The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1902-02-21
RAILROAD SPIKES.

Passenger Conductor William High
spent Wednesday in GoOdlsnd.
Robert Zerwekh, a maehinist, return
ed Saturday from visit in Iowa.
Conductor ". Stephens has been
called away By illness Of relative.
The monthly payday for the Rock
Island employees At this place occurred
Monday.
Engine 946 isin the shops for Rener-
al overhaul The engine is from the
Denver run
Conductor Ed Young, who has been
on passenger IN Conductor Fuller's
place, is on his car again
From six to eight cars OF potatoes
pass through every day from Colorado
points en- route 70 Oklahoma
Fireman J. ". Kelly has been as
signed to the ROswell-PueblO run, re-
iinquished by Fireman OakfOrd.
Another train crew has been put on
between Roswell and Pueblo. Con
ductOr Texas" Stevens IS in charge
The pile driver work train Sgndayed
here. They have been working near
LimOn but are now at Smith Center.
Engineer Sam Crooks, of the Ros-
well-PueblO run, has been of duty a
couple Of weeks on account OF illness.
D. W. MsYity is a new bofiermaker
IN the shop who went to work Monday.
He came here from the Rio Grande
shops in Denver.
Brakeman Meek has gone to work
after two weeks layoff on account Of
a sprained arm from falling of an en-
CINE at LimOn.
L ". Brewer, for many years station
agent for the Rock Island at Dresden, |
died there Friday Of pneumonia after
a short illness.
Brakeman Charles McClsren has re- /
turned from several weeks vacation /
IN Missouri. He is at present laid up i
with the humps.
Wa. Young, chief traindispatcher, /
left Friday for Minneapolis, MINI, to I
attend the marriage Of his daughter, /
Miss Matte Young.
". Q. Cullop has a new VOse piano,
purchased Of ]. ". jenkins Sons Music \
company, Of Kansas City, through 4
their local agent, Mrs A. D. Stewart.
Fireman ". D. Oakford, who has
been on the Pueblo run for several
is again running out Of Good
land and has moved his family here.
Dave Pringle, formerly an engineer
Of the Rock Island Of this city but now
with the Missouri Pacific at Pueblo,
vas here this week on q business mis-
sion.
There is a vacancy on local between
5oOdland and Phillipsburg for a brake
man, caused by Brakeman Briggs &C
,epting the run between Roswell and
Pueblo.
It is rumored that there will be two
400 class engines on the Nos. > and 6
runs east of GOOdland. It is expected
hat these engines will make the time
IN these runs under all conditions.
Engine 9O7, Of the east end passenger
iervice,> is on the Denver run in the
place Of the 946 which is in the Good
and shops for repairs. Tue Oil in the
meantime is doing double duty on the
EAST end.
Frank Fuller, an engineer Of the
Rock Island Of Fairbury, died at that
place last Friday morning Of spinal
.rOuble after a long illness. he is a (
brother OF George Fuller, an engineer
If GOOdland, who was with him when
he end came.
Roadmaster Lane expects soon to
'egin laying the S5-pOund steel rails
rom Dresden to GoOdland. The new
ais were laid from Phillipsburg TO
Dresden last year. This is IN antici-
patton Of the heavier power to be used
" this division.
1t is rumOred that the Union Pacific
vii put on q fast mail between Kansas
Jity and Denver. It is understood !
hat il will be a race between the Rock ;
sland and the Union Pacific as to
which will reach Denver first. The /
Union Pacific has the advantage IN the
ace as it not only has the shortest line ,
,ut the Rock Island runs over its
racks from Kansas City to Topeka and
rom LimOn to Denver.
The Rock Island has issued an order
hat hereafter all new engines that are
AIKEN out on the road dead" shall
lave their driving rods coupled. Sew
raj unaccOantable accidents lately sre
attributed to taking the big hog en-
zines out on the road uneOupled, as {
hey rock over on one side and throw ,
III their weight on one pair Of drivers
nd crack or so severely injure the rails
hat they give entirely away under the
weight Of the next train, which is
brown into the ditch. The coupling ,
# the drivers, it is believed, viii pre-
-ent these accidents.
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