Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-06-05
ALONG THE RAILS.
interesting Information Regarding
Railroad Officials and Employees.
NEWS IN ABBREVIATED FORM.

W. +. Taliaferro, OF the land depart
ment of the Santa Fe Pacific railroad,
was at Flagstaff.
Mrs. f. ]. Easley. wife OF the Santa
Fe superintendent Mt Chanute, Kan
sas. Is here with her children on q
| visit to her relatives and friends.
Mr.. Allen, operator at the San Mar.
| cial depot. is in Chicago. at the bed.
| side OF his wife, who is seriously i'll.
His many friends hope for her recov-
cry.
Bob Gibson, a well known locomo-
tive engineer, who has been working
| for some time on the Mexican Central,
has gone to work for the El Paso q
Northeastern.
Mrs. N. j. Hudson. wife Of agent
Hudson of the Santa Fe Pacific at
Williams. left for Los Angeles and
other points In southern California
last Tuesday. where she will visit
with friends and relatives.
Supt. John McNally came in on No.
% yesterday morning with a badly
sprained ankle. received while step
ping from a car down the road. He
was conveyed to his home In a yehi-
Gle, says the San Marcial Bee.
The Santa Fe railroad shops at La
Jpnta pay out forty thousand dollars
t. employees every month. and this
amount will be greatly increased
with the completion of the intended
additions to buildings and machin.
cry.
been officially notified that the follow
lna .l.aa - .,,,lx,a yvstt Manhattan
receive an increase OF pay OF ten
cents per day. viz: Machinists,
b~lacksmiths. copper smiths and ap-
prentices.
Engineer Finleys, who was injured
In the wreck Friday night which oc-
Cured e Shoemaker, will probably
lose his eyesight. Engineer Hawks
worth, who was also IN the wreck. Is
In the Las Vegas hospital and Is In
very bad shape.
T. j. Meyer. who has been night
manager of the Western Union Tele-
graph company at Flagstaff for the
past ten years. has been promoted
to manager. He is a proficient opera
tor and electrician and has deserved
ly earned his promotion.
G. II. Ellis, the conductor who was
riding on the freight train wrecked
near Shoemaker Friday night, died at
1915 Saturday night of internal In
juries sustained IN the smash.up. De-
ceased was about forty years old and
leaves a wife and two little girls to
mourn his loss. The remains will be
sent to Ration for interment.
Rev. Geyer, of the Williams M. +.
church, was busy last Wednesday cir
culating a petition for signatures to
be presented to General Superintend.
ent Wells to establish a reading room
at that place. superintendent Busser,
OF the Santa Fe reading rooms. spent
last Tuesday at Williams looking
over the situation, and left most de-
cidedly In favor of the proposition.
The Copper Era complains that the
SC uthern Pacific railroad to get even
OF the Bisbee people on account of
the building of a new railroad to FL
paso, have raised the rate on all
fr,ights into Arizona so high as to be
almost prohibitory. When the new
road to lei Paso Is completed II will
be found that the Southern Pacific
| will pool with II and raise the rate
| still more &c balance loss by reason
| OF the freight business II lost.
Sheriff Lovin has listed the prop
| erty of the Arizona a. Utah railroad
/ and II will be placed on the ASSESS
ment roll, says the Mohave County
| Miner. II is asserted that the compa-
ny was to build a line from McCon.
| nico to White Hills, but its failure to
do 30 makes II subject to taxation.
The exemption law Of Arizona re-
quires hat at least twenty-five miles
of line be built yearly until the whole
line has been completed. The rail.
road company completed the first
twenty-five miles Of road, but failed
To continue the work, which cuts out
the roads exemption.