Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-17
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Conductor Barney Archibald left for
Colorado, to-day, in company with Judge
Henry C. Caldwell.
Ex-Conductor kid" Aber returned from
Old Mexico. this morning, for a visit among
old friends and scenes.
Two big engines. from the A. & p, Nos.
Ill and liz. passed through Las Vegas
en- route for Topeka, to be rebuilt.
Ed Lavelle, who has had charge Of q
track-laying gang on the Rio Grande,
/ Sierra & Pacific railway in Mexico, re-
turned to his Albuquerque home Monday
night.
H.. Wright. who has been assistant to
the night agent Of the Wells Fare express
company at Albuquerque, left Monday
night for Victor, Colo, where he will work
for the same company.
II. L. Keaggy, the conductor. who has
been laying of for some time on account
of his eyes.says the Albuquerque Democrat,
left for Las Vegas, last night, and will
probably go to work again in the near
future.
DR.. J. P. Raster, chief surgeon Of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad
company, has left Albuquerque for Denver,
to attend a meeting OF the Colorado state
medical society. From Denver be will
return direct to bis headquarters at
Topeka.
E. e. Saunders, an old time brakeman
out OF Las Vegas, but now running a train
out Of wichita Falls, Texas, on the Denver
| & Fort Worth road, Is In the city, visiting
| his sister, Mrs. Ike Lewis. Ed Is carrying
one hand in a sling, the result of fractures
| of three bones 10 his hand.
Within the next week the Rio Grande
| and Atchfson railroads will haul through
Pueblo one of the largest shipments Of tea
and silk ever made. The steamer "Rio
Janeiro" was expected to arrive at San
Francisco day before yesterday with a
cargo of silks and teas. Eight hundred
tons of her tea and thirty three tons Of
silk will be in the shipment through Pueb.
10 coming that far on the Rio Grande,
which line will turn 1t over to the Atchison
there. The tea will make fifty carloads OF
freight. The silks will be carried by ex-
press, probably in a special train.
1t Is learned at Colorado Springs on
good authority that the bonds Of the Colo
rado Midland railroad, now In the hands Of
an English syndicate will be foreclosed in
about thirty days and a new company
formed at once. 1t is proposed then to
incorporate with the new company the
Midland Terminal company, whose rail-
road runs to Cripple Greek. The latter
has in the past year paid dividends Of II
per cent. besides paying its interest. The
plan for consolidating the two companies
is regarded as quite feasible.
LAND FOR DEBs' COLONY.
The officials of the Union Pacific rail-
road at Omaha have received a communi-
cation from Eugene v. Debs relative to his
co operative commonwealth scheme In
Utah. The proposition must be reviewed
by the general managers office. Debs de-
sires a large concession of land. embracing
many hundreds Of acres, The railroad
company has plenty of land In hat coun-
try, yet the kind Debs wants, suitable for
an agricultural community as well as COM
mercial enterprises, is valuable and on the
market at good figures. The matter Of
transportation for the members OF. Debs'
company will be arranged as with any
other colony desiring rates, but with the
land donation the proposition is different.
1t has always been the policy oss the Union
Pacific company to donate lands for a COL
ony to limited extent, and to- encourage
immigration by such means along its line,
but the Debs scheme is much more elabor-
ate than the company has ever been called
upon to deal with before.