The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-04-17
RED STORE, 2O7 OEIO ST.
RACKET ON TIE RAIL.
Items of Interest Picked up by the
Bazoo in Railway Circles.

Three cabooses are being rebuilt at
the h. Il T. shops.
Missouri Pacific engines numbers 30,
2o9, 81 and BOB are being rebuilt.
"A ST. Louis, Fort Scott Il Wichita
coach is being overhauled al the h. Il L.
shops.
j. III. Baker, chief telegraph line re-
pairer on the Missouri Pacific, came in
from Vinita, l. T., last night.
John Hodge, master car builder on the
Pacific, was in Sedalia a short time yester-
day, and left at 1880 a. m. for ST. Louis.
A large force of men is employed on
the Missouri Pacific round house and the
structure is beginning to assume shape
Geo Oids, general freight agent of The
Missouri Pacific, who has been spending
several DAYS in Indianapolis, returned to
St. Louis Friday.
The X. Il T. pay car will arrive here
will receive the amount due them foI the
month of March.
-Trainmaster James K. Merri6eld came
down from Kansas City last night and will
hold down front seat at the Congrega-
tional church this morning, IN company
with Ed. A. Gould and Howard Psrke,
and the latier's cousin, Conductor John
Dorland, late OF The Union Pacific.
Howard N. Smith, master mechanic
Of the Union depot company in st. Louis,
is the proud inventor Of a smoke con-
sumner. which he has attached to several
tunnel engines. 1t is said that its opera
&c FILL -k.t -
claimed for it. The test is still in pro-
gress, however, and ii the consumer does
not dissppcint its friends it seems fair to
presume that ere many weeks smoke in
the tunnel will be thing unknown. In
that event the big fan will get furlough.
On FRIDAY a number of passenger con-
ductOrs on the Jeffersonville jacksonville
" Indianapolis and Indianapolis & VIM
cennes railroads, both leased to the Penn
sylvania company, wer. dismissed sum
marty, presumably by the reports oil
">potters," who have been operating on
them. In connection with this. it is said
Superintendent McKenna has directed the
auditor of the Jacksonville, Mad ison Il
Indianapolis road to check up the accounts
| and stocks of the Louisville ticket agent.
Conductors on the Chicago, ST. Louis &
| Pittsburg railroad are on the anxious seat
as spoilers" are said to be working tina,
line.
I Pacific railway to the ST. Louis. Iron
Mountain Southern railroad will go into
, effect April 10, and is to continue for nine.
ty-nine years. 1t is the same in all re-.
spects as the lease of the Missouri, Kansas
Il Texas to the Missouri Pacific. The Iron
Mountain is owned absolutely BY the Mis-
souri, Pacific The lease of the Wabash is
therefore, the same as though it were to
the Missouri Pacific. The ne, earnings are
to GO to the Wabash. There was a def
cheney las, year of $4,000. In case OF
deficiencies the Iron Mountain is to make
them up, and the obligation is to become a
i preferred claim, standing next TO the bond
cd Indebtedness of the Wabash. Fsilure
to supply deficiencies will enable the Wa
bash company to reclaim its road at any
time. The Iron Mountain is To keep the ia
bash in repair and charge the expenses to
the operating account. The result, the
Gould people say, will he a larger inter
change of business between the Missouri
Pacific system, including the Iron Mount.
air and the WABASH, and they expect that
under the arrangement operating expenses
will be largely reduced and the road be
self-sustaining The force is To be largely
decreased and general economy practiced
1t is claimed that Gould made the arrange.
ment simply because Their was no other
way by which the Wabash could be kept
/, out OF bankruptcy. and he could not afford
to let the road succumb without seriously
crippling his other Southwestern interests
AT THE HOSPITAL
There have been four arrivals at the hos.
piral since the last report. as follows:
Frank Bowman. a fireman who resides
in this city. received slight injuries ON The
3rd inst, while taking water az Greenwood
tank. In jumping from the water tank to
the tender of the engine, he came in con-
! tact with plank sticking up in the coal
and one of his legs was scrsped and bruised
Bowman thought little of his injuries nj
the time, but recently he has suffered con-
siderable pain. and yesterday he came to
the hospital to be treated. In addition to
the wounds stated, he is suffering with
chills and fever.
James Ryan, a section laborer from
Camp Branch. and Charles Beehe, brake
man from Kansas City, are being treated
for chills and fever.
A. L. Larson, Q work train iaborer, from
WellingtOn, Mo-. has malarial fever.