Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 58, Decatur, Adams County, 8 March 1916 — Page 2

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Entered at the Postofflce in Decatur, cdiana, as second-class matter. The primary will soon be over anil i right away quick let's take up this matter of celebrating the centennial and Old Home Week. — The lenten season Is at hand and the social events which have kept many people busy for several weeks past will cease to a large extent. It's a good thing to let up a little and to remember that the social life is not the only thing we have to think about. 1 We travel fast in these days and we 1 spend our energy and our health by over-doing society, we eat too much .

and we smoke too much and we do many things too much and it’s a good thing to let up for a period and to think about our life, present and future. The big primary will soon be his- j tory. Only a few hours remain in j which to cast your ballot for those j men of your party whom you prefer to represent you during the campaign. Only the counting and tallying of the vote, a job of some dimen-! sions is necessary to close the scrap duration. Much interest is being man-1 which lias been of several months’ ifested in the results and the Daily j Democrat has made arrangements to secure the vote as early as possible, requesting the inspectors to send in the vote of each party as soon as counted out. One of these men prom- j iscd us this morning to have the re-1 suits of the democratic vote in his precinct at this office by nine o’clock J and it is probable that returns will come in by that time from at least some of the precincts. We will do ; our best to handle this important and j interesting news and will be glad to give to the public any information we | have. The telephone lines will be open over the county after 7 o’clock i this evening and we will appreciate j any effort made to aid us in gettnig these returns. ___ SILVER JUBILEE (CONTINUED FROM PACE ONE I scenes were given and told in an interesting way. At the conclusion of the program, Mrs. S. E. Shamp in an excellent talk presented roses to the charter members and to the grand officers. A gen-1 eral social commingling followed and! later the scene was transferred to the dining room where both light and dark cake and brick ice cream, in white and chocolate were dispensed from tables as buffets in the center of the room, presided over by a committee of Pythian Sisters. The Silver .Tublilee marks a most interesting epoch in the temple history. RAINCOATS We have an excellent line of mens raincoats at from $3.50 to $12.00. These coats are all rubber innerlined and are guaranteed to keep out water. THE MYPRS-DAILEY COMPANY

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FILM CORPORATION. SYNOPSIS. Little Helen Holmes, daev’-'er of General Holme*, railroad man, Is rescued from Imminent danger on a scenic railroad by George Storm, a new»bo>- Grown I to young womanhood, Helen sat s Storm, now a fireman, her father, and Ins friends Amos Rhinelander, financier, and Robert Seagrue. promoter, from a threatened collision. Safebreakers employed by Seagrue steal General Holmes' survey plans of the cut-off line for the Tidewater, fatally wound the general and escape. Her father's estate badly Involved by his death, 1 Helen goes to work on the Tidewater. Helen recovers the survey plans from Seagrue, and though they are taken from her, tlnds an accidentally made proof of the survey blueprint. Storm is employed by | Uhlnelandor. Spike and his confederate ; nafebreakers steal Rhinelander's pay roll money. Helen pursues and. with a police- | man's aid, captures two of them and re- ! covers the money. Spike, befriended by 1 Helen. In his turn saves her and the I right-of-way contracts when Seagrue kid- j naps her.

