The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03
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The capital stock of the Kansas City
and Southern railway has been increased
from $500. 600 to 100000.
Steel rails are being laid along the
main line of the Santa Fe road on near
ly every division where the old iron
ones are in use.
Several cars loaded with steel rails ar
rived at the Santa Fe yards at Topeka
Wednesday morning. They are to be
taken to Great Bend where they will re-
place the iron track of the main line.
Conductor j. S. King, who has been
on the day passenger run on the Santa
Fc, will run the emigrant train hereaf-
ter. King is kind of relief, being as
signed where he is most needed, from
time to time, but is one of the most pop
ular boys on the road.
The Pueblo Chieftain of the Goth says: :
another attempt was made to ditch a
Santa Fe passenger train day before
yesterday morning, some scoundrel hav-
ing opened switch near where the
train crosses the Arkansas, going into
South Pueblo. This is the second at
tempt, and if the rascals are caught, the
law will probably not be allowed to
take its course.
Commonwealth The proposition to
vote bonds TO the amount of $4,000 in
aid of the Fort Scott, Topeka & Lincoln
Railroad, in Anderson county, was
beaten by 314 votes ON the Goth inst, &C
cording to returns from all but few
back townships received that evening.
The city of Garnet and Monroe town.
ship have a majority of 315 IN favor of
the bonds. A new set of propositions
will be submitted at once.
The surveyors of the Fort Scott and
Wichita road have made their survey to
Eureka and arc making preliminary sur
yeys to determine whether they shall
pass north or south of the City. The
property owners in the south end of the
town are raising bonus Of thousand
or fifteen hundred dollars to induce the
company to locate the depot at that end,
probably at or near River street.
The Atchison Union depot employees
are very indignant at Officer Taylor be-
cause he shot the depot dog, "Tige,"
Monday for biting passenger standing
on the car step. They say "Tige" has
been of great assistance to them in pre-
venting people from jumping on and
off of moving trains, and he was never
known to hurt anybody, and has upon
several occasions prevented serious &C
cidents, and no doubt has saved more
than one persons life.
Commonwealth The report comes
from Colorado that the Denver and Rio
Grande Narrow Guage company have
ordered the cessation of all work upon
branches and instructed contractors to
push the road as rapidly as possible to
Salt Lake City. They expect to keep
from 900 to l 800 men employed in the
Black Canon this winter and complete
the line in about ten months. A large
force is working from the Salt Lake end.
Topeka Capital: The Atchison, To
peka and Santa Fe display at Atlanta,
Georgia, was so magnificent that visitors
could not but believe that it was dis
play by the state, at an expense of an ap-
preparation of $40 900. As no such appro-
priation was ever made, the great Atch-
ison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad alone
deserves the credit for its enterprise in
making an exhibit that cannot fail to
have pronounced good effect on futute
emigration.
Capital: Stealing from railroad COM
panies is not paying business. For
sometime past packages going over the
A. T. and s. F. railroad have been broken
open at Valley Falls and small articles
taken therefrom. Recently several of
the employees at the station were arrest
ed, and confessed to the larceny. The
law of this state is very severe in such
cases, and the plea of guilty to the
charge of petty larceny was permitted
in this case through the leniency of the
management of the Santa Fe road, and
the boys were fined and compelled to
make full reparatiOn for all losses.
This should be warning to all en-
ploycs of railroad companies who are
intrusted with the custody of goods, as
larceny from railway cars or depots is
penitentiary offense, punishable with
a sentence not exceeding seven years.