The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1903-11-27
RAILROAD NOTES.

Engines $50 and 462 carry the wedge
snow ploEs-
The steam hammer is in place and /
was put to work Wednesday.
". ". Leeman, master mechanic,
was at Dalhsrt, Tex, this week.
Steve Roach, engine mems time
keeper IN the superintendent's Office, /
has resigned
Nearly ali Of the clerks IN the super |
intendent's Office spent Thanksgiving /
at'ColOradO Springs.
Foreman Croker, Of the night round /
house force, was OF duty Sunday /
night owing TO slight illness.
Foreman Clever, Of the concrete |
gang, IS here With a force OF ten men |
to do repair work on buildings.
The big palmer was put to work
Wednesday morning, having been put
IN place and gesred up this week
Fireman o. B. Jefreys, who has been
on the Roswell work train, will take q
run on the east end on trains Nos. 81
and %.
The shop apprentice boys went to
Phillipsburg yesterday to play a match
ed game Of foot ball with the town club
at the burg.
Engine 1910 came out of the shops
after general overhaul this week. Five
other engines are in the shops for
thorough overhaul
f. D. Fletcher, Of Fort Scott, arrived
IN GOOdland Saturday and took a PO-
sitiOn as stenOgrapher in the master
mechanics Office.
The work train employed between
Roswell and LimOn has been laid of
I e l.
Of Conductor Stevens
Frank Campbell, brother of Road
master Dunnean's wife and Miss Anna
Campbell, is a newcomer to GOOdland
aud will work in the machine shop.
Conductor E. J. Tippins will leave
soon for an extended stay in the sunny
south. He viii spend some time in
Galveston and other southern resorts
r. A. Gibson, of Trenton, Mo-, ar
rived In GOOdland Wednesday for q
visit with his son, j. NJ. Gibson, who is
/ q brakeman on the road here.
Engineer II. Brosso, who is on the
/ milk special, has taken q layof and
i went to Denver to attend to some bust
/ ness looking TO the removal of his
family here.
| Engineer Hugh Robertson was here
Il from Denver Saturday and Sunday.
Robertson has been of duty for sew
| eral weeks owing TO an injury which he
/ received to his left hand. He is not
able to work as yet.
h 3. Gilmore, Of Chicago, is acting
| as storekeeper temporarily while r. d.
| Wolfe, the regular stOrekeeper, is IN
/ quarantine at his boarding place at
the home Of ]. B. Trent.
Elmer Anderson, Of the machine
shop, has quit and gone 70 Denver
where he viii work in the Colorado &
Southern shops, Of which his father,
/ ". Z. Anderson, is general foreman
| Charles Keller, the brakeman who
lost his lost arm at the shoulder at
Roswell several weeks ago, is out Of
the hospital at Colorado Springs and
is expected TO return 70 GOOdland
soon.
/ ". E Anderson, late master mech
anic here, was in town Sunday on a
business mission. Mr.. Anderson is
now general foreman OF the Colorado
& Southern shops at Denver, and is
well pleased with his new position
! The railroads Of the United States
killed 1854 person aud injured 1877
IN the year ending June so, 1903. The
total number Of accidents 20, 531, cost
the railroads S9,593,9TT property loss,
as compared with s., So, 4O6 for the
previous year. The increase in the
number killed was T35 and in the num-
Der injured, 6,179. The facts are shown
in q bulletin just issued by the inter
state commerce commission
Jack Woleott, Of Chicago, is in town.
He is a brother of the late Cad VOL
colt, an engineer who was hurt in q
derailment Of a train on the west end
nearly ten years ago, and who died a
year later at Chicago from the effect
Of the injury Jack WOlcOtt spent
some time here ten years ago, and was
quite a small boy then He may enter
the railroad service at Goodland.
A special from Tgcumcari in an
| Albuquerque paper says that the Rock
Island shops will be moved from Dali
hart, Tex, to Tucumcari, n. n. This
move is the result of the Fl PasO 4
Northeastern railway securing the co
miles Of track between Tucumcsri and
Santa Rosa This is the version Of
| the Tucumcari people in the matter,
| and they say the change will be made
/ about the first of the wear