El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-10

A. w. Foote, a brother of the ticket
dispenser. has taken a position IN the
Las Vegas round house.
Engineer Simms, is the clever young
throttle manipulation on engine 30,
while Engineer Ed Sears is running
passenger engine 119.
The council at Santa Fe passed SEN
ator Martins bill, making it crime
to maliclously tamper with railroad
engines, car wheel, brasses, etc.
Brakeman Owens, who was nearly
killed on the CerrillOs bridge, about
two months ago, has been assigned a
passenger run, humping Brakeman
Rugg.
Billy and John Holmes and Ferry
Cavanaugh, of the Las Vegas shops.
are planning trip down to Albuquer-
que. in the week of WashingU s
birthday.
Engineer Barney Archibald is re-
ported to have gone fishing, the other
day. Strange season of the year for
plcatOrial sport, unless he took the
right kind of bait along.
The railroads of Kansas paid nearly
one-ffth of the taxes paid in 1896.
They paid about $1,000, 600 taxes in the
state of Kansas alone. The entire lines
| So, 800, 900 taxes in 1896.
E. D. Carlton, the deposed depot
master up al La Junta, will go to To-
peka, in a few days, and ask for an in
vestlgatiOn, and should he fail to be re-
instated, he intends going to Mexico.
to accept a position rendered him by
w. D. Murdoch.
Manager Sidikum, OF the Harvey
hotel there, left Hutchinson, Kansas,
accompanied by Mrs. Sidizum, for
| Temple, Texas, where he will take
charge of one of the most important
eating houses of the Harvey system
He has been succeeded by Addison Low
ry, of Las Vegas.
VIM. Lotus. son of the well known
Gulf engineer, Thos. LOTUS, was SER
iously blurred while at work IN the
Gulf machine SHOP. at Trinidad, Col.
He was working at his machine when
piece of iron fell from the roof striking
him on the head. He was unconscious
for considerable time.
The Atchis0n railway company has
sent w. @. Nevins, of Chicago. one of
its purchasing agents, to Minnesota to
buy ice, to be shipped to Argentine,
Kansas, for storage in the cOmpauy's
house in tn At city. The company has
10, 900 ton, or almost 800 car capacity
ice house in Argentine, which it f.ars
it has no prospect of filling from the
local crop, and will not wait any long
Twenty-one years ago, II. Il Nicher-
500, Geo. j. Hartman and James
Heating were located at Great Bend,
and were insepara b t chum-, says the
Great Bend Register. NIckersOa was
agent, Hartman was baggageman and
kerting was section foreman. Today,
NIckersOn is general manager of the
Mexican Central and draws an annual
salary of $50, 600 in United States gold,
and Hartman is superintendent of the
southern division of the AtchisOn and
gets very comfortable salary. Heating
is still section foreman at Seeley, on
Hartman s division of the AtchisOn.-
Optic.
If the statement respecting the cost
of construction of the Salt Lake and
Los Angeles railroad made by General
Manager Clayton is true, says the
Chronicle. or anywhere near the truth,
puzzled public would like to enquire
what reason there is for expecting the
government to receive fabulOusly large
amounts for the subsidized IA lrOadS if
sold under foreclosure proceedings
Clayton says large part of the propos-
ed road WILDE constructed at an expense
of not more than $40, 900 mile. In the
road can be built for ter or twenty or
thousand dollars Il mile, why should
capitalists scramble over each other to
secure roads at a cost of seventy or
eighty thousand dollars mile?