Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-25
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work In the Las Vegas yards.
G. NJ. Doe, assistant attorney for the A.
4 r., was a passenger on No. l, last even
ing.
Pete Murphy, water service man, has
placed a new pump in position down at
the round house. h.
Engine 76+ has arrived In Topeka from
Albuquerque, and has been placed in the
shops for a general overhAultng. nth
Mrs. Dan Fry, who has been in charge
OF the ladies' waiting room at the Atchison
depot in Topeka for several years, is now
In this city for her health.
Smith Orwick returned, last evening,
from Springer, where no had been run
ming a pump for the pess week, and has
resumed his job at The pump house, at this
point.
Samuel K. White, for years freight and
passenger conductor on the Atlantic 81
Pacific out OF Albuquerque, has resigned
bis position on the ruad and will visit Cali
fornia. tl
A. q. Wells, general superintendent OF
the Atlantic q Pacific, with his wife and
children, left albuquerque for santa
Monica, Cal, where they will remain for
a few weeks.
Tony Koblitz, the big-fsted and big.
hearted plumber, and all.round mechanic,
has gone up to Ration, where he succeeds
Jas. Feeney,as water service man bet cen
Ration and La Junta.
A. & r. engines "A and 46 after remodel
ing in the Atchison shops in Topeka have
been sent to Albuquerque. Engines 40 and
AZ were also turned out of the shops and
| will be sent to that point.
II. f. Smith, secretary to Assistant Gen.
eral Freight Agent Q. II. Hudson of the
Atchison, has gone to Denver to meet Mr..
Hudson, who is inspecting tho freight
offices in Colorado and Nav Mexico.
J.F F. 81. McKioben, auditor, and c.. S.
Sutton, auditor, Of freight receipts, of
the Atchison, will probably attend the
meeting Of the Association of Railway
Accounting Officers in New York city
May 81,
1t is understood that the Atlantic &
Pacific railway company is determined to
low IL AulhS Al lhO nuuQ5 VI kOOd uuu
reliable men, and 10 consequence, during
the last few days, half a dozen trainmen
have been let out.-AibaQuerque Citizen.
James q. Gaukroger, who has been the
efficient cashier ct the Dspot hotel for
some months past, will leave in q few days
for a better position at Winslow, A. Il.
The position he filed inNthis city will be
taken by l. Freeman, who is now in the
city.
The first appointment of employees for
the lev Atchison hosritai in Topeka has
baen made by Chief Surgeon Hogsboom.
John Owens, of New York city, who has
worked in several of the New York hos
pitfalls, has been given the position Of order
ly or assistant nurs,.
Nate HOLSTER, up to q short time ago q
passenger engineer on the Atchison, has con
structed a miniature locomotive which is
perfect in every detail. The small engine
Is to placed in the window vof General
Watch Inspector Montgomery at Topeka
and will be operated by compressed air.
The people Of Sumner county, Kansas,
have at last reached the conclusion that
the proper method for the settlement of
their grievance with the Atchison railroad
in regard to train service, is to send a del
to Topeka fer the purpose OF Iay-
ing the case before the officials Of the
road.
w. II. Simpson, the general advertising
manager Of the Atchison, is in Denver.
has gone to Colorado from Chicago to
get up o neat advertising book OH Col
pleasure and summer resorts. This
will be handsomely illustrated, and
Will contain interesting reading. Over
$1,000 copies will be printed and distrib-
tied In the eastern portion Of the United |
One hundred new stock cars for use on
he western division OF The road are being
'uilt at the. carpenter shops of the Rock
STAND, ct Chicago. The cars are thirty
tx feet long and are wider thar the ordi-
lary stock car. They differ from the pal
CO stock cars in the fact that they are not
quipped with feeding and watering appa-
Twenty of these cars have already
cen turned out OF the shops. \
The Rock Island is at present doing a
dairy business from Nebraska and
lansas points to the east. Under tho head
dairy business is included butter, eggs :
cheese The largest egg shipments are
-om Beatrice aud Lincoln, Neb and the
butter shipments from the cream
ries of Saline and Dickinson counties. :
N an average twenty GERS per week are
to New York city.
Engineer Dick, of the Atchison, running :
ut of Nickerson, Kansas, measured
rength with a tramp, the other day, and q
a result is suffering from a badly
'rained wrist. The tramp had colufprt- b
,ly seated himself or the pilot of the en- ~
a few minutes before the leaving i,
of the train, with tho Wow of taking d s
de, but was discovered by the engineer,
politely asked him to move on. ThlsI.
tramp refused to do, and Dick accord.
ely proceeded to move him. He picked
Q man up bodily and threw him some &
stance from the track, but in doing SO
verely wrenched his wri t. The tramp N
on soft ground and was not hurt in the of
Ist. o.
his HAND WORTH S12, eco. :
Carruthers, now OF Denver, ~
l., but formerly of Kansas City, OBJ -
ned Judgment in the district court at ,.
athe, Ks, against the Atchison, Topeka -
Santa Fe railway company for Si2, 900,
the loss Of his right hand, while at +,
npting to make a coupling on a freight ba
In at Marceliue, Mo-, March 2Sth, 1890, thI
lie brakiug for the company. =