The Railway Employee from Parsons, Kansas • 5

mm www in iimnwuiinni miw wiwiwi W. J. Cannon has been given a position in the Tool room at the K. T. shops.

Railway Employe. bf. F. Lamb and J. W.

Morris. Parsois, Kansas, May 1, 1893. A steam inspection car is being built at the K. T. in this city for the use of Vice-President Purdy.

F-Tgusion has resigned his position NEW GOODS, LOW PRICES, FOOM JViAKING PRICES, For Our Spring Stock. ELLIS and MARTIN will dress your homes complete with fine Furniture on as night wiper at the K. T. Hound House and has left for other parts. Wm.

Milam, for some time night yard- master for the K. in this city, has resigned and left for otlu-r parts C.D.Allison, of the rail way mail ser vice al Salida, is visiting in the city the "lies of J. N. Hoffman and family. M.

Sweeney, superintendent of trans portation on the K. T. attended the meeting of the Missouri and Kansas Car Association at Kansas City las: week. Engine is now receiving repairs at the K. T.

roundhouse, inconse S. P. Baker, manager of the "No. 4" office, of Denison, went to Min-eola last week. The M.

K. T. and the H. T. C.

are now offering excursion rates to the World's Fair. Engine 3 has been run into the K. T. shops at Denison for a complete over-hauling. T.

S. McDowell, trainmaster of the K. T. at Greenville, vas in Denison last week. Frank Merril, foreman of the Katy's lead engine at Denison, is enjoying a leave of absence.

The Houston and Texas Central railway has again begun hauling granite to Houston for the jetties Passenger trains will be operated over the Boggy Tank extension of the K. T. by JVby 7th. It is said music will be in the air when the annual meeting of the K. T.

officials is held in May. G. A. Quinlan, first vice-president of the Houston and Texas Central, was a visitor at Denison last week. Colonel Tom Fleming, president of the K.

T. coal company, is making a business trip through Texas. Roadmaster Fisher, of the K. who has been sick for a month past, has resumed his duties at Parsons. The G.

N. railway are reducing the force in their shops at Palestine and other points along their lines in Texas. quence of which Engineer Dwyer and Fireman Bennett are taking a short rest. The I G. N.

have been laying off a nimt ivmtiir iawj f'l'Mm 1 t.i 1 Local News. Fireman Wm. Smith is tlm proud father ota lmuncing ly, which wns presented to him by his wife on the 27lh, inst J. J. Kinney, at one time of the i Secret Service of ihe K.

has taken a similar position with the A. T. S. F. railway, Fireman T.

J. Clair, of the who was injured in the Lei Mat ta wreck last week, will to the liospiuil for tre-itment, J. II. Hill, of the second Vice 1 'resident oflice, of tlie Iv. T.

has left with his fomily for an extended trip to Ashville.N. C. II. E. Fisher, of the Weight Inspection Department of the If.

wns looking after company business at St. Louis la-t week. Traveling Auditor Woods of the K. has returned from a sojourn at Eldorado Springs, looking much the heller for the trip. Fireman Pat.

Ilandly, of the Iv. has taken a run in road service, and his position on switch engine is being filled by Fireman Bly. Wm. Bailey, a former well known employe of the K. T.

shops, who has been working in Texas for some time past has returned to the city. A. De Armon has returned from Palestine wliere he has been working for the We have the exclusive sale of the celebrated Haywood Baby Carriage, and have just received about fifty extremely New Designs for the Spring Trade. See us, before you buy. lately and a Ajreat many in ihe shops.

And our correspondent remarks "the end is not Stationer McFarland, of the K. T. has returned from New Orleans, where he was called by illness of his wife who is visiting at that place. He left her much improved. J.

C. Slribling, tlie stock man, who was mjuriedby K. T. passenger train at. llockville, Mo.

diad from his injuries at the Company's Hospital. The remains were shipped to Hound Mountain, Texas for burial. Mrs. 1). 11.

Dunham and Mrs Charles Anderson, who have been in atiendance upon the annual state convention of the FITCH, 1823 Johnson ave. GROCERIES. Table Delicacies. PARSONS, KANSAS. G.

lly. will probably take a posi tion on the K. Charles Wesson, formerly stationer of E. R. Morris, late car marker for the Katy at Denison, has accepted a position in the bridge and building department.

