The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1903-04-17
RAILROAD NOTES.

Engine 1873 has been retouched aid
looks quite new.
W. L. White, carpenter st the rail
road shops, has quit.
Conductor Farley is laying of and
is building fence on his hog ranch at
SeldeD.
Two engines, 1873 and 1878, went out
Of the shops this month after general
overhaul
Conductor Usher is on passenger
run while High is laying of on q brief
vacation.
The stand pipe at the depot was
emptied and cleaned out Wednesday
afternoon.
Regular train and engine srews will
be assigned to 90 and 81 between
Goodland and Denver.
Master Mechanic Anderson left
to Valley Junction, Ia.
Mschinists Branton aud Edwards
will take a trip to Omaha after pay
day to visit their families.
Fred J. Nestlebush, Of Omaha, who
is working in the machine shops here,
is famous base ball pitcher.
Mat elmo, the steam pipe man, was
sent to a hospital at Denver suffer
ing from typhoid fever, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fuller are visiting at
Long Beach, Cal Mr.. Fuller is pass.
enRer conductor over this division.
William Newton, maehinist, had his
little finger mashed Sunday and went
home to Canon City, Colo, Monday.
Conductor Tippens is on passenger
as conductor W. Stephens is laying of
on account Of Mrs. Stephens illness.
Miss Kate Lswless, of Palmyra. Wis.
| is visiting with Mr.. and Mrs. S. B. Hub
bard. Miss Lawless is a sister Of Mrs
Hubbard
| The snow pillow has been taken of
| engine SO which has been assigned 90
/ the ROswell-PueblO freight run, in the
place of engine 1859.
Denver has been made a preferred
run with the conductors of freight
! crews. Usher, Randall and Webster
are slated for these runs.
Engine 1905 has been given a new
coat Of paint and light repairs. It il
one of the new engines. The lettering
/ and numbering are in aluminium.
A sleeping car has been put on A
and ~ between Chicago and Colorado
| Springs. These cars are new and
strictly up to date. Besides this a din
ing car instead of cafe car has been
| added.
Engineer Tom Kelly, who has beer
| very sick at st. Joseph's hospital, Den
! yer, is so much improved that the hos
pitsl physicians released him Thurs.
| day. Mr.. Kelley is now at his home in
Denver.
| Local freight east, No. %, has been
/ put on special time in order TO rC 81
/ through milk and cream which is tsker
| on along the road. It leaves here al
| eight O'Clock and arrives at Phillips
burg at BIO.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Gum left las
week for Colorado Springs, and viii
not return to GoOdland He received.
| q severe injury to his arm while switch
/ ing in the yards here aud has not been
| able TO go to work since. In all prob
ability his railroad days are over.
A dead American eagle is keepin,
company with Hsr ling's stuffed ante
1 lOpe. It measures four feet from tiL
/ TO tip Of wings. harding says sons
kids killed it back of the shops as I
vas about to pounce upon his ante
| lOpe. Another account is that it was
brought from the west in q conductor
/ way car.
A test of the hauling capacity o
Santa Fe engine No 987, the larges
ever constructed, is being made on Ra
ton mountain. It is rated to draw 81
tons. The load which it is Juggling a
on the hill is a train Of $50 tons load
The engine is an immense affair and
railroad men are taking a lively inter
est in the test to which the locomotive
is being subjected, and while many be
lieye it viii accomplish the feat other
doubt its possibility.