EIGHTH INSTALLMENT THE RACE FOR RIGHT OF WAY What to do with Spiko after he had turned over his first leaf in the book iof gratitude proved a difficulty for : Helen. But it seemed to her the first thing to be attempted was to get him well away from Seagrue’s influence. Seagrue, with the ample backing at his disposal, had established an elaborate construction camp well out on the desert, where ho coupled with his i railroad building enterprise as much | I of fraudulent deceit and force as he I dare display toward Rhinelander and ! the men in the Copper Range & Tide- j water construction work. The prize for which both roads were playing in the tremendous effort of each to get ahead of the other was a substantial cne, and Seagrue was never called to account at his headquarters for his strategy in the construction trenches. On the morning that Helen took Spike down street to a Las Vegas clothing store, had him fitted out with new clothes and provided him with some pocket money, Seagrue was on ' his way over to his camp, aceomi panied by the two strong-arms, known by no more respectable names than Bill and Lug. He saw Helen on the street with Spike and watched the twf) for a moment. Dispatching Bill then to the garage for his motor car \ and bidding Lug, on his life, not to Jose sight cf Spike, Seagrue, himself, hastened to the office of the local \ sheriff. Explaining to this official, already made complacent by generous offerings, that he had on his hands a ; contract laborer who was trying to j jump his job, he engaged his promise 'of vigorous co-operation to bring j Spike to time. Seagrue led the way with him to the machine, which Bill had brought up, and, getting in with the sheriff, Bill drove toward the station. Helen kud returned with Spike to the office, she had paid for a railroad ticket which was to carry him to the city, i where, she believed, freed from Soa- ; gruo’s contaminating influence, Spike j would have a chance to get back on | his feet. Spike, in a comfortable frame of mind, was looking down at tho ticket in his hand and reflecting what an extraordinary friend Helen had been, and how considerately treated him, when a quiet voice at his elbow spoke just two words into his ear: "Hello, Spike!” Spike, who lived, as it were, at all timeß over a powder magazine of the unexpected, started a little as he turned to look into the composed gray eyes of Seagrue. He stood a moment bound by their spell. Seagrue’s face was lighted only by a i pleasant smile. “Where you going, 1 Spike?" he asked in friendly fashion. He looked about him with indecision, and as his eyes wandered he saw Seagrue beckoning to the sheriff to come over from the machine. Seagrue, meantime, put his hand in his pocket. From it he drew a worn little pamphlet, and affecting careful deliberation, held it in his hand before Spike s wavering eyes. In the black-, faced type on the cover a name and I description >ere printed, but what Spi.*» saw staring at him were the figures and the words; [ “$500.00 REWARD!” But to Spike that one line of type meant infinitely more than it could' , ;n°an to any other man. Seagrue watched closely the changling expressions on the hunted, criminal’s face: he was even quiet and pleasant in his demeanor as he mutj tered: “You shouldn't try to leave me, Spilde. At least, not until I you may go.” “Seagrue,” Spike almost hissed, “I can send you to the chair; man —do you know that?” , Seagrue lost nono of his composure. He returned Spike’s angry look undi3-, turbf i: “Do you know what will hap}" P rn .Ai :n you do ?” he asked in even nj/k- v After they lift me out of it.

« COPYRIGHT i»,J. 8Y FUNKH. iPfAUMMI! t tney'ii lift you in ror the next shock Bpike. When you're ready to commit suicide, I'm ready to go to the straps ahead of you or after you—that’s as the sheriff may prefer. But until that moment comes, Spike”—a threatening Intonation made itself felt within the studied utterance —“until that moment, Spike, you will take your orders from me—understand ?” Spike looked gloomily down at the ticket he held In his hand. He realized he was utterly helpless. “All right,” he said gruffly. Seagrue shook hands with the sheriff as he followed Spike across the | platform. “I don’t think I’ll have any | more trouble with him,” he said In an ; undertone. “Thank you Just the same, sheriff.” With the rival construction crews, matters were reaching a somewhat critical stage in their race. Both the Colorado & Coast and the Copper Range & Tidewater companies had reached the limits of the city of Las Vegas, where, owing to the topography of the country as well as to the difficulties of getting through the town, possible rights of way were exceedingly scarce. A section almost immediately in front now of both con 6truction gangs was occupied by a . ’ 1ft f tJ Helen Understood the Necessity for Prompt Action. weather-beaten pioneer who bore tho name of Cassidy, and his comfortable cottage obstructed both surveys. The advent cf two railroads building neck ar.d neck across the desert through the little town had naturally stirred every inhabitant of it to a high pitch cf excitement. Small wonder that Cassidy's head had become in some degree confused as to values, and by the time Rhinelander got around to see the bronzed pioneer with a check for two thousand dollars —the price first put upon the property by its veteran owner —valuations had risen and Cassidy declared that he would sell for ten thousand dollars and not a cent less. Rhinelander, considerably taken aback, impatiently assented to the exorbitant sum named, and going inside the cottage, wrote out his check for it. In exchange he received Cassidy’s rather uncertain signature, on the customary legal form, granting to the Copper Range & Tide Water Railway company privileges over the Cassidy , land as a freehold owner. Seagrue, arriving from town, learned from his foreman of the status of the Insignificant plot of ground, adverse possession of which might frustrate ! their persistent plans for obstructing Rhinelander. With his surveyors Sea- j ferue hurried to the end of the work, , and reached the ground just in time to encounter Rhinelander coming out of Cassidy's house and the agreement duly signed and delivered in his hand. And behind Rhinelander came George Storm ready to bring the men up to take possession of the Cassidy demesne. Seagrue and his followers halted them and Rhinelander, feeling the victory all his own, explained the situation to Seagrue, while Storm, amiably, but firmly, ordered Seagrue's men to get off the Copper Range property. Seagrue, without saying anything to I controvert what he had heard, walked 1 straight into Cassidy’s house. ‘Tm sorry to be a little late, Cassidy,” he began, bluntly. "You know we want your property, And we’re prepared to pay you a reasonable price for it—not an extravagant price,” declared Seagrue, impressively, “nothing of that kind, but—" lie asked, buttonholing the old man with friendly emphasis, "Just what is right and fair. I don’t know what you consider your property , worth," ho continued, talking so fast ; the old man could not get a word In edgewise, “but I have written out a check here for fifteen thousand del- j

