The Goodland republic., 1899-01-20

Wednesday vas the monthly payday
for the railway employees.
Mschinist Sam Bragg is laying of
nursing an injured hand
/ Fireman Charles AIbrecht and fami
I II are back from visit east.
Conductor Art Radcliffe is in charge
Of the pile driver work train
Engine 929 has been brought here to
be used on 9 and 10 on the east end.
The work train came ID from the
west Wednesday to receive their pay.
Superintendent Of Motive Power J.
". EItzgIbbOn OF Horton was here Fri
day.
Master Mechanic 10y and Train
master Morton we're out to the Springs
Monday.
Superintendent F. c. Smith came
down from Colorado Springs Wednes-
day evening.
Clarence Neville was here this week.
He has been at work for the company
at PhillipsbUrR.
Freight COndustOr Joe Lustig has
been IN charge Of Conductor Fuller's
run on passenger.
William Mcclure Of Ellsworth, Kan.
Is in the city visiting his brother,
"COUnt" Mcclure.
The family Of Machinist Henderson
arrived in the city Monday and viii
make their home here.
Two new cabOoses have Just been
finished at the Horton Rock Island
shops, Nos. 1881 and 1882.
The GOOdland hremen (railroad) have
a Colorado Springs orchestra to make
music for their dances Nothing slow
about that.-BelOit Gazette.
Nine passenger conductors have been
discharged on the La Junta division of
the Santa Fe for failure to turn in cash
fares on alleged evidence furnished by
spoilers.
The firemen are busy at work com
pleting arrangements for their annual
ball which takes place February 8.
The best orchestra Colorado Springs
affords viii furnish the music and
beautiful time is promised.
Passenger Brakeman LeROy Of Con-
ductOr Gums crew got left in Good
land Tuesday morning. He was going
west on No. 9 and was doing some work
here when the train pulled out and
left. No. 9 is the sWiftest train on the
road, and waits for no man, not even
the brakeman.
Brakeman Jim HesOn fell from a
box car in the yards in GOOdland Wed
nesday morning and the fall rendered
him insensible for two hours. TOge-
ther with his crew they were doing
some switching preparatory to taking
an extra west when the accident hap
pened. The car from which be fell was
standing perfectly still, and it is sup
posed while in a state Of absent mind
ness he walked off from one end, falling
to the ground.
The Rock Island Railway company
will replace much Of its track in Kan
sas, Nebraska and Colorado with new
steel this year. A large order
for new steel has been placed with the
Federal Steel company, and a neat
slice Of the earnings Of 1899 will 90
into the improvement Of the track In
addition to the steel, several thousand
new ties have been ordered and are
now being shipped from the east. The
first Of the SO-pOund steel is going
down on the main line between Topeka
and Mcfarland. Considerable Of it
will be put on the western division in
western Kansas and Colorado, and
much Of the track in Nebraska will be
relaid. But little Of the Rock Island /
track in the west has been relaid since
the road first built into this territory. |
SiXty-three pound steel was used be- /
cause it was then the standard weight /
Within the past few years heavier steel
has been used almost entirely in build
ing new, or replacing old track, and
with new ties and new SO-pound steel
the Rock Island will have q roadbed
second to none in the west.