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Chicago, Jan 7th 1889 H.B. Stone Esq. Vice Pres. C.B.&Q. Ry City Dear Sir, Opr "J.O'B" reports as follows. Thursday, Jan 3rd 1889 Today in Aurora, I left my room at the Triumph Hotel and went to the barroom and unclear the office and met Kyle and Dean, engineers on the Q and fireman Golden. I had drinks with them and left and came to Geneva with them. I told them I was breaking on the C and N. W. Ry. running from Chicago to Clinton on Train 29 and 18 and after my second trip got hurt the night of the storm, They, seeing I was in sympathy with them talked quite freely. Kyle is a prominent member of the Brotherhood and is standing by Baureiseu right along. He is running extra on the Illinois Central but is doing very little and said the master Mechanic of the Central knew nothing about rail roading and as soon as he gets some thing else to do he is going to leave the Central. He spoke of the prospects of a new trial for Baureiseu and he thought he was going to get it. He said that Judge