Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-09-14
TRACK AND TRAIN.

Lint hepairer Odell left for Trinidad,
last night, on company business.
Special agent Frank Harris came down
from Maxwell City, last evening.
Brakeman L. e. Oyster has returned
from Ohio where had been spending q
couple Of months visiting relatives and
friends.
A son was born, last evening, to the wife
Of Engineer s.. A. Smith, and has been
chrIstened Edwin b., after the popular
hospital physician, DR.. Shaw.
W. G. Nevin, general purchasing agent,
James Dun, chief engineer Of the Atchison
are In this city, having stopped here last
evening from No. j. They are on their
way to California.
y. M. Higginson, general superintendent
Of coal mines, passed through here on No.
l last evening, he will visit the Cerrillos
mines from which point he will leave for
California in a day or so.
Alex. Sheldon, for a long time book
keeper for the Colorado Fuel and Iron
company at Engle, left Trinidad for Ger
rillos, having been promoted to the posi-
tion OF general agent for the company in
New Mexico.
superintendent J. e. Hurley and NJ. r.
Williams, Of the bridges and building de.
partmsnt, returned from the north, Satur-
day evening. Some thine was spent by
them at the Ration tunnel, which has been
giving considerable trouble lately.
H b. OF Il. i.
The national meeting Of the B. of L. f.,
which opens in Galveston, Texas, this
morning, promises to be ono of the most
interesting national meetings Of that order
which has been held so far. The Ladies'
Auxiliary to the B. of l.. r. will hold their
national meeting In connection with that
Of the flremen, and a number OF important
questions relating to both orders will
come up for discussion and settlement
at those meetings. The ritual work
Of the orders may be somewhat changed.
Fireman E. d. Webb and Mrs. Webb. Of
Topeka, attend the meeting as delegates
respectively from Flower of the West
lodge, 3. of L. F., and the Ladies' Auxili-
airy to that lodge.
The other delegates to the national
meeting who will represent lodges
along the line of the Atchison are AZ
follows:
r. b. Watkins, Newton, Kan; F. w.
Barse. Nickerson, Kan. K. r. Fleischer,
Arkansas City. Kan; p. M. Cahili, Ft.
Madison, Ia; Thomas Williams and Mrs.
Williams, Chillicothe, ILL. Thomas Bowen,
Las Vegas; Joseph Craig, Ration.
DEATH OF R. b.
The sad news Of the death of the much
esteemed citizen r. B. Gemmeli, superin-
tendent Of telegraph Of the Atchison sys-
tenn was received with regret by the PEG.
pie of Topeka and by the employees of the
Atchison. After an illness OF about four
weeks Of typhoid fever he passed away
this morning at $3.50. Messages of regret
and coincidence to the bereaved family are
being received from many places.
MIR. Gemmell began his railroad life
about thirty years ago acting in the ca
pacity Of trainmaster on the middle d.
vision OF the Pennsylvania railway from
this line he went to the Kansas Pacific
railway as general freight and passenger
agent, which position he held for thr ee or
four years when he was received in the
employ Of the Atchison as trainmaster on
the middle division and after about five
years In that capacity was made superin-
tendent Of telegraph, which position be
held up up TO the time Of his death. His
service with the one system being about
twenty years. This alone speaking much
for his honesty and integrity.
Mr.. Gemmell has always taken an ac-
tive part in the moral influence of his EN-
ployes and been foremost in establishing
societies Of moral and good influence
where ever he saw an opportunity, was
highly respected by all who knew him and
bis loss will be keenly felt by the Topeka
people and the Atchison railroad officials
as a trusted employs and friend.