Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-23
fRAoK AND TRAIN.


No. 2, to-day, reported on time.
The wife and children Of F;remsr Fox
have gone down TO Glorieta, from Las
Vegas.
J.z. R~ohrback, superintendent Of ter
minals at Kansas City, went south ON Last
evenings train.
W. r. Doyle has resume his duties as
agent for the company at Watrous, rice G.
A. McQuade, acting agent.
u. A. McQuade has been appointed act
Ing agent AT Springer, nice Dan Coughlin,
granted leave Of absence.
The Harvey eating house at KInsley.
Kansas, burned down, yesterday. The or
igin of the fire Is unknown, at present.
A squad OF eight Atchlson bridge build
ers, under the direction Of M. r. Williams,
are at work on bridges, on the Lamy
branc b
Engineers Jack Heating and Chas. Nor
ris retired from the services Of the Atchi-
son, up at Ration. Heating will leave In .
few days, for Alaska.
William II. Noyes, checking clerk for tho
Atchison 10 the smelter yards at Argen-
tine, was struck by a switch train in the
east end yards, and badly injured.
The grading outfit, and a few employees
Of the White Oaks railroad are still held In
camp up at Fleck's ranch, as IL awaiting
further orders, says the Ell Paso Telegram.
Brooks engines 765, 767, 76s, no, 773 and
TIA rave been transferred from Nickerson
to the middle division from Ration, and
will be assigned to chain ang service out
of Emporia.
Since January 1st, 1890, fifty miles Of
new steel rails have been laid on the main
line. of the Atchison, charged to operating
expenses, which were purchased by the
receivers, at last years prices.
There being no train received from the
A. & p. at Albuquerque. last night, the Rio
Grande division OF No. 2 was run through
on time, the A. g P. No. 2 leaving Albu-
querque about 1880, this morning.
W. c. Potts, chief engineer and in charge
of the work, says the rails CT the Prescott
& Arizona Central road have been torn up
and shipped away, with the exception OF
about fourteen miles. In about two weeks,
the entire roadbed will have been stripped
entirely.
The Iowa railroad commission will soon
begin work, under authority Of a law Of
the last legislature, to prepare a schedule
of express rates that may be charged in
thar ctata Thora hos rauar haas s+.xn
interference, heretofore, in Iowa, with
rates charged by express companies.
A man named Herman Stemmer, while
to board Conductor Richley,s
train, up at Starkville, Colo, yesterday
afternoon, before it had come to a full
stop, was thrown under the wheels and
one foot was run over. 1t lie thought that
the member will have to be amputatei.
There is a prospect that the Chicago-Los
Angeles fast train service will be resumed,
over the A., T. & s. F. and A. &. p. lines,
in August. EBoth roads are agreeable
the proposition, only the Santa 'Fe de-
to inaugurate it on August 1st, while
the A. & P. people think September 1st
enough. So it is only a question Of
compromise. -NeU Merican.
Claude Major fell from the break beam
ofsa freight train at Limetar, a small
the other side Of Socorro, on Sun
day last, the wheels passing over him and
both legs off below the knees.
He was carefully conveyed to the caboose,
through loss OF blood, died just as the
reached Socorro. He was perfectly
up to the last moment, and told
ne conductor he was seventeen years OF
age, and that his home was at ri Paso.-
Albuquerque Democrat.