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—List Sunday the B., C. E. N. railroad rtichcd this place aud put in Ivs croaaio^ OTer tho lioo of the C. M. St. P- ru*d, and on quitting work left one or two of its cars standing on fiho north side of the Milwaukee track. Bat that crossing did not remain in place worth a cent, sometime during Sunday night or Monday morning the Milwaukee lolki pushed the Burlington cars across to the south, nulled out the cross frog and replaced tncir own roils. Then they ' proceeded to hold possession l*y keeping a locomotive stand’og between the ends of the Burlington track. The Milwaukee folks object to the crossing, because it interferes with their lino at a point where there is a grade of forty-three feet to the mile, and they ask that the crossing be made some half mile further east; ol*“uac that as tbej ire obliged by law to stop all trains when within 500 feet of the crossing,' it will not he.practical* to start again when heavily loaded. Claiming also that tha Burlington Co. bod neither purchased nor condemned thought of way ov«st their line- The matter was Ink on be-before judge Weaver* at Algous, on Tuesday, and lie granted a Umponrj injunction, restraining the Milwaukee folks from obstructing tbo line. The Milwaukee folk appealed. As tfco Su-pic me Court is now in semion, the attorneys agreed to endeavor to havo a hearing on Friday the lttfc. On Wednesday* the Burlington Co/«. rails were temporarily oomasstad ever those of tbs other road, and sernal traU Mb of Mlnilh taken lerem whew the tiih «rtr*r*m-*dac4» telMearfticht,
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Palo Alto Reporter
Emmetsburg, Iowa, US
Sat, Dec 17, 1881
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