Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-06-23

a short time last night. leaving for the
west.
Q. NJ. Taylor. the popular division mas
ter mechanic OF the Santa Fe. with head.
quarters at Ration, Is at the Hotel High
land.
j. y. Long, ex.yard master at this
point, is now yard master for the Fort
Scott n Kansas r X. at Fort Scott,
Kansas.
A conductor On this division has been
suspended thirty days for violation OF
rule 407 with a freight train at the head
Of a heavy grade.
A yardmaster on this division has been
suspended for failing 10 make prompt $40
and sl3 reports Of derailments that oc.
CURED on his yard.
The freight Office at Las Vegas has
been treated 10 a new coat OF paint and
repapering, in fact, undergoing a gen
eral house cleaning.
Brakeman Louis Callow. on the Las
Vegas Ration run, having been granted a
leave Of absence, left for Urbana, Ills,
on q visit to relatives and friends.
David Stewart, an emplOye Of the rail-
way, Is celebrating to-day the arrival at
his home last night OF a fine baby boy.
Mother and child reported doing nicely.
Joseph Goelet left last night for Tenn
pie, Texas, to accept a position with the
Gulf. Colorado h Santa Fe railway. He
was a clerk In Joe Kuhn's Office, Santa
Ne Pacific, this city.
j. V. Key, A. Vain and Norton HigQin.
son. OF the civil engineering corps OF the
Santa Fe, doing some work above the
city, were here last night and put up at
the Hotel Highland.
A conductor on this division has been
given ten days for failing TO return a
terminal at the dispatcher's office and
advise him that he could not get out
after he had registered out.
X. j. Piper, engineer on the Silver City
branch OF the Santa Fe Pacific, passed I'D
the road for Thornton last night, where
he will take Trimble's four-horse stage
for the Sulphur hot springs.
Charles Schelke, a faithful shop ma
chinist, has secured a sixty days leave
OF absence, and was a passenger last
night for Springfield, Mo-, where his wife
and children have been visiting the past
few weeks.
The following are the names OF the sta
lions on the III Paso and Northeastern
railway, between Alamo Gordo and XII
Paso' Alamo Gordo. Dog Canon, Rscon-
dido, Turquoise, Jarilla. SOlidsd, Desert,
Huecho, Longhorn, 1T. Bliss and ri Paso.
An agent on this division has been
discharged for purchasing a discharge
check before the discharge check had
been forwarded TO him and RENTING
this check with the signature OF a brother
OF the man 10 whom che money should
have been paid.
hoadmaster Bradley hired 100 men at
Emporta and took them out 10 Holyrood
to work on a new branch which the Santa
Ne Is constructing there. This new track
will be fifteen miles long. II will begin
at HOlyroOd and terminate at a little
town west OF there. The new branch
will connect with the Mcpherson branch.
Mcdonald Bros. extensive railroad
contractors, arrived al Las Vegas on
Monday with seventy men and q large
ontht OF teams, wagons, scrapers, etc, 10
be- used for general grading. They will
begin work on grading the approaches
TO bridge No. 1914, two miles south OF that
place on the main line. The object be-
ing 10 change the road bed, cutting the
corner on the north side OF the bridge.
II will take the contractor about three
months TO complete the job.
An accident on this division recently
causing considerable damage by careless
ness OF train and engine men that we're
into clear on siding starting TO pull out
before a passing train had cleared the
49,
switch they we're 10 use 10 get onto the
main line, The engineer did not know
which switch he was 10 use TO get onto
the main line and did not keep a sharp
lookout, concerning car on rear end OF
train; conductor did not advise engineer
how switches were to be lined up: con-
duetor has been suspended thirty days
and engineer sixty days.
The national debt OF the United
States on December lat, 1897. was Is a.,
1855 $500. The liabilities OF the railways
the United States are sll, 6l5, 7iO,l45,
nearly fourteen times az much, aud
1--we times greater than was the national
debt at its maximum, at the close OF
the civil war. Capital stock per mile Of
roads, t29,4Sl; funded debt per mile OF
road, t30,l26; total capitalization OF
road, S59Y6l0. OF this total amount Of
securities only 1914 per cent Is owned by
corporations, the balance being
held by individuals. OF the total cap
43 per cent paid no returns to
holders, either dividend or interest.
DR.. r, Il. Johnston, OF Silver City,
came in from the south last night, and il
az tha Grand naptwaI