Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-04-30
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! 90 First class Goods
zM6 at Lowest Prices.
GRAAF < BONLES,
Fancy and Staple
! 49, Groceries.
! Fruits and Vegetable,
Fish and Oysters. rs.
in Season. Telephone Is.
A M TRAIN.


A car OF Ice for Silver City and a car Of
lime from Myers u Fritz billed to II. @.
| Coors, came down from the springs, yea
terday.
j. G. Hendon. the attorney for the AS
p, passed through for Albuquerque, last
evening, on No. 1.
Up at Watrous, last evening. a freight
train bumped Into an empty box car. with
| but small damage.
F. lie Page and John Hanlon returned to
the city from the east, last evening, each
having grown a leg since leaving here.
Every berth and every compartment in
the cars on No. 4 to-day were filed Ito
| overlooking. What will they do with the
passengers when but one train each day Is
run?
C. r. Perry, division superintendent for
the Atlantic & Pacific, arrived in Albu-
querque, from Gallup Tuesday night to
meet II. U. Nudge, general superintend-
emit for the Atchison railway. His lchief
clerk, Philip Allen, arrived from Gallup
yesterday morning.
The railroad company has moved the
car weighing business from Deming to
Lordsburg. Hereafter every car trans
ferred to or from the Atchis,n will be
weighed there. In order to attend to this
work properly Yardmaster Martin has
been given another assistant.
Editorial mileage ticket, form local 1873,
series Ono 77s, issued ct Topeka, 'C''
April 9th, in favor Of William Joltz, ac-
count Peoples Friend, Topeka, was issued
to a colored person. II presented by a
white person, conductors are bullstined to
take up and handle in usual manner.
Fred Manger, who for the past four
years has been in charge of the Harvey
eating house, ct Albuquerque, and who
in that time made a host of warm friends,
left that place, for st. Louis, where be
will take charge of the new dining room
In the big union depot. Ben Manager, who
has been in charge OF the supply depot
there, will succeed his brother as manager
of the eating house, the supply depot be-
ing discontinued with the taking off Of the
flyers.
The first addition to the working force
at the Atchison shops in topeka, since the
cut of 200 men last January, has been
made by the superintendent of machinery.
Thirty men have been added to the car
shop force, and with the exception of
about dozen men, assigned work In the
repair yards. The work of placing the
fruit and refrigerator cars in first class
condition will probably furnish employ
ment to this additional force for at least
two months. At the completion of this
work, unless other equipment requires. at
~tention, the men will be released.
Frank Cunningham, freight conductor
on the Atlantic g. Pacific, was killed Tues
day evening, five miles west of Hardy, by
falling between two box cars. There was
a hot box, and Cunningham was carrying
water In a bucket to cool 1t, when he slip
ped and fell. Both his legs were crushed,
his skull was fractured and he was injured
Internally. DR.. Dryden attended him as
soon as the train reached Winslow, out
could do nothing for him, and he died at
$50 p. m. Cunningham was a single man,
thirty years of age, and lived in Winslow.
He was one of the oldest employees, and
was secretary of the 0. R. G., and Knight
of Pythias.