Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-06-03
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49, Groceries.
Fruits and Vegetable, 4
Fish and Oysters.
in Season. Telephone 10.
A N TRAIN.

Superintendent Hurley has a new car,
No. 105, repainted and %reftted in the latest
style.
Engineer w. II. Willis, of st. Louis, run
ming on the NJ. X g. I. road is said to be the
oldest engineer in point of service for his
age in America. Mr.. Willis, In company
with his wife, Is now attending the
national convention of the B. Of l.. 4. at
Ottawa, Canada. Mrs. Willis is state or
g~anizer of the ladies' auxiliary In the state
Of Illinois.
Some OF the lines are ignoring the agree
ment on rates for the meeting OF the junior
order OF American mechanics In Denver,
next month The particular complaint is
that tickets are being sold to Colorado
Springs. The chairman has issued a notice
to all lines, warning them that the rates
must be confined exclusively TO Denver,
and must not be made to other points In
Colorado or elsewhere.
John w. Reinhart, the former president
OF the Atchison, who is now president Of
the Chesapeake a. Western railway, in
speaking Of his interstate M case,
which was to have been heard In Chicago
May 18th, said:
"The postponement OF trial of my inter-
| state case until October is a Bit
ter disappointment to me. After nearly
two years OF patient waiting and untiring
effort to bring the matter to a head, | came
here this time feeling assured that a trial
| would be had and the case finally Disposed
i ~ aud nv mn, AIanna in fha rrrfonrza T.,
best proven in the fact that / called no
| witnesses. but was entirely content to rest
| the case on the presentation and witnesses
of the government"
The Smith triple exhaust, which was
| placed as an experiment on Atchison en-
CINE 7SS, two months ago, has been taken
off and replaced by the regular Player ex-
haust. 1t was claimed that the Smith -ex-
haust would greatly reduce the amount of
coal necessary to run an engine, but this
the test has failed to prove. Had the
| triple exhaust proved a saving feature, it
would probably have been made a part of
the equipment of all Atchison engines.
Amos Goodhue, for several years gang
foreman il the Atchison shops in Topeka,
has been promoted to the position Of fore
man of the company round house at Dem
yer. Mr.. Goodhue takes the place Of John
Neville, who has been transferred to a sim
liar position at La Junta, succeeding Will
liam Thompson, who takes the foreman
| ship at Ration. Thomas Smith, fireman at
Ration, has resigned his position to engage
in farming.
Two re-instatements of discharged
trainmen nave been made on tho Topeka
| division of the Atchison. Conductor r. B.
Donahue, who was discharged, a month
ago, for breach of discipline, has been re-
instated and assigned one of the passen-
ger run between Topeka d st. Joe, re-
lieving Conductor Harry Griffin, who will
go back to freight service. Brakeman
Thomas Libbey has also been placed In
service after a vacation of six months.
Brakeman Libbey was discharged for
losing supplies from the baggage car of
the drug mems excursion train, while
serving as baggageman on that train
from Topeka to Denver.
TONNAGE CONTESTS.
w. H. Stillwell, assistant general super
intendent, and H. Monkhouse, assistant
superintendent of motive power of the
Rock Island, were Ia Pueblo, Colo, for the
purpose of making tonnage tests of en-