The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1902-06-27
RAILROAD SPIKES.


Brakeman Joe Tickle is spending q
few days with his parents in Phillips
burg
Division Superintendent &c. Smith,
Of Colorado Springs, was here Wed
nesday.
ED. Hardy, of Topeka, aud W. F.
Ramsey, of Norton, are new black
smiths at the shops.
Conductor George Bagely is back
to work after a three weeks vacation.
Conductor Good was on his car.
Engine 523, just rebuilt aud out of
the shops, and engine 80 will pull the
local freights between Phillipsburg
and Goodland.
Nachinist Nick ScalIiOn. accomp
anied by his wife, left Wednesday
morning for a visit Of a couple of
weeks in Chicago.
Conductor J. 7. Joyce, of passenger
service, who lives in Pueblo, stopped
of in GOOdland Friday on his return
from a trip to Chicago.
Machiuists ". Davis and c. Grow
went to work in the shops Saturday,
but rendered their designations Tues
day and left + or other fields.
Brakeman Frank Gum, Who is on
passenger, WAS here Wednesday even
ing co attend q dance given by the
young ladies at the opera house.
Brakeman Ed Luther was called to
Kansas City Monday in response to a
telegram stating that his father was
dangerously i'll Re left en- the $50
train.
1t is rumored that the engines on Al
and II on the west end will run TO
Denver instead of the Springs. The
change, it Is said. will take place in a
few days.
Nr. N. c. jackson sold his residence
to DR.. 4. g. Gulick this week, consid
Grafton $40. Mr.. Jackson owns prop
eTty IN Roswell where be will take up
MS residence soon.
Andrew Erickson, machiuist appren-
tice In the air brake shop, aud his two
sisters, Bertha and Martha, will leave
tonight for Denver. They will visit
with Mr.. and Mrs. 4. @. Stephenson.
formerly Of GOOdland.
The Rock Island is doing a heavy
westbOund passenger business. There
were two sections Of No. on Tuesday
and Wednesday nights, and No IL and
No have been carrying from two to
four extra cars for several days.
Well-PueblO run, will run out of Good
land hereafter. Fireman ". Roach is
In Dryden's place on the Pueblo run
temporarily which will be taken even
tually by Fireman Milt Peterson.
Car Foreman John Chambers left
/ Wednesday night for a trip TO Chi
/ cagO. He will visit the Rock Island
shops at ChicOgo, Valley Junction, Ia
and Trenton, Mo, TO look over the air
/ appliances and repair methods used
/ at those places. Mr.. Chambers was ae-
/ cOmpanied by his sons, Roy and Frank
With the acquisition Of the Chock-
Y taw, Oklahoma il Gulf railroad the
I Rock Island has also secured the line
/ from Malvern TO Hot Springs, Ark
/ This road has practically q monopoly
on the Hot Springs business During
the last nine years the Hot Springs
road has operated four to five trains
each way daily and each east bound
train has made close connection with
the St Louis, Iron Mountain & South
ern trains at Malvern.
The treasury department has grant
ed the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Railway company permission to add
the following roads to the list of rail
roads embodied in the bond of thai
company, as a common carrier FOL
transportation Of -unappraised mer
chadise from the port of FL Paso: Den
yer i Rio Grande, Chicago, Rock Isl
aud & Ell Paso. FL PasO & Northeast
ern, FL PasO & Rock island, Rock Isl
and * Peoria, st. Louis, Kansas City 1
Colorado, ChOcktaw, Oklahoma & Gulf
Kansas City Southern, st. Joseph
Grand Island, Missouri Pacific. ST
Louis i San Francisco, Chicago, R0el
. Island i Gulf. Collector Garrett ha
been advised OF the order