Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-01-26
ALONG THE E RAILS.
La,es, Items NJ Railroad Interest Cath
cred from our Exchanges.
WHAT TIE EMPLOYEES ARE DOING.

George Spooner, a railrOader from Win
slow, is in the city to-day.
A. j.. Crawford sent out Eve tie.chop-
pers TO Flagstaff last night.
Engineers board at Las Vegas reads:
5ulier sick; Smith and Shaw of duty.
James Adams, the Las Vegas brake.
man, has left on q visit to Cincinnati and
Louisville.
Charles K. Potter, Of the Santa Fe &
Grand Canyon Railroad company, left for
New York last week.
Conductor Jack Lowe has returned 10
Williams from a thirty days visit In
Missouri aud Kansas
T.. X. Lombard, OF the Santa Re 4
Grand Canyon Railroad company, left
for Chicago last Sunday.
DR.. J. II. Wroth. the local surgeon Of
the Santa Fe railway, has returned from
a professional visit to Topeka.
Charley Pollock, Of Roswell, ls the gen.
eral material and supply agent OF the
III Paso Il Northeastern railway.
Mrs. Fred. Diamond, who was at III
Paso, returned to this city last night.
She ia the wife Of a railway brakeman.
II. l.. Parsons, Of III Paso, is in the city
to day. He Is the travelling freight and
passenger agent OF the Santa Fe railway
Byron X. Hancock, a former brakeman
at Las Vegas, il In the city and expects
10 20 out to work on the Santa Fe Pa
cihc.
Firemen's board at Las Vegas reads:
Wright sick; Mlddlestate, Linn, Roberts,
Bushey, Peter. Keeler and Bowman of
duty.
N. Benjamin and family, OF Kansas
City. passed through the city for Deming
last night. They are connected with the
Harvey eating houses.
ID. HallOran is a new patient at the
railway hospital. lie was the special tel
egraph operator at the wrecked tunnel.
lie came in from the west last night.
The Phoenix Gazette says: A gang OF
fifty men was taken north TO Ash Fork
Saturday night to work on Johnson's
tunnel near Williams. II there are any
idle men in Phoenix, their ranks will
son be depOpulated.
The Optic says: Conductor j. A. Muir
ray and Richard Hays have returned
from Topeka, but will probably 20 back
there about the 3lst. They are witnesses
for the company In a suit for damages
brought by a man whose wife fell in the
train and broke her leg.
The Pullman company proposes toclean
all its cars in st. Louis hereafter by COM
pressed air, having determined by expert
ment that II is better and more economi-
cal In every way than the present system
Of beating the dust out OF upholstery,
carpets and curtains, and using water
aud chamois on woodwork.
The Iowa railroads are asking legisla-
ton extending till 1900 the time for
equipping their freight cars with safety
couplers. The time has already been
once extended by the railroad commits
%slOners, in accordance with authority
lodged In them by the legislature. Jan.
uary /, 1898, was the extreme date OF
extension, and the roads ask still more
time.
over Ave hundred men are at work
about the wrecked tunnel on the Santa
Fe Pacific, east Of Ash Fork, blowing out
the point through which the tunnel pen.
etrated. The work ia Of the heaviest
character, but Is being prosecuted day
and night. In the meantime p~erishablc
freight ia being handled via the Santa
Fe, Prescott " Phenix line, the South.
ern Pacific being utilized from Phpnlx
To Deming, and vice versa.