The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-05-09
RAILROAD NEWS.
Bert Hobble is in wichita.

Double headers or Barr specials, still
exist.
Some improvements have been made
in the Santa Fe freight house building
A. w. Clark, of Kansas City, sue
ceeds Mr.. Vi.lipigue as manager of the
Harvey House.
w. P. Harpole, of Hutchinson. will
move to this city He has place rs
brakeman on the western division. He
is brother of r. D. Harpole-
The railroad companies Will store
many tons of coal. Uuder agre at
coal miners gwen employment dur
ing the summer, and the coal mined must
be stored.
Mr.. Villipigue, late manager of the
Harvey Hotel, goes to La Juunta, re-
lief agent for 80 days. There several
temporary changes in the Harvey hotels.
MIR. Villepigue may return to Dodge
City.
Work is now in progress on the new
coal storage bin the Santa Fe proposes to
erect at Newton, Kansas. 1t will be 400
feet long and about sixteen feet
high, and when completed Will hold
many hundred tons of coal.
1t appeares the extension will bear a
name different from the Rock Island run
ming east from this city. The extension
from Liberal to FL Paso now has the
name of the Chicago Rock Island & Mex
ico.-Liberal News.
The Rock Island has made another
move that will cause no little stir among
western passenger men. This is the an
nouucement that about June 10 it would
put on {. new fast train between Chicago
and Denver and Colorado Springs.
During March the Santa Fee consum-
ed So 900 barrels of crude petroleum as
fuel for its engines, an increase of about
80 per cent within few months. It is
said that the use of this kind of fuel is to
be extended over other lines of this sys-
tenn out side of California.
On the return trip. President McKin-
ley and party will travel over the Santa
Fe from Pueblo to Mcpherson. They
will take the NJ. Sc NJ. branch at Film
wood and will go from there to McPher-
son, where they will take the Union Pa
cif1c to Junction City.
Travel toward the west is so heavy
over the Santa Fe just now that the
supply of passenger coaches is insufficient,
anyhow not be returned fast enough.
Every day they may be seen going east
tackled the of freight trains.
Tuesday Of this week the ticket sale here
to California points amounted to seven
hundred lollars.-Larned Chronoscope.
Engineer V. Coggins, one of the old
est engineers on the Santa Fe leaned ont
of his cab window Saturday while his
train No. passing Plymouth, when
a mail crane strand struck him upon the
head, crushing in his skull and tearing
portion of his head completely off
The force of the blow Knocked him ont
through the window and he fell nearly
outside of the right of way.
A case of small pox was discovered
on an east-beund passenger train Thurs
day. The car was detached and quaran-
tined at this place. The sufferer is
y oung man from Colorado, and will be
under quarantine here until entirely re-
covered from the disease. There is very
little danger of it spreading if people stay
away from that quarter. The car is side
tracked in the yards here and every pre-
caution is being taken to prevent ep-
Investigator.
To hold job as fireman now on the
Santa Fe road man must weigh at least
145 pounds and stand 3 feet 8 inches. |
This is where the limit has been for a |
month or so past. There was time |
not so long ago when to get on as a fire
man, it was necessary for one to weigh |
les but it was found impossible to get |
enough men who would weigh up to this |
and gradually the limit was |
scaled dowH until now it rests at 145 |
pounds.
The management of the Rio Grande |
Western railroad is experimenting on a |
large scale in a new department of rail-
They are securing several |
thousand of catalpa trees to be planted |
along the right Of way of the line for the |
purpose of producing ties for the road. |
1t is stated that they will have the right |
of way beautified by about million /
trees eventually. The results of this cx- |
pertinent in supplying the construction |
department with ties will be closely |
watched by many other companies 1t is |
believed that the day is not far distant !
when other companies will resort to the
same economic method of securing rail-