Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-11-03
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Upton Hay, q lndIsposoa.

Conductor Upton Hays Is indlsposed.
Thos. Mishon Is a new brAss-pounder
from Pueblo, Colo.
Brakeman Thornton has INDUCED him
self 10 a weeks Iay-on.
Brakeman Harry Nance has reported for
duty, after = spell OF sickness.
Master Mechanic @. M. Taylor came
down from Ration, last night.
M. r. williams, the bridge foreman,
came down from Ration, last evening.
M. }. Murphy, the brakeman, of Apache
bridge fame, Is up from the little Pitts
burg, to-day.
Engineer b. J. Ross ana wife, who have
been visiting Toledo. Ohio, passed through
for Albuquerque, last evening.
The Santa Fs agent at Los Lunas, G.. w.
Wheeler and wife, who visited their old
Kansas home, are back In New Mexico.
1t 10 reported to an OPrIo reporter who
reports such matters that a fatal accident
has mover yet occurred ON the Santa Fe
branch.
Frank Wilson. charged with stealing
railroad tickets, was found guilty and sem
fenced to sixty days In the county jail at
Albuquerque.
Arthur loves first day as q locomotive
engineer, yesterday, was employed on the
right side OF the cab Of the Las Vegas
switch engine.
A. A. Grant, OF albuquerque, has secur-
ed a contract for the construction OF TWEEN
ty miles of the San Juakin & Bakersfield
railroad, in California.
Dispatcher j. A. Carson has gone down
to Albuquerque TO take q trick on the
Santa Fe-Pacifc, his place at the key In
the Las Vegas Office being filled by W. A..
Buck from Springfield, Mo.
The silver City Independent says J. r.
McHush, a former conductor on that
division of the Atchisun road, " now in
Leaven " worth, Kansas, and he will prob.
ably engage in business there.
w. G.. Griswold, IN employee Of the
Atchison railway at the local freight
depot, in Albuquerque, fled papers for
divorce from his wife, Ida M. Griswold,
whom he charges with desertion.
General Manager J. ]. Frey, Of the
Atchison, went east 10 a special car, yes
terday afternoon, his family accompany
Ing, they having received the alarming
tidings at Albuquerque that Hall Frey,
seventeen years of age, had fallen from a
tree at Springfield, Mo, and badly injured
himself. The young man is attending
college at that city.
The other morning, Emory Comstock, the
~wcll-Known freight engineer on the Atchi
son road between Albuquerque and San
Msrcial, met In the former place an old
friend in the person of g.. G. KInman, who
is there with . s,ck brother. About eight
con or twenty years ago, these two old
time friends were schoolmates at Hia-
watha, Kansas, and, uDonimeeting, they
went over those early days Of innocent
childhood, for several hours. Mr.. Kinman
is now a wealthy merchant Of Kansas,
having stores at Hiawatha, .Nortonyille
and several other Kansas towns.
1t will be remembered that In the Atchi-
son WrScA o. A"uB maus ctyiub pieoouoiy
and calling the names Of his wife and chill
dren, was found by William J. Bryan, who
carried water to him and received his dy-
ing words. Ons imaginative reporter said
that tho last words OF the man were q
blessing upon Bryan. That man did not
die. He had no idea Of dying. It. was a
scheme to get a good settlement with the
railroad company. He played a strong
hand, but the claim agent played a strong
| or, and 500 paid the bill. The next day,
the man attended a pop. convention In
Chase county, Kansasl