The Globe-republican., 1902-04-17
RAILROAD NEWS.

Bert Hobble. who is freight agent at
Bucklin, in the city Monday
-Chas. Henryswas up from Caldwell
where he is employed on the Rock Is
land.
Rain extended over the Rock Island
and Santa Fe roads considerable distance
west.
When Admiral Bob Evans got to
California, he told a reporter that the
employees of the Santa Fe We're the most
courteous and intelligent Sc
of men he ever met.
The Rock Island has again changed
time. The morning train leaves here at
8 20 O'Clock and arrives at IL :05 O'Clock
There is no change in the evening trains,
the train going east leaves at :25 and re-
turns at O'Clock.
In its annual report of the State
Board of Railroad Commissioners, the
Pullman Palace Car company complains
that its property in Kansas is assessed at
nearly 81, 800 more than it is worth. 1t
also says that it transacted business in
Kansas last year at loss.
The members of the State Board of
Railroad Commissioners left Monday for
UP over the Liberal DfanCn OF the
Rock Island for the purpose of secureing
Information to assist them in assessing
the line. 1t is their intention to make
trips over number of roads.
At the time the division superintendent
are in Topeka working on the June LIST
time card, it is said that several other
important changes viii be arranged for
aside from providing for a semi weekly
SfaI.e f{t1f0
Train No. and Mail train No. Z, will be
changed considerably No Z. will be
run several hours earlier. The changes
will make considerable difference in the
places where these trains stop for meals,
and some of the Harvey eating houses
on the Santa Fe may be abandoned.
w r. Haney, young man about &c
years old, while beating his way east on
No Sunday night, attempted to jump
from the train near the freight house and
was thrown under the wheels, his right
leg being severed from his body near the
thigh. He picked up and carried
into the freight house. and later taken
to the railroad hospital where his leg was
anlputated near the thigh. Haney
had been working at Gardner, coal
camp in New Mexico, and was on his way
to his home in Prospect Dale, Va, wber e
he has a wife and child He was report
ed as getting along nicely yesterday
morning and will probably pull through
right.-La Junta Tribune.
-Superinte ndent q. E. Aver, Superin-
tendent of Bridges and Buildings B. F.
Mills and Roadmaster j. NJ. Sax were in
Syracuse Monday for hour. They
were on their annual inspection of bridges
and were going over the road on an auto
mobile car Mr.. Aver states that the bunk
house at Coolidge and 75-foot dining
hall at Albuquerque will be removed to
Syracuse and probably erected .immedia-
tely south north of the depot to be
used as a Harvey eating house. The
dining hall viii seat about rs people at
tables. The decision to make that a
regular dining station has been arrived at
quite recently Mr.. Ayers also said that
from five to eight crews would be there
regularly. This is also a substantial in
crease oyer the original plans. A 80
foot steel tank will be erected near the
coal chutes which will furnish water
pressure for all purposes. Tie past week
has witnessed the laying of most of the
switches connecting the main line with
sidings and sub sidings.