The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1903-08-21
Monday was payday.

II. Hughes, Of Colorado Springs,
is the new bsggaReman on the new
local passenger train from GOOdland \
TO Bellsville-
E-J. Tippius was at Norton this
week and in company with DR.. Aldrich /
they spent q couple Of days hunting /
prairie chickens.
Engineer James Garrett, for years
assigned TO the Denver run, viii take q l
run out Of GOOdland- He will make |
his home here instead Of in Denver.
The Pullman car porters have organ |
lied q union and will ask for an in
crease Of wages and the adjustment
Of tips. They now receive 80 per
month.
Conductor Charles Gum, Of the
Rocky Mountain Limited, has taken q
layoff for several weeks. Conductor
Randall is on the run during Gums
absence.
Clark and Roy Brim, who were mere
/ boys when their father was locomotive
/ fireman out Of GOOdland eight years
ago, are now employed in the round
/ house here.
A. B. FarDsworth, excursion agent
/ for the Rock Island, was here with J.
/ Q. BODnell Friday. Mr.. BoDnel was
l lately the editor Of the Rock Islands
/ "Western Trail"
Earl Parker, recently made station
| agent at Burlington, is temporarily
doing duty at Limon in the place Of
| Tommy O'Brien who is absent on the
/ grievance committee at Chicago.
Five carloads of cattle were shipped
out of GOOdland Saturday night for
the Kansas City market. William
Stone shipped three and ". Townsend
IL =
and steers
The connections TO trains No. Il
and ~ has been taken of between
Colorado Springs and Pueblo. En-
/ gineer Ed Carmichael, who has been on
the run between those points, Is now
running out Of GOOdland again
= The officials Of the Denver and Rio
Grande are considering the matter Of
building a double track between Den
yer and Pueblo. The business has
grown TO such proportions that it is
| almost impossible to conduct il with 8
= single track
K. L Dresser and family, Of Muncie,
3 Ind, are visiting here. Mr.. Dresser,
who was formerly an engineer on this
division, is now an engineer on the
5 Chicago, Cincinnati and Louisville
Z railroad. He runs out Of Peru, Ind,
L
The thirteen mOnths-old child Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Q. ". Gregory, after an
J illness Of about three weeks with in
fsntile cholera, died on Wednesday
morning. Rev. T. A. West officiated
] at the funeral at ten o'clock q. m
! Thursday from the house, and inter
T ment was made in the GOOdland CEN
etery-
The grand trustees Of the Brother
S hood OF Locomotive Firemen, who have
S been in session at Peoria, Ill, fOrthree
weeks, adjourned August Is. Their
T. report given out shows total dlsburss
:, ments for the year Of $4,000. There
{ are 641 subordinate lodges with a mem
bership Of 1858, a gain Of 5,l92 during
the past year.
I'll General Car Foreman 1. j. Retchum
Y Of the Rock Island, system, head
: quarters at Chicago, was here Tuesday
to put the new schedule Of wages IN
force. The pay Of car-repsirers, oilers
. inspectors, carpenters, car-cleaners
: timers, tank truck men aud pipe-men
. has been raised on the average 10 pei
cent, the increase taking effect August
IL.
The Union Pacific Railway company
has granted an average increase OF
wages for the engineers Of about 81
per cent, and the fremen ~ per cent
The increase runs from ten to twenty
{ cents a hundred miles for the en-
q gineers with prOpOTtiOnate increase
|. for the fremen. The negotiations have
O I been pending since July s, and the
new scale affects the entire system.
7 By sssimilating the Frisco line and
e building important connections the
J. Rock Island Frisco system controls
K vastly more mileage than any other
railroad in the United States. The
T, Sesboard Air line, recently acquired
l. together with the lease Of the Santa
J. Fe tracks from Puerco, 80 miles west
3 Of Albuquerque, 70 San Francisco
makes the Rock Island the greatest
N railroad in the world IN point OF mile
! age, owning or controlling more thar
= 1900 miles Of track
, The body Of Fireman Jacob LegRett,
e who met death in the wreck Of the
Rock Island west bound passenger
4 Tuesday morning, August Ii, two
\ miles west Of Mcfarland, was found q
> half mile down the stream from where
\ the engine plunged through the bridge
4 JTer Hendricks creek By reversing
and applying the air Engineer Nc
= Steen saved the coaches from running
= INTO the creek. He was rescued from
: the top OF q tree, where be swan Tor
: refuge, after jumping. LeRgstt is sup
3 / posed TO have been drowned.
A new change in the maintenance
j, and operating department Of the Rock
: Island railroad has been announced
which will relieve General Manager
| GOOdnoE, Of much OF bis work John
z 1 Stevens has been made fourth vice
president Of the company and viii
have entire charge Of operation and
s maintenance Of all the lines. ThiG
2 practically leaves Mr. GoodnoE il
charge Of the traffic department. Mr.
: Stevens Was formerly chief engineer
z and general manager OF the Great
e Northern and is q railroad man with q
i record we'll known
Ranch For sale.