The Globe-republican., 1901-11-07
RAILROAD NEWS.

ed E. G. Gingrich's house.
Conductor E. B. Sill has returned
from Europe and resumed his run the
California flyers.
The new Santa Fe ice house is to be
4Ox9O feet, and ill be built north of the
coal chutes, north of tracks.
Surveyors have been in the city this
week surveying the ground for large
addition to the Santa Fe ice house.
Seventy Fillipinos. occupying three
cars, and on their return from the Buff
falo Exposition to their homes, went
west Saturday night.
Two trains occupied by mining en-
gineers of the American Institute, were
enroute west Tuesday night, for the City
of Mexico, where they will attend con-
ventiop.
superintendent G. E. Aver was here
yesterday. The rooms over the Midland
bank building have been rented for the
division headquarters, and they will be
occupied on Saturday.
-Messrs Hurley. Aver. and other Santa
Fee officers were in the city Friday night
and Saturday morning, and conferred
with IA number of citizens regarding the
location of division headquarters here.
The upper rooms of the Midland
Bank building have been secured for Of
fees of the division headquarters. Mr..
Van Ordstrand. who occupies the rooms.
will move TO his dwelling. The rooms
are large and commodious, and will be
suitable for railroad offices.
A railroad from Dodge City, Kansas,
to rexarkana. Texas, is needed very bad
Il
that lays in great quantities, but more
particularly. to develop the resources of
Kiowa and vicinity. which are coal and
asphalt, oil and gas, lumber. and rock;
also fine farming lands; and the already
Junction of NJ K. s. Il. and Choctaw
branch from Heartshorn to ArdmOre.-
Kiowa Ct. To Breeze.
The town of Kiowa, mentioned above,
is in the Choctaw country and. not in the
Kiowa reservation, which was opened
some months ago. 1t is on the line of
the NJ. K. & Il. road, and has connection
with Kansas City, Memphis and eastern
points. A railroad from TeXarkana, by
way of kiowa to Dodge City. would be
a direct and feasible route. We con-
gratnlate the Breeze on the probable rail-
road connection.
j. E. Hurley, general superintendent
of the western grand division of the Santa
Fee. was in Syracuse Thursday on an in
speetion tour, and stated to IA representa-
tive or the State Journal that the division
terminals of the road would be removed
from Coolidge to Syracuse. Syracuse is
about 20 miles east of Coolidge.
MIR. Hurley said: 1--we are fully de-
termined to remove to Syracuse, and ex-
pected to have completed the change long
ago. [ cannot say just when the change
Will be made, but it will be very soon.'
A big grading outfit came up the
Rock Island, Saturday morning. y and was
transferred to the Santa Fe. 1t was des-
tined for Pawnee. Oklahoma, where a
new railroad is in building. The outfit
was loaded in twenty-siX cars, and con-
sisted of twelve horses and mules. and the
rest of the contained machinery
wagons, ETC., used in railroad grading.
1t belonged to w. r. Stubbs Bros, of
Lawrence, Kansas. The value of the out
fit was a good many thousands of dollars.
1t had been used in the Rock Island con-
strlction.
The railroads have abolished the
custom of giving passes to stock shippers
to the Kansas City market who have only
one After Jan. ], it will require at
least Two ears So get Il return pass rive
cars will get two return passes, and
eleven cars three return passes. but nc
more then three return passes will be is
sued, no matter how manv cars are
shipped.
The roundhouse is being supplied
with system of pipes to carry off the
steam from the engines that are .sblowing
off, 1t will be Improvement long
needed when the pipes all in it is
almost Impossible TO hear yourself think,
when several engines are getting rid of
the surplus steam. preparatory to MAX
ing some needed repairs. The intro :
duction of the new system. will do away
with the noise entirely.-Newton Repub-
lican.
A. p. Helm, a brakeman on Mis-
souri, Pacific freight. had a miraculous
escape from death while in the discharge
of his duties in the Harrington yards In
some manner Helms foot became fasten-
ed md the train was hacked nm which,