The Globe-republican., 1900-01-04
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-Coadncto1 Ieastis. Sunday morning.
took cut a train load Of Marines, number
ing 4oo- who are bound for Manila
Levi NJ. Sell, who Is employed IN
the round house. is walking on erutches.
he having sp'asnea his left ankle some
days ago.
Ben oldhans- an engineer on The
Colorado Southern. was here last week.
His family returned with him 10 Pueblo.
where they viii ls.s2ze thesv home.
1t seems tisat General Manager Frs
resignation was ossilss 20 some mi<sintier~
standing with Tt.rd Wee President
Barr, the nature Of which we DO not
know
/ Homer Blocker received Christmas
present the form of ssclearance
papers, and he * now = brakeman run
ming the SANTA Re running between
Dodge City aed 2<evteu.
| On invitation Of snpt Parker. Feed
Gardner, agent, accompanied thai Of
tfcai and Others On The yearly Inspection
of the rossl Mars l,s;ats were vlslsea
snring the three Days absence, the party
going into Nenras.Sa,
-Claas- r c ~ f.sr seae sisasi. tirss
uonths 1t Hot snr3uss. -Nsis has 9et,.rr-
ed. Mr. Gs.lis-saer haa ap' aitegetlses
recovered the ful7 rse of his e. es. but Gilss
treatment he received vas beneficial 70
him.
| -Machinist William Jury has return
ed from his uuaI visit to the old home
in Topeka. lie viii probably be sent to
Dodge City temporarily to take the place
of Charley Munger. The latter is re-
ported quite i'll, says Newton item
F. c. Hash rouck. formerly foreman
of the Dodge City shops, was here Sat-
where he will take charge of the round
house of the Chicago s. Alton Railroad.
r.. f. Foote succeeds MIR. Hasbrouck at
Ration.
Clarence Petty and family, of Her
ington, Kansas. visited the family of
Conductor iIeus:is this week. retui Ming
on Tuesday. Mr. Petty formerly
resident here. lie is a conductor On the
l Rock Island read. and runs from Her
ington to Caldwell
Engineer o. w. Halsey is getting up
in the front ranks engine driver.
He was eagle-ese on train 81, which
made up l.oer and forty minutes be-
tween Newton and Dodge City. The train
consisted of fifteen freight cars and two
4 | coaches.
. Palmer Lake. Dec. pa Colorado
| Midland passenger train, north bound
z
, lision two miles south of Palmer Lake.
, Fireman Edgar Jones. of the Santa Fee,
, was killed and Engineers Leavitt and
- Turk seriously hurt. No passengers were
injured.
!. Fred c. Briggs and family are visit
e ing friends in the city. Mr.. Briggs is i,
II conductor the Florence 81 Cripple
Greek Railroad, and makes his home Il t
Florence, where he has been fer year
past He says Colorado is prospecting
Good wages paid and money Is
: plenty. He has 80 days leave of
q absence.
The strong demand for iron and
steel that has become so evident the last
few months has inspired new policy of
economy among tie railway companies
: in the matter of saving scrapirou more
:, closely. 1t will be noticed at nearly ali
II the main shops OF the various roads that
u the old irons of every descriptions are
being accumulated and piled together
either for their own use for market, as
almost everything that has a semblance
to metal demands good figures the
If markets. Some railway companies have
. ordered their old cars, that have been
cast aside, to be burned and salvage sort
ed, piled up sent to market. Cast off
irons, castings, bolts, etc, that have been
Lying around the yards and shops in the
past are closely gathered up and collect
L ed for market This is feature in rail-
:: roading that has never been SO closely
lie followed as it is today, there never
I'd has been such growing demand for all
lie kinds Of mineral material.
> General Manager Nudge of the
Santa Fee left Topeka for Chicugo Mon
day afternoon to again be party the
meeting of the executive officials of the
road and the grievance committee of tho
q, Order of Railway Conductors and Broth
i, erhood Of Railway Trainmen- The con-
to ference was resumed Tuesday.
rs 1t is expected that a settlement will be
d arrived at before the end of the present
a. week. Last week the trainmea made
the same demands in Chicago that they