The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-03-29
RAILROAD SPIKES.

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Engine 500 was sent through to Fair
/ bury Tuesday.
L F. Cooper is new man in the car
repsirers' department.
Brakeman Charley Striker returned
from Topeka Monday.
Division Superintendent F. G. Smith
was here several days this week.
Conductor Denney is back on his car
after being on passenger two weeks.
Engineer Taper, OF the $50, was lay
! ing of this week and Engineer Fuller
had his engine.
Fireman Henry Yantis has returned
from an extended visit to his former
home In Illinois.
Mr.. and Mrs jeff Powers returned
Wednesday morning from visit in At
Gibson aud Kansas City.
Engineer Jim Boyle and Fireman
Bill Dryden with the 907 were sent
through to Fairbury Tuesday,
W. II. Stillwell, of Topeka, superin-
tendent Of the Rock Island west of the
Missouri river, was here Sunday and
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs A Shaw returned Fri
day from Ida Grove, Ia, where they
went to attend the funeral of Mrs.
Shaw's mother
Brakeman Frank Gum is on passen-
ger until freight business becomes a
little more brisk when he will resume
work on freight.
The Rock Island will do its share to
ward identifying Smith Center by con-
verting a waste plot Of ground into a
handsome little park.
Some windows in the Depot hotel
were broken out by chunks of snow
striking them as the snow pillow was
cleaning the track in the yards.
Conductor Joe COurtway is now con-
Quoting a grocery in Kansas City, Kan.
He was until recently a passenger con-
ductor between Kansas City aud Phil
lipsburg-
Mrs. F. ". Barlow and daughter,
I Blanche, arrived here Wednesday TO
visit a few days with friends. They
/ live at Roswell, Col, nOw.-FaiTbuTy
I Journal.
John COrcOran, formerly a section
| foreman at this place, was here Mon
! day, coming in with the snow pillow.
/ He is now foreman Of section at
/ Prairie View.
A number of engines of the Fair
\ bury division helped to relieve the
rush on this division after the storm
/ had subsidized. They only came west
as far as Goodland.
! Engineer Barlow ran to the mile
| board east of the depot Sunday morn
! ing with No. 8 before be discovered
| that he had passed GOodland. The
storm was raging so badly that the
engineer at. could not tell where he was
| The yards were full of cars all day
! Tuesday. Eight sections OF 81 was
sent west. The snow blockade pre-
vented the freights from being moved
/ aud when the storm cleared away the
equipment was taxed in moving the
| trains.
Number 9-the Colorado flyer
pulled by two engines, Engineer Bid
| olson on the Oil and Engineer Pringle
on the 90, was stuck In the snow about
/ a mile and a half west of Brewster,
] Sunday. in the recent storm. They
were stalled for about So hours and
! their experience was anything but
/ pleasant. While the furious blizzard
was at its height, Billy Jacobs, of Brew
ster, at about five o'clock in the even
| ing, made his appearance with we'll
! filed baskets of substantial eatables for
both engine crews. The stOrm-saturat
| ed and hungry men highly appreciated
] this thOughtfulness and offered to
make ample payment, but Mr.. Jacobs
would not accept a cent. Engineer
BiddisOn, in speaking of the matter
said: 81 could do anything for such
people. I have bucked snow In Illinois
/ aud other states, but only In Kansas
/ have l found the people thoughtful OF
\ railroad men and Drawing the blizzard
! to relieve their necessities. The Kan
sas people may be called cranks, anar-
| chists, jsyhawkers, etc, but give me
| Kansas people every time for bravery
generosity aud whOle-hearted benevO
/ leuce. -Hurrah for Kansas" Mr.. Bid
olson is one of the oldest engineers or
| the Rock Island running out of Good
/ land, and Engineer PFingle is a good
second, and both men and their fire
men highly appreciate the kindness
shown them by Mr.. Jacobs.