The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-04-21

Brakeman Herbert Farley has gone
to ManitOu where he will have a posi-
ton as conductor on the Pixies Peak
cog road this summer.
A. H Graham, who has been employ
ed in the Hess hardware as timer, has
taken a similar position in the shops.
He went to work Monday.
Fireman Pete Mistler has gone to
the Pixies Peak cog road where be will
do the "eagle-eye" act on one of the
mountain roads engines.
Engineer Dave PringIe came down
from his home at Roswell Tuesday.
He has been laid up for tBoAmonths
suffering from spinal trouble.
Engine so, which was slated for an
overhaul at the Horton shops, will not
be sent there, but will receive the
needed repairs at the Goodland shops.
Conductor G. L. BagIey Of the local
freight will move his family back TO
GOOdland. They have made their home
at Phil1psbuTg for several months.
Fireman Hugh Robertson returned
Saturday from the Limon-Deuver RIM
where he has been employed for a
month. His wife has been visiting
friends in Denver
a. F. Keith has moved his family
from Delphi to Boulder, Col. He saws
he has made so much money the past
year IN the mining business that he
has to move to that place in order to
get action on it.
Brakeman G. F. Balling on Nos. 3
and has been sick for a week. Jack
Phillips Is his substitute Brakeman
Frank Gum on 9 and 10 is laid up for
repairs on account of a severe attack
Of observation-disclosures Herald.
Joe Curran, a youth, went to work as
machinist's apprentice recently. One
Of the higher officials while visiting the
shop the other day thought Joe was too
young and small for the task, and his
career as a little railroad man was
suddenly cut short.
Two Raymond Whitcomb specials
went through Tuesday night. The
first special came from Denver and
the second came from the Colorado
Springs line. Each train contained 20
| people and the trains were in charge
of Conductors Denney and Young.
Hereafter the electric clocks of the
! Western Union Telegraph company
will be used exclusively on the Rock
/ Island system. An order which was
issued recently to that effect gives
/ rules for the guidance Of the local op-
I
the time Of the new clocks.
W J. Converse left Tuesday evening
for Kansas City, Kan, on a sad mission.
/ His eldest brother, Writ Converse. died
/ there Monday after long illness, aged
| % years. Mrs. Converse accompanied
her husband TO that place TO attend
| the last sad rites toward the dead
/ brother.
| Edward Folsom and Miss Cora COffey
we're married at Harrington under pecu-
/ liar circumstances. The bride Is very
/ i'll and no hope exists for her improve
/ ment. The wedding was at her request
and vas TO have been held some weeks
| ago but was postponed by her illness.
The groom is q Rock Island engineer
John WysOBg says be viii take the
j contract to kill every sparrow ID the
I city Of Chicago for -, 900. He has given
the system q thorough test in Horton
/ Thousands Of sparrOEs infested the
Horton railway shops for years. and
were q great pest John soaked kaf3l
corn and millet seed IN a solution Of
strychnine and placed IL about the
shops The first morning thereafter hs
/ picked MP 150 dead birds, and theil
numbers were soon decimated. HI
! then caught two sereeeh owls and on
them IN the shops, and these kept tn.
new arrivals cleaned out There is onIJ
one owl left now, as some one killeC
the other q few weeks ago Ths oW
that Is left blinks among the highes
rafters and beams during the day, aDs
gets IN its work With the sparrows q
night--HortOn Commercial
H b HsuEstlsr OF Kanorado vas i
thu city Wednesday. He bat recent.
returned from Wilson county, tbi
I state, where he vent IN 1895 Hr
HenEstlsE IS satisfied that q farmer
fsr better situated WITH land ri tai
count7 than to 90 renter - easter
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