The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-07-29
THE RAILROADS.
The New Scale of Wages to be
Paid the Employees of the
Santa Fe Road.
Rongh on the Express Companies
Local Matters of Gen
eral Interest.

THE NEW SANTA FE PAY SCHEDULE
The new schedule of wages on the
Santa Fe, which will 60 into effect
August 1, follows:
Passenger service-Runs of 1000
miles ard over: Conductors 1925 q
month and brakemen $50 on ali di-
visions excepting the Western and
New Mexican & Rio Grande. On
the Western division, brakemen S65
a month and on the Mexican u Rio
Grande divisions: Conductors $50
and brakemen $40. Run of less than
1900 miles: Conductors 500 and
brakemen $50, $50 and s65 a month.
Freight service-Regular runs:
Conductors 80 dollars and brakemen
60 dollars. Irregular service: Con-
ductors cents and b!akemen 2 cents
q mile on the Eastern, Middle, South
ern Kansas, Southern and Western
divisions. Pueblo and Denver: Con-
ductors 8 liz cents and brakemen 2
1-16 cents mile. New Mexico di.
vision, Ration to Las Vegas: Cunduc-
tors s 1-16 cents and brakemen 2 lis
cents a mile. Work train service
Conductors 80. 50 and 100 dollars,
according to divisions as Damed above,
and brakemen so, IS and 20 dollars.
Conductors will receive 80 cents and
brakemen 20 cents an hour for ten
hours work where any run of less
than 100 miles is made, and the same
rate of pay for overtime in excess of
ten hours for a 100-mile run. Moth
ing less than thirty minutes will be
paid for az an hour. Trainmen's pay
viii begin within an hour after sign
ing the call boek at the rate of 10
cents an hour, and they will receive
pay at the same rate when required to
remain on duty more than thirty
minutes at terminal.
RAILS AND TIES.
superintendent Stilwell returned
from Kansas City yesterday.
Receiver Cross, of the NJ, K. &
T, is at his home in Emporia.
-Superintendert Stilwell will hear
Sam Jones at Pertle Springs to-day.
Bob Lister. travelling engineer
for the Missouri Pacific, visited Kansas
City yesterday.
"A. b. Thruston, chief engineer of
the NJ, X. & T., passed through the
city yesterday, en- route to Denison.
M, K. & T. coach No. 81 was
turned out of the shops yesterday
and took the colored delegation TO
Beaman.
j. NJ. Shook, a former Sedalian,
and now of the NJ, K. & I. shops at
Parsons, was greeting friends here
yesterday.
Col. E. w. McIlhaney, live
stock agent for the Missouri Pacific,
returned yesterday from a trip to
Colorado. Wyoming and Utah.
Col. L. F, Sheldon, assistant
superintendent of telegraph for the
Missouri Pacific, visited Kansas City
yesterday and returned last night.
Two coaches from the Ohio
Falls Car company, Jacksonville
Indiana, for the Choctaw coal and
mining company, passed south over
the NJ, K. & T., yesterday.
Conductor Harvey Smith, of the
north end of the NJ, K. & T., is be
ing groomed for the republican nomi
nation for county clerk. He may b;
nominated, but it is safe to cay tina,
he will not resign in anticipation o.
being elected.
"A prominent trunk line oficia
says: "Within the last few days the
trunk lines have begun to feel the
effects of q better demand for cars fol
he movement of general merchsn
iise. 1t is the first sign of the setting
IN of the fall business.
"A child was born on q Missouri
Kansas & Texas train the other might
near the southern boundary of thu
state. 1t is surprising how business
on that road Is looking up since il
passed into the hands OF Receiver
Cross and Eddy.-Kansas City Star.
"A number of the Pacific expires,
boys at this point are happy over 9
good strike by the Express Gold and
SilverMining Group, whose property
is located at Ashcroft, Col. near
Aspen 81. e. Morsman hopes to be q
millionaire before death claims him.
The express companies have mott
tied their agents at al border point
to take no more beer or other lquo
destined for points in Kansas. Here
tofore Missouri liquor dealers have
done a heavy business shipping jugs
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