The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1905-10-06
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RAILROAD NEWS.

Engine 1855 went out Of the shops
Tuesday after general overhaul.
Conductor A J. woodrow went to
work Saturday after a months lay
on.
Conductor John ". Dodds is taking
a vacation, which he is spending in
Colorado.
Brakeman F. A. Johnston has taken
a leave Of absence and viii go east
for a vacation
Brakeman Chase went to Junction
City Tuesday, where Mrs Chase is liv-
ing at present
c. H. Randall. in charge Of the
work trains on the west end, was here
Tuesday evening.
Engineer Ed Carmichael is taking
a vacation and is in the GunnisOn
country Of Colorado
Brakeman Charles DUrbin has been
promoted to conductor, and made
his first trip Saturday.
Engineer o. B. LETTERS was away
! last week as a witness in prairie
fire suit for the company
Thirty-eight men we're laid on Oc-
tober 1 at the shops here The men
laid or were laborers. machinists and
boilermakers.
Brakeman Frank Ross has left this
division and returned to Horton. He
will work out Of that place on the
Rock Island.
RodoIph Prinfert, who has been
working in the round house for seven
months, was transferred to Dalhart,
Tex, this week.
Brakeman George Thompson re-
ported for work Wednesday He has
been resting for the past month, and
was in Colorado.
Station Agent Cuthbert and wife left
Sunday for a visit for a month or six
weeks in Colorado Springs and other
points in Colorado
H. Snedeker Of East St. Louis Ill,
stopped on here Saturday to visit an
old acquaintance, Fred Johnson, a
brakeman on the road here
J. ". Usher, trainmaster, is serious
" afflicted with a difficulty with one
Of his eyes. He has been in Denver,
where his family lives, for about a
month, under the doctors care.
G. N. BetterUon mas resigned as
storekeeper in the master mechanics
Office to be succeeded by A T. Brown.
A. y. Schuur will take the position as
timekeeper to succeed A 7. Brown
The newly arranged telegraph and
dispatChers' Offices at the depot are
now complete The public have no
access to the dispatchers' Office and
Private appears upon the glass
door.
Engineer Charles Sherman, who has
been on the LimOn-Denver run for
some time, has been working out Of
GOOdland for about ten days He viii,
however, return to the Denver run in
a few days.
Arthur Conyers. general foreman in
in the shops here, and George
Mitchell, boiler shop foreman re-
signed October ? Mitchell left for
the east Tuesday night. Conyers is
still working until he is relieved by
his successor.
J. H. Harvey, painter in the shops,
has commenced the erection Of a store
building on a lot nearly opposite the
Kellogg livery barn The building
will be ORe-story, 20x6O, with four
living rooms in the rear Of the store.
Work was begun Monday.
c. H Rost, chief in charge Of the
general material stores Of the Rock
Island at Moline, Ill, was here this
week checking up and organizing the
stores department Of this division He
was much pleased with the outlook,
and somewhat surprised at the i'm
pOrtance Of the works here
John p. McSteen, the new road
foreman Of engines, is from the kan
sas division, running out Of Kansas
City He has been with the Rock Is
land eighteen years. He was until
about three months ago road fore
man Of engines on the Cedar Rapids
division Of the Rock Island at Cedar
Rapids, Ia.
The water crane in the railroad
yards was broken OF Sunday morn
ing. The switch engine was pulling
out some cars from the rip track, and
while passing the water crane a car
jumped the track and tore up the
whole structure for the watering Of
the thirsty iron horses. For q couple
Of days the engines were watered
through a hose just south Of the
round house.
The Rock Island has announced a
very material reduction in homeseek-
ers' rates TO its southwestern terri
tory. Heretofore the homeseekers'
rate has been fixed on a basis Of
proximity one fare plus 50 for the
round trip. The new rates are about
10 per cent Of the regular one way
rate for the round trip, and tickets
carry the same limit and all the priv
fleges OF stOpOver. diverse route and
sidetrips as at the former rate The
dates Of sale are first and third Tues
days Of October. November and De-
cember-