The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-01-26
RAILROAD NEWS.

Engineer Ed Carmichael left We'd
nesday morning for a visit IN OOerlln.
Harold Neville, Rock Island agent
at Colby, was in GOOdland Monday
The monthly pay day for the Rock /
Island employees occurred last Friday. 4
General Manager Melcher Of the /
Rock Island was here Wednesday, ar
irving on the second section OF No. |
A from the west
Engine no. SIS came through Mon |
day en- route to GOOdland for use In
the passenger service.-Fa irbury J our
nal.
W. c. Edwards, a dispatcher for
the Rock Island at Dalhart Tex, was
a passenger on No 10 Friday night
Mr.. Edwards was at one time an
operator at GOOdland-
Conductor A J. Woodrow returned
] last week from a months vacation
spent in Illinois and Indiana He has
/ been assigned to the LtmOn-Denver
| freight run for the present
Conductor z. J. Tippins left Tues
/ day night for Hot Springs, Ark, and
| Florida points. He is suffering from
| catarrhal fever, and Will spend two
or three months in the balmy south
land
The new steel which viii be laid
from Goodland to Roswell has been
accommodating here for the last ten
days. The work Of laying the heavy
steel west will commence about the
first Of March
Filling Of the Rock Island ice house
was completed Monday. Two thOus-
and and FIVE hundred tons OF ice was
| stored in ten days. The ice is OF a
, fine quality, about II inches in thick
/ ness, and was brought from Palmer
Lake, Colo
, Fireman J. L Mccormick, who has
2 been working here on the Rock Is
! land for several months, left Satur-
{ day night for his home at Eagle
5 Grove. Ia, on a visit to his parents
He will return to GOOdland as soon
= as business on the road picks up
r Engineer W. D. Gamble Of Belle
Vile Kan, was here Tuesday on bust
t ness. and renewing old acquaintance
e He formerly lived in GOOdland, and
= was employed on this division Of thu
e Rock Island. He now has run be
d tween BelleviIle and Mcfarland
The round house at Limon viii b
enlarged in the spring TO twent-
stalls The laying Of new steel ant
possible changes Of freight runs vii
, make Limon a freight junction Of i'm
portance. The new round house vii
- be constructed to accommodate tn
: larger engines
\ The large twenty-five horse pOwe
\ gasoline engine, to be used in work
> ing of the hoist at the new Rock Is
land coal chute, was injured last wee
~ while being put in place in the en-
= CINE house, by the falling Of 2 site
"A of timber which broke one Of the q
X wheels completely on
,oi An empIoye Of the Santa Fe aske
IF for q pass for his mother He receive
Al a letter saying If his mother were d.
n pendent on him for support the con
to pany would be glad to issue the pas
Of but il not. it would be necessary to d.
he cline The emplOye answered TIL
ne since he had been in the employ
81 the santa Fe ne had been depends
ne on his mother for support and he VI
no looking for a chance to reciprocal
it Exchange
"A The passenger brakemen OF Z
&c Rock Island have been granted t
ev increase Of wages they asked for Sc
on eraI weeks ago. The annOunceme
a. came in a bulletin from Chicago II
ev scale had been $3.50 per month
IS runs aggregating $500 miles a.
ise Sly for each extra 100 miles T
al scale now is SO per month for ~
aggregating 5000 miles. with $40
a anee is made for terminal overtime,
led before
ne A press dispatch from Caldw'
ne Kan, Of January p says: III
ok Mack. the Rock Island conductor "
has was the oldest in service on the G
.lly Iahoma main line, died Saturday
OF his home here as the result OF bul
hat wounds received ten days ago at Nd
ers / Eague, Tex, when he was shot By
.ess sherih's son at that place Mack b
en been on the witness stand in a Il
,vv- road case Afterward on the str
i'm ne was accOsted by the sherins s
in but walked away from him, stat
rith / that he was not hunting trouble z
to young man then shot Mack und
AIr. meath the right arm. the bullet ent
1ert ing the body and making mol
rict wound Mack was an oid-dmer-
,ase ran the train which vas held uD
vas the DaltOns and DoOlins IN the es
) IS days near Dover, in Eing6sher CO
lec- ty. at which time the robbers were
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