The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-10-07
RAILROAD NEWS.
Engine Sos is i'm the sbop.

Engine 568 is in the shop.
Engine 523 was held in for light re-
pairs.
Guy Usher is a new employe in the
back shop.
Two and three stock trains go over
the road every day.
The masOns are here. AID. Gibbs is
the foreman Of the gang.
William Jessup is a new man in the
water service department.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. ". D. Oakford,
Monday, a baby daughter.
G. S. Gillespie, the life insurance
agent, was here Wednesday.
Hugh Robertson and E. O. Price are
taking in the Denver carnival.
". II. Rowe and @. T. Jones are new
men in the dispatchers' Office.
Fireman JEFF Powers went to Peoria,
Ill, Tuesday to visit his mother.
Ed Forsythe, day caller at the depot,
has gone to his home at Topeka.
Some of the steam shovel boys, at
work at Seibert, spent Sunday in Good
land.
Conductor William Stephens went to
Kansas City Sunday to spend a few
days.
Engineer Jim Griffin Ind Fireman
Lew Foster were down from Denver
Monday.
Conductors Tracey and Cullen re-
ported for work Saturday, both having
been laying of.
Ben Pullen has returned from St.
Louis where he was called by the ill
ness of his mother.
John Mcleod is now hostler day
time, after having been on the pile
driver all summer
R a. Tracey returned from visit to
the Omaha exposition and his former
home in Iowa, Saturday.
The iron work on the bridge west of
town is being put on. Foreman Mack
Bishop has charge Of the work.
Brakeman Agiter has been promoted
to conductor. He is in charge of Con
ductOr Denny's car at present.
Pete and Frank Neugebauer were
called to Nebraska this week by the
serious illness Of their parents
Conductor Ed Denny is taking in the
sights at Denver this week. He is &C
cOmpanied By his wife and daughter,
Myrtle.
Engineer Tom Kelly is in the chain
gang now with engine 466. Hewas with
the pile driver all summer. Q. Baker
| is the fireman.
II. ". Daub, superintendent of water
! service west Of the Missouri river, was
overseeing work done in his depart
ment here this week.
Conductor William High has been on
| passenger between Limon and Denver
| the past week, in charge Of Conductor
/ Beers run, the latter being sick.
Henry ROckelman. of the water ser
/ vice department, departed Saturday
Y night for Michigan, where he viii visit
\ his old home for q couple OF months.
/ The Rock Islands bridge at South
/ Bend, Neb-, burned last week. The
| pile driver and the Bishop bridge gang
/ Of this place was sent there to rebuild
the bridge.
/ New steam pipes are being put in the
round house, machine shops and the
4 depot, and the latter building will be
heat by steam for the first time this
winter.
Engineer L c. Ames will retire from
] the service Of the Rock Island Deem
/ Der I, and will move to his farm IN
southern Michigan Mr.. Ames is an
( old emplOye Of the Rock Island and
has one Of the best passenger runs out
Of GOOdiand-
George Q. Reed Of Albuquerque, a
Santa Fe engineer, is the inventor Of a
new signal flag to carry on engines
Mr.. Reeds invention is designed to
sUpplant the flags on the engine for
signaling purposes. It is Of sheet iron
metal and contains within its folds
/ the COlors used for signaling purposes.
I When q red signal is desired pin is
\ pushed and ont II comes and 50 with
other colOrs- The advantages OF this
deTios is that Il dosn't EaFe-in the
wind. being Stationary and the colOrs
are always clean and can 5s seen much
palmer than q 1sG-