San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-23
RATIFIED OFF THE RAILS.

Men and Taken in Transit.
A train load of steel rails passed
over the Southern Pacific yesterday,
west bound.
Freight business is reported as pick
ing up considerably.
The tie up on the Chicago and Erie
road seems to be complete.
Conductor Joe Sanders, OF the Sun
set took out his crew today after sew
eral days illness.
The tenth annual conven ton of the
National Association of General Bag
gage agents, convened in New Or
leans yesterday.
The Dallas & Greenville, the Dallas
& Waco, and the Dallas & Wichita
railroads have elected their officers
for the ensuing year.
The Sunset freight office is being
renovated and the smell of paint and
varnish is very noticeable.
Travelling passenger agent w. A.
Tuley Of the Santa Fe was in town
yesterday.
The Red River aad southwestern
road will extend the line from Hen
rietts to Archer city.
A women who looked as though
she had the small pox was put off the
Southern Pacific train, yesterday.
The railway hospital of the M. X.
& II. at Sedalia has been reduced to
ashes.
The general offices of the st. Louis
and Southwestern railroad will be
removed from Texarkana to Tyler.
1t is rumored that the M. X. 4 Il.
will complete the extension from
Sherman to Dallas and have it in
running order before the close of this
year.
Conductor Van Week of the Sunset
took out 3 Sunset special this noon,
consisting of that branch Of the Ray
mOnd- WhitcOmb eXcursionists who go
to California.
The Raymon d. Whitcomb excur-
sion of ten vestibule coaches that
came in st $3.50 this morning from
Houston, was drawn by the large ten
wheel engine, No. 5SS.
An excellent move on the part of
the New Mexico legislature is the in
PRODUCTION OF a bill compelling rail
roads to provide comfortable waiting
rooms at the stations.
The NJ. X. & T., it is said,
will apply for q new charter by
which it will not be compelled
to have separate homogeneous for
the different branches of the road.
Two men who had fraudulentIy
manipulated the return portions of a
Southern Pacific excursion ticket to
the City of Mexico, were locked up In
New Orleans. 1t Is thought that a
number of such tickets sold by these
two parties are worthless.
Mr.. 81 Packard. who was appointed
receiver of the Texas Western railway
byJudge Pardee some days ago, quail
fed yesterday by filing his bond in
the United States circuit court, and
has taken charge of the road. All
the debts of the road will, 1t is under
stood, soon be paid off, and the
property put in good condition.
| Senator Pope, of Marshall, Texas,
will introduce a bill in the state sem
ate requiring railroads to afford coun-
| ty, district and state officers free
| transportation upon application to
any point on their lines within the
state. Such law is in effect in Min
nesota and is said to give general sat-
isfaction.
The following official of the Inter
national and Great Northern have
returned from Colonel Eddy's funeral:
]. f.. Galbraith, traffic manager; A.
r. Howard, treasurer; w. l.. Maury,
auditor; ID. J. Price, general passen.
ger agent; L. NJ. Alvord, purchasing
agent; Frank Matthews, claim agent
G. f. Bowerfine, representative Of the
Order of Railway Conductors, and r.
w. Gibson, representative of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Yesterday morning it was reported
that q Sunset switehman was injured
by being thrown off car. This wal
a mistake, the accident in question
occurring 40 miles west of here. The
fireman, w. G. Stanton, of the east
bound passenger train yesterday mOrr
ing while standing on the tank, wa
hurled to the ground just as the train
was going down the grade at Dunll
station at rate Of about thirty miles
an hour. He happened to be on TIT
tank as the engine turned a curV'
and was thrown to the ground ant
severely injured. He was brought u
this place for treatment.