The Globe-republican., 1901-02-14
RAILROAD NEWS.


-Twenty-sev miles of track had
been laid on the Rock Island extension
ont of Liberal. up to Tuesday.
The California Limited was 30 hours
late on Saturday, owing to high wates
California. The train was due Friday
morning
Ira Cossell, Santa Fe Engineer be-
tween Dodge City and La Junta. is sick
at his farm south east of town. DR..
Bennett is in attendance.-Greens
Signal.
Fridays train from Liberal was
snowbound east of Meade and did not
arrive here until after 8 O'Clock Saturday
evening The trains from the east end
of the Rock Island were on time
The Santa Fe Railway is advertising
$25 rates to any point on the California
coast. This low rate will induce Cali
fornia travel. The cut rate will continue
for three months.
A bill has been introduced in the
Kansas Legislature which if it is passed,
will entitIe railroad men and commeciai
| travellers to vote anywhere from home
election day.
1t is rumored that work will be com
menced Immediately upon the new office
building for the accommodation of the
superintendent, rainmaster and dispatch
ers.-La Junta Tribune.
w. W. Burns is in San Francisco TAX
| ing a vacation. He expects to be absent
about three weeks. o. l.. Call is work
| ing sssecond tick'' in the dispatcher's 5
office during Mr.. Burns absence.
Junta Tribune.
j. II. Jones. chief clerk in Superin-
| tendent Ayers offlce, leaves Tuesday for
Las Vegas, where he takes u similar posi-
ton under Superintendent 1 Fox. MIR.
Cady, of Wellington. takes his place here.
La Junta Tribune
| The second and last of the two new
! ice houses is about completed. The first
was filled with ice cost of about ST.
| 600, and the work of filling the second is
now under way. About 81 800 worth of
ice will be stored at this point when both
houses are filled.-La Junta Tribune.
The Railroad Reading Room will
| soon receive addition of nearly one
| thousand new books. The library is
patronized better than formerly. A
large number are taken out daily. Jonas
Stafford, the veteran railroad man, is
| keeping the room neat, warm and COM
| Portable.
| A slight wreck is reported the
| Santa Fe at a small town called Offerle
| west of Great Bend. The smashup was
| the result of the collision of two freight
| trains in the snow about O'Clock Thurs :
day evening. The damage sustained by
| the engines very slight, the pilots
| of both being cavei in, but no more
serious destruction is reported. The
| trains were delayed by the snow and
| We're lighting their way through it at the
time very slowly, the collision might
have proven more disastrous.-Capita1-
| This accident is unknown here.
| The new extension of the Rock Is
land now building between Liberal, Kan.
sas. and Ell Paso. Texas, is being pushed
forward at the rapid rate of three miles
of finished track per day. Already thirty
miles of the roadway is ready for the
rails and large force of graders is a
work several miles in advance of the
track layers. The rapid progress in lay
ing the track this new extension ii
made possible by using a new track lay
ing machine. This machine greatly fac
, ilitates the work by delivering the tie:
and rails to the workmcn as fast as need
ed. When this new extension is complet
A ed the Rock Island will have the longes
= piece of straight track of any railroad il
North America, the track being so lai'
r that for a distance of 120 miles there
, not "A curve. The new bridge OH this ex
: tensi on, over the South Canadian River
< Oh which work began a few days ago vii
= be 40 feet long and 13O feet above th
water.
The funeral or the late Fred Harve
took place in Leavenworth, Tuesd-
afternoon. Rev Frank N Atkin, of =
e Pulls Episcopal church, officiated at tn
@ religious services at the house The in
tcrnent was at Mount Muncie cemetery
: The active pallbearers were j. Scott Rot
ertson. of Trinidad, Colo, manager c
> the Harvey ranch; A Frank, of Chicago
q Victor Vazzetti, John Stein, A. II. Hill
II ard, Henry Hotz, Frank Clough. an
4 Jordon Benjamin, all of Kansas CITY
;. No. All the active pallbearers are me
who have been in the employ OF N
Harvey for the past ten or twenty year
The honorary pallDearers were Pa
l, Havens, James McGonigle, Ed Carol
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