Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-08-27
TRACE AND TRAIN.

Night Yardman Walden will return to
his duties, soon, from California.
Engine 4s7 Will bo transferred from the
Ration to the Las Vegas division.
G. M. Jacobs, an agent for the Union
Pacific, reached Trinidad, yesterday.
Engine 722 has received a fresh coat OF
paint and now looks like a new engine.
Mountain engine 1888 was in the Las
Vegas shops, yesterday, returning last
evening,
Fireman G Il. Scudder has been assigned
to the switch engine In the Las Vegas yard
for sixty days.
Geo. w. Rue, the engineer, will soon
leave on a vacation to his old home In Jer-
sey City, NJ.
Operator Chas. Schrum will take his old
position at Lamy, Operator Mcmahon res
lieving him here.
Passenger engine 436 left for the Topeka
shops, last night, to have a new cylinder
put on her right side.
Freight Conductor Ed. G. Ward has
been running passenger in place Of J. A
Murray for a trip or two.
e. Copeland, division freight and pas
senger agent for the Atchison, Office in El
Paso, has been visiting Las Vegas.
VIM. A. Ross, auditor of the Fort Worth
& Denver City railway, died at Fort
Worth, Texas, aged forty six years.
e. Stansell, a bridge foreman, came
down to Dorsey from Ration, yesterday,
accompanied by three railroad carpenters.
E. L. Copeland, cashier of the Atchison,
10 Topeka, received a telegram a%nnounc-
ing the death of his mother at Winnebago,
Illinois.
Mrs. Benz. Young, consort Of the car re-
pairer, returned, Tuesday morning, from a
four months visit to relatives In and about
Kelly, N. M.
The train on the hot springs branch,
Conductor Gatchel, nov makes a trip out
to the resort and back, after the arrival OF
No. l passenger train from the east, each
evening. A cool evening ride, it is.
Brakeman Kimmery, of the Chicago d.
vision. Pekin, ILL.,; Time-keeper Smith, OF
San Marcial, and Bridge Carpenter Ebbs,
of Ration, were discharged from the Las
Vegas railroad hospital, yesterday.
Engine 3l2, formerly the Las Vegas
goat, returned from the Reton shops,
after having her tires turned down and p
few necessary repairs, and is again ready
to resume the duty Of switch-engine.
At the meeting of the delegates of the
Kansas railroad club, at Kansas City, offic'
ers were elected. The club is for the pur-
pose of advancing the interests of railroad
employees in Kansas, and has now a mem
bership Of about $1,000.
The Atchison railway has sold to the
Gulf, Colorado &c Santa &c line ffty-six
locomotives and twelve chair cars, coaches
and baggage cars. For this rolling stock,
the Gulf road will pay the Atchison an
amount in the neighborhood of $50, 900.
Owing to an increase in the price, large
shipments OF western cattle are now being
made into Kansas City and Chicago mar
,kets. The Atchison is handling, on an av-
.erage, It's cars of beef cattle from New
Mexico, Texas and the Cherokee Strip
eastward daily.
The policy which the great railroads of
the country are pursuing to coerce their
employees into voting against the free sill
yer nominees is shown by a letter received
by the Denver Times from a railroad en-
ploye, who incloses some Of the literature
which is being circulated broadcast by the
companies.
Robert Rottaker, for many years a trust
ed employe of the Atchison shops, at To-
peka, who came here with his wife some
weeks ago, she being.sorely troubled with
rheumatism. leaves in the morning for
home, Mrs. Rottaker having been SO COM
pletely rid OF her affection as to be able to
trip the slight fantastic" at a farewell
social given them by Mine Host F.. W.
Flick, down On Railroad avenue, last even
ing.
F. D. Welch, superintendent Of the Gulf
at Trinidad, telephoned police h%eadquar-
ters in Denver, asking the department to
notify banks and merchants not to cash
any Fort Worth g. Denver City pay checks
made payable to John Hallorin, and to ar
rest any one presenting them. The per-
sons who murdered and robbed an old sec
ton woman near Texline are supposed to
be in that part of the country. They got
$1,000 worth of the checks.
TkoN U Rr n apnp1aunu Of Parcnnc
Kan, are taking quite an interest in the
money question. A box has been put up
at the window of the train dispatcher's
Office, with instructions that each railroad
employ vote his sentiments without sign
ing his name, that the status of the rail-
without regard to the position held.
When all the boys have had an opportu-
nifty to vote, the box will be opened and
the poll counted.
A NEW BOOKLET.
That it must pay to advertise, no mat
ter how great and we'll known the institu-
ton may be, is proven by the passenger
department of the New York Central rail-
way, "America's greatest railroad" Every
months a magnificent number Of the
'.Four Track Series" is issued. The last
issue is No. 8, and is entitled Two Days
at Niagara Falls" This new booklet con-
the latest and finest engravings
of the famous resort, the winter ice
views of the falls being especially beauti-
full. Each volume of the -Four Track
is copyrighted by the author,
Il. Daniels, Esq, general passenger
agent of the New York Genital & Hudson