JOHN MURTEY, GRAIN DEALER, IS KILLED
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Former State Legislator struck by Rock Island No. 5 Passenger Train at Alvo and Instantly Killed
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Alvo, Neb., June 15.-John Murtey, former member of the Nebraska legislature and one of Nebraska's most prominent grain men, was killed here Thursday afternoon at about 3 o'clock when struck by Rock Island passenger train No. 5, west bound.
No one at Alvo saw the train strike Mr. Murtey but the engineer of the train as far as can be learned. Alvo people did not know that that he had been hit until the train backed up to the station.
Mr. Murtey was walking along the same direction the train was traveling. It was his custom to walk the track in visiting his elevators. The train whistled to attract his attention when the engineer saw that he was not going to step from the track. He paid no attention to the signal. His body was hurled about fifty or seventy-five feet. the train did not pass over him. The body was brought to Lincoln and is at Castle, Roper, & Matthews Parlors. The county attorney of Cass County was notified of the accident.
John Murtey has been for many years engaged in the grain business in eastern Nebraska. It was remarked by his friends on hearing of the accident that is was remarkable that a man who had been working around railroads all his life should finally be killed by a train.
Mr. Murtey was a bluff, vigorous man, with a keen mind for business and a strong belief that old fashioned business competition was the best way to treat everybody fairly. He often said that he had been able to pay more for grain year after year than the farmers' elevators and to spend his winters in California while the competitors went broke. He wrote frequently for the Journal, especially while on his winter trips to the coast. He was a close observer and had a way of finding the weak joint in any proposition presented to him. Naturally such a man was a political conservative. He held that hard work and close attention to business would give a man a place in the world, and that very little help could be given by leislation. As a member of the Nebraska legislature he carried out those ideas.
Mr. Murtey was a close student of the markets and crop conditions. He was a specialist in wheat and knew as much about corn as anybody in the state.
Mr. Murtey was sixty years old. He had been in Nebraska since 1871 with the exception of ten years when he lived in Kansas. he had been in the lumber and coal business since 1887. He leaves a wife and three brothers, Thomas of Weeping Water, and Henry and James of Stockton, Kas. He has one sister, Mrs. Mary Jane Fry of Clay Center, Neb.
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Former State Legislator struck by Rock Island No. 5 Passenger Train at Alvo and Instantly Killed
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Alvo, Neb., June 15.-John Murtey, former member of the Nebraska legislature and one of Nebraska's most prominent grain men, was killed here Thursday afternoon at about 3 o'clock when struck by Rock Island passenger train No. 5, west bound.
No one at Alvo saw the train strike Mr. Murtey but the engineer of the train as far as can be learned. Alvo people did not know that that he had been hit until the train backed up to the station.
Mr. Murtey was walking along the same direction the train was traveling. It was his custom to walk the track in visiting his elevators. The train whistled to attract his attention when the engineer saw that he was not going to step from the track. He paid no attention to the signal. His body was hurled about fifty or seventy-five feet. the train did not pass over him. The body was brought to Lincoln and is at Castle, Roper, & Matthews Parlors. The county attorney of Cass County was notified of the accident.
John Murtey has been for many years engaged in the grain business in eastern Nebraska. It was remarked by his friends on hearing of the accident that is was remarkable that a man who had been working around railroads all his life should finally be killed by a train.
Mr. Murtey was a bluff, vigorous man, with a keen mind for business and a strong belief that old fashioned business competition was the best way to treat everybody fairly. He often said that he had been able to pay more for grain year after year than the farmers' elevators and to spend his winters in California while the competitors went broke. He wrote frequently for the Journal, especially while on his winter trips to the coast. He was a close observer and had a way of finding the weak joint in any proposition presented to him. Naturally such a man was a political conservative. He held that hard work and close attention to business would give a man a place in the world, and that very little help could be given by leislation. As a member of the Nebraska legislature he carried out those ideas.
Mr. Murtey was a close student of the markets and crop conditions. He was a specialist in wheat and knew as much about corn as anybody in the state.
Mr. Murtey was sixty years old. He had been in Nebraska since 1871 with the exception of ten years when he lived in Kansas. he had been in the lumber and coal business since 1887. He leaves a wife and three brothers, Thomas of Weeping Water, and Henry and James of Stockton, Kas. He has one sister, Mrs. Mary Jane Fry of Clay Center, Neb.
