The Goodland republic., 1902-03-28
RAILROAD SPIKES.

eral overhaul
Bert Osborn, OF Emporia, is a new
IemPloye at the freight depot.
! Engine 946 came out Of the shops
/ Friday after receiving light repairs
and a coat Of paint.
Fireman Jack Kelly, Of the Roswell
7 Pueblo run, spent few days vacation
in GOOdlaud last week.
Machinist Robert ZsrEekh was at
I Topeka this week to take the degree
in Scottish Rite Masonry
General Foreman ". E Anderson
was at Horton this week on business
/ connected with his Office.
Conductor High, Of passenger ser
vice, is laying Of and Freight Con
ductOr Young Is in his place
Joe Mann, Of the depot force, is
spending a few days vacation in Marys-
vile, Kan. Gene Luther is in his place
Conductor Tom Eiwards, Of pas
seDger service, IS ia town for a brief
visit. He recently returned from q
I trip to California.
Billy Jacobs, of Brewster, was in
/ town Wednesday. He is a brother Of
| Engineer Bert Jacobs and formerly
worked in the shops.
Detective Smith, in the employ Of
the Rock Island railroad, was in Good
land Monday and Tuesday on business
connected with his Office.
Two painters painted the standpipe
Monday. The work was completed in
one day. The men were from the paint
ers' force stationed at Chicago.
Engineer Ed Carmichael was in To-
peka this week to attend a reunion of
the Royal Arch MasOns. He has been
laying of since the first Of the month.
Charles Striker, formerly a brake
man on this division, left yesterday
for Denver where be will undergo an
operation for an injury to his hand
which he received while In the train
service
The Rock Island is putting in a
heavier and longer turn table At Phil
lipsburg to accommodate the larger
class Of engines being sent to this
division. This looks like PhillipsburR
would not lose the division after al.
Charley Taper, Of Pueblo. was in
town this week the guest Of his broth
eT, A. f. Taper. Charley was formerly
employed in the car department Of the
Rock Island at this place, but Is now
in the employ Of the Rio Grande in a
similar capacity.
Engine $50 was sent to the Dalhart
division last week to be used in pas
senger service. Engineer Taper and
Fireman Critchfield, the 5G6's crew, will
remain on the extra board until they
are supplied with a "hOg," which will
arrive early next month.
Two Raymond Whiteomb excursion
trains, one from Colorado Springs and
one from Denver, went east over the
Rock Island Tuesday night There
we're five cars in one train and seven
in the other. The tourists we're bound
for Atlantic coast points
RI. Jones, the eldest section fore
man in point Of service on the Rock
Islan1 west OF the river, has been trans
land, succeeding G. Finch. Mr.. Jones
will move his family to GOOdland. Mr.
Finch will 20 to Oklahoma.
". W. Leeman. for many years an
engineer Of this division, but now trsv-
cling engineer Of the Rock Island lines
west Of the Missouri river, is acting
foreman at Fairburv during the ab-
sence Of Foreman Z. o. Cole, who has
taken a vacation and gone to Salt
Lake.
The Rock Island westbound passen
ger train that passes through Good
| land at $40 in the morning struck
I buggy at q street crossing In East
Pueblo, Col, Wednesday, killing Mrs
/ John Close aud her infant son and in
I iurying Miss Ella Hines, 81 years old
I Engineer Mike Stanton was in charge
/ of the engine.
A. 9. Adams, who was recently ap-
/ pointed master mechanic Of the new
/ Rock Island shops, at Chickasha, l. T.,
| served his apprenticeship at the Cen
I tral Branch shops, under II Y. FAIRIES.
says the railroad chronicler Of the To
I peka Journal Adams was transferred
| to Chiekasha from GOOdland, Kan 81,
/ where be was master mechanic of the
/ Rock Island. Walter Scott, who is to
have charge Of the boiler shops at
! Chickashs, was a machinist at the Cen
/ trail Branch when Adams was cub
there, and once sent him after a left
I hand monkey wrench
/ A Salida, Col, dispatch to a Denver
/ paper says: "The Denver & Rio Grande
/ broke even Friday with the game ward
en- OF the state, and it was not 8 good
day for game, either. Engineer J. G.
/ Matthews, running from Pueblo to this
[ city, killed a fine deer just east Of the
| Royal Gorge. At Parkdsle Engineer
/ Ed Greenman, engine 9l0, ran over q
mountain lion, cutting il in half. II
/ was trying to cross under the train
Z Engineer Grsenman is well known
here, having formerly been employed
by the Rock Island on this division.
I Foreman Ames Remembered