Jars. And It you will give me youi signature to this right of way contract, the check, old boy, is yours.” "Hut —” sputtered Cassidy, with difficulty, ‘‘l’ve sold this place this minute, Mr. Seagrue, to this man Rhinelander hero for ten thousand dollars.” “Do you mean to say,”l demanded Seagrue, Impressively, “that you don’t consider your property worth fifteen ; thousand dollars?” “Sure, I do,” agreed Mike, his eyed i blinking with astonishment. I “Then,” exclaimed Seagrue, solemnly, “this man lias fraudulently imposed on you.” Cassidy, bewildered, looked to his friendly adviser for a suggestion. "Pliwat tho dtvvle’m I to do?” “Do!” thundered Seagrue, seeing now that he had his victim coming. "Tear up your fraudulent contract here and now and sign an honest one.” The sturdy pioneer, with a show of Indignation, tore up his copy of Rhinelander's contract, signed a more equitable one for the obliging Seagrue and put another and untainted check for fifteen thousand dollars Into his pocket. Seagrue beckcffied to his posse of men and, headed by Cassidy, they told Rhinelander and his companions to get off the premises before they were put off. Rhinelander, familiar with the bullying tactics of his enemies, saw the situation he faced. But he stood his ground before Seagrue and Cassidy, listening patiently to what the victimized old man had to say, but absolutely firm in his resolve to stand on his rights. “My right of way is legal,” he said to both men. “And I’ll bring the law here right now to enforce It.” Hastening to the telegraph office Inside one of his outfit cars, he telegraphed to Helen: Seagrue is using force to protest mv right of way. Have attorney meet me ct the depot at 11 o’clock. Arrange so? a special to bring deputies up here. RHINELANDER. The move was not lost on Seagrue. When he saw Rhinelander board the car containing the telegraph outfit, he summoned hi 3 own operator and dispatched him to a spot between Rhinelander's car and the main line with instructions to “tap in” and take whatever messages passed. Rhinelander thus sat in his own car watching tii3 operator tick off his message to Helen, and her reply came promptly: Attorney will meet you on arrival. Special will be ready to leave any time after eleven. HELEN. But Seagrue’s operator Industriously copied both message and answer and turned them in to his employer. Storm, in the meantime, was mafr ing the most of his opportunity, and with his men on Cassidy’s place waa preparing to push possession as far as possible. "Run the steel cables around the house, George, and we will swing It in later.” After giving this order, Rhinelander 1 had hastened to the station to meet the local train when it came in. So swift, however, had been Seagrue's dispositions that his redoubtable scouts, Bill and Lug. were already at the station with instructions from Seagrue to delay the special until nightfall; by which time he reckoned he could make his possession secure on tho Cassidy place. These worthies had already reacned the special and boarded it. On the platform, Rhinelander met Helen and |the attorney she had summoued, and with him, Rhinelander hastened uptown to get armed deputies—Bill and Lug now trailing behind to keep track of every move. At Cassidy’s, Storm was urging his men to speed on with their track lay-' ing. Seagrue’s gang was almost jabreast of them and setting a pace, itoo, that It was difficult to cope with j —Seagrue, himself, directing the operations. The house, so long the peaceful abode of old man Cassidy, now became the very storm center of an I extraordinary disturbance. Seagrue racked his brain for an idea that j would hamper the advance of Storm i and his energetic crew. And when the I inspiration struck him, he put it instantly into effect. “They're beating us,” he said to his I foreman; “that's fiat. But I can stop i them. Bring up the The word was passed and the ponderous wrecking car, its huge crane thrust threateningly forward, was ! pushed alongside Cassidy’s house and surrounded by a swarming gang of ; men. Seagrue's order to throw out | the whips was instantly executed and almost within a minute, it seemed, after the huge machine had been brought into play the house was enveloped in a network of steel. There was a sharp word of command; a rattle of pistons; the old honse quivered for an instant in the griD of the mysterious monster —then it rosa like a rnad aeroplane from its foundations; hung and swung a moment doubtfully in the air, pitched headlong toward the other end of the lot and settled with a heavy bang down, to earth exactly in the path of j Storm and his perspiring men. Rhinelander, the moment he 83-cui-ed the deputies, hastened back to the station and boarded the special train. A large engine coupled to ono coach, stood in waiting, and as they pulled out, Helen wished him good luck. Unfortunately, Seagrue's two worthies, Bill and Lug, unobserved by anybody, hid on the head end of the coach, and as soon as the town was left behind, the two climbed over the tender and held up the fireman and engineer. The engine crew, taken thus unawares, could offer no resistance whatever and the two were forced over the tender to the head end j Os the coach.

