Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-11-17
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brhkemen Worreils hauRhton ana MO-
Donald have been transferred u the north
end.
II. W. Lewis, AtchIson scale Inspector,
reached Trinidad from La Junta, ysstsr-
day.
W. a. DoIan, the relief agent. cams
down to Las Vegas from Earl station. last
evening.
From Philadelphia to New York il
~thirty-six minutes by an electric railway
Is talked OF.
Harry Brown will act as seal clerk In the
L.a Vegas yard 'duriug the absence Of
Dick Larimore.
J M. Meade, the Atchison civil engineer
came in from the north, last evening
likewise, W. A. Kinnear.
One Of A. f. Benedict's carpenters, Tay.
l IT by name, was badl cut with an adEs
Ia the Las Vega yard, yesterday after
noon.
VIM Rhoies, q popular fireman on the
north end, left for Seialla, M. where be
will lead a blushing belle Of that city to
Hymen's altar.
. j. Cartwright, a former machinist In
the Ration shop-,arrived In that place. from
Kansas City, and Is shaking hands with
his numerous friends.
L. w. Stewart aud seven surveyors, all
In the employ of the Atchison, reached
town from Shoemaker. on last evenings
No. 1 passenger train.
Geo. r. Miller, VIII, has been connected
with the Pecos Valley railway, as master
mechanic ever since It's projection into
the Pecos valley In 1890, rendered his re.
signation, at Eddy.
No. 2 came in, this morning, In. two sec
tions, about an hour apart. This IL some
thing unusual. The second section was de
layed by an engine on the first 35 being of
the track near Eamy.
The present development OF very a
cious cars is In steel. because for several
reasons steel cars can be made lighter
than wooden cars of the same capacity,
particularly when that capacity Is great.
Walter Baringer, who was one Of the A.,
7. 81 S. F. dispatchers at this point several
years ago, passed through on No. l yes.
terdsy, for California, where he is genera
agent for one of the insurance companies,
-Rdton Reporter.
A.. B. Richie, travelling passenger agent
for the vandalia- Pennsylvania, headquar-
tiers in El Paso, Texas, went out to the hot
81 rings, last night, accompanied by H. N.
Parsons, assistant to District Agent
Houghton at Ell Paso.
The proposed federation of all the rail
way brotherboods of the country will, il
effected, result Ia a condition of affairs
among the traffic employees which will give
a strike movement in any branch OF the
organ cation tremendous significance.
The passenger department of the Rock
Island has completed arrangements for a
special tourist car from Philad slphia and
New York through to California, every
week, and the first car will pass through
Topeka, on Friday. The cars will run to
San Francisco, via Ogden.
The present address is wanted of William
Paterson, engineer and machinist, who,
when last heard from December 22nd,
1860. was at Ell Paso, Intending to leave
for Old Mexico. He was for a time me-
chanical superintendent In the railway
shops at Prescott, Arizona. About thirty
years of age. Anyone knowing bis present
whereabouts will confer a great favor by
| leaving his add ess with the editor Of this
paper or forwarding it to r. Z. ARMSTRONG,
st. Andrews, New Brunswick, Dominion Of
Canada.