The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-02-23
RAILROAD NEWS.

The employees received their pay
checks Monday.
The new coal chute is now serving
the engines with the black diamonds.
Bofiermaker Hultz is building a
fOur-rOOm house on East Fifteenth
street.
John Boyle, landlord Of the railroad
hotel at Phillipsburg, was in Good
land Sunday.
wednesday the Rock Island began
weighing the mail This is done ev-
cry four years.
Fireman Frank Rice is back to
GOodland after doing an assignment
on the LimOn- Denver run
Mrs. Arthur COnyers, wife Of Gen
eraI Foreman COnyers, left Friday
night for a visit in Lincoln, Neb.
e J. Wilson has been assigned to
the position Of day yardmaster. He
has been filling the night job hereto
fore
W A Higdon, clerk with the
Rock Island at Horton, was in Good
land Sunday, renewing pleasant ac-
quaintances.
Engineer George Sherman and
wife returned from an extended visit
with Mr. Sherman's parents at Te-
cumseh, Neb., last Friday.
on No. Tuesday morning and spent
two days in GOOdland- He has a run
on Nos 90 and 81 between LimOn and
Pueblo.
Superintendent A. T. Abbott Of this
division of the Rock Island was in
| GoOdland Wednesday. He was an up
town caller, and was mixing with the
| people
George Andrews, a clerk in Super
/ intendent Abbott's Office, who was en-
| plOyed in the Office here when the
superintendent was located in Good
/ land, has resigned and left Sunday for
| MeadvilIe, Pa, where he has secured
a good position
The large, new coal chute at the
Rock Island yards was put into Oper-
alton the first Of the week, and the
/ contractors for the building Of the
structure turned it over to the com
pany Wednesday.
Machinist William Bode and Mach
| mist Charles Nichols viii leave next
week for Panama to work at their
/ trade on the big ship canal The Pan
anna railroad and the big machinery
I for the excavating ditch would natur-
/ ally require a force OF machinists-
John Sebastian, passenger traffic
manager OF the Rock Island, has been
/ appointed to the same Office on the
Frisco. Mr.. Sebastian thus becomes
| passenger traffic manager Of both the
Rock Island and the Frisco The ex-
] tension Of his authority becomes ef-
fective at once
Conductor ". Stephens, formerly
/ Of this division, but now with the
Rock Island, running between Cald-
we'll and Fort Worth is acting chair
man OF the grievance committee Of
/ the Rock Island system conductors,
lon account Of the resignation OF NJ
I s Lloyd general chairman Nj stew
/ ems is vice chairman
/ Governor Hoch has refused to take
any action in Machinist Ireland's
case. He was waited on by a dele
CATION at the time Of the convention
/ in Topeka Of the Society Of Labor and
Industry Ireland, who was convicted
| Of aSsaulting a nOn-uniOn mach1nist
/ employed by the Santa Fe, viii now
have to serve his jail sentence
/ A Topeka dispatch Of February is
says: 1t became known here today
\ that the Rock Island would be COM
/ PEELED to create four divisions out Of
I the FL PasO branch, where three now
/ exist The line runs from Harrington,
/ Kan, to Santa Rosa, N n. The first
i division ending at Bueklin, Kan the
T second at Dalhart, Tex, and the third
/ at Santa Rosa, SIS miles away The
/ wear and tear on the long runs Of
] both machinery and employees make
] the new project necessary. 1t means
that new division points viii be re-
/ qufred, but the company refuses to
/ state what towns viii take the place
j Of Bucklin and Dalhart