Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-01-09
A AMI TRAIN.

B. OF r. T. ball, evening of Goth Inst.
E. F. Wilson, relief operator, left Ration
for Trinidad.
M. A. Sweeney, yardmaster at Ration,
has been visit ng Las Vegas.
c. M.ITaylop, division master mechanic,
has returned to his Ration headquarters.
j. T. Dolan, of Marceline, Mo-, the new
trainmaster at Juarez, went south, last
evening.
The father OF F. Kilmer, employed in the
division superintendent's office, has arrived
from Topeka, Kansas. f
Will Sewers has again entered upon his
duties as night caller at the Ration depot,
after a ten-days lay of.
w. l.. Grey has accepted a position with
the Western Union telegraph company, az
night operator at Raton.s
Conductor Harbaugh, of Ration, having
enjoyed a sixty-days vacation, has re-
sumed work again, up there.
H. W. Gilbert, nigh tyardmaster at Ration,
has been appointed general yardmsster at
Trinidad. Ed Longworthy succeeds him
as night ~yardmaster at Ration.
Charles Oder, the passenger conductor,
boarded the morning train for Bellefon-
taine, Ohio, his place being filed tempor-
arily by Conductor VIM. Alcott.
The store department. OF the Atchison
has been divorced from the mechanical
department, and the various store keepers
will hereafter report direct to Topeka.
Engineer Thos. Bourne, Of Ration, who
has been suffering with rheumatism, the
past few weeks, has hied himself to Dem
yer and Salt Lake City, to reouperate.
W. J.. Black, of Topeka, assistant general
passenger agent OF the Atchison, will be
the probable successor of George T. Mich
olson as general passenger agent of the
road.
Thos. Wallace, for several years employ
ed in the painting department Of the Atch-
ison shops in Topeka, has be en- transferred
to San Marcial, N. M, to take the position
of chief painter in the company's shop at
tn at point.
Brakeman Fred Snidsr died at the hos
pital, yesterday afternoon, at the early age
of twenty eight years, the remains being
shipped back to Altoona, Pa, his home,
for interment, accompanied by his brother,
a conductor.
THE OPTIc regrets that the late investi-
cation has resulted in the dismissal from
the Atchison's service at this point, Of Con-
ductors M. C. Drury, Geo. NJ. Hill and J.
B. Cunningham, and of Engineers Young,
Collier and Stewart, with their crews.
Chas. Mcdonald, who at present holds .
position in the office of J. H. Kuhns, At
lantic & Pacific, down at Albuquerqe, has
been offered a position in the auditing Of
fec Of the Santa Fs, Prescott & Phoenix,
at Prescott. It is likely he will accept.
R. M. Bachelor, formerly of Albuquer-
que, son-in-law Of Col. J.. NJ. Moore. and at
present commercial agent of the Atchison
railway at st. Joseph, Mo-, has been ap-
point. d joint commercial agent for the
Atchison and Frisco railroads at 81.
Louis. |
The following notices Of changes have
reached the Atchison railroad officials In
Albuquerque, which went into effect :.
Jan. list 1897: F. B. Montgomery, to DO
agent Of freight department at
Kansas City, Mo-, rice F. H. Manter, who
is appointed general agent Of freight de-
partment ct Chicago, the latter rice w. G.
Nixon, who was recently appointed super
intendent of the eastern division. j. w. |
Tedford is the new general agent Of the
and passenger department at ~.
Louis, uice G. II. Ives, resigned.