr doy doddridge and mr Blickens derfer came canie along on oil the northbound freight when an immediate change could bo be noticed in ill the BELP MANNER f these same human aceb icebergs ggs I am not certain at that time but what a passenger could have r walked into their warm wari n apartment and stayed there until doddridge and blick cias derfer had gone passengers era traveling through the country and liable to t lay over any length of time atme at mccammon junction ought to secure from front mr Hark tims permission to pull sago saga brush enough on tho the fort hall indian reservation to build a fire provided a permit could bo be obtained from some of alie head men of the railroad compa ny kyfor or ground on which to build it guitrau is undoubtedly in hell liell for liia his dastardly assassination of president garfield never to my knowledge in any maliner connected with tile management of the c UNION PACIFIC 71 AILWAY or any tiny of ita its branches bloode kooncy will probably be hung at malad malai cit city on oil the dinst but Ak mooney looney wi will never realize or suffer the pang pangs of a layover lay over passenger at mccammon junction mccammon junction is at n splendid place to leave there i int nt anything connected with it that can possibly cause any feelings in of if regret nt at leaving it passengers examine your our tickets and if you find mccammon Ac mccammon Cammon junction printed on it or anything that might by any parity of reasoning be construed or concocted into mccammon junction make inake your worst enemy a present of it and take passage in any kind of a conveyance going in in aa an opposite direction oll As soon as I can find a ward word that will or a subject that will fit mccammon junction I shall give you some very fine poetry connected with it WOOD 11 S I enclose with which pay y for copies of your paper containing t aill ing mv my ideas and fo fara ard the same sallie to if P officials generally One rally and tho parties in charge particularly at UC mccammon cammon junction A |