The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-29
RAILROAD NOTES.

Dan E. Cain, general manager of
the Rock Island, left yesterday on a
trip to st. Paul.
Twenty-three men were discharged
shops at A1amogordo last week.
Drunkenness was the charge against
them.
]. M. Smalley, superintendent of the
Kansas division of the Rock Island,
and w. o. Neville, trainmaster of the
Rock Island here. are on trip to
Kansas City.
Citizens of Coffeyville, Kas., will
hold an election in the near future to
vote upon the issue of $4,000 in bonds
as a bonus to the Vinita & Western
railroad, of which Coffeyville will be
the northern terminus.
Work will be commenced this week
on the improvements which are to be
made by the Santa Fee at Salina. The
depot is to be moved further south,
a new brick platform laid, new tracks
put down, and a driveway constructed
on the north side of the building.
Conductor P. J. Chase of Los An
geles and Conductor Thompson OF
Winslow, both Santa Fe employees,
have been discharged for permitting a
Harvey house waitress to travel free
from Winslow to Los Angeles. Both
men have been in the employ of the
company for a long time.
E. H. Hartman and Henry E. Hunt
ington, the railway magnates, are be-
hind a movement to make one of the
greatest harbors in the world at San
Pedro. Cal They have secured fifty
year franchise on eighteen acres of
water front and will begin building
wharves and warehouses at once.
A report is current that the Mis-
souri, Pacific will build a new line
from Stockton, KaS., to Denver, thus
securing a direct line from Atchison
| to Denver. 1t will also give close con-
nection between Colorado Springs and
Atchison, and will open up a valuable
new territory in western Kansas.
| Construction work will begin next
| month on the first 215 miles Of the
Cherryvale, Gulf & Texas railway. The
contract has been awarded to the w.
R. Stubs Construction company, of
Kansas City, KaS., and the work is to
begin at Caney, Kas., and run south
west to Pawhuska, Perry and King
fisher.
New issues of stocks and bonds ag-
gregating $40, 100000 will be made by
the Michigan Central railroad, accord
| ing to the present plans of the man
agement, to cover proposed extensive
| improvements. The most expensive
single improvement will be the tunnel
under the Detroit river which will
cost. $4,000, 900. Not less than &c.
0O0,0 will be expended for improve
ments at Niagara Falls and Buffalo.
Rudolph Sche1Dert, a machlnlSt OF
| Middletown, Ohio, has invented and
patented an automatic safety railway
switch designed to prevent accidents
caused by trains running into open OF
misplaced switches. The new switch
| is a simple device whereby, it is stated
an engine or train approaching a mis-
placed switch from either direction
will automatically close and lock the
switch in the proper position before
passing over it.
The Commercial club of Wellington,
Kansas, is to bring suit before the rail-
road commissioners for a reduction in
the grain rate from Wellington to Kan
sas City. The through rate charged
by the roads from Wellington to Gal
weston is 80 Il cents. The rate to Kan
sas City is IA II cents, while from Kan
sas City to Galveston it is only II
cents. The Commercial club will ask
for reduction of cents in the rate
from Wellington to Kansas City.