Improving StocK.
Shortly after a new administration took hold of a well-known southern xailroad a great number of claim 3 were preferred against the company on account of horses and cattle being killed along the line in Kentucky. To make matters worse, it appeared that every animal lulled, however worthless it may have been before the accident, invariably figured in the claims subsequently presented as being of the beat blood in Kentucky. _ _ On© day, in conversation with one of the road's attorneys, the president became very much excited! in referring 1 to the situa-
"Do you know," he exclaimed, bringing down his fist on the desk, by way_ of emphasis, "I have reached the conclusion that nothing in Kentucky so improves etook as crossing it with a locomotive." ,
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Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 91
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