Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-09-02
A AND TRAIN.

Supt. Hurley arrived from up the road,
last evening.
J. L. Walden has again taken his place
as night yard-master here.
Frank johnson, air Inspector, and Tom
Smith, fireman, reached Ration, yesterday.
Engineer Joe Hodgson expects to return
to Ration and report for duty, next month.
Engineer Al Lane expects his family to
| return soon from a visit to southern points.
J. D. Shufford, general live stock agent
OF the Union Pacific, was q south bound
passenger, last evening.
Travel on the Santa Fe branch has SO
increased that trains are compelled to
double head, part Of the time.
"Blondy" Wilcox is taking mud baths
for a severe attack Of rheumatism. Jas.
Hannegan Is filling his position of day
yard-master.
w. M. Colbert, night depot master of the
Atchison, at Albuquerque, was married to
Miss Pearl Rutherford, who formerly
clerked at the Maze, down there.
H.. j.. Ryan, Atchison timber inspector at
this point, returned, last evening, from an
official run up to Ration and left for Dorsey
station OF this mornings early train.
A through California train, running as a
s %oeclal, arrived from the south at $3.50
O'Clock, last evening, with passengers on
board who had been IN the road from Los
Angeles seven days.
Charles and Adam Fischer, for many
years employed at the local freight depot
Of the Atchison railway, left Albuquerque
it is learned, they will remain in the future
and Engage in farming.
The Atlantic & Pacific railway case
comes up for hearing in California early
next month. Judge Ross, Of Los Angeles,
will hear the case on September 7th. and a
few days later Ii will come before Judge
McKenna, at San Francisco.
II. Fl. Noise, who succeeds Robert KEEP
pier as travelling passenger agent of the
Nickel Plate, was formerly travelling pas
senger agent for the Memphis railway and
is well acquainted with the territory. His
headquarters will be in Kansas City.
The Atchison and Rio Grande railroads
have agreed to haul zach three carloads of
evergreens from Colorado to Topeka, for
the decoration of the fair grounds there,
and, moreover, to have their section men
cut down the young evergreens necessary
for the purpose.
r. M. Nichols, car inspector on the Mex
lean international railway, who was ar
rested and placed in jail at Piedras Negras.
Mexico, three weeks ago., on the charge of
criminal negligence in the performance of
his work, has escaped from jail and found
safety in the United States.
For the purpose of making a test of its
operation, an electric signal has been
placed by the side of the Atchison main
line at the Seventh street crossing in To.
peka. This signal is one lately invented,
and is controlled by a company, of which
F. E. Nipps, of that city, is the head.
Travellers arriving In Kansas City COM
plain bitterly OF the baggage checkmen
who invade the trains, importuning and
often intimidating them to patronize their
bus or carriage line, A step In the right
would be to abolish this system
as it is a source of constant menace and
annoyance to passengers.
II discoveries for the use of compressed
air, by which both time n labor are
materially reduced, continue to be made,
mechanical geniuses at the Atchison
shops In Topeka will completely revolution
ize railroad shop work. The latest dis.
covery has resulted in the invention of a
pneumatic saw for saving car
roofs.
q. COPELAND, the popular southwestern
agent for the Atchison, with headquarters
at Ell Paso, stated to a Neao Mexican report
er at Santa Fe that 500 men are at work on
the new railway southwest Of Juarez, and
he hears that the line is to be pushed across
Mexico via B~atopilas to Topolobampo