The Globe-republican., 1900-10-04
RAILROAD NEWS.

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This division has the best record of
of any division on the line OF the
Santa Fe Railway
w. j. Davies and family returned
Monday from trip of 80 days In Colo
RADIO.
H. s. Stivers, of Souix City, Iowa, is
his brother. Conductor Frank
Stivers. Mr.. Stivers runs type setting
machine on the Souix City Tribune.
Conductor Lands writes to Conduc-
Pond that Nos 3 and trains will run six
days in the week instead of four days. as
last year, beginning November 9TH.
Lands will run from Chicago to Topeka,
and the runs west will be to La Junta.
Engineer E. A. Devereaux and Fire
man George Caldwell were poisoned
Tue sday by eating canned --rhubarb pie
at a restaurant in Newton Mr.. Devor-
eaux was sick in bed two days and Mr..
Caldwell was sent to his home in New
ton.
A new ruling has gone into effect on
the Emperia division of the Santa Fe,
which is a great benefit to trainmen and
other employees. a local train shall not be
compelled to haul over thirty cars, or
more than 500 tons in one train. All other
trains. whether single or double headers,
shall not consist of more than seventy
cars.
The Santa Fee officials at Newton re-
port a curious case of absent mindedness.
When a coach was set out from passen-
ger train the car cleaners found a babe
peacefully sleeping in one of the seats
hurried Investigation revealed the
mother of the babe contentedly sitting in
a coach on branch line train, entirely
oblivious of the fact that she had left her
offspring behind.
"A bulletin has been issued by the
Santa Fe requiring all foremen and Santa
Fe employees do all they can toward
keeping children from playing on the
right of way. Many accidents result from
negligence in this matter. In this man
ner the company is made liable to many
thousands of dollars annually Under
the new rules foremen, watchmen and
others will be held responsible when ac-
cidents happen to children who have
been allowed to loiter around the tracks.
One hundred men are wanted by the
Rock Island to take places on the section
work and other positions. During the
past few months while the work has been
light on the railroad great many of the
section hands have been taking work
farms where they could get a good oppor-
tunity. In some places there is only one
man with the section foreman to help
with the work. And now that the fall
work is opening up, the addition of
number of men becomes necessary.
Santa Fe section men have been in
structed to warn children from playing
on the right of-way. 1t would seem til at
such steps were unnecessary-th parents
would see to it that the children were not
allowed to expose themselves to this dam
ger. Some people seem to have a pen.
chant in tempting fate. A man will per
sist in dragging a loaded gun from his
wagon, by the muzzle until an accident
occurs; mother will put out poison for
mice and catch her child, or set kettle
of boiling water on the floor just for
second, but long enough for baby to tum-
BILE in.
These and many similar accidents are
continually occurring and people seem to
think little of them, yet they embrace
just as much criminal negligence the
telegraph operator displays, who forgets
to deliver his orders, thus causing the
destruction of thousands of dollars worth
of property and a dozen lives, and who
gets a term of years in Jail for his
thong htlessness.-News.
A big burly fellow with C face which
indicated the lines of whisky glass, and
hardened by constant looking on the
thing when 1t is red, applied to this
| Office for help last week, stating that he
was pressman- The fellow belongs to
/ the pugilistic fraternity, and he is seeking
charity where he had no right to ask.
Like all men of his stripe who do not earn
an honest dollar, but depend on making
heir way through the world by holding
up others, left town Saturday night By
Stealing ride on freight train. Before
| taking a ride on the bumpers, the hobo
| attempted to hold up a cattle drover,
| Wesley King, by assuming he was {
brakeman and demanding pay for ride
King put a clincher the fellow by
knocking him down and keeping hin
down until he cried enough. Afterward
the burly fellow met and asked Pau
Madden, sealer, the time of night. Il
was 10 800 and Paul answered by no
showing his watch; the fellow demanded
to see the watch, when Paul stated tina
his watch was at the depot. The humme