Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-05
RAG N TRAIN.

j. M. Meade, Atchison civil engineer,
visits these parts again.
Trainmaster 7. G.. Mulhren left for the
south on No. l, last evening.
Fireman DIARIES has been laying oh. his
run with 895 being held down nicely by
| Fireman Jim Reed.
w. A. Coates, of the Atchison's tswn
site department, was en- route for the
Pacific coast, last evening.
Jesus Babalice vas admitted to the A..
7. & y. F. hospital, yesterday, to havs
some repairs made to one Of his limbs.
Homer Shull, the fireman whose pinchsd
finger ipcapacitated him for work. hal
resumed his place on the left side OF engine
094's cab.
Conductor Leseney ID doing the agree
able on Conductor Carlisle's passenger
run, in the absence Of the latter ct the
Cochiti miring camp.
Clarence Hapdoscane, who has been 10
the Harvey service at Kinsley, Kansas,
has been Transferred to Albuquerque and
went south, last evening.
1. c. Kerr, relief agent for the Atchison,
who had been substituting at the local Of
fee, down there, left Albuquerque to re-
lieve S. P. Frye. agent at Wagon Mound.
Terrence Mccarthy, bage agsman Of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway In
Albuquerque, received the sad tidings, by
wire, OF the death of his mother, nt Oswe-
60, NY.
William Taylor, a boilermaker in the
Las Vegas shops, recently coming down
from Ration, has been called to Springfield,
No., by a telegram announcing the danger
GUS illness Of a sister.
The three desperadoss who held up the
Atchison night operator at CoolidRegK Kan.
sas, in October, and were arrested and
later broke jail from Syracuse, Kansas,
have been re-captured.
II. D. Chiseldine, who has been the Har-
vey house cashier at Albuquerque for some
months, left for his home In the east, ow-
ing to a diseased limb which required at
tention. Auditor e. M. Smith IL xcting
cashier, down there, until the arrival OF =
new man.
After a fight, which lasted several
months, for the sleeping car contract on
the Northern Pacific road, between the
Wagner and the Pullman sleeping car
companies, a ten-year contract has been
awarded the latter company to operate its
cars on the system.
rt,~ Norr Mo~iro Io~ssI.k~> So irek
passed a law exempting new railways now
building or that may be built In the
near future, from taxation for six years.
This law, it ia claimed, was passed to pro-
mote the building of the White Oaks road
that has been hanging fire for nearly two
decades.
III. A. Dunn. present assistant auditor OF
disbursements of the Atchison road at
Topeka, has sent his resignation to the
officials to take effect on February Goth,
after which he will take charge Of the
auditing department Of the Central Of
Georgia. Mr.. Dunnihas had the offer IN
der consideration for soma time and will
move his family south to Savannah with
In a month.
Col. p. r. Smith, Of Deming, somewhat
noted as a promoter Of frontier enterprises,
arrived in SAINTS Re from the City OF
Mexico, whore he succeeded In securing .
renewal OF the former Hulsr- Young con-
c~ession, which contemplatss the construc-
ton Of a railroad from Deming, n. NJ,
southwest through the states Of chihuahua,
and Sonora to Guaymas, Mexico. Col.
Smith left Santa re for Chicago, Clsvs-
land and New York to confer with CAPT.
talists on the subject.
An order reducing the time Of Atchison
shop men from ifty-four hours to forty
hours per week was posted 10 Topeka and
will effect the wages OF 1000 men in
amounts ranging from 80 to IS each per
week. The Topeka shops have heretofore
running niue hours per day for six
LAYS Of the week, and the new order will
the day to eight hours and the
hops will DO closed on Saturday. The rs-
Is made because OF the falling on
o the earnings and because the officials Of
he road can see no prospect OF an increase.
10 reduction was made In the working
orcs At that point.