The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-20
RAILROAD NOTES.

Frank Gibson, lineman for the Santa
Fe Pacific, has returned to Gallup after
putting up a private telephone line con-
| Meeting the telegraph office at the sta
Albuquerque.
Boilermaker Apprentice Bert Powers.
says the Albuquerque Journal, has de-
cided that the altitude of Albuquerque
is too high for his health and will leave
in a few days for Topeka, Kan.
Rough Rider Whitehead, who has
charge of the switch engine in the Albu-
querque yards, and Roy Fugate, who
holds a similar job at San Marcia1, have
exchanged places.
The Santa Re is planning the building
of several short lines in Oklahoma ter
ritory in districts which at present have
no railway facilities. These lines will
form connections with the Santa Fe
main line and add materially to the
local business of the company in that
section.
T. j. Smith, for a number of years
machinist in the Goodland shops and a
member of the city council, has resigned
his position with the Midland road at
Colorado City where ne has been EN-
ployed since leaving Goodland. He has
purchased land near Grand Junction
and will raise fruit.
Mr.. McIlroy, of Las Vegas, formerly
fireman on the Santa Fe, will move
his family to Albuquerque for future
residence.
The increase in business on the Santa
Re mas made it necessary to put on
third pusher engine on the Glorieta
mountain.
the position of rOundhOuse foreman at
Las Vegas, has been transferred to Ra-
ton to fill like position there.
The Ell Paso & Northeastern railroad
company has 100 men and Geo. S. Good
& Co fifty men now at work on the ex-
tension above AIamoGordo toward White
Oaks. and $50 rock workmen will be put
on at the Salido coal fields, who Will
work southwark.
The first of the Judah damage cases
against the Santa Fe, is on trial in the
Atchlson district court. 1t will be re-
membered that Jennings Judah and his
two daughters, Fannie NJ. age %, and
Mamie, age Is, were killed in an acct
dent at the Omaha junction crossing on
January g. 1893 They We're going to
their home near Cummings in a spring
wagon, and were struck on the crossing
above mentioned by the Santa Fe pas
senger train due in AtchiSOn al 6 .. m.
Mrs. Judah sued the company for &c.
600 damages in each case, alleging that
the passenger train was running at an
excessive speed, and the engine whistle
was not blown, etc. The case of the
younger daughter was taken up first
and is now on trial. The railroad
charges carelessness and contributory
negligence, especially on the part of
Jennings Judah, who was driving the
team.
From time to time rumors have been
going the rounds concerning the new
steamship line which will be established
between Southern California and Next
co. The latest is that the Santa Fe 5
officials of that road. are behind the
deal. A gentleman we'll posted on traffic
deals says that freight carried by the
Santa Fe from western Mexico has to
be then transferred to the Southern Pa
cine, thus causing them (the Santa F'e)
to lose large income. Now shippers
object to having their goods handled by
two roads and If the Santa Fe had its
own steamship line it could send these
goods through to destination by trans
ferrIng them on to ships at San Diego
or San Pedro. Then again, at Santa
Rosalia, Lower California, there are fine
copper mines and smeIters the products
of which are sent to France, where the
owners reside. Now the Southern Pa
cihc has a contract to take this copper
from Guaymas to Galveston Tex
where it is loaded on ships for France.
but the Southern Pacific is not making
anything out of the deal, as their freight
cars are all hauled back empty Now
II the Santa Fe had g. steamship line
which would take the copper on board
at the docks, near the mines, and carry
1t to San Pedro or San Diego, where it
would be shipped on board the Santa Fe
cars, 1t would save the expense of ferry
ing the ore across the gulf of California
to GuaymaS, is done now to reach
the Southern Pacific