Charles Dillingham, ex-receiver of the Houslon and Texas Central, ECURE A HOME IN the K. T. in this city, is now purchasing ugenlfor tlie "World's Fair Bureau of Collections, of Chicago. The Mo. Pac.

lly, are making big reductions in the force at their shops in St. PARSONS ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN Louis, Sedalia and other points along its leased ai)d operated lines. Traindispatchcr add ell, who was at one time employed in the Dispatchers Great International Auxiliary of tlie Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers at Topeka have returned. They went as delegates from the auxiliary in thin city. Nor.hbound K.

T. freight train No. 102 had a costly tire on board last week. A carload of cotton numbering forty-Jour bales was discovered to be on lire as the train pulled into Osage Mission The 11 ames were bursting "lit through both ends of the car. The cotton was totally destroyed, the loss being perhaps $5)000.

An incident of train service that attracted wide attention a short time ago was the running of a train from San Francisco to Washington loaded with $30,000,000 of gold coin, As a dollar weighs 25.8 grains troy, the sum of money carried by the train would weigh 110,571 pounds, or a little over 50 tons. That would have been a heavy haul for train rubbers. AT THE CITY BANK OF AUGELL MATTHEWSON CO. 6 Per cent- interest paid on time deposits. office, of the K.

T. in this city is now working a trick at Taylor, Texas. Edward feinalley has resigned his posi tion in the T. blacksmith fhop Stanley Tinder, PHARMACIST. and has left lor St.

Louis, where lie has secured a position with the Missouri Pacific railway. Three hundred workmen are now engaged ballasting the roadbed of the K. E. The road it is thought will be completed about May 20th. There is now thirty stations between New Franklin and St.

Charles. Manufacturer of the Celebrated "LAVIPIDIUM" For the cure of sweaty, fetid and tender feet, Tinder's Headache l'owdera are all the go. Try them. 1911 W. Johnson.

Engine 144, after being thoroughly overhauled by General Foreman Brehm, and his force of competent assistants at came up from Houston lor a short stay at Denison. The machinist's strike on the Fort Worth and Denver division has eneed. The men returned to work last week. Passenger engine 55, of the southern division of the K. has been run out of the K.

T. shops at Denison. W. L. Davis, formerly operator for Master Mechanic McElvaney, but late station agent at Ringgold, has again returned to Denison.

W. E. Toll, route agent of the American express company, with headquarters at Denison, has been doing Fort Worth the past week. J. B.

Seessengut, traveling passenger agent of the Iowa Central, with headquarters at Marshaltown, Iowa, was in Denison last week. The Katy has announced its World's Fair rate at $40,10, to be on sale from April 25th to October 25th, and final limit November 15th. Martin Hannegan, the young man whose foot was crushed at Tioga not long ago, had the member amputated at the Sedalia hospital. John C. Finney, late of Claim Agent McLeod's oflice of Denison, has accepted a clerkship in General Claim Agent Krause's office at Parsons.

It seems to be the general belief in Houston that J. McMillan, now commercial agent of the Southern Pacific, will be appointed general freight agent of the S. A. P. in the place of General Freight Agent Hoik, who goes to the C.

F. K. shops, is doing freight service on the Cherokee division in charge of Engineer Melville and Fireman Broadwater. Two suits aggregating $17,00 have been iled against the K. railroad at Sedalia.

A girl lost one of her limbs in an accident for which she asks $15,000, and her father wants $2001) for the loss of her services. Texas Railroad Notes. In forty-five days the Rock Island will be running into Fort Worth. Engine 147 is on the Sherman run of the K. T.

this week. Express Agent Wm. Wallace, of Denison, has a run on the road. Traveling Passenger Agent Boardman, of Fort Worth, is doing Denison, President W. Fordyce, of the St.

Louis and Southwestern, is touring in Texas. C. C. "Farmer, air brake inspecter of the K. waj doing Denison last Week.

The trainmen wiil be jubilant when the next pay day arrives big business, big pay. Rockwell, general roadmaster for the Katy, with headquarters at Parsons, is doing Texas. Tie Inspector Cary, of the Katy, with headquarters at Parsons, was doing Denison last week. Engine AO has been run out of Iv. T.

shops after receiving an overhauling, and is now doing switch service in tlm yards here in charge of Enginet rs Now at lb25 Johnson ave. Parsons Steam Daundry. COPELAN HOLLISTER, Props. All work done by a NEW Process. Your patronage will bo appreciated.

Busby Smith, 2101 Johnson, AllRindsofCoal. Anderson and Bird and Firemen McGcc and Cloughley. Deibcrt Williams, aged 8 years, the son of a widow who liyes near the depot of the K. T. at Fayette, was instantly ki dand horribly mangled by a train last vveok.

He had started fishing and spiang on a car for a ride, but was shaken under the train and his head. cut in two..