The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-11-15
RAILROAD SPIKES.

Sunday.
Engine sd is in the shops for q gen
eral Overhsuiing.
Engineer Tom Kelly has gone 70
! Denver to visit with his mother.
Dan Stapp, machinists' apprentices,
has quit the shops. It was q case Of
| sass"
Earl Hida has returned from q visit
to Kansas City and is st work again Ia
the shops.
Foreman Dave ConQdon and gang
are here doing the concrete work for
the turn table.
Oscar Strand is a new machInists'
apprentice in the shops. He is q son
Of Gus Strand.
Dispatcher ". A. Bonnie is spending
q short vacation in Denver. He is SC
cOmpanied by Mrs. Bonnie.
Dennis Griffin, formerly Of Good
land. Is employed as a brakeman on
the Rock Island at DalhRrt, Tex.
Machinist Robert Zerwekh was at
Colby last week for q visit with his
uncle, State Senator BuschoW.
George Humphrey, scale inspector
for the Rock Islnnd, was here Monday
on business connected with his Office.
1AEAnCGE L. NThnDle mas moved
bis family into town from the farm in
Antelope precinct.-Fairbury Journal.
The international Correspondence
School car, of Scranton, Pa, is in the
yards here and viii remain all the
week.
The stand pipe will be finished BY
the end Of the week. The iron work is
being painted as fast as it is put in
position.
The instructor Of the correspondence
school car was giving lessons on the
air brake to q class Of railroad men
Wednesday.
The rotary snow pillow is already for
business with old Boress. The pillow
has just been equipped with an electric
headlight.
L K. Foster, until recently an en-
gineer on the Rock Island, will leave
soon to look for employment on an
other road.
John McCurdy has Just completed
his f1ftieth year as engineer on the
Michigan Central, and although 20
years Of age makes daily trips between
Michigan City and Jackson, 153 miles.
"PrOf." johnson, Of the dining car, is
writing a play which he will name THE
Car Cleaners Dream, or the Walters
Revenge" The play will be presented
at LimOn during the holidays for the
benefit Of the 'policy" fund.
Fireman Milton Peterson returned
Sunday morning from Chicago where
be has been several weeks as q men,
Der of the grievance committee OF fire
men from each division Of the Rock
Island system in conference with the
general manager.
The new turntable was put in place
Tuesday. The old one was hOistsd
with oil jacks, blocked up with ties
and removed on rollers. Then the new
one was put in place by reversing the
process. There was not q hitch in the
work of removing the old one and put
ting the new one in place.
J. NJ. Jewell, Of Goodland, spent Fri
day visiting his friends here He will
be remembered as the genial electric
ian who put in the local telephone
system last year. He now has his old
job as linemsn for the Rock Island
Smith Center Journal.
Smoke started from the I5O foot
chimney at the Horton shops last week.
1t is expected that when the new boil
ers are started up the smoke will never
stop pouring from this monstrOus
chimney, day or night, summer or
winter, for years and years. It will in
deed be long, long smoke.
NJ A. Low, general attorney for the
Rock Island, last week filed an amend
ment to the charter Of the company,
increasing its capital stock from So
100000 to 10000 900. It is understood
the increase in capital stock Is to pay
for the numerous proposed extensions
to the Rock Island system. The char
ter fee paid the state amounted 70
q, 100.
Walter Gordon joined Knauser's
gang In the drill press corner yester-
daY Gordon has been in the shops
before, but not for about q year past.
Part Of the time he was an apprentice,
and be wa also Office boy. he 1as
been with he Rock Island at GOodland
for some tine.-Santa Fe Notes in To
peka Capita l.
The officers Of the Rock Island on
their return 10 Chicago from their an
nual inspect ion trip, reported them
selves as muG b pleased with the condl-
ton OF the road. r. r. Cable, chair
man Of the e1 -ecutive committee, says:
ave found th physical condition Of
the road excel ent and business gener-
orally good. So far the loss Of the corn
crop has not .Hected trade through
out the south twest- The territory
through WHICH, the GAE dSO oASSA5AoA
runs is one OF great promise, and We
look for it to pa from the start"
Conductor Tom Edwards and a. F.
Keith, Of Denver, are here for q hunt
on the Smoky. In company with e Z
Biddison yesterday they drove TO the
Smoky where they v III make new re-
cords In killing game. Keith was for
merly an engineer on the Rock Island
of this city but is now proprietor Of q
cigar store IN Denver.