Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-02-11
ALONG THE RAILS.
Interesting Information Regarding
Railroad officials and Employees,
NEWS IN ABBREVIATED FORM.

Ed. Sandifcr, an old.time passenger
conductor at Las Vegas, left for
Needles, Cal, where he haa IA freight
run.
L. X. Hanna, Of Socorro, has quit
the employ of the santa Fe and ac-
cepted a more desirable position at
ROsedale.
Three thousand tons Of 70-pound steel
rails are now on the road for use in lay
ing the track for the III Paso g North
eastern extension.
John Rennahan has resigned his po-
sition with HickersOn, of Las Vegas,
and taken a position with the santa Fe
company at that place.
l.. ID. Landers, who has been work.
ing with the Santa Fe Pacific bridge
gang neal Winslow for the past three
months, has returned to Flagstaff.
L. II. Robinson, car ropairer for the
santa Fe company Mt Las Vegas, left
for San Bern0rdino, accompanied by
his grandchild. He will work In the
ear repair shops at that place.
A. B. Baca succeeds Cole RailstOn as
cattle Inspector for the district bound.
ing the Santa Fe railroad tracks from
Albuquerque south. The appointment
Is a good and well deserved.
A railroad waif from the Pennington
Hustler: Here's our right hand, Du-
range; and here's the other, Albuquer-
que. We will not be fOrgetful simply
because we have started to grow.
The FL Paso & Northeastern Railroad
company are now running their trains
10 the new town of Captain, two miles
beyond the coal camp. They ran the
first train to that point last Tuesday.
II. $. Lutz, the afTablc agent of the
Santa Fe ut the capital, Is able TO be
about again after an attack OF Illness.
Several members Of his family are still
down with illness. but are on the road
TO recovery.
G. Il. Burns, who has for some
months been braking out of Pueblo,
has been transferred to Ration. Mr..
and Mrs. Burns have hosts Of friends in
that city who will be glad TO know of
their return.
II has been decided to run but two
helpers on the Glorieta mountain. En-
gineer Boyd and Fireman Brauner,
who have been running the third en-
CINE down there will be given an engine
out of Las Veges.
Engineer Emory Comstock, Of San
Marcial, has quit the service Of the
Santa Fe company and is preparing 20
leave for Missouri in n couple of weeks,
where he will settle on a valuable farm
with his father and family.
Wells-Fargo 81 Co. sent Capt. j.. d..
Milton a check the other day for $4,000
and has paid his hospital expenses for
the part he bravely played in the Fair
banks holdup, down In Arizona, when
he VAS badly shot in the arm.
j. r. Pyle has resigned his position
as superintendent Of bridges aud build
ipgs on toe III Paso d Northeastern
ADD accepted II similar position IN the
pecos Valley road. He left for Elos-
well the latter part of last week.
A. A. Green aud Thos. Branner we're
up before Judge Quinlan, of Flagstaff,
od a charge Of braking Il seal to a
railroad car. They we're discharged by
the covrt, there not being sufficient
evidence to bind them overto the grand
jury.
Cassidy q Son, contractors Of Pueblo,
Colo, who will do some work on the
Rock Island railroad, left Las Vegas
Saturday for Santa Rosa TO look the
land over. They will have about six
carloads of grading outfit, horses, etc,
which will arrive In that city soon.
Machinist Helper Mcintyre, who has
been employed in the Las Vegas shops
for the past three weeks and also at one
time an engineer, received q message
from Albuquerque last Friday to come
to this city to accept Il position rs en-
gineer running out OF here. He arrived
here last Saturday.
The smaller class of engines used on
the Rio Grande division of the Santa
Fe, two or three years ago, are 20 be
brought back. This means for one
thing that more engine crews will be
employees than at present. IL means
also the handling of less coal by the
tiremen and better running time.
The work on the johnson canyon
tuouel on the Santa Fe Pacific has been
COMPLETED. The tunnel has been
arched with stone and steel and all
danger of Ire Is now avoided, and in
the ipture no delays viii occur on ac-
couOt of this tunnel, which, by the way,
is the only ooe on the long stretch OF
the Santa Fe PGciic.
The Alamogo do Advertiser says: T..
j. Dedman, ass's,cnt superintendent OF
the Ei Paso * No theastern returned
THURSDAY from a business Grip 10 III
Peso. Mr.. Dednan says the people
have the er oneous impression that
sma lpoX Is widespread in Al8mogordo,
and that lucl harm has been done this
pace through the exaggerated reports
that have gOoe oyt.
Henry Boln, who has been in Ari-
iona ever since the advent OF the first
surveying patty of the Atlantic Il Pa
citic railroad, and an old employe of that
road, il on Il visit to Flags af and will
remain for some Time. He is connected
with the Sadta Fe, Prescott a Phoenix
railroad in the capacity Of tie inspector
and Is there for the purpose of inspect
ing ties cut by the Arizona Lumber
company for that road.
J. w. Thurber commenced work on
his contract with the Santa Fe, Prescott
q Phoenix railroad last Tuesday, ac
GO ding 10 the Williams News. Foi
quick work ian getting a grading force
on the ground, and work commenced
inside Of live days, j.. w. Thurber ha,
proven that be knows how 10 NOV,
quick. lie took twelve teams from
here Tuesday to Ash Fork, and also re
ceiyed two cars of outfit the same day
from Phoenix.
Mrs. Edward Keen, who was reported
TO be in destitute circumstances, wheT
called upon to-day by Mrs. John Hill
and Miss Emma AdlOn, who went tC
offer some kind of assistance, she re.
fused to let them do anything whatever
and said that she with her children
could get along nicely. Mrs. Keen al
the present time is sick, but expects tC
leave for Winslow as O o as she is able.
whore she will join her husband who /,
running an engine out OF that place.
Las Vegas Record.
The train aud crew of the Santa +,
n Grand Canyon stayed over night last
"Wednesday on the hin three mile,
from Williams, near smiths cabin
The snow was too deep. Conductor
Wattles walked Ia for help, which went
out Thursday morning. Luckily, they
were expecting 10 get showed i'm, auC
had stocked up with canned provisions