Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-07-17
ALONG THE RAILS.
Interesting Information Regarding
Railroad officials and Employees.
VIEWS IN ABBREVIATED FORM.

The Optic says. Isaac Flood Is
back from Albuquerque, where he was
awarded a railroad contract"
Judge II. l.. Waldo. the New Mexico
solicitor for the Santa Fe road. has re-
turned to Las Vegas from Kansas
City.
The genial agent OF the FL Paso &
Northeastern railway at Carizozo, j.
w. Wilcox, spent a few days at White
Oaks.
Lyman Whited has quit firing a To-
connective and entered the employ OF
the Golden Bell Mining company at
Rosedale.
Large number of laborers go
through Alamagordo each week to
work on the extension. Seventy.two
Indians from Tucson passed through
last Monday.
Two neices of Conductor J.. NJ.
Leseney. Misses Leila and Cecil Rob
%ertson, are enjoying the sights OF AL.
buquc'que, coming In from Las Vegas
the other evening.
A freight train was wrecked at
Fairyicw. a station between Williams
and Ash Fork, yesterday afternoon.
Several cars were piled up In n ditch.
but o n of the crew received inju-
ries.
II. II. Davis. who has for the past
ten years been connected with the
Flagstaff freight and passenger office
of the Santa Fe Pacific, left for Colo
RADIO Springs, where he has accepted
a responsible position with the Rio
Grande railroad.
The Williams News says: IL has
required Superintendent Hubbard. Pas
senger Agent Carpenter and all Of the
local force to look after the travel to
the Grand Canyon this week. Some
three or four hundred passengers has
been the quota for this week.
Mr.. Chapman. an employee on the
Rock Island extension, with his wife
and sick child came to White Oaks
from their camp, 81 miles in search OF
medical attendance. The child which
was only thirteen months old died a
few hours after reaching White Oaks.
The Rock Island company's new
road by way Of Liberal, Kas., must be
nearing completion, as the company IL
already publishing announcements OF
a HlOukh Nuln W tHt IdtllC tOdSt
to begin September |. This will be
a new factor In trans.continental pas.
senger business to be reckoned with.
II was reported last Thursday even.
ing that a man named Connors was
overcome by the heat at Needles,
while working in the railroad shops, |
and expired before medical aid could
reach him. The heat in Needles last
week was terrible. the thermometer
ranging as high as 1876 in the shade.
The El Paso News Of July Is says:
To-day Is the day. they say, that Col.
]. III. Hampson Is to receive 81 ,000,-
300 in gold as a subsidy on the Mex
leo. Cuernavaca & Pacific railway. the
~;reatest road that Is being built or
will have been constructed up TO the
present, in the entire republic Of Mex.
ico,
The Roswell Register in its com.
ments says: The Santa Fe company |
seems to be doing tolerably well by
Albuquerque. A new $4,000 electric |
light plant that will furnish light for
the big shops. the fine new depot and
hotel. and power to operate machinery |
for switching. handling turntables and
other work, Is to be put In there at
once.
Two cars of foreign laborers passed
through III Paso on their way to Cali
fornia. Laborers are scarce In Cali
fornia as they are in New Mexico, and
they are glad over there to get any
nationality OF laborers, just so they
can and will work. II is said, howev-
or. that they are doing away with Jap
anese labor, because of their being so
light In weight that there cant be
enough of them get around a steel rail
to lift II.
Il. G. Rockwell, the highly respected
and competent librarian of the local
railway reading rooms, will take a
two months vacation the first OF Au.
gust. He will visit Washington and
inspect the chief points of interest in
the national capital; then some Of
the great summer resorts will have
him as a visitor, and before the
homeward trip Is undertaken Canada
and the Buffalo exposition will have
had another a~ppreciatiye visitor.-San
Marcial Bee.
The Santa Fe Railway company has
issued very neatly printed and attrac-
tive pamphlets In German and Italian
upon the resources OF the country
through which its lines pass. New
Mexico Is well treated In the write-up
and the pamphlets should be the
means OF bringing many new settlers
to this territory. The Italian pam
phlet especially is well written and
the only fault TO find with the German
pamphlet is its stilted and ingram.
matical language, but 1t will serve its
purpose well nevertheless In adver-
Using the resources of the great
southwest.
The White Oaks Eagle says: On
Wednesday, Justice Collier heard the
case of Charles Bransford, formerly a
teamster on the Rock Island exten-
sion, against Sub-Contractor Nelson.
for wages claimed to be due. II ap-
peared that Bransford had been dis
charged for some breach of the camp
rules, and payment of wages due were
denied, on the ground that he had
sold water, which was charged against
him. No proof of this, however, was
presented by the defendants, and up
on the facts presented by the plaintiff
and admitted by the defendant, the
Justice decided the case in Bransford's
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