The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-05-24
a. p COONS,
RAILROAD NEWS.

business is only moderate on the
railroads now.
Mrs I. s Hurd has returned from
Newton, where she spent several months.
From two to four carloads of straw
berries taken on No. 81 every day to
Colorado points.
Rock Island road has put on regular
express messengers between Dodge City,
Pratt and Liberal, owing to increase of
business.
The artesfan well at the Santa Fe
shops has reached a depth of 800 feet.
and the work is progressing slowly at the
present time. The prospective depth of
the we'll is 600 feet-La Junta Tribune.
-Mechinist Milton Howard, more
familiary known as Missouri, is in
Dodge City for the present, taking the
place of one Of the regular men there,
who has been granted a vacGtion.-New-
ton Republican.
Ed Chilcote, " no is employed in the
yards of the Rock Island at Kansas City,
returned to his home Tuesday, after
spending a week here with friends. He
is still lame from an jury received some
time ago.
The Santa Fe has few engines
which have been in service on its lines
during the past year but which alto
gether too light for future service. These
engines are being put in the shops and
repaired and will there be
sold.
"A force of men and teams with scrap
ers are at work in the railroad yard this
week grading for new side track a
thousand feet in length. The new siding
will extend out past the waterworks. The
was badly needed, the
present siding being inadequate for the
traffic and passage of trains at this point.
Garden City Imprint.
"A Carlsbad, N NJ. telegram of May
81 says: Kansas is about teget world of
cattle from this section. They are leav-
ing here by the trainload. Carload lots
don't count; it is by the full trainloads
this season. A close, and apparently
accurate, estimate, places the output of
the valley for the present year at $4,000
head, against 120, 900 head for 1899. 1t
is, from the present outlook, more than
possible that even this estimate will fall
below the number of the actual shipments.
Kansas gets at least two-thirds of the
cattle product of the Pecos Valley, both
feeders and market stock. Montana,
and Nebraska come next.
PIERCED BY FLYING SPLINTER
George L. Stone, a switchman in the
Santa Fe yards, met with peculiar acct
dent Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Stone was
on the foot board of a switch
engine which was running on old side
track near the old starch factory down in
the east end of the yards He was on the
front end of the engine and was facing
the direction the engine was headed.
This particular stretch of track is an
out of the way place and is made, as
many of these little used sidings are, of
Did and splintered rails. The engine was
moving at quite high rate of speed
when the f1ange on the fore wheel struck
one of these protruding splinters and
threw it out ard back with terrific force
straight in the direction of Mr.. Stone. 1t
struck him square in the calf of the leg,
he sharp end foremost, piercing that
member through.
The splinter was imme diately extracted
~ one of the engine men and the injured
nan brought at once to the company's
hospital where his wound was dressed.
lIr. Stone had sufficiently recoved yes
erday TO be able to leave the hospital,
nd to get around with comparative ease
y the use OF crutches.-Topeka Capital,
lay 18TH