Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-08-25
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Tom Holmes is now lording 1t over a
stationary engine, down at the town OF
Cerrillos.
a. L.. Hoover, formerly employed as
stenographer and clerk In the office of
superintendent Dyer, of the Atchiscn, at
Pueblo, has accepted a similar position
with G. r. Perry, at Gallup. IN
A serious blow to Albuquerque has been
struck by the removal of the general
Offices Of the SAINTS Fe-Paciic to Los
Angeles. The effects are being packed
for shipment and the transfer will be
made next Friday.
Henry a.. Campbell, for twenty eight
years connected, in some capacity, with
the Atchison's train service, and for the
past twelve years a passenger conductor
on the lines of that system, died at Kansas
City, of cancer OF the liver.
The present management Of the Atchison
system has become a management OF econ
omy in details. By the inauguration of
new methods in all departments, every OPP
portunity Of accomplishing a saving to the
road is taken advantage of.
Superintendent D. Hardy, of the Iron
Mountain railroad. who Is now visiting
his s%ister, Mrs. r. W. Shuckhart, at Full
ton, built the telegraph line from Albu-
querque to Needles, Cal and also held re-
sponsible positions on the Atlantic & Pa
ciic railroad.
Dispatcher Brusha, who has been visit
ing Ra'ou and Trinidad, and whose wife Is
with friends. at Trinchera for a few weeks,
now has a night trick in the Las Vegas Of
fee, in place of Dispatcher Weeks, who is
relieving Dispatcher Hazard, cut fishing
for the speckled beauties.
A New Mexico baggageman, iu the en-
ploy of the Atchison company, has been
given his time for a violation Of rule No.
10. In checking excess baggage, he failed
to weigh the same, when the owner asked
to have it checked, but accepted the
owners statement in regard to the excess
weight
An Albuquerque railroad man complain.
ed to the police department that Chung
Lee, proprietor of the G. o. D. laundry,
down there, was in possession OF $40 of his
ore which he had forgotten in a little
pocket In q pair OF his drawers which be
had turned over to the Chinaman to be
washed.
Charles Herman, who was recently a
conductor on the Rio Grande, Sierra Madre
& Pacific railway, is nov switching In
the yards Of the Atchison at Ei, Paso, Texas.
Eighty dollars in gold per month sizes up
more handsomely and financially than
what bis pay did on the Corralitos road, in
silver dollars, .sb,V-s
The Atchisou railway company will
establish a lins of refrigerator cars for
rapid transit OF fruits and vegetables be-
tween New Mexico points, Kansas City.
Chicago and st. Louis, and rates have
been made so that New Mexico horticul-
tural products may be placed in the mar.
kets advantageously.
An Atchison engineer, running out of
Las Vegas, recently carried an ~ex-employe
on his engine, without proper authority.
The throttle-jerker denied having lone 80,
but it was proven at an investigation that
be did and he was dismissed from the
~companv's employ, for violation of rule
115 aud for not giving correct evidence at
an investigation.
Recently, a brakeman 10 the Atcbison
service. on the New Mexico division, dissp-
peared for a period Of four or five days,
from his home at a terminal station, with
out permission to be absent. In the mean.
time. his family asked for the assistance
of the officials, to have him return to
his home. This employee has been dismiss-
ed from the service of the railroad compa-
ny for laying of without permission. for
immortality and fc- frequent garnishments.