cutting off tne engine an SOOT * i they had accomplished this, Seagrue s I man-pulled away with the stolen loco-. • motive and left the coach just where It abruptly stopped when the air went on, with the Intention of putting as many miles as posslblo between the coachload of deputies and Rhinelander's chances for defending the right of way. Tho conductor of the marooned coach did not lose a moment in getting into action. An emergency telephone was snatched from Its bracket, connected up with the main line wires! and the conductor called up Helen in the office at las Vegas. In a few words he told her what had happened, and while Rhinelander and the deputies listened around him, he asked what she could do to help them out of their predicament. Helen understood the necessity for prompt action. But how, she asked j herself a3 she looked anxiously from the office window up and down the yards, to help them quickly? Her eye lighted on the little roundhouse away down at the lower end of the yard. Resting within the friendly shade of its north wall she espied the crazy | old yard switch engine, known lr- j reverently among the switchmen as “Soda Water Sal.” Soda Water Sal took her disreputable nickname from the fact of her misfortune In being crusted white a good part of the time with alkali The excited girl dashed at the top of her speed down the platform and across the yard to rouse the crew and get them to carry her to Rhinelander. But though Soda Water Sal stood as peaceful as an old Dobbin munching her noonday repast, the switching crew was nowhere to be found. Beyond a doubt, Helen felt, they were all down town, eating their dinners, and to find them quickly was out of th? question. She called out a few ! times, hardly hoping for a response, and none met her ears. There was steam up, ar.d without loss of time Helen climbed into the cab, and, opening the throttle, gave Sal steam, A venerable mare, struck. In the midst of her lunch, with a whip, could not have been more startled than the old engine at Helen's summons. Soda Water Sal started and trembled. Helen touched her heels again. No such sight as she made was ever before seen on the main line of the. I Copper Range & Tidewater. If Soda Water Sal had been dancing a twostep on the rails, she could not have! plunged and cavorted more wildly; than she did as Helen, pushing her: to a pace undreamed of In her long and peaceful yard career, achieved a miracle of speed with her. Up the line, Rhineland®-, the dep-j uties, the train crew and the engineer; and fireman of the stolen engine sur-l rounding the marooned coach. - searched the horizon vainly for a sign ,of assistance. The conductor, the moi ment after he had raised Helen on the wire and told of their plight out' between stations on the main lino, had not been able to get another word from Las Vegas office. In his impatience and excitement* Hhinelander had taken “over the telephone and used his best endeavors to make himself heard by Helen. The suspicion came to him that Seagrue, with some unsuspected deviltry, had succeeded’ in cutting off even wire communication from the helpless regfcue party. But as he dropped the receiver in despair, a shout arose among the dep- ; uties, and, looking down the far perspective of the long tangent that separated them from Las Vegas, Rhinelander's men saw a faint line of smoka l on the horizon. It grew rapidly more distinct and spread blacker and' heavier. An engine was bearing down on them. The railroad men were nonplused. None of them could recognize In the distance the shambling gait of

