The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1903-08-28
RAILROAD NOTES.

A gasoline lamp has replaced one Of
the coal oil variety on the depot plat
form.
The wife and daughter of Engineer
May berry have gone to Milwaukee for
a visit
Bert Elsmore, G. A. Mann, S. a. Nc
mOnagle and J. Sloan are new boiler
makers at the shops.
The local passenger train between
here and BeileTille has been dubbed
the Emilk-shake special
Engineer Tim Foley has taken q
months vacation aud left Wednesday
for visit to his former home in Kan
sss City.
Mrs. Charles Stombaugh, wife Of
Fireman Charles StOm baugh. is here
from Pueblo. They Will occupy rooms
in the Candy residence.
Martin Douglas is the new boiler
maker foreman, and it is his intention
to organize a bOilermaking force here
that will meet all the demands.
Amos Claxton has returned from
Mexico where be has been running an
engine for several years He will re-
enter the employ OF The Rock Island.
John Ward, blacksmith, is sick with
/ typhoid fever at his room In the o. Q.
I
down Sunday and is reported quite i'll.
The loss By friction on the worlds
railways Is enormous IN the aggregate.
Dr.. Haarman, a German, estimates
that it reaches "a, 600 tons Of steel iH
a year.
Brakeman Gene Luther. Of the local
! passenger train, has changed runs
Z With Everest Burt. who has been
/ brakiDg for Conductor Hunt, OF the
freight service.
The father aud uncle Of Charles and
George Sherman, who have been hsv-
| ing an outing in Colorado Springs,
/ came to Goodland Wednesday for a
visit with the boys.
Engineers Boyle and BiddfsOn have
been assigned regular to No. . and .,
/ the new local passenger Conductor
I j. ". Usher, OF this division, and A A.
\ Brindle, Of Fairbury division, are in
charge Of the trains.
/ After a two months visit with the
l John Mccall family, Of Grant town
I ship, Harley Wichael, son Of p. W.
\ Wichael, went TO Denver wednesday
70 meet his father there, who is an ex-
! press messenger between Council
/ Bluffs and Denver.
/ Roy Warner, or Almena, who has
I been working in the railroad yards 81
/ GOOdland, for some months, has been
I promoted and Is now q full fiedged
/ brakeman He is brakinR on the
I local freight between GOOdland aud
\ neutrality-suspicious. Plaindealer.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. P ListOn, Of Be
/ strice, Nsb-, we're in the city last week
! and left for their home Monday night.
Mr. ListOn owns a residence here aud
/ Is cOnsidesing the matter Of building
! amt her Nn-- i e.
/ station aRent'at GOOdlRnd and is now
! agent OF the Rock Island at Beatrice
The bath tub in the shops, which
7 was put in several years ago for the
use OF the employees, has been torn out
\ TO make room for new machinery.
/ Considerable complaint has been eX-
I pressed at this, and the men hope that
I that tub will be put in some other
\ place IN the shops as they regard it as
q necessity and an aid in sanitation.
/ George W. Vanderslis, superintend-
/ ent OF the Superior division Of the
\ Northern Pacific railway, has resigned,
\ 70 become q division superintendent
Y OF the Rock Island railway, with head
I quarters at Kansas City. His juris-
7 dictiOn will extend from Rock Island
to Kansas City, LesEenworth, St. Joe
/ and AtchiSOn- He succeeds A. III.
I Nall, who had his headquarters at
/ Trenton, No.
No. a, westbOund passenger, had
I narrow escape from running into the
7 ditch last week between Agate aud
/ Deer Trail. A heavy rain had fallen
/ over the country and Engineer Patrick
I Was running on SLOW orders as the re-
suit OF a soft track At one place the
7 ties and the rails remained intact bat
Z the earth had slumped away, and not
Z being discovered the engine lurched
down on one side leaving q large ex-
E caFstion under the rails at that point
( Patrick succeeded In getting the whole
train over the dangerous place with
! out injury.