Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-16
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Engine No. 71S is being repaired.
Engine No. 437 is having her boiler
washed, to-day.
The pay checks were we'll received by
the railroad boys. to-day.
Two Christian Endeavor~ trainloads took
breakfast here, this morning,
Several tramps rode in on the Christian
Endeavor trains, this morning.
Wm. Brusha, operator, wife and child,
left for San Marcial, last evening.
Machinist ". W. Curtis resigned his po-
| sition with the Santa Fe here, last night.
g. T.. Seely, son Of the former general
superintendent, T. J. Seely, left for Socor-
70, on an engineering trip.
Mike Smith, the machiuist and foot-rac-
er, has been laying off, this week, owing
to a severe strain he received last Sunday
evening.
Conductor John Donahue has beer trans
ferred from the Silver City branch to the
Alouquerque.El Paso run, and he has
moved his family to the latter place.
A railroad detective, who travels almost
constantly between Chicago aud Cleveland,
reports that the number Of tramps now ON
the road exceeds anything he has ever
seen. He says it Is not fair to call them
tramps, for they appear to be mechanics
and laborers out of employment. The de-
tective in question makes the almost in
credible statement that he counted 1917
tramps on one freight train.
Phillip Collins, foreman Of the eection
gang on the Atchison railway at Turner,
Kansas. near Kansas City, has bssn arr
rested on warrants sworn out by dstsc-
tives 10 the employ OF the railway COM
pany. charging him with padding the COM.
pany's pay roll. Some time ago, the FIRST
mixing Of padded pay rolls became public
and it was stated the company had been
robbed In this manner Of thousands OF
dollars. Since then, detectives have been
working all along the road
According TO the Roilway Age, 622 miles
Of railway were laid in the first six months
of the present year. In the first six months
of 1894, but 525 miles were laid, but with
this one exception, no yea back TO 1875
has SO small a record. Louisiana has led
in 1897, with Ill miles. and California with
niuety-three miles. About half the states
laid no track at all. From present indica-
tions, it Is inferred that the total mileage
laid this year will be about 1900 miles
about the record of bach of the last three
years.
The Kansas supreme court has affirmed
the decision of the district court Of Neosho
county, granting to Vim. Carey a verdict
for damages against the Atchison. Carey
was a fireman, and was injured when the
engine was running, by breakage OF ma
chinery used In its construction. The case
was appealed by the railroad company, on
the grounds of ~contributory negligence
and that the jury had failed to answer
certain special questions. The court sus-
tains neither contention and afirms the
of the lower court.
The heavy passenger traffic from Cali
fornia to the east, incident to. the big !
Endeavor convention In San
Francisco, and the low rate now in effect
Aou - ' SAiooku, MAS CVtum6uC-
ed. Extra trains will continue to be run |
on all roads until the thousands of eastern |
Endeavors have been returned
to their homes. and the large number oil
western people who take advantage OF the
low rate are carried into the east. Tbs low
rate will remain In effect until August |
18th, and for this reason the e~ast-bound
traffic VIII proba bly, not be characterized
BY the rush Of the travel west bound.
Probably one of the best equipped and
set Of boys that ever got together
or a summers outing is the jolly party OF
'ailroaders, who will leave, to- morrow
for a sixty days outing, In the
Iemez mountains and sulphur springs
'ountry. The party consists Of Bob Moore
) r. Helwagen, Geo. W. Green, Sanford
North. G. A. Serum, Richard Davidson,
!. 3. Oyster, VIM. Hurt and probably
/. r. Hays. They will outfit from Espan-
'la, the equipment consisting Of = grub
laden with s275 worth Of pro.
with . negro cook as engineer,
nd q four horse coach for the party to
ide 10. Their headquarters camp will
. made Ia the vieini y Of sulphur springs,
|ernelillo county, and they will 60 fulIy
quipped with ~pack-ouffts 70 radiato Into
be mountains whenever the spirit moves