Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-01
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A AND A

No. 2 Is reported on time.
The mother Of Brakeman Ed. Langston
is visiting II the city.
Engineer VIM. Schopper returned to
Nlckerson from San Marcial.
The clock inspector has been regulating
the clocks at the depot, to-day.
J.,C. O'Connor has been appointed Sta
ton agentsa at Mutt pice A. H. Address.
The annual inventory OF the stock at the
s~torehouss In San Marcial Is being made.
Two dead engines went down, on the To-
cal freight. this morning, for the A. &. P.
Fireman Walter Adams, who hostled at
Deming during the rush, has returned to
San Marcial.
Cliff Roberts, day foreman OF the switch
engine, Is back from Denver, accompanied
by his wife. 2a s4as 4
Six men have been laid Off at the Dem
ling shops, and two San Marcial wipers are
resting from weary toll.
Engineer A. p. Hill, Of San MarcIal, Is at
Jemez hot springs, where he will build up
his health for q few weeks. +
Gen Supt. H. U. Nudge and Div. snpt.
e. Hurley, came up from the south on 1
special at $3.50, this afternoon.
The family Of Engineer Schultz, who has
been promoted to the springs -hrsnct,Eha
moved to this city from Lamy.
The present quiet spell on the railroad
may we'll be called the harvest OF discon.
tent for trainmen. San Marciol Bee. !.
The Frisco has an operating mileage Of
1.430 miles. The st. Louis division extends
from st. Louis to SapuIpa, 1T, 4s7 miles.
Engineer Chas. Newcomb, Of Ration, who;
along with bis family, had been visiting In
Denver, is again on duty on the north end.
tits rumored that the daily train service
on the Lake Valley branch will be discon-
tinued, and only semi occasional runs
made over the line.
Engine 81 broke a side rcd while In the
neighborhocd of Las Cruces, aGd was
taken back to San Marcial for repairs.
When put in shape, she will be stored away
in Ell Paso.
+. B. Gummell, superintendent Of tele-
graph, Of the Atchison system, who has
been spending a few days on the Pecos,
near Glorieta, passed through ON No. 9,
this morning, on his way home, in Topeka.
W. H. Kinna, with the Elgin national
watch company, is interviewing watch In
s%pectors on the Atchison system and talk.
ing up the grade Of Elgin watches that
will pass inspection under the new order
OF slime keeping" ON this road. In visit,
ing the hot springs, yesterday, he was
greatly surprised that such a hotel at such
a resort should be closed. He made rates
with Manager Plank for a number Of bis
friends for the summer
4 NOTABLE FOREIGNER.
Theodore g. Hoeck, royal Prussian In
spector of public works, from Prussia, Ger.
many, visited the engineering department
the Atchison in Topeka, the other day.
Inspector Hoeck has at present h~eadquar.
with the German imperial embassy at
Washington, and is travelling over the
States for the purpose Of becoming
with the American methods,
especially in reference to railroad con-
'truction. HTo1
He spent several hours with CHIEF En-
sineer Dun, examining drawings and
prints and asking questions for his infor= |
and arranged for several blue
prints of high braced t~restles, coal chntes,
timber projections and grade profiles to be
tent him at Washington. Mr.. Hoecks viii
make q tour to the Pacific coast, returning
% Washington In about seven weeks.