Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-08-16
ALONG THE STEEL RAILS
Items OF Railroad Interest Gath
ered from our Exchanges.
WHAT THE EMPlOYrs ARE DOING

The chute Of the Phoenix stock yards
Of the Santa Fe Pacific railroad, was
destroyed by Gre the other night.
Harry Deering, a popular employe Of
Santa Fe Pacific between Seligmsn and
the Needles, is spending a short vacation
In and around williams.
Alexander Stanton fell under a cabOose
while attempting 20 board a coal train
near Trinidad. Both legs we're badly
crushed and one had to be amputated.
The Southern Pacific company will be-
gin the erection OF a new steel bridge
across the Colorado October 1st. Con
crete piers will be put around the old
ones.
John Papen, formerly with Belden &
York, Of Las Vegas, is nov a full hedged
passenger brakeman, making his initial
trip to Albuquerque from Las Vegas on
Saturday.
Work is still very slack ON the road on
this division, bat 1t is expected that a
large stock business will set in by Sep
tember !, which will set things going at
a fast pace.
Master Mechanic c. NJ. Stansberry, OF
ri Paso, is at Amarillo setting up two
new Brooks locomotives received from
Dunkirk, n. Y, for the Pecos Valley &
Northeastern
Engineers bulletin, dated August s.
says that IN and after ths above date the
rating for Brooks engines numbered from
200 TO S0i, both inclusive, will be 535
tons between Ration and Las Vegas.
Pat McMenemy, after a stay OF two
weeks In the railway hospital at Las
Vegas, has returned to San Marcial. and
will soon resume his duties as night sta
%tionary engineer at the round house.
Suit was commenced in the Nj Paso
district court by j. r. Anderson and
others against the Southern Pacific rail
way company to recover $4,000 alleged
damages to a shipment Of I,O7s head Of
cattle.
The costly cement platform at the San
Marcial depot Is to be given two or three
coats Of dark colored paint in order to
cover up the ~nuctuating tints produced
by the different grades OF cement used in
its construction.
John Pine, the obliging Western Union
night operator at Williams, resigned and
will accept a similar position In the City
OF Mexico. His place has been taken by
Operator Nelson, formerly day operator
a; Williams, but late OF Winslow.
A son OF Engineer George Reed is in
San Marcial from Sioux City, Iowa. lie
will rusticate on some ranch in the
neighbOrhoOd for a few months. Mr..
Reed. ST., is now employed on the Santa
Fe Pacific, working out OF Albuquerque.
The San Marcial Bee says: The distri-
button Of railway checks took place Mon
day, August 10. BY actual contact with
a few l00-cent dollars we would like 10
say that the payday witnessed the re.
moyal Of the blockade between debtor
and creditor.
Sheriff r. II. Cameron. Of Coconino
county. Arizona, has a suit against the
Santa Fe Pacific railroad company for
an unpaid reward Of $500 for Haley who
dyDamited the track near Crowley Spur
and was afterward pursued and arrested
by Cameron.
The reports received from 2O2 roads,
with a milage OF 10000 miles, show that
their gross receipts for the FIRST six
months Of 1898 exceed by s~57,5OO,OOO
their receipts for the same months in
1897. Il is believed that when all the
roads are heard from the gain in gross
receipts will be about S65, OOO, 900.
Conductor Gatchell and stimmell have
exchanged runs, on account Of Guy
Gatchell's illness with typhoid fever.
MIR. Stimmel now runs on the main line,
from La Junta TO Albuquerque, while
Mr.. Gatchell has the Springs run, ell
abling him to be at home every night.
The Needles Eye says: Dr.. ". G..
shadrsch, national medical director of
the Knights and Ladies' Of the Southern
Home, arrived here on Sunday last from
Albuquerque, New Mexico. DR.. Shad-
rach will act as company physician
and surgeon during the absence Of DR..
Booth, and can be found at his Office in
the railroad hospital building.
The Santa Fe Pacific pusher engines
ON the mountains have been ordered to
coal and water at Williams. The fami-
lies Of the engineers who were getting
ready 10 move to Ash Fork have concIud.
ed to remain at Williams indefinitely. or
until the railroad company issues an
order q some permanenoy for the future.
1t appears like a mechanic trying to do
work at one place while his tools are at
another.
When the directors Of the Northern
Pacific railroad wrote TO Prince Bismarck
that they proposed to name their town at
the crossing Of the Missouri after him.
the prince answered with a note OF
thanks, saying among other things: II
am very grateful for the terms in which
they speak Of the services / have been
able to do to my country and those inter
ests which are common to all nations"
The town so named Is the capital Of
North Dakota.