The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-03-13
RAILROAD NEWS.

The Santa Fe has $40 rate to Califor-
MIA aud return.
There are grading outfits at Lamar
and Prowers, grading for ballasting of
track.
M G. Nuckles has gone to Olney.
Kansas. where he will act as relief agent
on the Rock Island.
The Rock Island leaves Bucklin at
S 20 a. m, and arrives at Ell Paso the
following morning at 80
The Santa Fe ice house is filed with
2000 tons of pure ice Only 500 tons have
heretofore been stored here.
F E. Buback passed examination
satisfactorily and was promoted conduc-
tor Feb. 24. Geo. L. Clark also
passed examination and was promoted
conductor.
Conductor Heustis, while examining
fruit Tuesday night, slipped and
fell back against the track opposite the
car. He struck on his side and was un-
conscious for a short time.
A grading outfit is at Syracuse,
where a new division point is to be
tablished. A stall round house is to be
built at Syracuse. 1t is half way between
DOOGe City anu La Cunla
Tom Skillington. of Dodge City,
came down Sunday morning to spend
few hours with his old chums amid their
old haunts and talk over old escapades.
Tom is now night crew caller for the
Santa Fe aud is doing well.-kinsley
NJ ercury.
The Santa Fee started out rather an
unusual shipment Friday Hold New
comb of Topeka shipping car load
! of blue grass sod to Las Vegas, where
1 500 feet of it VIII be required for the
park of the new hotel. Several thousand
feet will probably be shipped from To-
peka to Albuquerque for the big hotel
which is now in process of construction
there.
The arrivals OF the Rock Island train
do not correspond with its published
time card. For instance, yesterday the
train did not arrive until noon, and the
| time was 8 :35 a IN. This is a daily oc-
currence. This train carries the mail,
and if it arrived on time it woAld be of
advantage to the business of the city.
J Passengers complain of being detained
SO long at Bucklin.
The fastest long distance train in the
world is on the Paris Calais run, for the
convenience of travel between Paris and
London, which is scheduled cover the
! distance of 1874 l. 2 miles in three hours
A stop of four minutes is made at Annie N :,
and the speed is greatly reduced in run
ming through the city of Calais to the
/ bier when passengers embark for Dover
The express train service in France is
| wonderfully developed.
| Sheriff Beaman, of Pueblo, was here
Tuesday morning. with requisition for
the arrest of H. G. Knapp, who is charged
with forgery. Mr. Knapp telegra pher
in the dispatcherss office. He is charged
with forging n duebin for SCI, on the
| Colorado Fuel and Iron Co., and getting
it cashed at a store of the Colorado Sup
ply Co. This alleged occurrence was
previous to Mr.. Knapp's coming here
about six weeks ago. He was then in the
employ of the Fuel and Iron Company,
ut Anthracite. Mr. Knapp has wife and
children, and there is much sympathy
for them. He was taken to Pueblo and
will secure bond.
Mr.. Knapp was paymaster of the Fuel
| and Iron Co., and filled out blank check
which was already signed by the compa-
ny's agent. The company had held out
this amount from Knapp's wages, for a
debt he was said to owe. Mrs. Knapp
and children will go to Illinois.
| The Santa F'e railway has set on foot
a big movement to populate the land ly-
ing along its route from Kansas City to
Old Mexico. E. H Andrus, who for
seven years was in charge of the Union
Pacific land office in Kansas City, has
been appointed general immigration
agent for the Santa Fe, and has already
entered upon the work of his new office.
He proposes to revive some of the meth
DDS which were so successfully employ ed
twenty years ago in getting settlers into
| Western Kansas and Nebraska, and he
confidently believes that thousands OF
people will be induced to move to the
land he has charge of within the next
few years
Don't be afraid of the big officers OF
railroads. They are all men just like
yourself and you have nothing to fear
from them SO long as you perform your
well Eshen F. Mcleod