Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-12-16
TRACK AM TRAIN.

Pay checks arrived last evening.
Engine No. 100 has been assigned to pas
senger service in place Of No. 436.
j.. II. Humphrey, an Atchison contractor,
was q south bound official, last evening.
Engines Nos. 9l9, 25 and 427 are under.
going extensive repairs 10 the Las Vegas
shops.
Engineer Sweeny is nursing a very sore
eye, caused from the breaking Of q lubri-
Gator glass.
George Boardman, who has been doing
extra work or car inspection, down at
Lamy, has returned.
c. W. Smith, the A. g. P. receiver, went
south in special car 90, last evening, ao-
c%ompanied by members Of his family.
Conductor Fred Bacon has taken a lay
off, and left for Atlanta, Ga, to spend the
holidays among friends and relatives.
An assistant to the auditor of the u. p.
road went over to Santa Fe in a special
car, last night thence he goes to California.
Messrs. Bell and Mccoy, of the Atchi-
SONS civil engineering department, up at
Pueblo, passed through for Deming, last
evening.
Engine No. 300, of the Pan Handle route,
pissed through Las Vegas, yesterday, On
route for the Sonora road between Nogales
and Guaymas.
After a thorough overhsuling, engine
No. 800 is out in road service again, in
charge of Engineer Marion Stewart and
Fireman Evans.
Jack Lue, a former conductor ont of this
city, is now In FL Paso, taking in the sights
and feeling in good cheer over his pros
poets of a good job.
F. E. Higgins, formerly Of these parts, Is
now running a train out of Temple, Texas,
on the G.. c. S. F. railroad. He writes
to a friend at Ration that he is well pleased
with his job and the country.
The section house at Hockett, sixteen
miles west of Rincon, N. M, was robbed
Four Mexican suspects were arrested and
placed in the Las Cruces Jail. Some of the
plunder was recovered.
Brakeman james Purcell, WHO'S q friend
of E. G. Nettles, thesprivate secretary to
George r. Peck, the railroad solicitor,
learns in a letter that Mr.. Peck's condition
is still quite serious, though the probabiii-
ties are that he will recover. The present
| trouble comes from the fact that one of the
broken ribs pierced one of his lungs.
DR.. J. K. Fay, superintendent of hos
pitfalls of the Santa Fe hospital association,
has just completed the report of the asso-
citation for the past year. The report shows
that %. 206 cases were treated by the as
sociation physicians in inc out OF the
hospitals. Out of this number Of cases
treated, but thirty EIGHT deaths occurred.
A light engine, with caboose, going
west, struck an old Pueblo Indian, about a
mile east of Laguna, last night about 7
o'clock. The Indian was deaf and was
walking along the track, with a load OF
wood on his back, going to his house in the
village. When the engine reached Laguna,
there was some wood on the ~cow-catcher,
and the engineer concluded he must have
struck something. Two train men were
sent back to investigate, and the old
Indian was found about fifteen feet from
the track, badly cut up and dead. He
was about eighty years old, and was
buried at Laguna this afternoon.-Albu- |
Querque Citizen (14th.)
An illustration of what G. NJ. Higginson, |
assistant to the president, is doing in de-
tail work can be found at the shops in To-
peka. In the painting OF Atchison way
cars, it has been the former custom to
place the words "Atchison, Topeka & San
ia Fe Ry." and SWAY Car" on both sides
OF the car. Under the direction OF Mr..
Higginson, the word "way carr is left of
entirely, and the name of the road is abb
breviated to "a, 7. & s. F. Ry." This
change saves 81 on each car, and as each OF
the hundreds OF way cars owned by the
Atchison is painted probably twice a year,
the item is considerable. In painting the
of engines, Mr. Higginson has
also directed that the shading" which
uses much paint and takes considerable
time, be left off.