Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-11-26
TRACK AND TRAM.


The trainmen's ball cat Ration was
rousiDg success.
Brakeman UDtegrove Is laying of |; like
wise, J.'P. Kooble.
Engineer @. AIcott came In from up th
road, last evening.
Conductor Tom Coffey is unable for dut,
on account Of a lame back
Mrs. Pierce and daughter, family OF tb
Car repairer, are at home from Topeka.
4 November will be the heaviest pay rol
for shop forces in Ration since October
1894
No. 2 was delayed until 10;45, this morn
ing,hy the breaking in two Of freight nea
Thornton.
Chas. Ellicott, foreman Of the shops al
las Vegas, has been UP at Ration, shaking
hands with his many friends.
Richard Lsrlmore, the FIRE chief of the
city and seal clerk in the Las Vegas yard
is at homo from his trip TO Topeka.
The Ray moud excursion train, consist.
ing OF dead head cars and crew, which /,
returning east, followed No. 2 up this
morning.
M. I. Tomlinson and w. X. Hedges, who
for many months manipulated the pick and
scoop, out of Ration, are now full fsdged
engineers.
Frank Williams, having come down to
spend Thanksgiving, returned to Trinidad
where he will resume his work in the road
masters office.
The two divisions comprising the jur!s.
dictiou of Superintendent Hurley, trans.
acted Is rer cent. more business last
month above the highest record of busi-
ness heretofore attained by these divisions.
As showing the amount Of work being
ne By the Santa Fs shops at Ration 1t
might be interesting to know that the store
house reouisitions for repair material thus
far in November amounts to over $50 900.
Ration Reporter
William Smith, commercial agent at
Trinidad, Colo, will, on December lst, be
transferred 10 the position of commercial
agent at Pu bio, and II. H King, now
local agent ct Pueblo, will be given the
agency at Trinidad.
The A'chison passenger Departments has
decided to place excursion conductors on'
the weekly txcurson cars to California
The conductors will act in this same
capacity as Pullman conductors, making
the excursions personally conducted
The Atchison Company has established a
new agency at Portland, Oregon, and the
appointment Of J. J. Devereaux as general
agent is announced by General Passenger
Agent Black. Probable heavy travel to
the Klondyke, in the spring, is res ponsible !
for the establishment OF the new agency.
The California state board of health has
decided that hereafter all Pullman cars |
disinfected immediately upon arrival at
destination. The disinfectant to be used T
s formaldehyde gas which will not ipjure
the furnishings of che cars or leave any #
odor
An Improvement Is under way in the
Atchison shops at Temp pie, Texas, whereby
he management expects to economize
considerably 1t is the construction of
,ystem OF water works where the water
lsed 10 washing engines and from engine
,anks is carried to cistern, and from
here filtered back into the main reservoir,
o be used over again.
Judge Sanborn, of the United States
,ourt at st. Paul, Minn., has decided in
avor of the telegraphers in suit against
he receiver OF the Union Pacific, holding
hat railroad employees are entitled to rep
esentation on the board OF trustees of the
ailroad hospital. The amount OF $50 900 +
n the hospital fund is ordered paid back
,ro rata 10 employees who contributed it
md the property ia ordered sold.
The Winfield, Kansas, Courier, says:
LAST Saturday evening, there was biosk-
de 10 the Santa Fe yards, and the pas
enger teams were detained for some time
n getting into the depot. There were
Eighteen freight trains lying at South
Winfield alone, and the sidings were
Ilready pretty we'll filled with cars. AT
he elevator, the tracks were full, and the
forts of the switch engine to move the
mass several times resulted in pulling
raw head,
Samuel p. Hunter, an old-time western
suicided by the morphine
quite in Albuquerque, Wednesday after
loon. He was jealous of his wife, who
esides at 2llS. California street, Denver,
,olo.. Deceased was an inmate of the
abroad hospital at Las Vegas from Oct.
g. to Oct. 20tb, being sent here from
ian Marcial. He was born and reared in
county, No and has mother
ind sis er living at Depison, Texas, and
everal brothers elsewhere in Texas. His
law, Jack Grouse, now resides
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