Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-07-09
ALONG THE RAILS.
Interesting information Regarding
Railroad Officials and Employees.
NEWS IN ABBREVIATED FORM.

John Burger, a brakeman on the lei
Paso & Northeastern, lost two fingers
of his right hand while making a coup
ling.
One hundred and thirty laborers
passed through Alamogordo on their
way to the front to join the garding
outfits.
s. c. Smith. recently OF Chihuahua,
has accepted a position with the lei
Paso & Northeastern as telegrapher
at Alamogordo.
lam Barnett, an old time railroad
employee at Wlnslow. left for the east
He was going up into the northwest,
seeking another job.
Mrs. Mort Lewis, wife OF A. l.. Lewis,
the baggage man at the Roswell de-
pot. died last Tuesday afternoon and
was buried Wednesday.
Station Master Homer II. Ward has
gone to California for a months va
cation. He was accompanied by his
wife and little daughter.
VIM. Smith has returned to work
in the local railway machine shops.
after being laid up for a week with
his wrist badly sprained.
Col. John Stein, the well known and
popular superintendent of Fred Har.
yey's eating houses, is In the city,
coming in from the north last night.
l.. Il. Morris. who recently resided
at Oohoo, Sierra county, Is 10Y a
brakeman on the south division and
will move his family to San Marcial.
Matt Poll. Jr., of the San B%ernardino,
Cal, shops, is to be married this week
to a young lady Of that city, and 1t
is understood that the couple will
visit their parents here.
The explanation of the unusually
happy smile that has been so noticeable
upon Conductor Pollock's lace for the
last few days is found in the arrival
of a fine boy at his house.-Alamo.
gordo.
The Elizabethtown Miner says:
William c. Potter, mining engineer,
industrial department Atchison, To-
peka a. Santa Fe railroad, is in this
vicinity collecting data for publication
by the railroad.
G. l.. Bugbee, agent at Benson for
the Southern Pacific, is taking a vaca-
ton and Il. w. Clapp. agent at Lords
burg has been sent down to do his
work while he is gone. G.. =. Hull Is
acting agent at L%ordsburg.
Colonel Lewis, formerly chief train
dispatcher on the El Paso Il North
eastern, has taken a position on the
road as conductor and f. 8. Evans. re-
Gently private secretary of President
Eddy, is now acting as chief dis
patcher.
Bruce Weathers. who has been
working in the Southern Pacific yard
at Lordsburg ever since he came home
from the Spanish war, resigned and
moved to California, where. after en-
joying a vacation he expects 10 again
go to work for the company.
The Williams News says: Engineer
Charles Hayward, Of the Santa Fe Pa.
cific, came in from Barstow Wednes'
| day to assist his mother in looking
after affairs until the return of his
father, who Is getting home from Chi
| cago as fast as the train will carry
him.
Col. NJ. w. Wambaugh. Of the Bis
| bee road, passed through L~ordsbure
on the west bound passenger train on
the Southern Pacific road. The colone
10 dnAluuSiy dWditiuS tut tiuic WutA
he can travel by cars between Bisbet
and Eel Paso without using the South
ern Pacific train.
Yesterday, w. j. Johnson enter
tanned his friend, w. ii. Best, junior
member of the firm Of Cooper & Best
of Los Angeles, inventors Of a patent
| oil burner for locomotives. The visi
tor left last night for Palestine, Texas
where he has made arrangements tc
| equip the locomotives OF the Interna
tional & Great Northern with oil burn
ers.
Chris Goodnight, who was employed
in Traversy's railway tie camp, me-
with an accident in rather a peculiar
manner. He was riding along on {
wagon with his foot hanging on the
outside when 1t caught on a rock ant
threw him between the wheel and the
brake, breaking his leg below the
knee. He was taken to the hospita
at Alamogordo.