The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1902-07-11
RAILROAD SPIKES.

Conductor Randall is on passenger
Engineer ". Swearingen has been OF
the Pueblo run for a week.
Brakeman John Miller has taken a
layOff and gone east for a vacation.
Joe CuthbertsOn, a boilermaker help /
eT, dislOcated his thumb Sunday even
ing.
Brakeman d. r. Linsley has moved
his family from GOOdland to Roswell,
Col.
Brakeman NJ. G. Jackson has moved
his family to Roswell. They left yes
terday.
Section Foreman Ferris, of Clare
mont, Col, was a GOOdland visitor
tuesday.
John Chambers, foreman of the car
department, has returned from a trip
to Chicago.
Frank Cooper, callbOy, has quit aud
Lee Gillespie, of Colorado Springs, is
IN his place.
Billy HigdOn returned Wednesday
from AtchisOn where be made a visit
with his parents
Engine 1869 is laid up in the round
house, having lost packing box cellar
on a driver axle.
Eric Erickson, who was laying off on
account Of sickness, went to work
again Wednesday morning
Engine S64. while having new set Of
fiues put III, was also reprinted aud
now looks like new engine.
Conductor Farley has been enjoying
a vacation spent at Jennings, Kan.
Conductor Good was on bis car.
Brakeman Ell Luther returned last
week from Kansas City where be was
called by the death Of his father.
No. Al, the Rocky Mountain Limited,
was nine hours late Tuesday on &C
count Of a wsshOut near Fairbury.
Engine $40, Engineer Jacobs, and
/ engine 523, Engineer Brown, are on the
| local freights regular on the east end.
/ Charley Short and IVES Green, of the
machine shops, spent Sunday IN Colo
RADIO Strings where their parents live.
Dennis German, until recently a ma
I chiuist in the GOOdland shops, stopped
I off here Wednesday while en- route
east.
/ Brakeman A B. Whitney has gone
\ to the mountains IN hopes that the
/ change will cure an attack of hay
| fever
/ Engineer B. Hamilton took a vaca
ton last week aud spent a couple
days with his family in Colorado
/ Springs.
Conductor W. Stephens, who is on
/ passenger between Pueblo and Phil
I lipsbuTg, spent Wednesday at his home
in GOOdland.
Invoice Of-alI material is being taken
oy StOrekeeper A J. COOts. A new
system of accounting for material is
being inaugurated-
Brakeman E. Frank Gum. who has
been on passenger trains Nos Al and
- since the service was inaugur ated, is
back to GOOdiand on freight.
Brakeman J. ". Adams is assigned
tC the local freight with Conductor
Buck IN the place Of Brakeman Whit
ney, who will hereafter be on through
freight.
Henry High, of Wilson, Kan was in
town this week for a brief visit with
his son, Roy High, a Rock Island fire
man. he went from here to Denver
for visit with daughter.
Master Mechanic ". E. Anderson
went to Phillipsburg Tuesday night.
His new position gives him jurisdic
tiOn over the mechanical departments
western division.
The engine pits in the shops are
being widened 70 accommodate the
larger-sized engines The concrete has
to be Clipped out and a force Of SIX
men were three days chipping out the
cor crete which Is as hard as rock
Brakeman J. f. Dayton received q
letter that his mother, aged IS years
fell recently aud broke her hip. She
, lives at Decatur, III, and Mr. Dayton
will 20 and see her If further news a
/. to her condition should prove uufav
1 or able
k There was 8 EashOut on the ROcl
Island at the Little Blue at FairburI
Sunday night The approaches to th'
: bridge we're washed away, delaying
7 trains from Chicago and Omaha i
> hours. Trains from the Chicago iioe
e had 10 60 around by Topeka Tn
{ Esshout was filed IN but was washes
5 out again Tuesday night after q feI
trains had passed over It