Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-09-24
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M. r, Williams dropped or last even
ing's train from the north.
A, B. Crist has resigned his position as
freight clerk with the Atchison. at Ration.
Don Juan jose NIeto, OF Tablason, who
has been quite sick, was seen on tho streets,
to-day.
w. l.. Watson, Of the Atcbison special
service, reached Las Vegas from La Junta
last evening.
Fireman Dennison is happy and con-
tented again. His wife 70 at home from a
visit to Atchison, Kan. 4s
Engine 440, the big compound, Is In the
La Junta shops for repairs, the main driv.
Ing hub being cracked.
Machinlst VIM. Bryce says he was not
married In Albuquerque last week, as has
been the common report.y
The relict Of the late Joseph Hodgscn,
the locomotive engineer, was EN- route for
California points, last evening.
Engineer Geo. Crosson returned to The
city, last evening, from Ration, where he
took engine 428 for mechanical work.
1t is rumored that the fast mail service
on the Atchison between Chicago and
Newton may be extended to Denver.
w. M. Smith. commercial agent for the
Atchison up at Trinidad, has returned to
his post Of duty from a trip to Denver,
Colo.
Division Foreman X. d. Gibbons and
wife leave, Tonight, for Topeka. to attend
the silver celebration Of the Santa Fe COM
pany. s sasr
E. w. Giliett, of the traffic department
OF the Santa Fe, Prescott q Phoenix, was
a south bound passenger through Las
Vegas, last evening.
Will Curtis is bach Ia Las Vegas from an
organizing trip in the interest of the Ju-
nior Order of American Mechanics. Dali
las, Texas, was visited on the trip, and
four lodges were organized.
Albeit Denmead, n of the Ration
boilermakers, has come down to Las We
gas to relieve Boilermaker J.. N. Shirley,
who has been granted a vacation of thirty
days and who, with hts family, goes east
to visit his parents. d,
Last Thursday morning, j. F.. White,
storekeeper for the Atehison, at Ration,
met with a painful! accident. While try
ing to lift a piece OF cast iron weighing
400 pounds, he slipped and fell, badly cut
ting his lower lip.
1t is reported in business circles, down
there. that W.. B. Trull, the Atchison agent
at Ri Paso, will receive a promotion--.hat
of joint agent at Albuquerque, vice w. Il.
Matson, Jr., who has received a promotion
as commercial agent-with headquarters at
Fresno, Cal.
The New Mexico division OF the Atchi-
son IL short of power. The sending OF a
number Of engines east to help during the
grain rush leaving the division short, and
now that traffic is picking up, some of the
engine crews out of La Jnnta are getting
but eight or ten hours lay over.
Nelson Dittson, who ran between Kan
sas City and Dodge City, fora number OF
years, but who for some time has been RIM
ming a train between Las Vegas and
Isubous phcSeu OuSu hol0s uhouudy huu
greeted a number of old acquaiatances
during the trains wait here.-La Junta
Tribune.
Word reached Ell Paso, Texas, that a
new agent had been appointed for the At
Gibson at that point, In Chief Clerk Hough-
ton to Traffic Manager Biddie at Chicago,
and that the new appointee will be on
hand in a few days. Mr.. Houghton takes
the place made vacant by the resignation
of e. COPELAND.
1t is estimated by the Atchison officials
that the recent wreck near Empopia will
cost $3.50, 900 by the time everything is set
tied. There seems to be no. end to the
claims being put in by passengers. Some
who did not realize that they had been hurt
at the time Of the accident have since dis.
covered, through consultation with the
lawyers, that they were seriously injured.
One man has put in a claim who was not In
the wreck at all, but who %overheated him
self in running to 1t from a farm house
half a mile away.