The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-04-05
RAILROAD SPIKES.
Freight business is good.

Freight business Is good
/ The pile driver has been repaired
I and was sent ssst Tuesday.
( Fireman 1IiIt Peterson has taken 3
I vacation and has gone to Denver.
Boilermaker Ted Griffin was at
I LimOn Saturday TO mend an engine.
Engine 545 went into the shops for
I general repair and viii not be out for
some time.
Operator ". @. Edwards, formerly OF
I Goodland, has been transferred from
7 Liberal to Caldwell
Business has been quite lively this
week at the Depot hotel, the trade be
/ ing mostly travelling men.
Lee Baker has gone TO GOOdland
I where he has secured a job IN the
Observation-Disclosures Coll Repub-
lican.
Frank Candy, formerly q brakeman
here, IS nOT employed in a similar Ca
pacity with the Santa Fe at Dodge
City
Division Superintendent Smith was
making acquaintance with GOOdland
Wednesday. He came up town and
got shaved.
Mrs. Baldwin, the wife Of T. NJ Bald
win, of the dining car management,
left Wednesday morning for a visit to
Victor, Col
j ". Thomas, formerly conductor on
this division, but now holding a SINH
lar position on the Pratt division, is
here to see his family.
RumOrs Of the consolidation of the
Santa Fe and Rock Island are current.
". q. Purdy, president OF the Rock
Island nnrrinc tho rnu1nr
Mrs. WickeTs sham, wife Of Conductor
j. Wickersham, is expected home Mon
day. She has been visiting friends In
Illinois for about a month.
Machinist T. II. Taggsrt is still in
Denver receiving treatment for the
injury to his eye. 1t is thought that
the sight Of the member is lost.
". R. Morton, Of the Depot hotel, got
home from trip to Topeka Thursday
morning. He reports the city election
IN the capital city quite exciting.
Engine SIS came out Of the shops
Monday after a general overhaul En-
gineer Bush being sick, Engineer Beid-
leman took her out temporarily.
Two engines from the Fairbury di-
vision were here Saturday. The crews
joined the BuhalOes while here and
were well pleased with the initiation.
1t is reported that the Rock Island
will ballast the track from Phillipsburg
to GOOdlsnd this summer. The road
Is ballasted as far west as Phillipsburg.
Joe BlOdgett. of the car department,
has resigned. He left Sunday RccOmp-
anied by his family for Springfield,
Mo-, where they will make their home.
Conductor Ed Denney was the first
GOOdland man to Join the Buffaloes.
He was taken in at PReblO e few weeks
ago, and like good Buffalo, didn't ask
for the change.
Engineer Lon Patrick had an acct
dent on engine S94, a side rod break
ing. He pulled In his train, as she was
a ten wheeler, and only one pair Of
wheels were rendered useless.
Carl Hamilton, formerly a locOmo-
tive fireman and later a brakeman on
this division, was in town this week
meeting old friends. He is a brother
of Engineer B. Hamilton and has been
railrOading in Texas.
Three hundred men Of the Eleventh
United States infantry, from Atlanta,
Ca, passed through GO0dland Friday
morning en- route to the Philippines.
The troops were travelling in a special
train composed of Is cars.
Frank Neugebauer, who gave up a
position as conductor here a year ago
and went to POtaWatOmie county TO en-
gage in farming, has again entered the
service of the Rock Island as cOnduc-
tor, with a run from Harrington to
Pratt.
Dana Stapp, who has lately been en-
ployed in the railway machine shops
at GOOdland, was unfortunate in get
ting a chip of piece Of steel in his eye
one day the fore part of last week. The
doctors there were unable to remove
the foreign object and Dana came down
home and had Dr.. Nelson remove it
He will remain at home until the in
jured optic regains its normal cOndi-
ton. Train No. 6 was double head
ed in and out Friday morning on &C
count of the snow. Engineer George
Fuller was on the lead engine from
GoOdland here, and he didn't have
time TO bat an eye all the way down.
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