People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1894 — Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

Correspondence.

GOUDLAh-.) BY SPECTATOR. A contemptible villain by the name of Clinton, and a late empl< y.‘ of the U. iv. 1. railroad at'Braz.il, c -/> :• ;>p t this place the fort; part of last week with the avowed intention of cleaning out the n-'W crews put to work on the LaCrosse run since the strike, lie had been lounging about the depot two or thre< days calling all engineers and crews passing through, “scabs.’’ When he had tired of this he took occasion to call Mr. Shoemaker, the engineer on the LaCrosse run, a scab. The engineer stopped his engine and cooly stepped down ard lifted the thug about four feet off the platform by landing a righthander just under his loft ear. Of course this started a little matinee in which a brother ol the bum struck the engineer, when he turned and with hileft hand sent him spinning around as though he had been struck by a Kansas cyclone. After Mr. Shoemaker ha< dressed the eyes of the thugs ii a. reasonable degree of mourning he stepped upon his engine arc run her on the “y” as though Ik had been wailing for the boys L unload freight. Thus endec the great “strike” at Goodland. ■ Go. id kind “dll have electric lieh’s. Tie 1 great financial prob lem lias been solved. All hono: to the town board, Messrs. Kitt Constantine and Griggs. Nc

set of men elected to the towi boa,cd since Goodland has beei incorporated, has worked more unceasingly to save the town k few dollars than these gentlemen, and with so little compensation. Work of wiring the town will begin immediately, and other work will progress a rapidly as possible. The plant that has been purchased is said to be one of the best manufactured and will cost about -*7.000. From present appearances, it looks as though some people in ! Goodland owned the whole of the st reet in front of their places of b isiness. If that hitch-rack had only been extended as far north as Burgess’ Drug Store it would have been much handier for “our customers.” Pass no ordinances gentlemen or let us have those we have enforced. Discriminating . between one citizen and another is uncons ; uttonal. Mr. Shurrel, fireman on the LaCrosse division, received a dispatch, Saturday morning «tating that his boy had been

badly hurt. Mr. Shurrel, in company with Dr. Cronk, start ed for where he supposed the boy to be. After driving some twenty-five or thirty miles he learned that the boy had gone about fifteen miles below Lafayette to run a traction engine. Mr. Shurrel supposed, at first, that the boy had had an accident with the engine, but found that he had had a severe sun stroke, and was unconscious for fortytwo hours. Mr. S. came home Sunday evening and reported him to be as well as could be expected, but Monday he removed another dispatch stating he was much worse. Monday afternoon while Mr. Stilman was threshing at Mr. Jay’s some three or four miles north-east of this place, someone nut some tar on a belt that hud 1 een slipping, when in a few minutes after to their surprise, the straw stack was on tire. As soon as possible the ’engine was hitched to the separa tor and uti l all was pulled away. The sc parator was considerably damaged. and the straw stacker was almost a total loss. The straw stack was swept from the earth. While Mr. Crain, three miles nor.i) of this place, was backing up a traction engine to a job of theshing it became unmanagable and crashing into the standing platform of the separator pinned his leg against the firebox of the boiler crushing and mangling it into a pulp. Doctors Lovett and Cronk were summoned and dressed the mangled limb as best they could, but little hopes are entertained of saving the leg. Mrs. Parsons and daughter; of Chicago, wife of Conductor Parsons, of the Lacrosse division, spent Sunday with him, a! this pl we. W. McCurry has been confined to the house for four or five days with his old army dis ease. Treasurer Jenkins and wife are at Westville, this week.