The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-08-30
RAILROAD SPIKES.

the round house.
HID. Thompson, Of Norton, Kan, /:
the new clerk in the freight house.
/ superintendent F. c. Smith, of Colo
RADIO SpriDgs,was IN GOOdland Wednes
day.
Clyde Besse, of AImena, is in town
and may 60 to work for the Rock
u Island.
Engine $40 left last week for the
Valley Junction shops Of the company
! f0r an overhaul
Dispatcher ". A. Bonnie and family
have gone to hOuseeping in the Nc
/ ClRsky residence
Will Koonz, night agent at the de-
pot, is unable to work owing to an at
tack of rheumatism
Engine 495 viii be out Of the back
shops Saturday after a thorough over
haul, and viii be as good as new.
/ Machinists' Apprentice Funk re-
] turned to work Monday after being OF
/ duty two weeks owing TO sickness.
Engineer Frank Fuller has had an
/ other stroke Of paralysis more serious
than the frst.-Fairbury Journal.
Andy Kreuzer and family have gone
/ to Atlantic, Ia, where they viii spend
a few weeks among relatives and &C
Z quaintances-
Shop Foreman Prothero has been Of
/ fered a position with the Milwaukee
road, but prefers to remain with the
/ Rock Island.
Joe Mann, Of the freight house force,
has taken Roy Wichael's place on the
night depot force. jim Woods has
Mann's place.
Brakeman Frank Gum has returned
from Denver where he has been during
a sick spell He will report for work
IN a few days
Conductor Taylor went TO Denver
/ Wednesday in hopes that the change
OF altitude might benefit distressing
case Of hay fever.
Night Operator Hulse, Of Limon, has
resigned and viii take a position on
the Denver and Rio Grande. D. Hal
lOran takes his place.
Thomas Taggart is improving his
residence. He Will reshingle the
whole house, repaint and pencil il, as
it is a brick structure
Nick ScaIlion has the position Of
round house foreman at present. q. h
Hotter. who has been acting foreman,
will work as q macbinist.
Roy Wichael left this week for HOis-
ingtOD. Kan. where be has q position
in the freight house OF the Missouri
Pacific with promotion in sight.
Dave Agerter, Of Cripple Greek, for
merly a Rock Island conductor Of this
place, but now with the Midland Ter
minal, is in town on a business mission.
Conductor Patrick and crew, Of the
Roswell Pueblo freight run, brought |
train TO GOOdland Tuesday on account 1
Of a shOTtness Of train crews at ROs- /
we'll.
Brakeman Earl Thorson returned |
Sunday from eastern Kansas His |
wife, who had been visiting IN eastern /
Kansas, returned home with her hus- /
band.
Brakeman Theodore Close will move
to Phillipsburg as he is on the local /
with Sunday layoEer at that place. /
Mrs. Close viii leave for Phillipsburg 1
this week.
W.P. Brinker and wife have returned /
from a protracted stay in Illinois for
the benefit OF Mr. Drinkers health. He /
is greatly improved and will take his
place as round house foreman.
d. d. Jones, formerly a conductor
out Of Kansas City on the Rock Island
road. was In GoOdland several days
insurance business, being an agent for
the Union Mutual Life Insurance com
pany-
". J. Fitzgerald, accompanied By
his wife and two daughters, Of Cald-
well, Kan, was in the city yesterday.
Mr.. Fitzgerald was formerly q passen-
ger engineer on this division but was
transferred to the Texas line OF the
Rock Island a number Of years ago.
John Gill, master mechanic OF the
Rock Island at the Trenton shops, on
the first OF next month succeeds Fl.
MOnkhOuse as superintendent OF mo-
tive power Of the MonOn, with head
quarters at Lafayette. MOnkhOuse re-
signed to take q position with an east
ern rOad--TOpeka State Journal.
The B. & N. has q new Dutch brake
man. The passenger conductor in
him that when a stop was
made at a station he must call out at
his end Of the train, for the informa-
ton Of travellers, the same name that
he-the conductor-did at the other.
In due time 3 stopping place was reach
ed The conductor shouted SMcCOokT5
Same at dis endm yelled the brake
man.-St. Francis Rustler.
Fourteen carloads Of the first batal-
lion Of the Fourteenth United States
on their way TO Buffalo from 4
China and the Philippines passed
through GOOdland Wednesday morn
ing at one o'clock. The train was
pulled by 500, Engineer Ebert, from
the west, and S44, Engineer Kelly,
took them east Conductor MatlOck
took them through from Colorado
to PhiIiipsburg.
The Chicago Denver and Colorado
Springs trains known as the Rocky
Mountain Limited" viii be discon-
tinued about September 10, 50 il is an
nOunced- The service vas inaugurated
June IS and the trains are the finest IN
the country. The reason for their sb-
andonment. it IS claimed. is lack Of 10
cOmOtiTss. The new lines recently con
structed By the Rock Island have ere
sted q demand for all the engines avail
able