Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-13
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Fireman Charles Schoek is laying of
indisposed.
Ross Uptegrove has been putting in the
day in the local yards.
Three new crews nave been put on be-
tween Las Vegas and Ration.
Operator Ritter, of Earl station, has been
transferred to the Santa Fe office.
Engineer McCoigan is again on deck,
blowing the whistle of engins No. 700.
F. P. Waring, of the local freight depot,
Is at home from a hurried trip to the south.
Fireman John Peeler is keeping engine
No. 424 hot in the absence Of the regular
fireman.
Engineer Geo. Wheat is laying of and
INDUCING himself in a trip down to Albu-
querque.
Engineer Fl. Hartley is taking q needed
rest, and Engineer Clark toots che whistle
of engine No. 720.
A. G. Collingwood left Ration for La
Junta, where he will work temporarily
work for the Atchison.
Brakeman Will Bowen has resigned and
Tom Trainer has taken his place In Con-
ductor Ed Moore's crew.
Switchman Happy Miller had the mis-
fortune 60 get a middle finger Of his right
hand mashed, this morning.
Engineer Tom Collier is laying of OF
engine No. 425 and Engineer Paul Whiting
jerks the throttle in his absence.
G. W. Martin, general passenger and
freight agent of the Frisco line, dropped
off in Las Vegas this morning, for a day.
j. w. Barrett passed a successful exam.
~ination for promotion to a conductorship,
and on Saturday took his first train out Of
Ration.
Chas. Lawler, who switchsd in the yards
at Ration, seven or eight years ago. has re-
turned to that place and again entered the
train service.
Conductors J. D. Hare, of Elmira, N. Y.
and 81. A. Woodcock, Of Topeka, with
their wives, were passengers through Las
Vegas for Los Angeles, last evening.
Elk Engineer Riley, who was pulling the
late Conductor W. H. Nelly when the 1894
strike overlook them at Trinidad, was q
passenger for Old Mexico, last evening.
e. J.. Tully, for a number Of years train
dispatcher for the Atchison at w wellington,
Kansas, died, recently, Of Bright's disease,
aged forty-two years. The remains were
taken to Kewanee, ILL.,, for intsEment.
Round house man Billy Holmes is said
to be contemplating a visit to Albuquer-
que, and knowing ones predict he will
rave a travelling companion on his return,
in the person Of a beautiful young lady.
The Kansas state board of railroad COM
missioners have set May 9th, as the date
for the conference with the railroads do
ing business in hat stats, when the ques-
ton OF q reduction of freight rates will be
considered.
G. NJ. Foulks, who has been for fifteen
years claim agent of the Atcbison railroad,
has been lying in a dying condition in his
room in Topeka. He was stricken with
paralysis last November, but partially re-
covered, and it was thought be would re-
cover. He took a relapse about two weeks
age and has grown worse gradually.
A fiue- cutter, a simple little device in
vented and patented by Jerry Fitzpatrick,
boss blacksmith in the Ration shops, prom
Uses to revolutionize this particular work
Of the boilermaker's trade. With it, a set
of fues can be cut out OF n boiler In eight
hours, when the old style way. with chisel
and hammer, took twenty four to thirty
hours ~ Reporter.
Willie Dryer, the fivs-year-old son Of
M. Dryer, an Atchison engineer at Dodge
City, Kansas, had the misfortune to lose
one of bis arms at the s~tockyards. He 10
d very good boy and was never known to
run off from home before but in this case,
an older boy coaxed him to 60 away with
him, and this sad accident 10 tho result.
He Is resting well and will probably re-
cover.
Frank 7. Nudge, Atchison yardmaster at
Deming, N. NJ, was a soutb-bound passen-
ger. last evening, from st. Joe. NO., whore
he attended the funeral OF his father.
superintendent of machinery for the
Burlington in that city. His deceased
parent dropped dead in the l. o. o. f.,
lodge room at Brookfield, Mo-, while in the
Of taking the chair to put . candidate
through the ceremonies incident to an
initiation.
The Body is 70 Per csnt. Water.
Water is the principal part Of the human