The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-05-08
RACKET ON TIE RAIL.
Items of Interest Picked MP by the
BazoO in Railway Circles.

| Travel has been very light on the main
line of Pacific ior the past few days.
jay Gould and his party Were at Fort
Worth, Texas, vest. rdsy evening at 3
clock.
| Conductor Jack Harrington, of the
north end If the X. & T., is enjoying lay
of. Conductor Hill is running his train.
MIR. Simon CroniD, ticket agent of the
yesterday in this city visiting old friends
and comrades.
james McLachlin, of HilIsboro, Texas,
! and j. w. Power, of Alvarado, were the
only arrivals at the hospital Yesterday.
They were both down with intermittent
fever.
| -Theexpress messengers on the north end
of the X. & T. report that business has
picked up wonderfully within the past
week or so, and that they have their hands
full now.
| Mike Carroll, the efficient baggage
master on the Lexington branch, took .
lay-off yesterday for the purpose OF super
intending some repairs which were being
made to his home.
Will Campbell, the we'll known bag.
gageman, who for years held forth in this
city, but for the past year or So stationed at
Denison Texas, is paying his old Sedalia
friends \ visit.
The case of Sydney Spurlock vs.. the
Missouri Pacific railway company is set
circuit court a. Warsaw The plaintiff
sues for $4,000 Tor false imprisonment.
Mr. Fred w sgonl.nder, the stone
masonry Contractor for the Missouri Pac-
lfc, will proceed to Dennison, Texas, in
few DAYS to build a new round house and
put in q new turn table there.
| While the switcbmen in the K & T.
yard Aere making what is called ''fying
switch" yesterday, four fat cars, loaded
with steel rails, jumped the track near the
Fifth street crossing. No damage was
done.
The ticket Office of the Missouri Pacific
and from Mountain was removed from the
Planters house, st. Louis, Friday to the
Office of the Wabash, ON the southeast cor
ner of Fourth and Pine streets. The re-
mOval is simply pursuant to the orders
governing the consolidation.
Mr.. j. NJ. Shook, who for the past
ten years has held position Of high trust
of some character in the K. & 4. car de-
partment of this city, left last night for
Parsons, Kansas. to assume the foreman
ship in the wood department of TIE Z. i
T. shops there.
The requiring of all railroads in this
state to give notice of arrival and depart
. ure of trains has been signed BY the govern
or. The act requixs that q bulletin board
shall be placed in a conspicuous place In
or about the depot, and all places where
there is q telegraph office, notice Of delay
Of train shall be posted, showing how
much time such delayed train is behind
sch. .lule time.
OF the fourteen roads running into In
dianapolis, seven have signed the agree
ment made by the general passenger agents
that not over $50 pounds of baggage should
be carried in one piece. 1t was proposed
to put the rule in force April l over the
, roads which are parties to the agreement,
but it has been deferred until May /, with
the expectation that by that date all roads
entering Indianapolis will take similar &C
ton.
i Yesterdays Globe Democrat says there
was considerable stir among the ticket
agents in St. Louis. Friday, over the an
noupcement that passenger rates to CHR
cago, Kansas City, St. Paul and severss
other points were being cut. A call At the
Offices ELECTED the fact that Chicago and
Kansas City have been at the mercy of the
knife for two weeks, and as . consequence
points beyond these have suffered cut.
While some railroad men are uneasy over
this there are more who aver that nothing
will come of the matter.