Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-10-23
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Firenien suller, 1ynn; Whiting AN
Buck are GA tie of list, to-day
Night Yard Master Waldo has returned
to work after a few days vacation.
Arthur Lowe says 1t hasn't happened
but II will before many moons pass.
Alwashout down the road some where,
delayed No. 2 several hours this morning
Heavy Business on the road necessltate
two dsspatchers nearly all the time at thi
place.
In the past few days, fifty cars Of stocl
have been shipped from amy and Albu
querqne.
The wife and children Of Brakeman
Wright returned last evening from a vlsii
to Paris, Illinois.
Richard D. Gibbons, foreman at th'
round HOUSE,. is so Ill that a physician wa
called in last night.
Heavy ralus are reported ) esterday ant
last night on the RIO Grande division de-
laying tranic in general.
Business Is picking up somewhat. as an.
other crew with caboose No. 3J2 has beer
placed on the south end.
Fifteen cars Of sheep are being loaded al
the stock yards to-day. The same number
having been loaded yesterday.
Joe .Fike and VIM. T. Alexander, bott
passenger brakemen of the Atchison, have
resigned their respective positions.
VIM. Boynton. one Of the popular Atchi-
son engineers In Ration, returned home
last week from a few days visit to relatives
In Kansas City. &
Engines No. 10 and 25 after being repair
ed in the Topeka shops, passed through
Las Vegas yesterday en- route for the At.
lantic q Pacific road.
The north bound local freight, No. SO
when heading in on a side track at Sulz.
bacber, this morning, struck an open safety
switch and was derailed.
Dan Scu'ley, formerly a railroad man,
employed with the Atchison at Las Vegas,
also concerned in the A. r. u. trouble, II
now farming In Oklahoma.
Jack Myers has resigned his position 10
the local yards at Rincon, and expects to
leave for Mexico in a few days. Mr..
Brewster has taken his place there.
A1Wight, who for a short time was with
the Atohison as conductor, lie now EN-.
ployed on the Mexican Central railway In
q similar capacity and is doing well.
"Scottieo Sturrock, engineer on the
Glorieta mountains, who, for some time
past has had prospectors working for the
stuff that g%litters, is reported to have
str lck 1t rich.
Engines $50 aud S96, that have been held
at the Las Vegas shops for supply engines
during the rush of business, have been
overbauled and sent to La Junta to do ser.
vice on the road, up there.
A man must be of pretty sound mental
qualities to be able to hold a position on q
railroad, especially in the train service
and consequently there will be very little
coercion in political matters with those
men.
Joe Burks, who at one time held a res
poDsible position with the Wells, Fargo
express company at Las Vegas, also at AL
buquerque, made his first trip as a passen-
ger brakeman on the Atchison, last even
log.
W. B. Biddle, freight traffic manager Of
Atcbison, reports a shortage of cars. The
amount Of grain in the west this year Is
tremendous, and the company is almost
unable to furnish sufficient cars to meet
the demands made.
Charles Cook, formerly an Atchison con-
who married Miss Belle Jennings,
a faithful employee of Brown & Manzan-
Company, has been with the Mexican
Central road as conductor, but is now seek
ing employment for reasons best known to
Harry Hartman, an old employee of the
Atchison at Las Vegas, now has charge Of
the yards on the Mexican Central at 81
laon, Mexico. He informs his friends at
this poiut that he has been taken seriously
and is in the company hospital, at Aguas
.alieptas, and that his recovery is very
,low. b
Paul Whiting, fireman on the mountain
'un at Lamy, who has been In Kansas for
he past sixty days looking after his agri-
interests there, has returned to
work. Arthur Whiting, a brother of his,
$ at present farming back there, and de-
'pite the hard times, reports everything in
! prosperous condition.