The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-28
RAILROAD NOTES.

G. H. Hobart, Santa Fe agent at
Redlands, Cal, has received the second
of eight cash prizes offered by the road
to the agent handling the largest
amount of freight. The second prize
was $500.
Engineer Keen of Las Vegas has al
most entirely recovered from an illness
of two or three months and expects
to report for duty in few days
Agent E. NJ. Stokes of Greensburg
has taken fifteen days layoff and
gone back to Missouri to visit with his
brothers folks. His son, r. E Stokes,
will have charge of his office while he
is absent.
Mr.. Richard English, formerly with
the Santa Fe Pacific, has been appoint
ed master mechanic of the Rio Grande
Western at Helper, Utah, with juris-
diction over the line from Castlegate,
Utah, to Grand Junction, Col
Mr.. a. II. Doane has been appointed
general sales agent of the Union Pa
cific Coal company at Omaha, Neb., in
place of Mr.. ]. Chilberg, who has re
signed to become general agent of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company at Ell
PasO, Tex.
Engine No 200 arrived over the Santa
Fe yesterday, says the Albuquerque
Journal This is the first of the fifteen
big Dickinson engines ordered some
ago by the Santa F'e Pacific to be used
exclusively for passenger service. 1t
is a ten wheel monster and one of the
largest engines, if not the largest, ever
received in the local yards. The cylin-
ders are 1Sx26 inches and the drivers,
three pairs, 20 inches. The other en-
gines are expected soon.
RumOr has it that engineers will be
limited to three pints of valve oil for
round trip. Some think tbs is a rather
skimp allowance.
George Perry is now in full charge of
the Las Vegas round house, E. c. Ell
licott having left Thursday morning to
assume charge Of the Ration round
house.
ROdrigS have been employed by the
Santa Fe and will run on the division
between Albuquerque and Las Vegas.
a very important change has recently
been made on the western portion of
the Santa Fe Pacific railroad. Los An
geles, which has hitherto been the head
Of the western division, has been aban-
doned, and the headquarters of the di-
vision have been moved to San Ber-
nardino. Trains now run from The
Needles to San Bernardino and from
there to San Diego. And it is an
nounced upon good authority that dur
ing the present year the general offices
will be removed from Los Angeles to
San Francisco.
Engineer J. A. Sprung. who has been
running between La Junta and Denver,
has resigned from the service of the
Santa Fe.
John Balch, night foreman of the
round house at Dodge City. was one Of
the leading features of the grand march
gentleman tips the beam at 299 pounds.
The La Junta water train will carry
passengers. The train makes from one
to three trips a day to Rocky Ford, and
will be quite a convenience to business
men.
Notices have been posted around Ra-
ton warning the colored men to leave
that town before March Is, 1899. The
good citizens of that burg denounce
such lawlessness, and it is thought no
attempt will be made to enforce the
order.
1t is said that Engineer Barlow is
about to die with asthma at Fairbury.
Barlow formerly had a run out of Hor
ton.
The blue prints of plans for the new
fan blower, which will suck into the
big boilers of the freight shops all the
shavings, sawdust. etc, in the mill, are
now at hand and the work will be put
in at once The cost of this improve
ment will be bout s., 500 and is one of
been needed for some time, as workmen
in the sawmil1 find that constant
breathing of the wood dust Injuries their
heaIth-HortOn Commercial.
Conductor Ed. Prick is back on his
train after a six weeks Iayoff to visit
with friends and look after his farm at
his old home at Audubon, Ia.-Phillips-
burg Herald.
Engineer K. L. Dresser has given up
his position and will leave this week
with his family for Illinois, where he
has a farm which he will engineer. He
is one of the old timers here, coming
to Goodland with the road--Goodland
Republic.