Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-04-17
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I. Conroe, travelling engineer reached
townafrom La Junta, last evening.
e. Copeland, Atchison agent at Ell Paso,
Texas, went down the road, last evening.
w. II. williams, the bridge builder and
repairer, came home from La Junta, last
evening,
9. M. Meade, the Atchison civil en-
gineer, was en- route for southern points,
last evening" %
Conductor p. c.. Carpenter is able to be
about, though requiring the assistance Of
q cane, in walking.
Jos. Cook, the day foreman at the round
house, here, has been promoted to the gen.
sral f%oremanship OF the rouudhouse, In
Ration, a promotion well earned and de-
served.
Mrs. Andrews, wife Of the station agent
at Glorieta, and Mrs. Erb, whose husband
6lls a similar position at Chapelle, have
been up to the future great on a shopping
expedition.
J. Sites, night operator for the U. F.,
I'D. 81 g., at Clayton, returned there from
Adair, Iowa, where he was called to his
fathers bedside, who died. j. b. Flack,
who has been filing Mr.. Stites' position
during his absence, returned to Trinidad.
G. M. Higgins, assistant to President e.
r. Ripley, Of the Atchison, a new APP
pointee, arrived in the city in a special car,
last evening, accompanied by G. ). Devlin,
Of the mining department.. The latter Of
fetal went through for Santa Fe, Mr.. Hig.
gins remaining here with the car till this
evenings No. l passenger train.
Gen. John c. Black, United States dis
trict attorney, has set May 18th as the day
for the beginning Of the trial OF ex-Presi-
dent John W. Rhinehart and ex-Trafic
Manager John A. Hanley, Of the Atchison
railroad. These officials were indicted for
violating the interstate law, in
giving special rates to favored shippers Of
cattle to the Chicago market. w
Roadmaster L.. Bradley, of the middle
division Of the Atchison, is busy at pres
emit experimenting the work of laying new
steel on the main line from Emporia to
Florence. Seventy FIVE men are engaged
In laying steel Immediately west of EN-
poria, and an equal number are at work
three miles west of that point. 1t is lex
pected that the work will be completely in
q short time, when the road will be prac-
tically Of steel to Florence. sfsfA carr.
The operation of the limited train service
On the Atchison is expensive. Fifty cents
per mile is said to be the the average. cost
Of running the train. The distance from
Chicago to Albuquerque, at which point
the Atchison joins the A. & r., is / ,348
making a cost of 1914 for running each
train between those points. Four limited
trains are in operation daily, the total cost
amounting to $2,696 per day. The rain
derives,a good revenue from the express,
handled west Of Newton, but this revenue
is offset to a considerable extent by the
operation OF the dining-car system. which
is a dead loss.
TRAIN CREWS IN DEMAND.
Traffic has increased to such an extent
on the New Mexico and southern. divisions
| of the Atchison that engine and train
crews are in demand. Five eastern diyis-
ion engine crews rave left Topeka, three
being temporarily assigned to service on
the southern division out of Arkansas
City, and two on the New Mexico division
out OF Ration.
Engineers Oscar French, Wm. Sherman
and VIM. Jones, and Firemen Harry
Brown. Fred Watson and Willis Delay
have been sent to Arkansas City and En-
gineers Charles Yewell and Charles Jones
and Firemen Leslie Earnest and Bert
lDanfelser to Ration.
This leaves but one engineer and two
fremen on the extra board in Topeka.