San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-13
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.
Bright Budget of Personal and Gen.
eral Railroad News,

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ern Pacific freight depot, to act in
the same capacity, owing to the
large amount of freight now being
handled by the Southern Pacific.
J. w. Evans, station agent on the
Southern Pacific at Uvalde, spent
the holy Sabbath among the good
people of the Alamo city and left
for home yesterday morning.
J. c. Noyes, formerly engineer in
the Southern Pacific yards in this
city, but now running between San
Antonio and Houston, will make
his future home in this city and
has completed arrangements for
same.
A birthday party will be given
tomorrow night on blackberry
street, at the residence of Richard
Doran, of the Southern Pacific, in
honor of the twentieth birthday
anniversary of his beautiful daugh-
ter, Miss Jane DOran.
The United States government
shipped two beautiful white horses
from Fort Sam Houston to Fort
Reilly, over the Southern Pacific
yesterday.
G. S. Stewart, chief dispatcher
on the Ell Paso division, who has
been visiting here for the past few
days,,left for FL Paso this morning
to resume duties.
General uperintendent w. G.
Van Nleck,o the Southern Pacific,
passed through here yesterday
from the west in his special car
"TeXas," accompanied by Dave T.
Forbes. They We're west looking
over the road and were on their
way to Houston.
"Colonel" w. H. Gleason, of the
Santa Fe, has returned from a bust
ness trip to Galveston.
L. J. Polk, general freight agent
for the Santa Fe, spent Sunday in
San Antonio, and left for head
quarters in Galveston on Sunday
night.
Robert Lyons, formerly in the
office of General Master Mechanic
J. J. Ryan, of the Southern Pacific,
at Houston, has accepted a posi-
ton as store keeper for the San An
tonic & Arkansas Pass, with head
quarters here.
Four cars of New York steamer
freight arrived at the Southern Pa
citic freight depot yesterday and
were unloaded for distribution
among local merchants.
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
passenger train, consisting Of a
coach and sleeper, missed connec-
ton with the Southern Pacific
train at Luling on Sunday night,
and was delayed several hours.
The train finally arrived in San
Antonio at II 80 o'clock yesterday
morning.
Mrs. L. Urgindy, resident of
San Antonio for years, had her
household goods shipped to Calves
ton over the Southern Pacific yes
terday, and she will reside in the
Island City in the future.
J. C. knight, of the Internation-
al and Great Northern, arrived in
the city last night.
H. H. Murphy, of the Mexican
National railway, is in the city,
having returned from a trip to
Florida, where he had been to
spend a months vacation, and is
now en- route home.
w. J. Taylor, general baggage
agent of the International and
Great Northern, is in the city, on a
brief sojourn, from Palestine.
George w. Haynes, live stock
agent for the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas, is in the city from Fort
Worth.
Fred Deyeo, formerly passenger
conductor on the Southern Pacific,
running west out Of San Antonio,
will be married, on June 20, to a
popular society belle of Los An
geles, Cal, where he is now rail-
reading.
Captain John M. Knight, the city
ticket agent for the Southern Pa
cific, is in receipt of circular from
the general passenger department
at Houston, authorizing him to
sell round trip tickets from San
Antonio to Detroit, Mich, for $4S.15,
tickets to be sold at these rates
only on June 16 and II, and good
for continuous passage. Those
rates are announced on account of
the B. p. o. Elks convention, which
will be in session in Detroit the
latter part of this month.