Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-04-19
KANsAs RAILRoAps.

Central Branch road have been cut from
$1,15 to $1.10 per day.
The "Katy' has hauled out OF Coun-
Gil Grove since the first Of the year 1900
chickens and 3l6,560 eggs. The eggs
were valued at $4,507.
Business is improving to such an ex-
tent that the M. X. & T.. shops at Par
sons have returned to the old six days
in the week schedule.
Troy Times: There has been consid-
cradle alarm for fear that the cold
weather has killed the fruit. Those who
have had most experience and are closest
observers, however, consider the fears
poorly founded, they regarding the
prospects uninjured by the cold weather
David Mccarthy, n wealthy farmer Of
Lyon county, near Hartford, is dead by
accident, While on a load of hay the
load slipped and with it Mccarthy who
in his descent struck the handle of n
pitchfork, which entered his abdomen,
tearing his intestines to shreds and
causing terribly agonizing death.
The Rock Island has restored through
eastern rates on eggs. The tariff rate to
the seaboard is S1.071 per cwt,, and the
Rock Island, through the Star Union
line, put in secret rate Of III cents
and thereby, within one week, secured
practically all the shipments of eggs, or
nearly thirty cars in all from Kansas
City. The Rock Island asserts, and its
competitors believe, that it was not this
road, but its eastern connections that
made the cut.
The Santa Fe, sometime since, made a
contract with the Baldwin Locomotive
works for large number of the new To-
comotives. The first of the number have
reached Topeka. There are five of the
monstrous engines already here, and
they will be placed in the passenger
service soon. The engines are "ten wheel
ers" and will succeed the Brooks loco
motive. Trainmaster H. A. Tice reports
that the trials now being made are re-
sulting very satisfactorily.
Clyde Argus: One hundred and
twenty French people from south of the
river have departed for Edmunton, AL
berta, distance of 5000 miles, where
they will take homesteads and start life
anew. They went over the Missouri Pa
cific, which road secured the patronage
after a hard fight with its competitors.
Travelling Freight Agent Brown, of Con-
cordia, and Travelling Passenger Agent
Styles, of Atchison accompanied the par
ty, and will go as far as st. Paul, MINI,
with them. 1t will take twenty-one cars,
coaches and freights, to accommodate
the party,
Sometime since the citizens Of Rich
land, Shawnee county, petitioned the
state board of railway commissioners to
compel the Missouri Pacific to operate
the Kansas City, Wyandotte and North
western railroad from Lawrence to Car
bondale. The commissioners forwarded
the complaint to the st. Louis offices Of
the Missouri Pacific, which it was
thought had the Carbondale branch
leased. General Manager W. P. bod
ridges answer to the complaint has been
received by the commissioners. He alb
solutely denies any relation Of his COM
pany to the road in question and says
it is still in the hands of Newman Erb,
receiver, and further intimates that the
track is in such condition as TO make
it dangerous to life and property to OPP
crate the road.
It is not generally known that the
Santa Fe railway company carries one
of the largest fire insurance policies ever
written. 1t is for SIT, 100000 and COW
ers every piece of combustible property
on the system of 9,346 miles, from Chi
cago and St. Louis to Galveston, Los
Angeles and Guaymas, Mexico. The
policy was written by the Phoenix of
London and is the only policy the Santa
Fe has. The Phoenix, however, has re-
insured the property in several of the
"Big -Four" companies. There are but
four or five companies that write railroad
insurance, and they are all English COM
panies. The Santa Fe railway company,
by the way, pays about $4,000 premi-
UNI every year on its big insurance poll
cy. The policy is printed, and in it are
described in detail all of the different
buildings owned by the company.