The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-11-01
RAIL ROAD SPIKES.

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Roadmaster ". E. Bogart was here
Tuesday.
Fireman Page spent a few days in
I Horton the past week.
Conductor S. r. Goode is laying of
owing to a sprsined arm
Andrew Frydendall is back at his
old place as day clerk at the Depot
hotel.
A. Graham, of Topeka, an adjuster
for the Rock Island, was In the city
Friday.
Conduct or Wickersham viii report
for work to-day after a few weeks va
cation
Fireman John Lee, of the Limon-
Denver run, Is spending few days in
GOodlsnd.
Fireman aCount" Mcclure is laying
of nursing an injured finger on his
right hand
Engine s98, Engineer Coots, broke
an eccentric strap near Claremont
the other day.
Trainmaster John Boyle went to
Pueblo Tuesday on business connected
with his Office.
Walter Gordon, machinists' appren-
tice, has quit and has returned to his
home in Topeka.
Dan Derby is erecting an addition to
his house 2OX2O. W. l. White Is doing
the carpenter work.
A. heavy rain fell along the line Of
the Rock Island east and south of
Belleville Wednesday night.
II. D Lavery, operator at LimOn, has
resigned and has been relieved by Op-
orator Williams, Of Chicago.
The Roswell switch engine, No. 81,
was turned out Of the GOodland shops
Wednesday after undergoing thorough
overhaul.
Brakeman ]. Z. Linsley has returned
from several weeks stay in Kansas
City and is back on his car with Con
ductor Farley.
Work was commenced on the steel
work Of the stand pipe Wednesday
morning. The steel is all here aud the
work is progressing rapidly.
Al PreWitt has given up his position
with the Dawson store and has taken
the place Of caller Of engine crews on
the night force IN place Of Jim Woods,
who will work IN the shops. Clyde
Harper takes PreEitt's place at Daw-
sons.
Thirteen cars of cattle, one car of
horses and one car of broom corn were
shipped east from GOodland Sunday
morning. Fifteen cars of stock were
shipped from Colby Tuesday. The cat
tie being shipped east are generally
feeders.
Operator W. i. Excl is very sick in
Colorado Springs with mountain fever.
He was taken i'll here but went TO the
Springs where he has friends. He is
temporarily relieved by j. II. Fields, Of
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, at
Hannibal, No.
Six carloads Of material for the new
ice house and switch have arrived at
Smith Center. No work is scheduled
to be done on the switch until the
middle Of the month, but the ice house
will probably be erected at the lake at
Smith Center at once.
Engineer Dave PringIe, recently dis
charged from the Rock Island at this
point for breaking up a cabOOse at
Limon the other day, has caught re-
gular engine on the Missouri Pacific
out of Pueblo. Mr. Pringle is first /
class engineer and his friends at this
point are glad TO hear Of his good
fortune.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
road will let contracts this week for
100000 of construction work on the /
cut of from Eldon, Ia, to Trenton, Mo. |
The new line will be % miles long and |
will be a reduction Of % miles IN dis
ance from Chicago TO the southwest. |
It will do away with numerous curves
and grades.
Art Wells, at one time employed as
lunch counter boy at the Dinner, but
now in the back shops at GOOdland,
came down Sunday morning and spent
two days In this city -. Conductor
Hubbard's wife and little daughter
came down from GOOdland Monday
morning for a days visit in this city
Phillipsburg News
Cornelius Vanderbilt, who accom-
panied the Rock Island inspection
party, does not look the money prince /
that he is. While neatly dressed, he
was probably the most Indifferent man
as to his apparel In the party. The
young man Is a natural mechanic and
is the inventor of a fire box and boiler,
having entered the shops Of the New
York Central railroad when his father
cut him of with 100000 for marrying
Miss Grace Wilson, who was several
years his senior. Mr.. Vanderbilt takes
a great deal Of interest In mechanics,
and when the special train went west
from GOodland he rode on the engine.
FALL 1901.
We are doing the largest business in
our history We have made prepare
tious 70 do a big business this fall