Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-08-28
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Fireman W. G.. Reed is taking Sam
Bushey's place temporarily.
Engineer Levi Philips left for El Paso,
last evening, on a short visit.
A. R. Odell, the lineman, got back from Q
trip up to Ration, last evening.
Brakeman Fox and wife are back In Las
Vegas from a visit to Kentucky points.
Sam Bushey, a local r~ailroader, is in re-
turn from a trip up to Cripple Creek, Colo.
Frank Williams has accepted a position
with A. F. Benedict in the carpenter de.
partment.
G. j. Bell, an Atchison civil engineer,
arrived in the city from La Junta, Colo,
last evening.
Special car "Pecos Valley" No. n. &C.
cupied by J. j. Hagerman, is on No. /, to-
day, en- route to Ell Paso.
|. Rosebrough, car Inspector at this
place, previous to the A. r. U. strike, is in
the city, visiting old friends.
DR.. FL. B. Hogeboom, of Fort Madison,
Ia, has taken a position temporarily In
the Atchison dispensary in Topeka.
Switchman Cramer is sad and lonely
now, his better-half having gone down to
Ell Paso on a long contemplated trip.
Extra Agent McQuade has resigned and
will leave for Chicago, to-day, having &C.
cepted a position with some other com
pany at that point.
e. Copeland, Atchison agent for the
southwest, down at Ell Paso, Texas, was q
through passenger for that city on last
evenings No. | passenger train.
J. E. Mcmahon, a former train dispatch
er at the Las Vegas depot, came down
from La Junta, last evening, and will
again engage in dispatching trains at this
point.
E. L. Martin, of Kansas City, who IL Wis
iting relatives In Las Vegas, Is president
of the Kansas City & PittSburg railroad
company, a local line that is paying hand
some dividends. :
c. E. Clapper has been appointed acting
agent for the Atchison, down at Los Lunas,
pice G. W. Wheeler, and D.. Coughlin has
resumed his duties as agent at Springer,
vice q. A.. McQuade, acting agent.
Conductor McNeill. wife and three chill.
dren, left the Las Vegas hot springs, last
evening, for National City, California.
Sixteen years ago, Mr.. Mcneil ran a train
on the Atchison, plying between this city
and Santa Fe.
The funeral services of Auditor McKib-
ben were held, to-day, at Topeka, Kans., at
2 O'Clock, the Masonic order having charge.
All the general offices at Topeka were
closed at noon, to allow the employees to
attend In a body.
W. E. Symons, railroad master mechau- |
ic, late of Mexico, but Who headquarters
are now at Chicago, is seriously Ill at the
home of his brother, Prof. L. F. Symons, |
who lives one and one-haif miles north Of |
this place.-LesoisvilIe, Ind, Monitor.
The time keeper for the Atlantic q Pa. |
ciic shops, A. H. Mckenzie, was at the
depot, last night. He took the. No. 2 pas.
senger train for the Las Vegas hot springs,
where he will take baths for the rheuma-
tism, which has been annoying him con-
siderably here OF late.-Atbuquerque Csti- !
zen.
The western roads are falling out over
the grand army business to St. Paul. Il
vas expected that the rate Of one cent per
mile which was made for the encampment
was sufficiently low to prevent any rate
but the people who had that
are being badly fooled. There Is
not much cutting Of the rate proper. but
many Of the roads are carrying depart
ment commanders and their stsffs for
nothing and issuing free transportation In
other cases. The business has turned out
much smaller than was expected and tbsre
Il . lively dght tor the lions sbsFs. Of IL