Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-21
RAILROAD nuMsLIMos.

The AtchISon has laid this year o1,Oeo
tons OF stesl rails.
Conductor Barry has been At the bell
cord on Conductor Drury's passenger run
for q trip or two. MsAF
The Atchison 10 said TO be tearing up four
miles OF track between RAncbita a Fall
brook TO abandon Il.
The Southern Pacific company aud
Others propose to spend s2s0,o0o In i'm
prov~men,s at Santa Monica.
The Santa Fs-Pac,nc railroad company
have placed thirty 1--we new caboosss ON
the ~FIagstaff division OF their road.
Santa Fe traffic for the arst seven days
Of the month increased 70 per cent. over
the corresponding period Of last year.
WI. C~rsnrhaw, tax collector Tor the
Atchison, Came down a. far % Trinidad
on to-day's No. ! passenger train.
The Santa Fs- Pacific railway company
now consumes 500 barrels Of southern Cali
%ifornia oil daily, and tho Southern racinc
$50 barrels.
=. F. Nudge, for eight years with the
Atchison at Deming, has gons to ri Paso
to take charge OF the railroad yards as
general superintendent.
Harry Miles, station agent for the Atohi.
son at Las Cruces aud who expects to %
Judge Parksr's court clerk, was . south
bound passenger through Las vsgas, this
afternoon.
C.M. Kinnaman has gone down 60 nj
Paso to take . t%elegraphic and stem
ograpnic position ON the White Oaks road.
He was formerly electrician a. the
Montszuma hotel.
A. T. Hill aud family from Ban Marcial,
are new residents of Albuquerque. Mr..
Hill Is one Of the oldest and best engineers
on the Atchison road, and il -familiariy
called ..Lon0 Hill.
II. B H 1t, OF Las Cruces, who filed the
Responsible position Of chief cisrk Of the
last legislative council, has gone TO 81
Paso to accept a position with the ri Paso
g. Northeastern railroad company. q
Tho Western passenger association has
reversed the ruling under which retired
army aud navy officers were denied the
privilege of half fares, and decided that
they are on the same footing a. officers ON
the active list. ~ ;
J. l.. Ward. a conductor OF ths Atshison
at Marco ins, and J.. D. sutherland, train
dispatcher At the same place. are In the
city. To-day, the latter 10 tbs accredited
CORES pondent of the New York Dramatic
Mirror at the Missouri town.
DIR. .. B. Cruickshank, surgeon at San
3arcial, N. M, stopped OF in Topeka on
his way from New York, whore he has been
taking a post graduate course, to San Mar
cial, whei Q he will take part in the Efforts
to stop the advancs Of the smallpox cpl
demic.
Conductor Joe Richley reports the frst
death on the limited train, on the Ration
mountain, yesterday morning, that Of .
dog for whose passage the b~agsagsman
had not yet collected the usual amount.
There was nigh unite anothers death whsn
the crushing news was bfeksh 10 the old
lady owner of the dog.
The Atchison California limited trains
have, so far this season, proved more suc.
cessfnl financially than an year since
their inaus uration, and Il has been fully
decided by the management to run the
trains trt. W weekly, instead Of semi- weekly,
after the first OF this year. January 18th
has been set as the day for the nrst third
train to leave Chicago, and after that date
| thu Hnitad- will vass
through Las Vegas on Mondays, Wednes-
days and Fridays. The limited trains are
the best paying trains ON the Atchison,
from the fact that no free transportation
OF IN kind 10 honored.