Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-01-23
TRACK N TRAIN.

Sndo. 0ukciiH hoo icoikhVa Aio RosAetSH
in the Ration shops and departed for Old
Mexico.
e. o. Faulkner, receiver Of the Pecos
Valley railroad, was q south-bound pas.
senger, last evening.
Geo. Anderson, a locomotive fireman on.
of San MarciaI, 10 visiting bis brother aud
family in Las Vegas.
c. E. Clapper boards an evening train
for Santa Fe, whore he accepts a clerkship
With the Atchison people.
A. f. Billion, general store-keeper for
the Atchison, in Topeka, was an incoming
passenger, last evening.
Conductor Dodge has been relieved from
duty at Dodge City, on account Of a small
wreck in the La Junta yard, some time ago.
The miller &c ticket of J. A. Mcintosh has
been ordered taken up, no matter by whom
presented, even the individual named
himself.
Fl. NJ. Adams, an auditor for the Harvey
eating house system, stopped in Ration,
yesterday, on his way 10 a Sunday dinner
in Las Vegas.
Byron W. Client, of Topeka, is at Dodge
City, Kansas, with his pet, the compound
engine 440, and is running her on / and 2
with fair success. s
Brakeman Charley Anderson and family
pave rome to Thayer. No., where a brother,
d. N. Anderson, has just met death In 3
wreck on the "Katy."
"A beautiful piece of music in three colors
will be mailed free or receipt of two-cent
postage. H. G. Townsend, G.. P. and T.
Ag't., Iron Mountain route, st. Louis, Mo.
Mrs. H. G. Burt, and son, members o.
the family of the il e-presidsnt OF the
Chicago & Northwestern, went through
Las Vegas, last evening, for San Diego,
Gal, in special car 100, OF the Fremont,
Elkhorn g. Missouri Valley road.
President W. K. Gillett. of the Midland
Terminal road, recently vent to New York
for the purpose of arranging to extend the
road 10 the Cripple Greek district, so AZ to
reach mines In Poverty gulch and
.Tenderfootn hill.
The wheelmen of Wisconsin and Cali
fornia will see to the introduction of bills
in the Legislatures Of those states, declaring
BICYCLES to be baggsgs, and entitled to be
included in the 100 pounds of baggage al
lowed to each railway passenger.
The Atchison tracks, In the vicinity Of
La Joys. are to be raised, and Roadmaster
of Socorro, is now at that point
experimenting the work. After the COM
Of the proposed works, washouts
at that point will be things of the past.
Local advertisement In the Denver,
Colo, dailies:
The Santa Fe route will sell round trip
tickets to all points on the line
in New Mexico February Bad, limited to
thirty days, at rate Of one cent per mile.
allowed on return trip. Call at
100 Lawrence street.
G. r. Kimball. a nephew Of Mrs. Conduc-
tor Quinn, an extra brass-pounder, who
been earning his pay at the keys at the
station, last night relieved Seal
Clerk Bartel in the Las Vegas yard, the
taking the place Of Ross Uptegrove
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n the ticket office. |
The morning train from the south did |
not pull up to the depot platform Ut LasI
Vegas till Z O'Clock. Now, do not rave and |
at the postmasters il letters that were
lot in your box, this morning, usual time,
found there at'a later hour of this
most lovely New Mexico day-that 10. con-
the season OF the year in which it
oils around on the sarth's axis.
/ A good story Is told on q rather nervous
gouog lady in an unnamed city. She was
crossing a railway street crossing while
the trainmen were doing some switching.
As the train was backed up one OF, the
tTairmen called to the other: .Jump onto
her as she comes by; run her down beyond
the elevator and cut her in two aud bring
The head end up to the depot.n The young
ady jun ped up and down and yelled muir
Ter as loud as she could.
Tom Fisher, chief clerk for Ben Win
hell. general passenger agent for the
Juion Pacific. Denver & Gulf rail.
Dad, at Trinidad, Colorado, has
solid hand. II is a Chinamanss hand,
nd has become petrlHed. It was taken
rom the effects OF a dead Chinaman in a
onded c,r, passing through Denver re-
to Galveston, for shipment to Cuba
s laborerr. The Chinaman had died short.
: after leaving San Francisco n the
was buried. I