Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-01-27
RAILROAD RuMBLlNos.

Charley Malaney, lately Of this city, IL
now employed on the A. 81 p.
Conductor Jack Love hes returned to
Williams from ath'rty days Walt In Mis-
souri, and Kansas. Af
A. 3. Cock, b%aggageman on tho hot.
springs branch, has purchased the Quinn
place, on the Mora road.
Byron E. Hancock, a former brakeman
at Las Vegas, IS in Albuquerqae and ex
poets to go out to work on the Santa Fe
Pacific.
~. j. Frey, jr,, son OF the Atchison's gem
eral manager, accompanied his father to
~Albuauerque, yesterday, and will start for
Alaska on the 18th proximo.
r. G. Allen has been appointed train.
master of the Santa Fs Pacific railway,
with headquarters at winslow, under Di.
Vision Superintendent Hibbard.
There is a vacancy on the passenger run
oQpt Of Kansas City, for a brakeman, ami
hetqldrst man, In point Of service, who
applies for it before January 9th will get
the run.
Fred Harvey, OF eating house fame, has
decided in favor Of brick sidewalks, and he
obtained a permit to construct q slx-foot
walk, 800 feet in length, around his resi-
dence, in Topeka. u /,
The fyerrdue at 8 o'clock, last evening,
came in at 11:45 a. M, to-day; and the
mail from the south, due at 4 q. M, came
in at IL noon. The cause OF tho delay was
a freight wreck near Bsrnalillo.
The Railway employees accident associa-
ton, which has headquarters at Newton
and is managed by praelical.Kansas rail-
road men, for the mutual benefit OF all
Glasses of railroad employees, has been en-
dorsed by the Santa Fe joint grievance
committee Of the u. r. C. and B. OF Ri
The tunnel, west OF Winslow, which has
been causing such delay in ALI Calitcrnia
trains, will be open for traffis this evening.
No, 2, from Lrs Angeles, to day, and No /,
from Las Vegas, this evening, will run
through. There will be no more diverted
freight, after to day, the Santa Fe.Pacifc
handling all that comes,
The trial of the $40, COO damage suit OF
DR.. Jesse w. Brock, Of Leaven worth x an !
sas, against the Pullman palace car COM
pany and the A., T. & 3. r. railway con-
pan, is to begin Monday, Junuary 3lst, in
the, district court in that city. The suit wa
brought by DR.. Brock as q result OF 4he
death of his wife, which occurred while
she WAS en- route to California. nep .ly two
years ago. Soon after departint. for Cali.
f%ornia, she fell in tina aisle Of the sleeper
sustaining a fracture Of tbt hip. It Is al
legged that carelessness ? nd neglect, on the
part of the employ IS of the defendant
companies, hasten I'd her death.
The Elizabe' ntown Miner has learned,
from a most reliable source, that the branch
road of tie Santa Fe, connecting Cimarron
withf,ie main line, will be built. Worh
vii. commence at an early date; the report
IF all parties as to the feasibility of tbi:
route, has been favorably received by the
Santa Fe management, and all that II
needed now for work to be In active oper,
alton is an order from the proper auth rity
to commence work. This, the Miner learns
will be given at once. Parties in Elizabeth
town.. knowing the status of affairs, art
preparing an exhaustive report, withstb,
view of inducing the company to exte AZ
this branch to Elizabethtown.
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