Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-07

II Additional railroad news on an insId
page, this evening.
Wm. Bryce, Of shsLas Vegas shops, hs
been visiting Albuquerque.
William Porch left the railroad hospl.s
for Chiilicoths, ILL.,, this morning.
IL is rumorsd the s.flysrs," Nos. 8 and
will be discontinued after May 25th.
Engineer and Mrs. A. r. Hill returned I
5an Marcial from southern caiffornis.
81. Bell, an Atchison civil engineer
reached Trinidad from TT. Madison, lows
yesterday.
Conductor B. Daley. running on th
south end. has resigned his position Will
the Atchison.
Brakeman Brown has been promoted :,
freight brakeman, giving Brakeman Wes
q regular passenger run.
Jadge Henry L. Waldo. solicitor for tn.
Atchison in New Mexico, arrived from
Kansas City, last evening.
The two sections of No. passenger train
were delayed, last evening, by freight
wreck on the Ration mountain.
Chief Solicitor McKsans. 81 the AtchI-
son, arrived at the hot springs In special
|car, 1ast evsniDg, en- rDats for California.
The Atchison company stopped asiug
city water at La Junta, Colo, as the new
well, with that furnished by the artssian
wells, furnishes an abundant supply for
all purposes.
Come Of the college girls at Las Cruces,
N. NJ, perpetrsted practical joke, April
LIST, by tagging an Atchison freight train.
The train crew took 1t In good part, and
held no grudgss.
Enginser J. d. Kinder, Of Ration, 10 run
ming engine 324 on the Rio Grande divis-
lon. Three or four more engines and crews
will arrive at San Marcial In few days,
10 help during tina cattle rusb.
II was definitely stated to an Optic re-
porter at the depot, last evening, that the
news agents ON Atchison trains are not
paid regular salary by Fred Harvey, as
aas been stated. They are allowed but 20
per cent. commission, and they have 10
sfindD themselves at the different board
ng and lodging houses they patronize on
heir trips; also, the newsies say they are
'eported by the conductors, II the trains
lre worked too hard.
w. III. Jack son, colored man Of Indian.
polls, Ind, has invented patent self
ocking switch and switch signal, which is
hought by experts to have great merit.
When train enters switch, 1t is auto-
aatically closed and the signal set to show
hat all is right for the main track, and
yhen a train leaves a switch, 1t Is prompt
] closed and the signal with It, showing |
bat it Is albright for main track trains. IL
very simple In its workings,a and oman en-
rely different plan from any self-locking |
witch now in use.
FAST RUN ON THE ATCHIsoN.
The Atchison on Friday ran special
rain, consisting OF ono baggage car and |
ne coach, from Kansas City to Hutchin-
on, Kansas, In the remarkably fast time
/ four hours and fifty minutes. The dis
lnce is $50 miles. and this is probably the
astest run ever made for long distance
' any Kansas road. Train No II, the
tchison fast mail and express from Chi
ago, due In Kansas City at ? O'Clock In the
did not arrive until $3.50 O'Clock,
Iissing connection with the Californio ex-
ress leaving at 2; ;25 o'clock. After the ar
val Of No. II, it was decided te make a
In to catch the express train, which was
,ne at Hutchinson. The run between
ewton and Hutchinson, . distance OF
rty i've miles, was made in exactly for
five minutes.