The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1899-07-20
RAILRoAD NEWS.

RAILROAD NEWS.
WIN. Ramsey is laying Of.
e. n. Babcoek Is on duty again.
L. Sears is visiting at Ottawa, Kas..
for few weeks.
Conductor Riley is running on Nos.
| II and 8, Dodge to Denver.
The shipment of green fruit has now
commenced from the west.
Mrs. Walter Adams left on 6 yester-
day for Nickerson on . visit.
Geo. W. Pate and bride left this
morning for the east on bridal tour.
la Junta il short Of switchmen, and
It is rumored that they are out on strike.
Conductor McElwain has nearly re-
covered from his recent injury and walks
without crutch.
Lyle s. Henkle has resigned his pe-
sition Is night baggageman; Walter Bell
succeeds him.
Mis- Beason, who has been visiting
Miss Blanch Harris, returned to her home
in Topeka on No. 6, yesterday.
IF. G.. Morrow, night operator, has
returned from Topeka, where he has been
receiving medical treatment for his eyes.
Half dozen engines familiarly known
40 ''bloods" were transferred from the
western to the eastern divisions last
week. Their places are being supplied
by Baldwins from the south end.
"A train of cars for the Mexican Con.
trail Railway pass here every day. The
cars are new and are loaded with coal
from Illinois. Coal is shipped In the the
new ears to save cost Of transportation.
"A subscription paper was circulated
in the shops In La Junta one day last
week to raise funds for the relief OF Guy
Gibbons, who was shot and seriously
wounded during the Jail break. Mr..
Gibbons at one time worked in the shops.
A nice sum Of money Was reelized.
Surveyors have surveyed the depot
park ground again this week. The grade
stakes have been set. The Topeka Jour-
nal says: The half acre of ground just
north of the depot at Dodge City IL to
have the immediate attention Of the
landscape gardener who will put in .
handsome park.
"Wednesday evening last week B. 4.
Dick. engine 25l, left Newton with train
No. l ffty-five minutes late. He was
delayed at Lewis twenty-five minutes
and at Spearville five minutes, going in.
to Dodge City only five minutes tardy.
Counting in the delays at Lewis and
Spearville, the actual time made up was
one hour and seventeen minutes.
The Santa Fe will commence run
ming two of the finest trains in the west
from Chicago to Denver about August /.
Two new tandem compound engines,
with drive wheels seventy-seven inches
in diameter, are being built for this new
service. Three of the firest chair cars
ever constructed, with Pullman sleepers.
will make up two Of the finest trains in
the service.
"A. Fasig commenced Monday to bore
a well at the Santa Fe round house. The
we'll is to be l25 feet deep. A 10-inch
drill will be made through the first water
to depth Of 40 feet, an S-inch drill
through the clay bed to the intended
depth Of 125 feet. The water is intend
ed for the use of engines, and it will con-
tain little alkali. Mr.. Fasig has the Kel-
ly Il Tannehill well drilling machine, the
best outfit on the line, and which can
drill l 900 feet. MIR. Fasig has other con-
tracts with the company for cell boring.
The Santa Fe officials are considering
a plan of Oiling the track on the southern
division of their road if their experiment
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is success The southern division is
not rock ballasted and the riding on it
now is very dusty. The 0iling of the
track will do away with much of this. 1t
is somewhat expensive to oil the track,
costing from $40 to $50 mile. The oil
is sprayed over the track by means Of an
apparatus attached to the oil tank. 1t is
said that II the experiments in these
branches prove successful that the road
will employ this method on all their track
that does not haYe the road ballast.
Presbyt terrain Church.
i Public worship will be held in this
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