Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-14
A AND TRAIN.



Fireman Bert Dunfelsor has returned to
Topeka.
Fireman John II. DIARIES has reported tor
duty on engine AT.
Conductor Parker has resumsd his regu-
lar run out Of Raton.
Miss Lizzie Smith Is a late addition to the
force at the Depot hotel.
Brakeman Eugene Bruce has been drop
red from the north and list.
Two switching crews are again employed
in the yards at San MarcIal.
Fred Garland and family win move from
Santa Fe to Las Vegas, soon.
Hostler W. II. Brittenstein is again on
duty at the Las Vegas round house.
Flremen VIM. Parnell and Ed. Buck ex-
poet to 20 on the Glorista mountain run
Passenger Engineer. John A. Ross Is on
the sick list and H. P. Smith has his run.
Fireman Gene l.. Scudder Is taking =
rest and Fred Bushnell takes his place, on
engine Oil. (
Engineer Edmund T. Cody and bride are
expected to arrive from Pocatsllo, Idaho
In a few days. Is,
Machinist Chas. McMullen has been called
to Topeka on account Of the serious illness
OF his brother.
Harry Roger is In return from Denver
and win probably take a freight run for
the time being.
Clarence Roberts will soon cave for
Deerfield, Michigan, where he will meet
his life's partner.
John Parish, the fireman, has fully re-
covered from a recent illness and has again
reported for duty.
Miss Hattie Eames has gone down to
Lamy to keep house for her father, the To-
connective engineer.
Ed. Games, a former machinist at Ration,
returned there from Cripple Greek, and Is
again in his old position.
Fireman ''Red" Dennisten has been
granted sixty -days' leave of absence aud
will visit Missouri points.
1t is not improbable that John McColgan
will be appointed head blacksmith at the
Las Vegas round house.
Fireman Leslie Earnest is now shovel
ing black diamonds on engine 9l2, during
the illness Of Fireman Steadmen.
Ed McAlexander, a former fireman out
of this city, is now q news butcher on the
Southern Kansas, out of Kansas City.
H;.u- M~D...t~ NE1.-,~ -xf
delegate to the populist convention at st.
Louis, will be unable to attend the same.
Conductors Sanford North and r. A..
Moore will soon leave for a camping and
mining trip, through the northern country.
". Vezetti, manager of the Harvey sys-
tenn OF eating houses on the Atchison rail.
road, has started on a five months trip to
Europe.
y Engineers Geo. Moody, Martin Conway,
Herbert Coulson and Sandy Gear, railroad
men who were here during the cattle rush,
have returned to Topeka.
Engineer A. F. Eames, Of the Glorieta
mountain run, had the misfortune to have
his trunk stolen recently, in which he had
money, clothes and other va.uables.
Stenographer Ernest Combs, to Master
Mechanic Richard English. OF the A & p,
at Albuquerque, has resigned his position
and returned to California, for health
reasons.
Two new engines for the San Francisco
& joaquin Valley railroad passed through
Las Vegas for California, yesterday, and
three more were expected to go through,
last night.
Geo. Crosson, Harry Hartley, W. NJ.
Stewart, Ed Kane and e. Il. Perry, a par
ty Of railroaders, are completing arrange
ments for a fishing excursion down on the
Pecos. e E. Perry will act as cook at full
pay.
The services Of Cliff Robert is, day fore.
man In the Las Vegas yards, and Newt
.ramer, night foreman, have been dispens-
with, in that capacity. They will go |
back to switching for an honest livelihood,
and the day and night yardmasters will
become foremen OF the switch engine and
boss switchmen.
D.. s. Dean chief clerk to Superintendent
at the division headquarters in this
city, left for the City of Mexico. last even
ing, accompanied by his brother. James
Dean, of New York City. On the home trip,
he brothers will go from Tampico to New
York by water, and d. =. Dean will proba-
by be absent from his post of duty sixty
ninety days.
DICK HAYS DONE UP.
(Contributed.) |
Richard Hays, the popular conductor,
links himself as young as he used to be,
years ago. He tried to get on
lis train, going 100 miles an hour, but he
anded on his head and shoulders, fifty
Get from the train. But you couldn't kill
Dick with an ak. Conductor Oder says
durray had to stay up all night. and rub
'oor Richard with arnica and alcohol, to
him in shape to go home to his wife.
durray says the best joke on Hays is that
COW got under the engine, and when
hey got the animal out, 1t saw Hays and
ook him for alfalfa. Dick chased her out
n the prairie. After delaying the train
or some minutes, the passengers were
ompelled to go to his assistance, before
be COW would allow him to get pack TO bis
rain. The ~trainmaster declares that this
anne Richard is the swiftest man he has,
when he is being chased by a
As a result of the trip, Dick Is out q /!
ottle of arnica and one of alcohol; aIso, q
new cap.
"A annrla nf hipucIisfa Uora hafnro IrduaIN