JOHN MURTEY, GRAIN DEALER, IS KILLED
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Former State Legislator struck by Rock Island No. 5 Passenger Train at Alvo and Instantly Killed
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Alvo, Neb., June 15.-John Murtey, former member of the Nebraska legislature and one of Nebraska's most prominent grain men, was killed here Thursday afternoon at about 3 o'clock when struck by Rock Island passenger train No. 5, west bound.
No one at Alvo saw the train strike Mr. Murtey but the engineer of the train as far as can be learned. Alvo people did not know that that he had been hit until the train backed up to the station.
Mr. Murtey was walking along the same direction the train was traveling. It was his custom to walk the track in visiting his elevators. The train whistled to attract his attention when the engineer saw that he was not going to step from the track. He paid no attention to the signal. His body was hurled about fifty or seventy-five feet. the train did not pass over him. The body was brought to Lincoln and is at Castle, Roper, & Matthews Parlors. The county attorney of Cass County was notified of the accident.
John Murtey has been for many years engaged in the grain business in eastern Nebraska. It was remarked by his friends on hearing of the accident that is was remarkable that a man who had been working around railroads all his life should finally be killed by a train.
Mr. Murtey was a bluff, vigorous man, with a keen mind for business and a strong belief that old fashioned business competition was the best way to treat everybody fairly. He often said that he had been able to pay more for grain year after year than the farmers' elevators and to spend his winters in California while the competitors went broke. He wrote frequently for the Journal, especially while on his winter trips to the coast. He was a close observer and had a way of finding the weak joint in any proposition presented to him. Naturally such a man was a political conservative. He held that hard work and close attention to business would give a man a place in the world, and that very little help could be given by leislation. As a member of the Nebraska legislature he carried out those ideas.
Mr. Murtey was a close student of the markets and crop conditions. He was a specialist in wheat and knew as much about corn as anybody in the state.
Mr. Murtey was sixty years old. He had been in Nebraska since 1871 with the exception of ten years when he lived in Kansas. he had been in the lumber and coal business since 1887. He leaves a wife and three brothers, Thomas of Weeping Water, and Henry and James of Stockton, Kas. He has one sister, Mrs. Mary Jane Fry of Clay Center, Neb.
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Former State Legislator struck by Rock Island No. 5 Passenger Train at Alvo and Instantly Killed
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Alvo, Neb., June 15.-John Murtey, former member of the Nebraska legislature and one of Nebraska's most prominent grain men, was killed here Thursday afternoon at about 3 o'clock when struck by Rock Island passenger train No. 5, west bound.
No one at Alvo saw the train strike Mr. Murtey but the engineer of the train as far as can be learned. Alvo people did not know that that he had been hit until the train backed up to the station.
Mr. Murtey was walking along the same direction the train was traveling. It was his custom to walk the track in visiting his elevators. The train whistled to attract his attention when the engineer saw that he was not going to step from the track. He paid no attention to the signal. His body was hurled about fifty or seventy-five feet. the train did not pass over him. The body was brought to Lincoln and is at Castle, Roper, & Matthews Parlors. The county attorney of Cass County was notified of the accident.
John Murtey has been for many years engaged in the grain business in eastern Nebraska. It was remarked by his friends on hearing of the accident that is was remarkable that a man who had been working around railroads all his life should finally be killed by a train.
Mr. Murtey was a bluff, vigorous man, with a keen mind for business and a strong belief that old fashioned business competition was the best way to treat everybody fairly. He often said that he had been able to pay more for grain year after year than the farmers' elevators and to spend his winters in California while the competitors went broke. He wrote frequently for the Journal, especially while on his winter trips to the coast. He was a close observer and had a way of finding the weak joint in any proposition presented to him. Naturally such a man was a political conservative. He held that hard work and close attention to business would give a man a place in the world, and that very little help could be given by leislation. As a member of the Nebraska legislature he carried out those ideas.
Mr. Murtey was a close student of the markets and crop conditions. He was a specialist in wheat and knew as much about corn as anybody in the state.
Mr. Murtey was sixty years old. He had been in Nebraska since 1871 with the exception of ten years when he lived in Kansas. he had been in the lumber and coal business since 1887. He leaves a wife and three brothers, Thomas of Weeping Water, and Henry and James of Stockton, Kas. He has one sister, Mrs. Mary Jane Fry of Clay Center, Neb.
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