Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-12
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B,P, Cheney, car and party, passed
through Las Vegas, last evening" fol
San Diego, Cal.
II. r. Warlng. chief clerk at the Las We
gas freight depot, has gone down to Belen
Valencia county.
d. p. Ellis, a local attorney for tbs
Atchison at Pueblo, Colo, reached thil
city, last evening.
James Sturrock aud VIM. Brsitenstein
locomotive engineer and fireman respec.
lively, are up from Lamy, to-day.
1t is proposed to make the silver annivsr-
sary Of the Atchison road q special feature
of the fall festival at Topeka, Kansas.
j. P. Harlan, superintendent OF bridges
aud buildings for the Atchison, Is looking
after the construction Of q coal chute ri
Socorro.
Charles E. Cast, OF Pueblo, Atchison
solicitor for the state Of Colorado, was on
route for the City of Mexico, last evening,
In company with his wife.
The Atchison has twenty-seven road
htuoeche3 Va hhop u iJIhtHa Az AtCW
Mexico-Daniel Elliott at Las Vegas. An
drew Devine at San Marcial and VIM.
EellDton at Rincon.
Following are the namss and locations OF
the four division storekeepers of the Atch-
ison Joseph Ost, Fl. Madison; r. Adam
son, Argentine; w. L. Beardsley, Ottawa;
+. 0. Blood, Las Vegas.
The ordinance passed by the city council
at Newton. Kansas, authorizes the mayor
and city clerk to sign = contract with the
Atchison company, for the furnishing Of
the company with water.
Capt. Mehan and wife. who were down
in Mexico on their wedding tour. passed
through Las Vegas on their return to To-
peka and Kansas City. The bride Is the
daughter OF Pat Walsh, general baggage
master for the Atchison railway.
James A. Rasbach, who formerly ran a
passenger train on the M, X. & T. between
Parsons, Kansas, and Hedalfa, and who
was one OF the old-time train dispatchsrs
on the road, has been promoted to super
intendent on the Union Paciic, with head
quarters at Cheyenne, Wyo.
The car capacities of thu different stock
yards on the Rio Grande division of the
Atchison are as follows: Albuquerque,
467; Deming, rs; Eel Paso. 10; Eel Paso,
quarantine yards, IS; Engle. SO; Hatch, 4;
Las Cruces, 8; Magdalsna, 100; Osceola
25; San Marclal, IA; Silver City, 81; So
zorro, s.
The New Mexico council has passed a
law requiring every sleeping car passing
through the Territory to carry safes, for
the protection of the passenger valuablss.
and Mr.. Pullman responds by threatening
to lock the doors of all his cars when they
are passing through the Territory. Be-
tween the two powers, the passengers ought
to be we'll protected from all robbers, ex-
cspt the er.-Chorleston Neos.
Robert Melien, well known in railroad
circles in New Mexico, is the author Of .
from Alaska, which was received by
II. g. Smith Of San Marcial. Mr.. Msllen,
in a ~footnote, says everything Is booming
in that country, there being much excite
ment over the wonderful gold discoveries
on the upper Yukon, to which point he ex-
poets to journey, after spending the sum-
mer at a mine sixty miles from Juneau.
Members of the conductors excursion
state that at each change Of ticket.takers
and punchesrs west of the Big Muddy, more
open hearted, genial and compsnionabls
men were found %inhabiting the regulation
uniform. In the stiff -necked, aristocratic,
effete east. one conductor seldom rec
another, only to refuse him trans.
portation, or c~ritlcise his shape, and this
is probably lone from q rear seat of the