Las Vegas daily optic., 1900-03-02
RAILROAD RUMBLNCS.

Master Mechanic Gibbons is back
from up the road.
The car inspectors have exchanged
day and night shifts for month.
A burned bridge at Tiptonville
caused the delay in the trains yester-
day.
Charles Rivers. employed on the
Tecoiote bridge. has returned to his
home at Springer.
Engineer Tom Bowen Is at home
from Nebraska, where he attended the
funeral Of his father.
John Thornton. brother Of the late
conductor by that name, came in from
Lawrence. Kansas, today.
A narrow gauge locomotive passed
through Las Vegas. the other day. for
the Moctezuma mining company. down
in Mexico.
Jim Sturrock. who has been engine
driving in these parts for twenty
years. is up from Lamy having his
iron friend put in running shape.
The Colorado passenger associa-
tion will make a special rate for the
grand army encampment Of this divis-
ion. meeting in Denver in March.
c. S. Sutton, auditor Of freight re-
ceipts for the Santa Fe company, pass
ed through this city for Les Angeles,
yesterday. in company with his wife.
A. F. Stewart, of the blacksmith
shop, up there. has returned to Ration
from Las Vegas, whittier he came to
nurse his injured foot, or have it done
w. B. Turner has been promoted
to foreman of the chain gang at Ration
in place of w. M. Coulter, who has
taken a sixty-days leave of absence
to visit at Springfield, Missouri.
Passenger Offices in Denver are in
receipt of circulars issued from the
Pullman headquarters stating that the
official name OF the company has been
changed from Pullman's Palace Car
company to the Pullman company
Suit has been filed in the federal
court at El Paso. Texas, by Conductor
e. c. Conway against the Mexican Cen
tral railway for $4,000 damages. Con
way asks this amount for injuries al
legged to have been received in a wreck
which occurred December goth, 1899
A scarcity of flrst-class sleeping
cars exists among a number of the
railroads radiating from Chicago. The
famine has been caused, it is said, by
the action of the Pullman company in
sending too many of the Wagner cars
to the shops for repairs at the same
time.
Div. Supt. Hurley left for El Paso in
his special car yesterday, accompan
led by c. w Kouns, superintedent ol
the Santa Fe car service, w. G. Green
leaf, manager of the Las Vegas hot
springs, his invalid wife and her nurse
who stopped off at Las Cruces for eli
matte benefit.
A fine home and hospital combined
may be built by the brotherhood oi
railway trainmen in Denver this year
Silver State lodge of that city, is al
the head of the movement and at the
meeting of the grand lodge in Milwau
kee next May the proposition will bt
submitted to that body.
Word has been received here of the
death of /. Conroe, which occurred
at his home in Buffalo, N. Y. Mr.
Conroe had been connected with the
Santa Fe in various capacities fol
the past twenty-five years, and was
well known along the entire line. He
served a number of years as engineer
on the middle division, and then went
to La Junta, where he was master
mechanic for about four years. He
was appointed travelling engineer Of
the western New Mexico and Ric
Grande divisions which position he
held for a short time, when he again
returned to the middle division as
engineer between Newton and Dodge
City.