Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-11
TRACK N TRAIN.

the wife OF Conductor Hanford returned
to Ration from Chicago, yesterday.
e. P. Smith, a Western Union operator,
reached Las Vegas from Kansas City, last
evening.
The freight crews of Conductors Bacor
yesterday.
Mrs. L.. j. Erb has resumed her duties al
agent at Chapelle, N. M, vice Jane.
O'5hea, acting agent.
Juan ID. Hernandez, CT the work train,
up at Lynn, went down to Rivera, last
evening, a sick young man.
The work Of replacing wooden bridges
with substantial iron girders, on the east
ern division of the Atchison, is being
pushed. I
Ellis G. York, brother of John York, and
~roadmaster for the A. g. p, down at Peach
Springs. Arizona, arrived in Las Vegas
from Colorado, last evening, accompanied
by his wife.
The Missouri Pacific railway has given
notice of withdrawal from the agreement
of The executive officers, of the western
roads, in the matter of maintaining rates
in trans Missouri territory.
General Manager J. J. Frey and John
Player, of the motive department, came
up from the south on a special, yesterday
afternoon. visited the hot springs, in com
pany with Division superintendent Hur-
ley, and resumed their journey east, this
morning.
There will be a meeting of the division
superintendents and trainmasters of the
Rock Island lines west of the Missouri riy-
er in Topeka, next week. for the purpose
of compiling a new set Of time card rules
for the government of engine and train
employees.
The place of hospital surgeon at the To-
peka hospital has lot vet been permanently
filled. DR.. j. R. Fay, superintendent OF
hospitals, has at present immediate charge
OF the hospital, but it is understood that as
soon as business increases, q surgeon, who
will have charge of the hospital, aside /
from other duties, will be appointed.
The conspiracy on the Chicago Il Alton
road at Bloomington, ILL.,, discovered some
weeks ago, bids fair to result in several
employees being sent to the penitentiery.
The company claims to have evidence
it was defrauded out of several thous-
erds of dollars through the skilltul
manipulation Of tickets. Several ticket
agents and conductors have been dis
c-arled, and it is the intention OF the
company to prosecute them. i
A movement is on foot, among the EN-.
ployes Of the engine and train service Of
the Atchison, to present a petition to the
board of trustees of the hospital associa-
ton, at their next meeting, asking for the
of Dr. A H. Wright as hospital
at the new hospital in Topeka.
Wright is at present surgeon in charge
the hospital at Otta wa. and Is well liked
BY engine men and train men.
P. IA. Arthur, chief Of the brotherhood
locomotive engineers, arrived In Kansas
City, from Ottawa, Kansas, where he de-
ivered an address before the C~hautauoua
assembly. He attended a union meeting.
u union railroad men, in Kansas City,
and left for his home, in Cleve-
emu, Ohio, over the Missouri Pacific rail.
Chief Arthur has been at the head
the brotherhood OF locomotive engineers
OF twenty-five years. He says that the
rider is in a fiourishing condition, and that
be high standard Of wages is being MAIN
aimed. Chief Arthur declined to talk pol
on behalf Of the order, but said that.
ersonally, be was a thorough republican. j
nd approved Of the platform adopted at i
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