The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1905-04-21
RAILROAD NEWS.

Wednesday was pay day for the Rock
Island employees.
Conductor G. E. Tyler is on Conduct
or Highs run on passenger.
Bert Hulse, machinist helper, left
Wednesday night for Stockton, Kan,
10 visit his folks.
Engineer John Williams received an
injury to his right foot Tuesday while
on the local run east.
John d. Ryan, a machinist from
Colorado Springs, Is back in GoodIand
aud working at the shops.
On account of the heavy passenger
traffic No. Al IS dOuble-headed every
day from GoOdland to LimOn
Engineer J. L. Boyle is in Little
Rock, Ark, on a coal inspection trip.
He Is expected home next week.
Spring fever attacked sixteen shop
employees Wednesday, and they called
for their time Their places will be
filed.
Machinist Charley Congdon is coming
back TO GOOdland to work in the Rock
Island shops. He has been employed
at Colorado City.
William Gould of Scandal, Kan, is
new man in the Hopes market. He
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rived here Tuesday.
Engine 141O was shifted to the drop
pit of the machine shop Wednesday,
taking the place of the 1855, which was
turned out Tuesday.
Q. B. Chase, who has been cashier at
the freight depot for about a month,
has quit. Leroy Daniels of Moline,
Ill, IS his successor.
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and John Leyden were initiated into
the lodge of Prairie View Division No
2I6, Order Railway Conductors recently.
John Browne, timer in the shops,
received an injury to a finger last week
and during his layOf took a trip to
Moron last Saturday, returning Mon
day.
Brakeman Gene Luther will leave
Sunday for a ten days stay in Topeka.
He will settle with the claim depart
ment while there for an injury which
he received recently.
Frank Adorable, a Cuban, Is work
ing IN the paint shop He Is a ma
chinists but took a job as painters
helper temporarily. His wife and child
are here with him.
A ten-strand wire fence tops the paint
shop IN the back shop to prevent gasO-
line and other material leaks. - The
boys say the fence IS 10 prevent Painter
Harvey from jumping out.
Q. V. Reed, blacksmith, and Fred
Reed, blacksmith helper, brothers, who
have been working here for about a
year, left Wednesday for Sedalia, No,
where they viii make their home.
R. J. Townsend Of SedaIia, No, is
a new striker for Blacksmith Freeman.
He only weighs $50 pounds Freeman
IS Of slender build. The boys of the
shop say It is a case of before and
after taking. -
Engine 1257, Engineer Walt Powers,
while pulling No Wednesday morn
ing met with an accident near Bethune.
Colo. The tender left the rails, tearing
up some. thirty ties. The engine did
not leave the track, and the train was
delayed only thirty minutes. The I257
IS the same engine that was pulling No /
IS when II went into the ditch near
SeibeTt last month, IN charge of En-
gineer Robert CoOts.
Conductor William High, Of passeng-
er service was here Sunday to attend /
nesting Of Prairie View Division No. /
2I6, Order Railway Conductors. He
viii leave In a few days for Portland, ]
Ore, as delegate to the grand conven- /
ton Of the .. r. C, which convenes I
May 9. He viii be accompanied bv bis /
father, Henry High, of Wilson, Kan.
and they VIII visit many different points /
on the Pacific coast
A dispatch TO the Kansas City Jour
nal anuOunces that the trail Of the civil 4
engineers Of the Cult, Hutchinson and i
Northwestern railroad proposes the
route from Hays City to Hill City, cut
ting out both PiainviIle and Stockton.
The dispatch says that Hill City offered
the company better Inducements than
Plainville and Stockton, and It IS ap-
parent that the surveyors are mapping
out the road Tor the former place. The
dispatch also adds that as soon as the
work commences on this line the Cen
trai Branch VIII also be extended from
Stockton to Hill City.
Cattle and horses wanted to pasture,
e once; prices Is and 40c per head. B.
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