Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-10-19
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has been stolen.
H. L. Lee, station agent at Maxwell
City, arrived In the metropolis. last even.
ing.
Msgnate Truesdale, OF the Rock Island
route, was en- route to Phoenix, Arizona,
last evening.
A. Hoffman, general freight agent OF the
Mexican Central, was a south.bound trav-
eler, lass evening.
H. e. White, who has to do with the Pc
cos Valley road, was headed for the lower
country. last evening.
A. p. Gatchel, of the Santa Fe branch,
will be up this way, in a day or two, to
take q run on the main line.
A. @. Campbell. stenographer to Chief
Engineer Dan, Of the Atchlson, was en-
route for Silver City, last evening.
Dc. s. T. Ferguson, Atchison physician
at Joliet, H., with his wife, IL still a guest
at tho Las Vegas hot springs.
Conductors will take up the editorial
mileage ticket of G. B. Apperson, IL pre-
seuted for passage on any Of their trains.
Willie Stevenson, a shop employs at
Ration. is down visiting his mother, Mis-.
c. c. Wray, who 1901 leaves for Caller
MIA.
Charles NJ. Doughe-tv. a passenger
brakeman in Charley Oder's crew, is back
from Kansas City, accompanied by the
WI Q Of his Dos m.
Paul Morton and family OF sever, b y Q
third vice. presid mt of the Atchison ra .
road, with headquarters 10 Chicago, are
taking in the sights at the springs.
G. M. Taylor. the Ration division mas to
mechanic, denies the rumor, put In circula-
ton a short time ag ,, that he would be re-
moved from Ration to Albuquerque, taking
the position nov filed by Master Mechanic
English, and that Mr.. English would be
transferred else where.
f, Passengers for Rowe station always
count the number of cars composing
train No. /. on leaving Las Vegas in the
evening. Usually, this train runs through
Rowe almost at full speed, but when she
has seven cars, it is necessary that a stop
be made at the station fer water.
DR.. Chas. Lowry, of Topeka, reports the
family of J.. ). Frey entirely recovered
from the recent poisoning from eating
canned mushrooms. II is supposed that
there were a few toadstools in the can
with the mushrooms. Mushrooms are
good things to let alone, canned or I'M
canned.
The rush of business on the Atchison OF
late has necessitated the putting on Of two
extra dispatchers in the local office. They
are Messrs. Cald vel and e. F. Gregory,
and their presence is a great relief to the
other dispatchers, who have been putting
In from twelve to sixteen hours q day for
the past month.
Under timetable No. s, of the Atchison'
which goes into effect to morrow, trains
will reach Las Vegas as follows: South.
bound-No.1, California express. 8 :l5 pm.
No. 8. California limited, Monday and fri
day, ITO am; No. 81, Mexico express
$3.50 pm. North. bound-No. 2, Atlantic
express, 4:05 a. M; No. 4, Chicago limited
Saturday and Wednesday, 9:00 pm; No
%, Atlantic express, 2:40 am.
Two of the new passenger engines built
for the Atchison by the Dickinson ocomot-
tive works have been placed in regular SER
vice out OF Topeka west on California and
Chicago rains Nos. / and 2, aud in a few
days the eight engines will be handling
these trains between Topeka and Las
| Vegas, New Mexico. Besides the two run
ming out of Topeka, two will be stationed
at Newton, two at Dodge City and two at
La Junta, Colo.
sound and fresh by the circulation of air,
is an invention which the inventor thinks
will take the place of refrigerator cars,
where ice is used. The car Is made with four
tunnels on each eide and four In front,
through which the air enters into the car.
The air is conveyed among the cases of
fruit through hose. The tunnels are COW
cred with wire screen, and face forward,
so as to catch the air as the car proceeds.
1he "Indian'' folder Of the Colorado
Midland railroad is unique in its class, and
contains more Information for the student
of Indian life and customs than might be
found in an ordinary volume. Upon the
interior of the folder ia represented an
outstretched buffalo skin, on which is de-
picted, in symbolic figures, the journey of
a band of red skins from Denver to the
mouth of the Columbia river, via the Col
orado Midland, Rio Grapde Western, Ore
gon Short Line and Oregon River and
Navigation company routes.
The recent trip of President e. P. Rip
ley, of the Atcbison, to the Grand canon
of the Colorado river. accompanied by
third Vice-President Paul Morton, Assist
ant General Passenger Agent @. A. Hig-
gins and Mr.. McNally, of the Rand.Mc-
Nally publishing company, is said to mean
that the proposed electric line to the Grand
canon, connecting with the Atchison line
in Arizona, is a Ego" and that Is will be
built in the spring. The plan is TO connect
the Grand canon with the Atchison road
BY a line of electric railway and do build a
large summer hotel at the canon.
FAMouaacAsE.
Judge c. N. sterry, 81 Los Angeles, gen.
eral ounsel for the old Atlantic & Pacific
railroad, and Eugene Hagan, Of Topeka,
have gone to Washington, where they will
argue before the supreme court Of the
o tied States a case they started many
years ago for damages against the Mis-.
souri,, Kansas & Texas railroad for bring
ing into the country near Emporia a lot of
cattle infected with Texas fever. The des-