Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-09-22


In charge OF Conductor Carlisle's passenger
Fl. ]. Franklin, Atchison claim agent,
was a through passenger for the south,
evening.
Switchman Frank Weaver has secured
the consent Of thesAtchison company and
will take a pleasure trip to Chicago.
Charles @. Cowan left Las Cruces for
sitlon with the AtchIson railroad company.
Conductor l. N. Irby, who was injured
several weeks ago by falling off his train,
Is still confined to his residence, down at
San MarciaI.
The father of Engineer Shaw, who is
himself running an engine on the North
ern Pacific, left for home, after a visit to
his son, in this city.
Trip pass issued to Mrs. #. o. Blood and
two sons. from Las Vegas to Topeka and
return, is thought to have been destroyed
in the wreck at Lang, Kansas.
Brakeman j.. r. Egner was knocked off
the top of a cox car by a waterspaut at
Rincon one night last week. While not
severely hurt, he received some injury to
his back.
s. w. Shattuc, travelling passenger agent
for the B. & o., was beaded for Ell Paso,
Texas, last evening; B. P. Murphy, a tack
hammer artist for the Lake Shore, for Al
buquerque.
In the future, Atchison employees in the
train service on the New Mexico division.
when making request for transportation
for children or dependent members Of their
families, should give their names and ages.
: Frank Covolier, a brother of Mrs. Al.
Richards. who at one time was a brakeman
on the Rio Grande division, has returned to
San Marcial. For the past three years
Mr.. Covolier has been a sailor aboard the
cruiser minneapolis"
Geo. f. Hawkes. and wife, he a former
trainm aster for the Atchison people at
Arkansas City, went down the road last
evening, en- route for Phoenix, Arizona,
| where the head of the household will en-
bark in mining for a livelihood.
Israel Henderliter. OF Prescott, Arizona,
sued the Atchison railway in the circuit
court, at Kansas City, for $780, 900 damages,
because he was put off a train at La Junta
when he wanted to go to Denver. The
conductor claimed his ticket was not good,
it seems.
The Southern Pacific is putting up mile
markers on the telegraph poles. They are
put up on the south side of the track, are
ten feet from the ground, the pole being
whitewashed from the marker to the
ground. The markers indicate the dis
lance from San Francisco.
An innovation in lighting and heating
| systems for car service was witnessed by
hundreds of people at the union depot, 10
Denver, the other day. The sleeping car
"Zumbrota," Of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul railroad, equipped with electric
lights and heated by steam, was on view
all day, and left for Chicago on the Rocl
Island in the evening.
General Manager J. ]. Frey, Genera
Vi0lSub A6chu r. VI WY 0OuOiui Ctcl6h
and Traffic Manager W. B. Biddle, Charles
e Cast, attorney OF Colorado, and divis,
ion superintendent, with General Agen'
Hall, all of the Santa Fe, were in confer.
ence with Mayor McMurray, up at Denver
Colo, discussing the objections which de-
feated the recent Circle road ordinance il
the city council.
A passenger who protrudes his elbow
through a window in a railway coach
when passing through a tunnel SO that il
strikes timber near the sides OF the car il
held, in CLARK VS.. Louisville and Nashville
railroad company (Ky.), to be guilty oil
such negligence that he cannot recover
from the carrier, although his elbow was
protruded Inadvertently and did not ex'
tend more. than one and one-half inche!
beyond the outer surface Of the side of tn,