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! tn© queer flyer, and Soda Water Sal was well upon them before they realized It was she. None the less hearty, however, was her welcome, and when the expectant throng made out Helen's face at the cab window a chorus of shouts went up to greet her. With her hair in the wind and her ayes burning with excitement, the 1 white-faced girl brought the astonshed old machine to a stop close to j -he coach. Rhinelander and the conj Factor ran to greet her. Few words were needed in explanation, few were lost. Coupling the coach ahead of the switch engine and hustling the dep-

1 ottes aboard ,h ® g rear platform E»\ . ltra i n and R Helen opened the hr 1 g j 'away fih up Seim* ahead .’a | the loaded coach g „ (] - To Soda Water M • ghe h | mere toy-a P la > ,h “*’ ow com lng d felt as If she were s into her own when ce 1 ttllh out n : in her hands to pusm „f ! showing the slightest appearanc I *‘ raln ' -- blocks and! 8 | miles ahead of hei like cu. got within sight of Seagrue wart tools, who were trying orun, [away with tho engine of the sp \ &, the l'alrlnthe.to!«. c.bfe» „ quite secure In their quick 8 ■ until Bill, acting as driver, 100 back, saw a train behind and »n oral ' nous cloud of smoke pwlujJJ stack of Soda Water Sal-the tor was firing for Helen and he un i derstood his Job . ! In spite of everything the two out laws could do, Helen closed up the gap that separated the coach from them, and on the front end of the la ter the fleeing rascals could make■ out the armed deputies. Had there e> anv doubt in their minds as to the I temper of the men pursuing them,ll- - tie puffs of white smoke rising from I the coach front, aud the whine of rifle ; bullets about their ears would have convinced Lug and Bill of the danger threatening them. Safety first «3 a. household word with the tv>o. * o > ing of tho disposition of martyrs had place In their make-up. and, abandonIng the engine, Lug. with a word to Bill to ease the pace, descended the steps of the tender and tumbled down a soft bank to the right of way; his companion followed; a few minutes later Soda Water Sal, rounding the curve behind, shot past them with her reeling coach. Overtaking the abandoned engine on a grade, a few miles ahead, the coach was again coupled to It by the Rhine- j lander party, and when the queerlooking combination reached the first , passing track, the engine of the special, almost dead, was vigorously kicked by Soda Water Sal, together j with the car, out into the clear. And Helen, with the more venturous of her legal lights clinging to the footboard and running boards of Soda Water - Sal and others swarming in her tender and crowding the cab, again rushed the posse on to the scene Os the trouble. , At the camp Rhinelander's forces i were In trouble, Seagrue's strategy ; had completely blocked them —everyi -body was stumped by Seagrue's audac- ! lty. And while the leaders were tryI Ing to pull themselves together, Sea- j I grue's men were rapidly extending i their possession of the disputed 1 ■ i tj.vuuu, j Storm, realizing that at any cost the ; altuation must somehow be recouped. 1 ran over to w here Wood was watching j I the enemy and whispered to him . Whatever the proposal, the old man : was startled when Georgo Storm made it. V Wood looked toward the camp dubiously. I don’t know,” he said finally. . “That's pretty radical medicine. But ' Rhinelander Isn’t here and I suppose j we've got to do something. It's a cinch they’ve got us heat out of three months’ time In another hour, for if ■ they once get hold of this section. ■ wa've got to drag them into court. If* j you think the old man will stand for; I It George, slam away. You know as well us I do. But I can't take the ' sponslbility.” ‘ I will,” cried Storm emphatically.! • He turned to the foreman of their , itching crew, whe stool n»ar, and; pointed to the engine puffing at some , little distance. “Couple on to that outfii; car, Carty, as quick as the Lord ' ' let you, and get ready for a run.” Carty hurried down the track. Storm, giving orders right and left, p.nk?d Wood to send a crew of men

