Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-08-29
TRACK N TRAIN.

Firemen Selover, Cloud and Talbot have
new bicycles.
Engineer Geo. Crosson is first out on the
extra board.
Engineer Ed Keen has engine 43S, in the
absence of Geo. Rue.
Engine 913 is in the shops with thirty
five broken stay bolts.
The wife of Engineer Perry arrived from
"the states" last evening.
Engine Oil is to be taken to Topeka to be
furnished with new saddles.
Fireman Geo. Robinson is recovering
from an attack of chills and fever.
Train Dispatcher Bristol, up at Ration, is
the happy daddy Of a brand new son.
Engineer Al Holman is taking a rest off
engine 694; Fred Kamer is filling his place.
Engineer E.. E. Perry is taking a lay off
and S. A. Sherwood is doing duty on sos.
A large amount of hard coal is being
shipped from Cerrillos to points north and
east.
Chas. Friend, former night clerk at the
Depot hotel, is convalescent from a severe
fever.
y. s. Jones, the railroader, has returned
from a visit Of thirty days to his home in
Indiana.
John Forqueran, the Harvey house baker
at Ration. has resigned, and departed for
Kansas City.
Supt. j. E. Hurley went south in his pri-
vate car, last evening, accompanied by his
stenographer.
Ex-Manager Guerney, of the Harvey
house, wife and boy, left Ration for Ar
kansas City, Kansas.
Charley Browder, an x-brakeman out
OF this city, has returned from a lengthy
visit to Illinois points.
Fireman Vim. Talbot is doing service on
engine 694, In the absence of the regular
man, Mckenzie Morris. 3
Arthur Lowe, fireman on the hot springs
branch, is taking a rest, with Ed. McCon.
nell at his post of duty.
Engineer H. P, Smith, better known as
Timber Line" is running engine 91s dur
Ing the illness OF w. A.. Shaw.
John A. Ross, travelling engineer, re-
turned this morning from an inspecting
tour on the Rio Grande division.
Engineer Frank Sweeney has recently
made a purchase Of some valuable and
handsome diamonds at Albuquerque.
Hugh Quigley, of the Las Vegas shops,
hoa hoop propoatad IN tho nnoitinr IF an.
gine-watcher, with the pile driver crew.
H. Ward, of Williams, Arizona, a con-
ductor on the Atlantic & Pacific, passed
through this city for Denver, yesterday.
Fireman Middlestate is fully himself
again, his family having arrived from the
Centennial commonwealth, last evening.
Will Hurt, who for some time has been
brakeman with Conductor Langston, on
the Waldo branch, will go on the main
line.
The Depot hotel at Ration has changed
managers. F. W. Guerney has retired and
gone to Chicago, and W. p. Mott has as
sumed control. Z
]. NJ. Mccoy, agent for the Atchison, at
ingalls,, Kansas, twenty Ave miles west OF
Dodge City, committed suicide for some
unknown reason.
S~tenographer Geo. Kilmer Is the busiest
man in the offices In this city, he holding
his own job and filing the place Of Clerk
Kress who Is in Chicago.
w. w. Miller, who has been commercial
agent Of the Katy in Kansas City for
several years, has been promoted, and on
September 1st will become general live
stock agent for the line. with headquarters
at Fort Worth. Tex.
Geo. Parish, Of Mexico, who was one OF
the operators at the depot for several years,
leaving here about six years ago, passed
through on No. 2, yesterday, and met sew
eral OF his old-time friends at the platform.
Ration Reporter, eth.
G.. J. Bell, a civil engineer Of the Chica-
go division of the Atchison, and j. O..
Hamlett, Of Tennessee, with their wives,
left the Mountain house, Las Vegas hot
snrinss &c. saa: e, this morning, tax.
ing q daylight run to Lsmy Junction on a
losvi fright trslp.