Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-01-21
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W. c. Kelly succeeds W. H..Gaches as
section foreman at Dillon.
The child OF Conductor Murphy was not
inferred till this afternoon.
w. a. Caches, section foreman at Dillon,
has been transferred to Benton, Colo.
W, P. Mott, a travelling auditor for the
| Atcbison, reached town from the north,
last evening.
A COMMUNICATIVE weighing machine
has been placed in the waiting room Of the
depot at Ration.
A. B. Richie, who represents the Van
dalia lines at Ell Paso, Texas, has been in
Las Vegas, to-day.
j. C. King, the conductor, returned t.
Ration from the east, where he has been
taking In the sights.
Station Agent Coughlin, up at Springer,
has gone to Joliet. ILL.,, in which city his
mother is lying at the point Of death.
Will Hearst relieved baggagsman Cook,
on the hot springs run, yesterday, the lat
ter being some what under the weather.
Lou james, a brakeman on this division,
returned to Ration from Sedalia, Mo-,
where he has been visiting, the. past few
weeks.
Mrs. Thos. Murphy, wife Of a conductor,
came down from Ration, last evening. to
sympathize with relatives in the death Of
a loved lutte n
Geo. A. Foley, Atchison agent at Thatch.
er, Colo, was lately married to Miss
Lillian Smith, a pretty milliner, formerly
of Santa Fe, N. NJ.
jake Weisenberger, machinist, has re-
signed his position at Ration, and left for
Denisop, Texas, his old home, where he
will spend the winter.
Emmett Ommo, a boilermaker helper in
the shops at Ration, is suffering with a
badly mashed foot, the result Of a heavy
piece of iron falling on it.
Barney Wygant, general agent for the
W ellis Fargo express company, with head.
quarters in Chicago, passed through this
city on his way to California.
President A. A. Robinson, Of the Mexi-
can Central, has ordered sixteen new loco
motives from eastern manufacturers, and
the fret lot will arrive next month.
Atcbison engine 292 has been re. built in
the Ration shops and will be turned out in
a few days, when it will do duty a. a
switch engine in the Trinidad yards.
R. P. March, several years ago a very
popular telegraph operator at Albuquer.
que, is now manager for the Western Union
telegraph company at San Luis Potosi,
Mexico.
VIM. Irving, blacksmith, who has been q
employe of the Atchison at Ration
for several months, departed for San Luis
Mexico, where he has accepted a
better position with the Mexican Central
S. H. Fine, for several years past relief
agent for the Atlantic & Pacific, who has
saved up some money during the period OF
his service with the road, has gone to Bos-
ton to engage In business for himself, and
probably squander his hard learned pos
sessions.
In the case of Jas. Cory, treasurer of
rolfax county, and Chas. M. Bayne, G. N.
BLACKWELL, Chas. Springer and T. A.
on a. warrant issued for the
Keep OF the railroad strikers, which war
rant Cory refused to pay, Judge Laugh |
lin, at Santa Fe, sustained the demurrer,
lied by VIM. C.. Wriglsy and Charles
Springer, and dismissed the suit.
Engine 440, which has the reputa ton
the railroad boys as being a hoodoo,
creating a panic among the boys at the
shops. as at the end Of every trip 440 goes
IN for repairs, and as to those who are so
unfortunate as to get the job, it means "a
20 SO hours Of constant work. There is an
attack of cramr collie, among
he entire force, when the one-lunged 40 10 |
zen on the turn-tabls, headed for the back
hop.-Ld Junta Times.
The largest and fastest locomotive In the
vorld Is that which has just been received
y the Denver & Rio Grande railway. It
seventy four tons, without tender.
he engine runs the 100 miles between
'enver and Pueblo In az hours and draws
train of about eight coaches, and has no
itficulty Ia doing this and making time.
pecial ninsty-pound rail has been laid
yer this division and the bridges all
so as 10 enable fast time to