The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-02-15
RAILROAD SPIKES.
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Engineer Mason, Of Colorado Springs
| IS again at work after a short Hines.
Mrs. Tyler, of Colorado Springs, wife
Of Conductor ". Q. Tyler, is in town.
Engineer J. b. Berry, Of the Denver
and LimOn passenger run, was here
Sunday.
Conductor Stephens was of duty
this week and Conductor Wilson had
his car.
Brakeman Bob Clark was off duty all
week in order to catch on to the con
ductOrS' ball.
Fireman Charles Sherman is laying
of and spent a few days in Colorado
Springs this week.
Chief Dispatcher Young now has a
sign on his door which reads asfollOws:
Book agents keep out"
Conductor Walters was off duty this
week owing tO-the serious illness of
MS little son, Clarence.
Conductor Farley, of the local run.
was off a few trips this week and Con
ductOr COpley had his car.
Trainmaster Boyle was down to Lo-
gan, Kan, this week to see his girl and
get a partner for the Boyle.
Conductor S. B. Hubbard is on the
pile driver. He relieved an east end
conductor who was taken i'll.
Conductor Stevens and. crew, of the
R1sweIl-PueblO run, have been pulled
off on account of slack business.
Engineer William Mcclellan, of the
ROswell-PueblO run, was here this
week with his engine for repairs.
Charley Short, of the shop force,
has returned from Manhattan where
he was called by the death Of a relative.
The passenger trains, due here at
1:15 and 5:25 a. m, did not arrive until
one p. N. Saturday, owing to a snow
blockade in central Kansas
Brakeman George Cunningham, for
merly Of this city, who is on passen-
ger between Kansas City and Phillips
burg, was in town Wednesday.
Conductor G. II. Copley returned
Saturday from relieving Conductor
Converse who was on passenger run be-
tween Pueblo and Phillipsburg.
Postal Clerk John A. Walbach re
turned Monday from a visit to his fam
lily at St. Francis. His route is from
Colorado Springs to Kansas City.
Engineer Barlow and family, Of ROs-
we'll, passed through here Wednesday
morning en- rOute to Burlington, Ia,
called there by the illness of a relative
Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Waters, of Salt
Lake City, were here Tuesday and stop
ped at the Depot hotel Mr.. Waters is
a conductor on the Rio Grande West
eTn.
J. F. Franklin, night baggageman at
the depot, will take a months leave of
absence The boys around the depot
are suspicious of John, as to what be
will bring back.
Two more new Southern Pacific en-
gines passed through GoOdland Mon
day night. They were from the Bald
win locomotive works and were in care
Of Thomas Ganghd.
Brakeman J. NJ. Dickinson, Of ROs-
we'll, returned Sunday a. N. from Ohio
where he had been to take the remains
of his sister, Miss Dickinson for burial
She died in Colorado Springs of throat
trouble.
The new round dance called the "slow
drag" will probably be pulled off at
GOOdland tomorrow night. All west
end conductors will interpret this to
mean about 80 cars up the Almena hill
that is the slow drag on that division.
-PhilIipsburg News.
The biennial period, I899-I9OO, was a |
prosperous one for the Order of Rail |
way Conductors. On December 81, /
1898, the order had 383 subordinate |
divisions, containing 1850 members. !
On December 81, 1900, it had 4O7 sub |
ordinate divisions, containing 24,644 /
members. On December 81, 1898, the /
mutual benefit department Of the /
order had 1I,4O3 members, carrying in /
RgRregating S34, ST, 900. On /
December 81, 1900, this department !
had 2O,4l5 members, carrying insurance |
to 9,S8I, 900. During the |
years 1899 and 1900 the benefit depart |
ment paid insurance claims as follows: /
One hundred and eighty-One claims of 4
!, 900 each, S181. 900; 12I claims Of s.
)OO each, S242, 900; I76 claims Of $1,000 |
each, 500, 900; is claims Of $1,000 each, /
$4,000; two claims of 5000 each, So
300. Total, sI,O25.OO0.
The new extension Of the Rock Isl |
and now building between Liberal, !
Kan, and FL PasO, Tex, is being push /
ed forward at the rapid rate of three /
miles Of finished track per day Al |
ready 80 miles Of the roadway is ready i
for the rails and large force of grad-{
5rS are at work several miles IN advance /
Of the track layers. The rapid progress /
Ia laying the track on this new extern
sion is made possible by using a new 4
track laying machine. This machine /
greatly facilitates the work by deliver /
ing the tbs and rails to the WOrkmen I
IS fast as needed. When this new ex 1
tension is completed, the Rock Island I
viii have the longest piece Of straight 4
rack Of any railroad IN North Ameri- /
"a, the track being 50 laid that for a /
distance Of 10 miles there Is not a 4
aurva The nav bridga on this ayrto77
sion, over the South Canadian river, /
IN which work began a few days ago,
viii be 10 feet long and 80 feet above /
he water.
The instruction car Of the Interua-
5ional Correspondence school, of /
Scranton, Pa, stopped here several /
lays this Wesk and left on the morning
rain Thursday for Roswell, Col This
& incornnraEal nth . .arst,I