The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1897-11-04
RAILRoAD NOTES.

RAILROAD NOTES.
Business is Is good on this division
a It ever has been in the history of the
road.
Six extras from La Junta and five
thirty -threes is the way the board looks
very frequently now days.
The employees of this division have
been so busy that not many new items
have been created.
-. A. Baxter, who was formerly .
conductor between here and Newton, is
now running passenger train between
Dodge and Kansas City.
| -supt. Dyer. Roadmaster Marshall
and James Dunn, chief engineer OF the
Santa Fe, were in town the latter part OF
the week.
An extra work train under conduc-
tor Foraker, with william T. Combs as
brakeman, and pulled by engine 5ls,
Gilpin, engineer. struck horse one mile
west of this city yesterday afternoon, the
accident resulting in the dealh of Brake
man Combs and the serious injury OF
Conductor Foraker. The engine and
caboose with an extra ballast Car in front
struck the horse and the car left the
track. As the car fell over, Foraker
jumped, but Combs fell off and was car
ried under the engine for hundred
yards and literally chopped to pieces.
The above from a Florence paper is
supposed to refer to former switchman
in this city.
Commencing, Monday. J. B. Hob
son, signal engineer of the Santa Fe,
was given entire charge of the mainten-
ance and construction Of all interlocking.
mechanical and electrical signal and
highway crossing bells. He has appoin-
ted signal inspectors at Joliet, Emporia
and Argentine.
Sunday was an unlucky day for the
new engines. s92 on No. died from
leaking and laid the train out hours,
and the S91 did the same thing for No. 2
80 that they lost about hours also.
The three brakemen on local now
can do the work nicely, and it makes 1t
better for tho entire crew.
Henry Schrum has been assigned to
the 1913.
Brakeman Carrier returned from q
weeks visit to Pueblo, Tuesday morning.
Judging from the following notice in
the Syracuse Journal some of the coun-
cilmen of that little village want pass
and adopt that manner to try and get
one. This is a very common way in
small towns to try and force the company
to stop trains at points where it does not
pay them to do so. The Santa Fe is run
by business men and to make money. II
it paid to stop trains at Syracuse every
one passing through there would stop.
The railway officials are better judges Of
what is profitable in this way than the
city council:
''Under the new time table which went
into effect Wednesday, Syracuse is al
lowed but one east bound train day.
No. s, the Denver train, which tagged
here under the old time table, will pass
here like a rocket, ''no flaggie, no stop
pie, run like hellie allie samie." 1t ap-
pears to the poor benighted heather of
western Kansas that the Santa Fe, while |
it is putting on flyers with luxurious ap-
pointments for a through travel, might |
with profit and regard for the conven-
fence of the growing population of the |
Arkansas valley put on q train which |
would enable US of western Kansas and |
eastern Colorado to get two mails a day |
from the east and 60 east without having |
70 wait twenty.four hours to catch a
rain.
CAT present our mails from the east |
arrive just four hours apart and in the
night. We might say in addition, that
under this schedule person desiring
20 reach any of the towns east on the
main line between Kinsley and Hutchln-
'on, is obliged to take No. that passes
1ere going west at loo in the morning
20 Coolidge and there wait for No. 6, or
AXE No. 2 out in the afternoon and wait
It Kinsley for No. 6. Altogether it IS
most unfair to our town, vexations and
to the public, and our city
should without the least hesi-
ancy or delay, meet and take such
measures as it has in its power to COM
pei fair and equitable adjustment, if
one cannot be obtained otherwise.
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