Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-19
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Frank Harris, of the secret service of til
Atchison, came in on the flyer, this mora
ing.
George Shield, OF the local freight do
partmcnt. is again housed up with rheum
atism.
w. Y. Black, of Supt. Charles Dyer.
tfice, has returned to bis post OF duty a
Pueblo. Coio.
Frank p. Clark, formerly of Tularosa,
this Territory, is at present a Pullman car
conductor on the Atchison.
Conductor W. g. Miller and wife board
ed the morning train for Kansas points.
where they will visit for a limited time.
Capt. NJ. Dillon, Of Ell Pasn, Texas, q
conductor on the s. p. road. Is a candidate
for collector Of customs at that city.
G. NJ. Higginson, assistant to President
Ripley, OF the Atchison, arrived at Las
Vegas hot springs, last evening, in special
car PIG.
j. F. Donohoe has gone to Chicago, from
Ell Paso, Texas, to take up his line OF du-
ties there as representative Of the Mexican
Central road.
A petition has been sent In to headquar.
ters, signed by all the railroad employees,
asking the appointment OF DIR. Frank /
Givsns as company physician at Rincon,
down the line.
Brakemen Hurt and Rugg are working
with Conductor Emmerson, and Brakemen
Corners and Dryer, with Conductor
Mslaney, on the new crews between thi.
city and Ration.
W. E. Wilson, who for fourteen years
past has been employed on the Rio Grande
division of the Atchison, will leave in a
few days for Texas, having resigned his
position IS section foreman at Upham.
Mr.. Wilson is succeeded by W.. q. Sailing.
Frank Sargent, chief OF the brotherhood
of locomotive fremen, is preparing, and
Assemblynan Bonfy, of Syracuse, N. r.,
will introduce in thu Nav York assembly
a bill providing for the maintenance of the
employees OF railroad corporations, injured
In the discharge Of their duty.
Bunglesome burglars effected an en-
trance to thu depot at Silver City, this
Territory, the other night, by breaking a
glass out OF the bay window. but met with
very slight reward for their trouble. They
broke open the money drawer and secured
about 81 in nickels and dimes.
Mrs. Mabel Hawley, wife OF j. F Haw-
ley, wit was kiiisi at StarkvilIe, Colo,
last fall, whilo hss hal charge Of an Atchi-
son train, left Trinidad FOR Chicago, where
she will reside In the future. -Har moth or
presented her with a $4,000 place, on con-
dition that she would make 1t her home.
Col. T. f. Moore, who has. 1857 miles Of
track-lsyiny for the Sierra Madre Con-
struction company, under contract, passed
through for Cheyenne. Wyo., on very i'm
portant business. The colonel is working
on the new railroad being constructed
from Juarsz, Mexico, to- the gull, and his
camp is established about thirty miles
south Of Juares, the camp being under the
personal management of ]. Edward Priest,
of Albuquerque.
X. Inouzuka. q prominent Japanese law
yer Of Tokio and acting secretary Of the
house of peers of the Japanese parliament,
Is In San francisco. He Is counsel for the
department of communication and the bu-
reau Of legislation, and he has come to the
United States to make a special study Of
the laws regulating transportation on
American railways. lie intends to have q
conference at Washington with the inter-
state commerce commissioners. After q
months stay in this country, he will visit
England aud France,