El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-18

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spect Eve cars of bonded merchandise
bound for California.
Dick Brown, who has been in tn
employ of the G. 81. as machinist, ha
resigned his position and will go t
work for the E. p. s. N. E. in the sam
capacity.
The Raymond and Whitcomb excur
sion, west bound, will leave Sanderscl
tonight at IL O'Clock and should arriv
In Ell Paso tomorrow afternoon q
about O'Clock.
The work of excavating for the new
G. 81. pump house, which is to be erect
edsouth of theround house, was com
menced yesterday. The structure will
be % by "a feet.
T. E. Hunt, travelling passenger
agent of the Southern Pacific, and J
A. Eddy, of the e. p. & N. e. went to
Alamsgordo yesterday on important
Two cars of.stock arrived over the
Mexican Central yesterday for q local
merchant and three more were turned
over to the LII. from the same road to
be shipped to Cuba.
According to the Railway Age there
were 1928 miles of new railroad built
in New Mexico during the year 1898.
The amount was exceeded by only two
states-Minnesota and Texas.
The interior of the G. II. round
house is being treated to coat of
whitewash. just how long it will remain
white, with coal smoke from the eng
ines going against it, is a question.
MorRsn's paint gang, of the G. b.
which has been artisticslly decorating
the G. 81. property on this end of the
line for some time past, left yesterday
for San Antonio. They will paint all
the railroad bridges between here and
that point.
The transfer to the Mexican Central
yesterday amounted to so cars, % of
which we're coal. In-attempting to get
found that the Mexican Central switch
engine was too light and the Santa Fe
switch engine was called on to assist.
Two freight crews have been taken
off the Texas & Pacific on this end of
the line. Conductor Shafford's crew
was taken of at Toyah, while Conductor
McAllister's crew was taken off here.
This leaves six crews on this division.
Three on the preferred run and
three intbe chsin-gang.
Railroad men will watch with inter-
est the trial to be made this month by
the Wabash to run special train 48O
miles in 48O minutes. George Gould
will be on the train, and it will start
On it's record breaking effort at Detroit,
with its western destination at ST.
Loufs.-Lafayette Courier.
Engineer "Honest John" Notes.-The,
of the Texas g. Pacific, who was taken
sick at Toyah Sunday and was unable
to bring his run to this city, has gone
to his home at Big Springs where he
Ia receiving the best of care and me-
dical treatment. He is not seriously
i'll and will be on his run again in few
days.
The work of the Santa Fe spotter
resulted in four conductors being dis
charged from the Kansas City division,
two from the Denver division, four or
five from the Las Vegas division and
two from the Rio Grande division.
Had the spotter secured the $500 which
he asked from each of these men he
would have had enough to keep his lazy
bones in idleness for several days.
Conductors Dascomb and Donahue,
who fell victims to the vile WORK of the
Santa Fe epOtter, are men well known
and highly respected ON this end of the
line. Conductor Dsscomb, whose home
Is In Albuquerque, was let out of the
service on this end of the line, while
Conductor Donahue, whose home is in
this city, was released in Albuquerque.
Strange, but true.
The changes in the board of officers
of the Mexican company which are un-
derstood to be on tapis-the news of
which was first published in the Her.
ald-are still being very generally dis
cussed in local railroad circles. The
rumors of the impending changes are
more stubborn than Banquo's far fam
ed spook about being lowed. 1t is now
reported that the shake-up will take
place by the middle of March at the
least.-Mexican Herald.
There is again rumor af1oat that
Alpine will be made the division be-
tween Ell Paso and Del Rio. 1t is re-
ported that Manager Van Week has
said that the change will take place
about April It is also said that the
bed, commencing at about the stock
pens and running on the north side of
the depot direct to the curve one mile
west OF town, or possibly to start east
OF Alpine and run near the school
Avalanche.
The Southern Pacific had light freight
wrecks east and west from this point
Yesterday. At Lobo, 40 miles west of
Valentine. on the G. 81. four fat cars
piled up and the wrecking crew from
this point was called out to clear the
track. No. 20 was two hours late as q
result. No one injured. On the Los
division of the Southern Pa
cific freight wreck occurred which