Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-24
TRACK AND A

AMI
Bob Moore, the conductor, Is sick sbsd
to-day.
Fireman Sheldon Is suffering with injur-
ed fingers.
Trainmaster T. G.. Mulhern left for points
up the road, this afternoon.
@. w. Closson, a fuel contractor, came
In from the east, last evening.
Fireman Charley Hines Is firing switch
engine No. 292 on the night shift.
j. P. Mason, the lineman, came down
from La Junta, Colo, Last evening.
Engineer Lawless has reported for work.
He bumped Mspes to the extra board.
Travelling Engineer Jno. A. Ross, Of the
Atchison, went south on engine No. 9i9.
Engineer John p. McMurrsy returned
to San Marcial from the land OF Monte
yuma.
Engineer Elmer E. Perry contempIatss
humping Engineer e. T. Cody of engine
No. GOA.
Conductor VIM. Alcott, Of the Santa Fe
branch, is said to have q matrimonial bee
buzzing in his bonnet.
Engineer Geo. Ward has charge of the
springs branch engine, No. 345, while Will
liam Schultz is resting.
Ex-Fireman John Peeler In employed on
engine No. es5, during the indisposition Of
The regular man, "Redr Denniston. -
Dick Day, a brakeman on tho Pscos VAL
ley road, was quite severely hurt while en-
gagged in switching in the Eddy yards.
two railroad machinIsts. have come down
from Ration to help out at the Las Vegas
shops.
Frank Trumbull, receiver OF the U. p,
D. & Gulf railway, has filed the usual
monthly report at the district clerks Office
in Las Vegas.
A. J. Weir, the brakeman, has come
down from Denver to do duty In the place
Of Walter Sporleder, they having swappsd
places SO as to be nearer home.
Engineer A. P. Hill, Of the lower divis-
ion OF the Atchison, who will soon visit |
with his wife, talks Of quitting
the throttle as q means Of livelihood.
1t is rumored tina Brakeman Sam Jones,
the popular member OF Conductor Barry's
crew, will soon be married to the accom-
plished daughter Of an albuquerque
banker.
Several Of the younger members Of the
OF railroad men are studying
Spanish. Good thing, whether they should
to Old Mexico, OF remain just
where they are.
Master Mechanic c. NJ. Taylor, Of Ration,
went south, last evening, after spending a
day in consultation with his assistant
master mechanic, R. D. Gibbons, at the
Las Vegas shops.
J. e. D%uchanoys and . force Of seven
teen men arrived In Las Vegas, last even
ing. They will be employed in putting in
a new bridge, No. 294, between this city
and Romeroville.
Dame Rumor has 1t that T. g.. Mulhern's
will be either william Alcott or
Clerk D. 8. Dean, Of Supt. Hurley's
office, in case a Las Vegas man il chosen
Gil the vacancy.
The engineer IN the Santa Fs branch
road has been given ten-days time in
to reflect, he having succeeded nice
y In getting of the track, tho other day.
However, he has not yet been relieved at
he throttle and he doesn't care whether
Ichool keeps or not,
j.. W. Johnston, superintendent of mo-
i've power and machinery of the Mexican
passed through, In company with
lie wife. Mr.. Johnston was at the Brooke
locomotive works, Duukirk, n. T., whore
10 placed an order for twenty-five new
for his company.
Conductor Dascomb, running soukh Of
albuquerque, was sJacksd upv by the di.
superintendent, tho other day, for
lot requiring more than one signature to
pass for three OF the Lunas, presented to
i'm by one member Of the family, only,
lis John Hancock being obtained. Tho
CONDUCTOR replied to the complaint by
the fact Of the matter and then
vittily remarked that conductors could
make no mistakes Of the kind, these leRisla-
i've days, as they are strictly in the sigma.
ure b~usinessl
THE RETIRTNG TRAINMAsrER.
The rumor Of the resignation Of T..
I. Mulhern, chief trainmastsr Of the
at this point, has been confirmed,
D take effect March 9th. Mr.. Mulhern
railroading in 1877, on tho
AXE Shore g Michigan Southern rs an
psraror for one year; for the next sir
sars, he was In the train servics OF the
ame road from 1884 70 1856, he was a
Ispstcher for the West Shore At Buffalo,
I. Y. His services with the Atchisou
ito from 1886, a. dispotchsr at San Mar
al, La Junta. EmporIa and Arkansas A
ity. and as chief dispatcher a. Temnle 4
exss, and Las Vegas.