Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-04-13
RAILROAD NOTES.

list ana MS place ID nlled by condnc'
tor Lloyd.
Arthur Couch came down from
Prairie View Tuesday to drill with
the gusrde.
Ed Ohlsen went down to Smith
Center and took birdsaye view OF
that village Monday.
Brakeman Q. L. b lling on Nos.
s and 6 has been sick for a week.
Jack Phillips is his gu bstltute.
Brakeman Frank Gum on 8 and
10 10 laid up for repairs on account OF
severe attack OF rheumatism.
q. O. MoOhesney, express mes.
senger between Omaha and Denver
is very sick with heart trouble.
II s. Dinner of Topeka, one Of The
proprietors of the Dinner House, was
here last Saturday aud Sunday.
Engineer Mcclellan is taking a lay
off for few weeks. Paul Mcbride
takes his engine which is NJ. 729.
Operator Skinner has improved his
property by putting down new we'll
81 feet deep, with 16 feet of water.
Mrs, Elmer Strain passed through
this city on her way to visit her par
ents in the eastern part ofthe stats.
Conductor Stephens is taking lay.
off for few weeks visiting in Mis-.
souri,. Conductor MCCaslin takes his
run.
Mail Clerk H. B. Gridley took sick
Thursday night and rave up hfs Ft1,
His place was filed by j. g. NIGEL.
Kinney.
j. p. Bayha aud family Of Stockton,
parents of Law Bayha Of this place
left over the Rock Island for Anaheim
California, last Friday. <,
The new telegraph instrument
for the purpose Of regulating and
and setting the new electric clock has
, been placed in the depot.
Frank CLARK, who has been clerk at
the Dinner House, severed his conn co.
tion with that institution and left for
: Topeka Saturday morning.
O. e. Blove't, OK yard foreman al
this place, has given up railr0ading
and has gone to farming He has
8 bought farm near Fairbury, Nebr.
The park south OF the Ohmer
House has been sown to blue grass.
A green lawn there will greatly inn
o prove the appearances OF the depo0
u grounds.
a Miss Mildred briggs has been OF.
sisting her father at the depot during
the rush Of business and the addition
u al work Of making reports at the close
o Of each month.
:, No. 81 left Goodland last Thursday
morning with tifty.six cars. They
failed to reach Phlllipsbnrg on time,
p aud arrived here next morning. The
r. train was nearly half mule in length.
y A Raymond & Whtcomb special
10 consisting Of six cars passed through
q Tuesday morning. Conductor Ed
Denney brought the train 10, aud
N Conductor Charles Brandt took il
a out
IL W. G. Weld, The agent at Almena
a. who was dismissed sometime ago on
IL account of the express robbery viii Oh
occurred there, though he was 10 no
TX way responsible for 1t, now has posi-
ii ton with the B. & M. at North Platte,
w Nebraska.
ly The d. IL r.. G. engine No. 7O2
IL which was ditched on the Rock Island
two years ago while on the way from
Nd the shops to the d. & II. G.. road
"a again jumped the track April 8. The
al last accident happened on the D Il r
ID G, a few miles west Of Salida, Colo
ia II was running at the rate OF 35 miles
an hour and plunged down the canyon
several hundred feet, killing the ehgi
u neer and seriously ipjuring the fire
III man. It was the largest engine be-
u longing to that road and was used in
. the passenger service.
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