The Globe-republican., 1901-02-28
RAILROAD NEWS.

An oroer mas Deen Issued that all
railway men shall be vaccinated.
-Avron Faulkner, who has been en-
ployed in the round house. is now fireman
on engine.
BoRN-To Mr. and Mrs Jack Adams
Feb 2oth, girl. Mr. Adams Is en-
ployed at the round house
The Rock Island extension is graded
beyond Beaver Steel is laid TO Beaver
river, where a bridge is being built
Track laying is pushed rapidly
Twist, the new town where the Rock
Island cruises the Fort Worth & Denver,
will make good town. Rock Island
will establish general offices there. Twist
is 100 miles from Liberal
The Santa Fe pays out to n Leaven-
worth coal mining company something
like So 900 per day for fuel. The con-
tract calls for the delivery of about 800
cars of fuel.
Trains are held back every day on
the Santa Fe on account of lack of en-
glnes. a large number of new engines
have been ordered. The number OF cars
yesterday the yards awaiting power
was 420. Fourteen engines was neces-
sary to move this freight
Preparations are being made for the
new block system which will go into eff
feet on March L. The plan is entirely
new in this part of the country, but in a
general way it may be said that when
ever man goes on duty he registers by
a nj uIn ber on clock. When at the end
of the days work each mar makes out a
statement as to what he has been doing
a r ock Island yardmaster at Philips
burg tried to facilitate matters by doing
a job of switching while the engineer was
at dinner He jumped iuto the cab and
pulled the lever wide open In two min
utes he had into a dining car. smash
ed several hundred dollars worth of
china and fixtures and wrecked the en-
gine- He was discharged.
The Mercury wishes to call the at
tentien of Kinsley parents and the city
officers TO the fact that some ones boy
will be picked up off the railroad track
some day minus limb or two OF with
the breath knocked ont so badly that he
will never recover. Nearly every train
that does switching in the yards here is
followed up by boys who jump on and
off and haye good time. but the date is
not SO far distant to have escaped the
memory of our people when Harvey
Eckert and one or two others lost limb.
Better have it stopped.-Mercury.
Beginning March 1, all engines on
the Santa Fe will be numbered and as :
signed to their class, which means plenty
of work for the force of painters along
the line. The figure has also been chang
ed and instead of using one Twenty-Five
inches high as is now the custom, all en-
gines will be numbered with a figure
twelve inches high 1t will be great
change. and it is thought it will make an
improvement in the appearance of the
engines we'll as being more economi-
cal. Mr.. Worth has more than $50 en-
gines III his territory. and it is said that
the change will be made in ten days after
the work is started, which means that he
will have to hustIe.-Newton Republican.
Senator Smith has introduced a bill
which provides that any man stealing a
ride on train is guilty of nisdemeanor
and is subject to arrest by the trainmen.
1t makes the trainmen officers and gives
them power to arrest tran.ps and turn
them oyer to the city officers wherever
they may find it convenient. For years
the tramp evil has been prevalent in Kan
sas. The state has been overrun with
tramps and occasionally railroad man
is killed, who in the performance of his
duty attempts to make the tramp leave
the train. If the bill is passed it will re-
lieve the police courts of a great deal OF
work. and tramps going from the west to
the east will be careful to avoid the state
ENGINE KILLS QUAIL.-Ed White,
the well known engineer, who is also a
famous sportsman, has run between
Freeport and Waterloo, La. He says that
for several days he has seen from fifty to
a hundred f1ocks of quail along the Illi-
nois Central track between Freeport and
Waterloo The snow is deep that the
birds find it difficult to pick up food in
the fields, they gather along the rail-
road track and pick up grain that tails
from grain cars passing over the line
every day The quail so eager in
their pursuit of food that they pay but
little atte ntion fe the approaching trains
and the other day Mr. Whites engine
ran into flock of them, killing dozen
or more.-Freeport (Ill-) Journal
Overtime.