The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-03-01
RAILROAD NEWS.
Jerry Shaw is at work again.

Jerry Shaw is at work again.
-Switchman Postsn laying off sick.
William Henry in his place.
After the loss of about two months
time L. NJ Sell will again resume duties
at the round house next Monday morn
ing.
Conductor Hinckley's child, age z
months, died GA Friday, and was buried
Saturday. Rev.W r. Weaver conducted
the funeral service.
Forty Rock Island trainmen have
Joined together to buy a township Of
land near Liberal en- which they propose
to run a stock ranch
The work of packing the Santa Fe
ice at La Junta is now in progress, and
about $50 cars of CONCEALED moisture
have already been stored away.
The Santa Fe Railway NAV establish
pumping station on Duck creek, for
the purpose of securing good water for
the engines The pumps at the round
house do not furnish a sufficient supply.
The station agent of the Santa Fe at
Las Animas recently took a census of the
number of sheep and cattle in the coun-
try contiguous to that place. He found
over 1O,O0O head of cattle.
The Santa Fee is now running a
special stock train between La Junta and
Kansas City. The train leaves La Junta
twice a week. Sunday and Wednesday
at 500 O'Clock in the morning. anc ar
rives in Kansas City twenty two hours
Iater.-Tribuno
Robert Weekly, a section hand, was
struck by the engine of an east bound
fast freight near Conroe last Wedn esda y
morning. and had an arm broken, be-
sides being pretty badly bruised up. He
brought to La Junta and taken to
the railroad hospital. His injuries are
not serious.-Tribune.
On account of being older in point OF
seniority and consolidation of the Ar
kansas and middle divisions Mr. G. II.
Neubert of Arkansas City will supercede
Mr.. J. E. Gavitt present division Master
Mechanic at Newton March the first Mr.
Gavitt will have charge of the round
house at Newton. By his kind treatment
Mr.. Gavitt has made a number of friends
in Dodge who regret TO see the change.
VIM. Gates goes to Dodge City Mon
day evening to take place in the de.
pot there. Mr.. Gates has served the
Santa Fe faithfully for eleven years at
Kinsley. always hand, Industrious,
honest and attentive to his duties and
courteous and obliging to patrons ana
we felt it singular that SO old an employe
should have been discharged. His rein
statemant is qualification to his many
friends in Kinsley .-Kinsley Mercury.
Tho washout plug kof engine No. 40
blew out between La Junta and Dodge
City last Tuesday. and to escape being
scalded TO death, Engineer Chas. Nc
Quiston jumped from the cab while the
train was running at the rate of about
twenty-five miles an hour. His shoulder
was disIoeated aud he was otherwise
badly bruised up by the fall. He was
brought to La Junta and taken to the
observation-disclosures
There came near being a fatal ac-
sident Tuesday morning about five miles
west of Syracuse, when engineer c. Nc
Quiston was spelling the fireman on
train No 33. The plug flew out Of the
arch and let the water on the fire which
blow open the door of the fire box. The
engineer. supposing the engine would
blow up, jumped te the ground and dis
located his shoulder. DR.. Boggs was
soon on the ground and rendered such
medical assistance at the case required
Syracuse Republican, Feb. %.
A. Fasig, who is boring wells for
the Santa Fe railway at Syracuse, is at
home for the present. The well he is
boring has reached the second Datoka
formation. a depth of 267 feet. Water is
within 35 feet Of the top. Artesian water
flows are expected at the second Datoka,
and Mr. Fasig feels confident that he
will find eff he h.
gene through one hundred feet of the
second Datoka. He will drill two wells
at Syracuse, and when he finishes these
he will return to this city and bore two
more wells at the round house.