The Globe-republican., 1901-10-24
RAILROAD NEWS.
-rhe railroads are shipping in lots OF

- he RAILROADS. are shippipg IN lots OF :
COAL
New tirre card goes into effect Nov.
B. Nos. 3 and A will be made daily /
trains.
The California trains will be run |
daily next month, and Jere Shaw will ;
resume his old
The Santa Fee and Southern Pacific /
railroad companies are anticipating haul
ing between 25 900 aud sc, 900 car loads |
of oranges. that being the estimate of /
the prospective grange crop up date.
-Jere Shaw and wife have returned to
this city from Denver, after four months
absence. MIR. Shaw is walking with
crutches, owing to injury TO his heels.
caused by jumping from his engine to
the ground. His engine into mis-
placed switch.
Santa Fe passenger officials say that
the California business this winter will
be heavier than eyer before, if present
indications are fulfilled. The California
limited. which will go on November B. As
/ :. strong drawing card, and is being
| thoroughly advertised in the east
The mechanical department of the
Santa Fee has completed designs for a new
oil burning locomotive. which will prob
ably be pushed to completion as soon as
the plans have been approved 1t will
be built for oil burning exclusively, and
it is expected the results Will be more
satisfactory than have been obtained
heretofore from crude OIL The engine
now being designed will DE the first one
to be built in Topeka exclusively for
burning oil.
james Moore, of the treast,rer's de-
Z. H.
Fee pay car to cover the Chicago and
eastern divisions of the road. paying off
the men employed along that line. Some
years ago the Santa Fe paid its men every
| month by the pay car system, but that
has since been abolished, and the checks
issued instead. The custom still prevails,
however, of sending out the pay
occasionally over each. division of the
road, to enable the treasurer's depart
ment to keep in close touch with its men
and prevent any crooked pay roofs being
| palmed off on the company
Monroe D. Worden, young man, IS
years of age, who has been employ ed by
| the Santa Fe fireman for about two
weeks, received fatal injuries by being
struck in the head by mail crane Thurs
day morning, at Powers station, while
going east No. with engine No. 400,
| Engineer James Smith. The right side
of is head crushed and he probably
never knew what struck him, being
| conscious until his death. lie was
brought TO La Junta and taken to the
hospital, where he died about Il o'clock
Thursday night. L. p. Worden, of SYRIA
cuse, Kan, father of the deceased. arriv-
ed in Ia Junta Thursday night and was
with his son when be breathed his last
MIR. Worden leaves widow and two
Lob Ie9r Ii,
carried Insurance to the amount of
$500. The body will be shipped to
Syracuse, Kan, this morning for burial,
| accompanied by delegation from the
| Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen.
Mr. Wortlen was we'll known by Sheriff
Barr and John Howe, having been born
and raised in Syracuse, Kan, where both
resided for a number of years.-La Junta
| Tribune.
Railroads when they get a new snper-
| intendent like woman when she
begins cleaning house, the furniture
never goes back where it was. Some time
ago the Santa Fe changed all the divis-
ions on the system. A big division was
taken from Nickerson and put at New
| ton. lot of were taken from
Emporia and put in Topeka and Kansas
| City. 1t was deemed wise to operate
divisions from the ends and to abandon
| the middle stations. Now new man
seems to have come along All the furpi-
ture is on the front stoop and in the yard
and Heaven only knows how it will go
| back. Only this is sure. The new man
says divisions must be operated from the
middle and not from the end. Poor old
| Newton is getting it where johnny wore
his asafoetida. There is even said TO be
some show for Emporia in the new deal.
The morning papers are said to contain
| an article to that effect. However don't
| raise the price of your town lot. The
kitchen furniture may go back in the
bed room and the piano may be moved
into the dining ROOM Wait till they get
done hanging the pictures before you
think the house is settled. Here is the
item from the Kansas City Journal that
has set Emporia talking: GA rumor that
the officials of.the Santa Fe railroad are
arranging to have the division headquar-