The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-03-07
RAILROAD NEWS.

RAILROAD NEWS.
ordered for this division.
The new engine numbers are much
better looking than the large figures.
The Dodge City GLOBE REPUBLICAN
puts up mighty Interesting column Of
railroad Hutchinson News.
A tie picking vat is to be located at
Topeka The picking process is secret
with the company which has its use.
Railroad men can vote when absent
from home on duty at any voting place
where they may happen.
w. G. Rochester. who lightning
jerker at Lakin. has taken position as
clerk in the Santa Fe office at Kansas City,
Mo.
Net earnings cf the Santa Fe system
for January. given out Feb. 27, were ST.
749 ,161, an increase of $265, ,s13 over the
corresponding month of 1900.
Fast runs are noted, but the slow
runs are never published. a freight
train which left this station at a. m. ar
rived at Coolidge at p. of the next
day-36 hours in all.
A number of Santa Fe carpenters are
in the city this week putting frost boxes
around the pipes nd valves at the Santa
Fe water tank. Before leaving they will
probably tear down the old wooden tank
I-Kinsley Mercury
-Theo. Force and daughter, Mrs. Ella
Hobble, returned from their vi sit with
friends n Missouri Tuesday night Mrs
Hobble will remain sometime with hel
father before returning to Dodge City
| Kinsley Mercury
Another crew has been added 60 ths
chain gang equipment west of Newton
! Conductor Walters has been placed il
| charge of the crew, and has been assign
ed to waycar No. 12- Ma1oney ant
Blocker are the assistant conductors
l-kansan.
Several rumors floating abou
again that the Sauta Fe contemplate
making Kinsley division point for ths
@. K. So w. Report has it that the roun'
house is to be pat in shape again and
tain started from kinsley to Hutchinso
in the morning, and one from Huschin
son to Kiusley.-Kinsley Mercury.
Two buns were run in few night
ago by a Santa Fe detective for stealth
coal. The men were not stealing fo
their own use but so they might sell il
They were taken before Judge Donne
. and fined ten dollars and cost which the
were unable to pay and are now bel n
entertained at the Jail by the Sheriff
) Kinsley Mercury.
Information has been received tha
| the stock rush on the Santa Fe will begi
little early this year, probably by Marc
4 Is, and those in charge of the work Ill
advised to be ready for it. 1t is ais
. In, ir1e
previous years owing to the high mark
Y price of all kinds of stock. The mo
II business the Santa Fe does, the better
r is tor Newton aud every town along ii
line of this great railway system.-Nev
f ton kansau.
K Santa Fe officials are said to be col
: sidering the advisability of running IL
limited trains and 1, which no
operated between Chicago and Colorad
: during the coming summer month
= Each year heretofore the Santa Fe Cal
: fornia limited service has been disconti
ued at the opening of warm weather, b
: the continued operation of the trains
Colorado trains would enable the road
secure larger share of the business
> the summer resorts of the mountain sta
than it has enjoyed ia the past
The westbound limited train nc
makes the run from hAnSS&S Olt3 ~
:, Juuta in 13 hours and % minutes 1t
: estimated that Pueblo coald be reacht
M 10 hours and Colorado Springs in
hours. making practically the same tir
as now made by the Rock Islands Col
RADIO flyer and to be made by tile Misso
:. ri Pacificss new fast train. The Santa
Colorado train. No. 5. now consumes
hours in reaching La Junta from Kans
- City, 20 hours in reaching Pueblo and oS
21 hours in reaching Colorado Springs
. While the Santa Fe did a good Col
. rado business last year, it Is admitted th
the faster time made By the Rock Islal
and Union Pacific operated against it.
y Capital.