The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-06-21
RAILROAD SPIKES.
TuesdaE was PAYDAY.

from visit IN Chicago.
Section Foreman Finch has returned
from a trip to Oklahoma.
Engine 400 is in the shops under
going a general overhaul.
The Rocky Mountain Limited had
100 pay passengers on the train We'd
nesday.
Maehinist Robert ZerWekh left Tues
day night for a visit in Valley juno
ton, Ia.
Fireman Warner, of Roswell, has
been assigned to the extra board at
this place.
G. E. Biddison went to Denver We'd
nesday to participate in the big shoot
at that place.
Engineer Dan Derby has put a fine
porch . feet long on the west side Of
his residence.
Engine 486, Engineer Brosso and
yer run Sunday.
Who was the young man who attend
ed the dance at the West Turner Hall
in Denver lately?
Chief Dispatcher ". A. Young left
Tuesday for a visit with his family in
Minneapolis, MINI.
Lew Brinker has improved his resi-
Deuce by adding a porch on the west
side of his house.
Fireman Sanford Adams has equip
ped engine 900 with a new squirt to
wet down the coal with.
Superintendent T. G. Smith and
Trainmaster Boyle went west on the
Limited Wednesday forenoon.
Engineer Joe Berry, of the LimOn-
Denver run, is now pulling passenger
out Of Goodland on the west end.
]. S. Prothero was appointed fore
man OF the back shops Tuesday, to
act during Mr.. Zerwekh's absence.
Frank Kinstler, of the shop force,
has been promoted to fireman and has
been assigned to the Roswell switch
engine.
Machinist d. c. Hotchkiss returned
to the Horton shops Monday after help
ing out in the shops here a couple Of
weeks.
Phil Wichael went on the Limon-
Denver run as baggageman Tuesday.
VIII Coon takes his place here as
night agent.
J. N. Robinson, Of the Colorado
Midland, is the relieving operator at
the depot. He was called in during
the absence of W. A. Young.
Frank Brumfield is taking Mann's
place at the freight house, as Joe is
nursing a bruised leg, the result Of
tussel with COO pound box.
Fireman Simonton, Of the stationary
slsgine in the machine shop, is at work
again after about four months layOff
with broken leg. He went to work
Tuesday.
Conductor Hazelbaker has made ex-
tensIve improvements on his residence
property, remOdeIling the same, paint
ing, etc. He will also build a new pail
ing fence.
Earl Finch, a railroad section man,
was fined in police court Tuesday for
disturbance and resisting an officer.
The OHense was committed Saturday
night.
G. E. Maloy, of Chicago, a railroad
man and an old acquaintance of w.
Walker, Jr., was in Goodland Friday.
He has position as brakeman on one
of the fast passenger runs.
Lysander P. Converse, father Of
Conductor Willis J. Converse, died at
his home in Kansas City Saturday,
aged Sc years. The old gentleman
was an uncle of Mark Hanna.
Chief Dispatcher W. A. Young left
Wednesday morning for q visit TO his
family at Minneapolis, Mimi. He will
return on the morning train, July 4.
Dispatcher Smith is filling his place
IN his absense.
Nick Scallion, wife and baby return
ed from Chicago Wednesday where
they we're visiting friends. Mrs. Seal |
lion had been absent about four weeks
and Nick reports having a good time
for week renewing old acquaintances-
a passenger on the Rocky Mountain
had an epiIeptic fit while the
train was here Wednesday forenoon.
The man fell down in the vestibule and
Conductor WickeTsham dOsed him with
salt and the patient recovered
Immediately.
The standard box car committee of
the American Railway association has
presented a report recommending that
the standard box car be SO feet long,
eight feet six inches wide and seven
feet six inches high, inside measure
ment. The capacity Of such car is to
be 2,295 cubic feet.