Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-10-23

" Pe'~e"h~A 49, ~~Pe~"
A. Il Gillespie stopped oH IN TOPEKA Cd
his way to Las Vegas, after spending 1
vacation In the east.
Conductor Drury now has charge u
passenger trains Nos. / and 20, and Con
ductor Aber OF Nos. p and 2. /.
Brakeman W. @. Hurt has packed his
trunk and gone down to Cerrlllos to twist
brakes on the Waldo branch.
W. J. Black, assistant general passenger
agent, with headquarters in Topeka, arr
rived In the city, last evening.
A gang Of sixty-three mon. who will be
employed in laying steel, passed through
Las Vegas for Ash Fork, Arizona, last
evening.
Mrs. M. l.. Field, mother Of Mrs. d. r..
Lowry, will leave for her Denver home,
tonight, after spending an enjoyable visit
with her daughter. :
II. Fiaiz, section foreman at Cerrillos, has
come up to Las Vegas, with his family, aud
be will occupy q similar position on the sec
tion running west Of this city.
J. A. Thompson, Atchison agent At Nav
ARE, Kansas, 10 arranging for the purchase
OF n Reno county farm. He now has several
Kansas farms and keeps adding to the list.
There arc at present less than a dozen
patients at the Las Vegas railroad hospital,
at which institution some re. plastering Is
icing done and a fever ward will be cut
CT.
G. w. ingalls,, who was brhking on the
Waldo branch for a short time, last sum
mer, has returned there TO take the place
Of Fred McClelland, who goes on the main
line.
There were eighty-nve fred ball loads''
in the six sections Of freight train 30 from
the east, last night, ffty-four OF them for
California; also, there we're six sections Of
No. "a and three stock trains into Las We
gas, last night.
James Curry, the we'll known fruit grower
at Espauola, and popular conductor on the
Denver & Rio Gaande ruad, 10 In the Sa-
Ida hospital, in a critical condition, result
Ing from a surgical operation that vas per-
formed on him, Wednesday.
Conductor Ferguson, who, together with
| others, is held blamable for the wreck at
Lang station, in which eleven persons lost
their lives, threatens to sue the Atchison
company for damages and defamation of
character, unless the latter modifes Its
decision. a
@. H. wilkins, Of Chicago, nssistant
grand chief of the order Of railway con-
ductors, paid the conductors OF Dodge
| City a fraternal visit on Wednesday of
last week, and be will be present at a
called MEETING of the pasteboard- punchers
in Las Vegas, tomorrow afternoon.
M. l.. Dunn, Of New franklin, Mo-, con.
nected with the Katy" transportation de-
partment. has invented a combination
freight car, combining q box, stock, coal
and fruit car In one car, and it IL so ar
ranged that the present equipment can be
easily changed. The ageot at St. Louis
can load this car as a box car for Texas;
the Texas agent can return it loaded with
stock; the 81. Louis agent can RELOAD 1t
for a mining station as q fruit car and the
latter can load 1t with coal.
Four OF the best known passenger con
ductors on the Atchison were called
up for Investigation by Assistant
General Superintendent Avery Turner In
Topeka, the other afternoon. They are F.
G.. Gould, J. II. Pierce, G.. Fl. Branch and
w. G. Dearirg, and all were charged with
allowing passengers to ride on trains with
| ,nt croDar n Tuu Oprrc nv
derstands that a party purporting TO be
travelling for an axle grease establishment
is the %''spotter" In this instance.