Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-06-13

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ball clubs from the local shops. will
play n game of base ball on the west
Gold venue grounds Sunday after.
noon.
Ration has been promised a new
railway hotel and depot. The Citizen
Is in n position to state that work on
the new improvements for Ration will
be commenced shortly.
The Otero County Advertiser says:
SiXty-sevcn men. four Ears of horses
and two cars Of scrapers went through
to the front Thursday to increase the
force at work on the extension.
J. w. T%hurber. the railroad contrac.
tor, was a business visitor In Williams
the first of last week and reports
work on the Santa Fe. Prescott a.
Phoenix cut-of as progressing most
satisfactorily.
The following passenger conductors,
with crews, have been pulled of the
passenger service: Schaffer, Mulhern.
Davidson. Notgrass and Ward. on &C.
count Of passenger trains Nos. 3 and 4
being taken of.
Capt. c. ". Sterry. general solicitor
for the Santa Fe lines west of Al
buquerque, was a court visitor at
Williams, getting affairs in shape for
the winding up OF the Santa Fe, Grand
Canyon railroad muddle.
Will J. Walsh. son OF Thomas Walsh
of the local shops, and wife, arrived
this morning from Winslow, where
the junior Walsh has been a faithful
shop employe for the past year. They
will reside here in the future.
Owing To a freight wreck on the Cal.
itOrnia division OF the Santa Fe Pa.
ciilc, the No. s passenger train, due
last night at 6 40. did not arrive until
this morning. coming In as second sec.
ton OF The No. 2 passenger train.
Two carloads Of lumber for the new
Harvey eating house at Kingman have
arrived there and as soo as the bal
ance of the material Is received work
will he commenced on the building and
rushed ahead as fast as 1t is possible
to push II.
The Santa Re Pacific Is putting in a
new creosote tank at Bellemonte for
the treatment of ties. When this
tank Is completed the company will
have both treatments for ties at Belle.
monte, the creosote treatment and the
zinc chloride.
Samuel Vann, the Santa Fe railway
watch inspector, who was down south
on official business, returned to the
city yesterday morning. He reports
the Deming people elated over the
fact that the Bisbee road will be built
into that town.
II is rumored that the Chicago
Great Western is soon To cease its ex.
istence as an Independent line. IL is
believed that the part from Marshall
town, Ia. to Kansas City is to give the
Chicago and Northwestern entrance
into Kansas City.
Railroad surveyors have been sur
yeying near the Flagstaff depot this
week for the purpose of extending
their sldetracks. The business de.
mands an extension of their sidetracks
and the Santa Fe people mean to meet
the demand as soon as possible.
Work on the old well for the Santa
Fe Pacific at Seligman has been sus.
pended and work commenced on a new
location. The contractor sinking the
well guarantees from $4,000 to 100. 900
gallons OF water per day at any depth
from three to four hundred feet.
The building OF $50 tank cars, which
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the Santa Fe, has been begun. The
construction work has been put OF
by a delay in the arrival OF the mate.
rial, and the first OF the cars will not
he completed much before July /.
The Santa Fe Pacific will commence
work Immediately on the new reser-
voir in Johnson's canyon, this side
OF Ash Fork. When completed this
will give the company two fine reser-
yoirs In that canyon and assure n per
manent water supply for them at Ash
Fork.
Alexander Robertson. assistant to
Roadmaster J. q. Hutchinson at Gal.
lup, will lead to Hymen's sacred altar
Miss Ring, the girl he left behind him
in Boston when he came to New Mex
leo, four years ago. The marriage
viii take place in Chicago, Tuesday
evening, June nth,
The Optic says: Paul ID. St. yrain
and other interested parties at Mora
had received subscriptions to the Las
Vegas, Mora 4 Taos railroad to the
amount OF 10000, with but little ef-
fort on their part. The town of Mora
can be depended upon for 500, 900 in
this railroad matter,
Thirty-eight miles an hour is the
record OF the new fast train OF the
Missouri Pacific from Pueblo to Kan
sas city n day recently when the
train was delayed four hours at Pu.
eblo waiting for the connection from
the west. The record is pointed out
by Missouri Pacific men as an indica.
tion OF what can be accomplished in
railroading when a high class railroad
meets an emergency.
William McMichels, a detective EN-.
ployed by the Chicago, Burlington a
railroad, arrested Fred ]. Wal.
a switchman, in Kansas City, Mo-.
for stealing 900 pounds OF sugar from
a box car. Walton, the officer says,
the sugar to a restaurant keeper
On Mulberry street. Walton resisted
the oificer and ran from twelfth and
streets to Third street and
Broadway before being captured.
FL Paso business men are going TO
make a concerted effort to induce the
El Paso 4 Northeastern to put on a
weekly excursion train TO Cloudcroft
for the benefit OF the employees I'm
lines OF business. II the Of.
fort Is successful the proprietors will
give a holiday from ~ o'clock Sat.
lrday until Monday noon that those
In their employe can avail themselves
this delightful trip, and return to
business refreshed for the following
week.
The Winslow Mail says. There was
another fire in the railroad yards at
ms place last Saturday morning at
about one o'clock, The peace. rest
and quietude OF our residents was dis.
by the shrill screams OF steam
whistles, which was kept up until al. /
most everyone In the place was com. ,
PEELED TO get up, thinking the whole ,
was ablazo, but II proved TO be
the sand house. The railroad
company will learn, in the near future