Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-07-20
ALONG THE RAILS.
Interesting Information Regarding
Railroad Officials and Employees.
NEWS IN ABBREVIATED FORM.

ehlplOye, Will leHNe tOmOTTOW, Wltn MS
family. for Camp whitcomb, where
they will remain a few days.
Scrip notes made by the city of Bal
timore away back in 1870 In support
OF a loan to the Baltimore a. Ohio
road, are still drifting in occasionally
for payment.
Il. II. Nell, a brakeman, who, IL Is al
legged, was trying to leave Las Vegas
without paying a few debts, had his
personal baggage attached by Police
man Cartwright.
Engineers and nremen are very
scarce at the Las Vegas round house,
II being very hard to find engine
crews on recount of many being on a
vacation In the mountains.
An Iowa Judge in a damage suit to
recover for cattle killed by a railway
train. held that the toots on the whis-
tie are as much intended for a warn.
ing to stock as to human beings.
Mrs. Il. l.. Peters and two children
arrived from Bryan, Texas. and have
Joined Mr.. Peters at Alamogordo, he
having recently been appointed timber
inspector for the El Paso a. North.
eastern.
The Trinidad Chronicle says. AID.
am Moore came In from Albuquerque
last evening, and went out to Monson
this morning to visit his parents. Mr..
and Mrs. Jonah Moore. The young
man has a position in the railroad
shops at Albuquerque.
About twenty employees OF the San.
ia Fe, whose homes are In Ration, Las
Vegas and Albuquerque. were In the
city today. They are on their way to
the strip opening. They'll be pack.
though, like counterfeit money, says
the Trinidad Chronicle.
The Prescott Journal.Miner says:
Monday was pay day at the railroad
machine shops. and on Monday night
some sneak thief entered the place
while the men were at work and stole
a gold watch from the pocket of n
OF the workmen and SIS In money
from another.
Private car No. 219, bearing Presi-
dent Ripley and Second Vice President
Il. ID. Kenna OF the A. T. 4 s. II. rail.
road. came in from the west this morn.
ing attached to No. 2, passenger train.
The gentlemen made al Official visit to
Grand Canyon and looked after the re-
organization OF the line from Williams
out to the canyon.
On the Rock Island extension, near
Parker camp, about 80 miles ease of
Santa Rosa, a 40-foot All across an
arroyo. the road-bed makes n dam
which will back up the water for two
miles from the track. No culvert will
be put in, and the water thus impound.
ed will be used for irrigating purposes,
retaining n large tract OF land in
that locality.
The Durango Herald says: En-.
gineer Wigglesworth is stretching out
his men on the proposed railroad to
the south. II Is the intention to make
a complete survey. cross-sectioning
same so that contractors can bid on
the work as a whole or by the Ave.
mile stretch. The fact that money for
this work is forthcoming is a good in
dication that business Is intended.
w. Brusha and wife arrived this
morning from Las Vegas for a short
visit with his sister, Mrs. A. Il. Vigil.
From here they go to Denver. where
they will be the guests OF friends for a
week. Mr.. Brusha formerly worked a
trick in the G. 4 8. train dispatcher's
Office in this city, ana now has a SINH.
lar position with the Santa Fe in the
Meadow city.-Trinidad Chronicle.
James Kelly, a Colorado &
Southern brakeman met with n
shocking death at Trinidad. He
was standing on top of an ex-
ira south bound coal train and fell be-
tween the cars as the train was pull.
ing into Rugby, a station about 80
miles south of Trinidad. No one wit.
messed the accident and how It occur
red will probably never be known. The
body was frightfully m%angled.
W. G. Nevin, general manager of the
Santa Fe railroad interests on the
coast, returned to Los Angeles, Cali.
fornia, from Boston, where he and his
family attended the annual convention
OF Christian Scientists and joined the
Christian Science church. Mr.. Nevin
who vas cured about four months ago
in Los Angeles by Christian Science
is n of its strongest advocates. The
return OF Mr.. Nevin to Los Angeles
may mean the return OF Superintend-
ent j. l.. Hurley to New Mexico on
the Rio Grande division OF the Santa
Fe.
The San Francisco Call says: Ste
phen T. Gage Is to be retired. In a few
days 1t is expected that President
Charles NJ. Hays, of the Southern Pa
cifc company, will issue a circular to
this effect, 1t Is understood that in
consideration Of his long and valuable
services to the great corporation he
will be given a pension. Mr.. Gage has
been with the Central Pacific railroad
and its successor, the Southern Pacif-
lie company, almost 40 years. He was
assistant to President Leland Stan
ford, a director Of the road, for many
years, and a member OF the only ex-
| ecutive committee that the road ever
had, composed OF Stanford, Hunting.
ton and Gage. or late years his con
nection with the company has been
nominal because of his age and health,
A special dispatch from FL Paso
says: An American train crew on the
Mexican Central railroad has Just
reached this city having fed from the
republic to the north, In consequence
OF accidentally running over and kill
ing a Mexican and throwing his body
In the firebox OF the locomotive In
hopes OF c%oncealing his death. TIT
accident happened below Torreon, Mex
leo. A freight in an isolated spot ran
over a peon. killing the man instantly
In Mexico the death OF a subject by
train is as much a crime as murder
Knowing this, the crew, to conceal the
accident, threw the body in the fire
box. A few days later the relatives
OF the dead man began TO make in
quiry as to his whereabouts. Some
one had seen him at a certain ponit
and one Mexican from a distance saw
the train stop. The members OF thu
crew were questioned, and fearing thu
truth would come out, they resigned
their positions and fed TO the United
States.
It is easier to keep well than to ge
cured. DeWitt's Little Early Riser
taken now and then will ALWAYS keel