V ■ Mbit * • ir° W eve rything movable in the | outflt Cf »<- out on the sand. > fu Seag T? e ’ watchin « fr °m a distance , th f audden activity among Rhineland t 3 forces - wa tched the new develonments with much curiosity ard . little anxiety. He saw the B withT : . fl ine s f F eed d °wn the line, couple to - ‘ e out . fit car and back away with it ‘ , f ° r a dash - In the cab all WBB ei . cltement. Under Storms orders i Rations were being made for a rec--1 and as the engine stopped i ' lth the outßt car in front of it downi elow the sec on d switch, huge vol | umea of touring frou the stack

into the Mazing sunshine convinced Seagrue that something was up Rhinelander's laborers and track lay. ers under Storm's directions parted I and stood expectant at each side ot the run of track on which Cassidy's house had been so unceremoniously dropped. Seagrue saw, too late, what Storm's radical move In the fight meant. || Storm, scent of battle in his nos trll*. stood on the footboard as the sturdy switch engine started. On it came, accelerating fast from one, two, ten. twenty miles an hour up to thirty With the safety valve popping and smoke streaming In a cloud from th* Climbed Into the Cab and Opined the Throttle. nark, the engine with Rhinelander’! I movable hotel in front of It. bore down on Cassidy’s house. Cassidy. hi" ? if, sunning on a pile of Seagrue's Mss, with his pipe In his mouth and his ! two checks in his pocket, little su* ' peeled what was coming. But Rhinelander's men snw and understood It all. A mighty yell rose from the de I lighted gang as the engine and -at sped on. Storm, bareheaded, his blech i hair streaming In the sun —clinging with one hand for safety os he swung from the end of the foot-board and j stretched bis left arm far out as f, j semaphore—signaled the cab. The engineer checked heavily. A I stream of fire ground from the drivlns j wheels; the engine jumped in the grit of the brakes and the outfit ca-. released, headed like a catapult straight at Cassidy's house. Men jumped acid as it hurtled past. The nest instant j crashing and smashing ahead, it tort completely through C'assldy'R house A great cloud of dust and tiird ers i rose as troau an explosion and the next | moment what had been a house lat j torn into a 4 ousand pieces along the right of way. Like a spent cannon ball the outfit car drove on; men, amazed, watching Its wild flight. It struck the end ol i the rails, hung for a moment poised trembled and toppled headlong from the embankment into a borrow pit. Storm sprang from the foot boar 1 oi the engine, ar.d before the dust of the crash had settled, called his men for ward. Rhinelander's gang responded with fresh hope and energy. Seagniej saw with wrath how completely he had been outplayed. He called his men together to rush the Coppet Range forces for possession of the Cassidy yard. They ran forward with picks and shovels, ar.d it looked to Storm as if blood might to shed in spite of everything, when the long, shrill whistle of Soda Water Sal was heard down the line, and within a few moments Holer, brought the old engine to a stop at the end of the steel. The deputies, followed by Rhinelander and his attorney, poured out of the gangway. Storm met his boss, lust what view Amo3 wc .d taae ot the summary measures ’e had adopted to clear their right of way tho young man felt now a little uncertain about. Rhinelander looked ahead for the familiar landmark which he had Just acquired at the rather extrava gant price of ten thousand dollars nd asked where the Ca3Bldy house was Ahl gahn t’ hell," interposed Cassidj (who stood li'*touing), pathetically Storm pointed to the wreckage lit tering the right of way and told the story of what had been done by Sea gruo and how his play had been de seated. Rhinelander's face light' with enthusiarm and Helen's ey danced with sheer oy. Seagrue, di~ hn.-l beaten, had seated hin self on h.s o\'i tight of way on th Pile of tics va- r.t ?d in excitement hi Cassidy. In another hour Hlilnelan cr’s men had made their title to th 1 disputed property good.

Cassidy, bewildered by the extraor dinary turn things ia:l taken, starter to walk back to where Seagruc was but on reflection, he changed his mhir nnd. lighting his pipe. sat quietlj down on a part of the roof that hao for many years given him a peacefu shelter, to view the vengeance sc | swiftly taken on his former abode. Ht \ ,!a d less than Seagrue haa to worry “ about. With both checks la his pock ; et, he felt sure he must realize on a> least one, and he sat on the seen 1 ' long after the men had quit work thoughtfully .-moking his pipe and r s fecting on the queer things that uiay happen In a real railroad war. (TO BE CONTINUED-'