The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-01-25
RAILROAD SPIKES.
Ben Joseph and wife we're at Den

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Engineer Taper has recovered from
his injuries and has returned TO work,
/ Conductor Denney was of a trip
this week and Conductor Copley had
his car.
Engineer James Griffin, Of the Den
ger run, came down to GOOdland Sun
day night
Brakeman G. II. DeweIIe, who has
been sick IN Denver, returned to Good
land Friday.
Brakeman D. NJ. Keefe has resigned.
He has returned to his home in Colo
RADIO Springs.
Brakeman ". J. McAIIister is con
/ fined TO his room at the Depot hotel
| sick with lagrippe.
Engineer Ed. Carmichael went to
/ Denver Monday to receive treatment
! for facial paralysis.
! Brakeman MeAIlister returned Sat
urday from Colorado Springs where he
vas laid up sick few days.
Roadmaster G. B. Lane was up from
! Phillipsburg Monday paying of the
extra gang for putting up ice.
T. S. Crane, of AtchisOn, is an ap-
/ prentice in the machine shops. He is
/ a brother Of Mrs. Henry Adams.
Fireman Axle @. Stephenson will re-
move to Denver soon, having been as
| signed to the Denver LimOn run.
Engineer Tom Kelly was transferred
to the Denver passenger run owing to
the illness of Engineer Joe Berry.
Superintendent F. @. Smith, of Colo
RADIO Springs, spent Tuesday night here
on business connected with his Office.
Engineer Lon Patrick left Saturday
morning for Chicago to attend a con-
ference Of engineers with officers Of
the road.
W P.s Collup, q brakeman Of the
Roswell Pueblo run, has taken a run
on the local between GOOdland and
Phillipsburg.
Engineer Ed. Carmichael is suffer
ing from paralysis of the face. One
eye is affected so that he has been IN
able to close it.
G. S. Gillespie, of Topeka, represen-
tatTye of the Standard Insurance com !
pany, was looking after business among |
railroad men this week.
|, Machinist Theodore Kribs resigned /
Monday aud has gone to Cheyenne |
Wells, Col, TO accept a similar position /
with the Union Pacific.
Conductor E. ]. Tippens returned |
from Hot Springs. Ark, Sunday morn /
E=sg and has returned to work. He is /
much improved IN health.
A few Of the extra brakemen will be /
transferred from GOodland TO Herring |
ton to take the place of trainmen who /
are going on the Liberal extension.
Tom Pickenpaugh, formerly a fire /
man on this division, is here this week /
meeting acquaintance. He has been /
on a ranch near Kit Carson, Col, since
last August.
". M. Morris and sister, Of Pueblo, !
arrived in GOodland Tuesday night. /
The sister went on east and he re- /
turned to his post as chief operator Of |
the Rio Grande offices at Pueblo.
ROadmaster W. E. Bsgart, of the west
end, made trip from Roswell to Good /
land Monday on his gasoline veloci- /
pede. He returned on Tuesday. He /
can make from % to 80 miles per hour |
on the machine.
Yesterday mornings mail brought US
an invitation to attend the first annual /
ball Of the Prairie View Division o. R /
O., at GOOdland, February Il The /
conductors will spare nothing to make /
this the SWEETEST affair of the kind ever
held In Goodland. We hope arrange
ments can be made to run a special to /
accommodate those who 90 from here
-PhillipsbUrg News.
A lady called at H. II. Auer & Sons
the other day to buy some canned
goods. She selected a brand mauufac- /
tured by the John Boyle Canning com
pRuy and while the man behind the I
counter was wrapping up the package
the lady inquired. as this our John /
Boyle, the trainmaster?n mo, man."
came the response from the polite /
clerk, ''this John Boyle cans vegetables,
while our John Boyle cans brakemen."
Conductor COurtway did not make
his Usual run from Kansas City to this /
place last Saturday night The fore
part of the week be carried 'flNigger" /
Williams, an engineer, from Clay Gen.
ter to Kansas City without transportR-
ton and the brass collars we're inform
ed, with the result Of smoky Joe" get
ting the bounce. This is the first in 4
stance on record that We know of where /
a conductor has been fired for carry /
ing a railroad man. 1t IS thought that 4
Mr.. COurtWay viii beNreinstated andi
We hope he will be, and when he gets
back on again We trust his large heart 4
viii not get him into any more trouble. /
-PhillipsbuTg News
The railroad bill introduced in the
Kansas senate this week by SENATOR
Cubbison. Of WyandOtte county, is 4
aimed directly at "double heading
It seeks to abolish the practice In the /
state, and is the measure which Kan /
sas railroad men announced some time /
ago would be presented to the Iegisls- /
ture as a result Of the Santa Fe and I
other western roads ina0gurating the I
''tOnnage" system in the handling of I
freight
The bill is entitled aAn act proEid- +
ing for the salty OF the travelling public 1
and to protect the lives and limbs Of /
railway employees and it makes it IN I
lawful for any railway to operate q 1
train of more than i've cars without a 4
full train crew, and one additional i
brakeman for every ten 5aFs IN excess I
Of thirty cars. Barr specials" on the I