Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-07-24
ALONG THE RAILS.
Interesting Information Regarding
Railroad Officials and Employees.
NEWS IN ABBREVIATED FORM.

Lot Morris Is wearing the uniform
of n passenger conductor these days.
In his regalia he looks almost as well
as Jim Connors.
Contractor Kennedy has the con-
tract for the new freight depot at VIII
liams. The building will be of brick
and handsome design.
w. q. Nevin. general manager OF the
santa Fe lines west Of Albuquerque,
has been granted an extension OF his
vacation to September /.
II. II. Coleman, the contractor OF the
Grand Canyon railroad, was al Flag.
stan attending the closing up of the
affairs of that defunct corporation.
Wm. II. Browne, travelling passen-
ger and ticket agent for the Santa Fe.
has returned to El Paso from a ten
days visit to the Grand Canyon coun-
try
A. w. Reeves, travelling passenger
and freight agent for the Southern
Pacific. ~well-known in this city but sta
toned In El Paso, has gone on n bus
mess trip TO the City OF Mexico.
The promoters of the Durango 4
Clifton railroad have appropriated the
sum of twenty thousand dollars for a
preliminary survey. The surveyors
commenced work a few days ago on
the north end.
j. Caufman has a big force Of teams
at work extending the length OF the
house track switch in the Santa Fe
Pacific yards at Williams. The track,
when the extensions are complete, will
be a mile long.
A serious wreck occurred four miles
west of Flagstaff last Wednesday
morning. A number of cars loaded
with oil vent In the ditch, and IL took
the wrecking crew the best part Of two
days to clear II up
Leopold Yea, a telegraph operator
from the City Of Mexico, and n brother
of j. Yea, manager of the Juarez Of
flee, who recently a~bsconded with s3,-
600 OF office money, is to be tried for
the crime of his brother.
Senator Kearns, of Utah, who Is
one of the leading spirits In the Salt
Lake railroad scheme with Senator
Clark. was n visitor to the Grand Can
yon. Senator Kearns was accompa-
nied by three other prominent CAPT.
talists.
Russell Howell. of Socorro. expects
to leave IN n few daysfor Barstow,
California. where he has excepted a
good railroad position. On the trip he
will have charge of fifteen men who
have been employed by the railroad
company.
The Switchmcn's union at Fort
Worth has sent an ultimatum to the
Rock Island, demanding for yardmas-
ters 1925 per month; flremen. 25 cents
an hour for day work and 81 cents
for night; switchmen, 81 cents for day
and 20 cents for night.
The people Of Florence. Arizona,
| expect the Chicago. Rock Island AZ
Pacific railroad to build to that place
N the near future. II Is one of the
sections Of Arizona that has no rail
Dad. and n Is needed to develop
the rich resources of that section.
Gus Osman, foreman of the brass
corner Of the machine shop In Topeka,
contemplates a trip to New Mexico
soon In the hope that his health may
be benefited by the climate OF this
country. w. l.. Jury will be foreman
Of the brass corner during his alb
sence.
J. II. Richards, Of st. Joseph, Ariz.,
who was the original contractor In the
building of the Grand Canyon railroad,
was at Flagstaff. He compromised
the Judgment obtained against the
iefunct railroad and through the liber-
Atty of the bondholders' committee he
considers himself just that much
ahead.
The Las Vegas Optic says. The
treatment the merchants of Las We
gas, both sides of the river, have re-
'eived at the hands of some railroad
men, this pay day. Is almost unprece-
tented in the history of the town. A
business mems organization OF some
kind would seem necessary for self
protection.
A good many new railroads are un-
| der construction In the southwest this
year. most of them short branch
roads. Right in the city of Albuquer-
que the amount OF new track laid and
to be laid this year, including anti
Fe switches at the shops, will have
oQualed the construction OF quite a
stretch of railroad.
Gus Mulholland, of Gallup, has been
very successful in finding water for
the extension OF the Rock Island and
FL Paso railroad. He has Just com
pleted a well which furnishes one hun
| dred thousand gallons of water every
twenty-four hours. From an outside
| source the Gallup Republican learns
| that two other parties had drilled for
water at the same place and failed to
find il.
The Williams News says: Engin-
Ger Thomas II. Wigglesworth will put
the first engineer corps on the rail-
| ,..nl -. from IlnranUn Colo IN
Clifton, Ariz.. and the remaining three
corps will follow as soon as assistant
engineers are ready. which will be as
rapidly as the work can be mapped
out and men placed. The assistants
will all be wen known railroad en-
gineers. and the work will be pushed
accurately and rapidly.
A quiet wedding took place at the
Catholic church on Tuesday evening,
The contracting parties We're Mr., Ray
mond j. Kelly. OF Ashland, Ky, and
Miss Marguerite Hagerty, OF Chicago,
III. The ceremony was performed by
Rev. Cyprian Vabre. Mr.. Kelly Is the
cashier of the Santa Fe railroad at
Ash Fork and the bride Is recently
from the east. The happy couple will
reside in Ash Fork, and left for that
place Wednesday,-Flagstaff Sun.
At a meeting of the stockholders OF
the Choctaw, Oklahoma x Gulf rail
road company held in Philadelphia on
Tuesday of last week, the action OF the
board of directors deciding to extend
the company's line to Amarillo, Tex,
was ratified. Two millions OF the com
mon stock of the company will be Is
sued to pay for the extension and this
mill no a1lnttad AIMING thp opkholdp
at par at a rate of n new share for
each six old shares OF preferred stock.
The railroad brakemen have a mo-
menclature almost as mysterious as
that OF waiter. At Conway Springs,
Kansas, the other day, according to
the Star, a freight brakeman was
passing goods out of the car while the
conductor stood by checking each arti-
Z Gle on the waybill. "One crate OF
snakes" droned the brakeman, and
tho conductor checked off "A lug of