Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-07-09

Inc san Bernardino striking boiler
makers held their big ball at the pa
Vlllon in that city last night. Judging
Dy the tickets sold, the strikers must
nave realized more than $ $1,000.
A car load of native workmen passed
through the city this morning en- route
from FL Paso to Ration, where they will
be put to work on the new Santa Fee
track running out from that place.
F. M. Pingree, foreman of the paint
force at Winslow, who, with his family
have been visiting friends in the east
the past two months, are now visiting
with the family of Joe Richards, on the
Highlands. They will go to Winslow
tonight.
1t is probable that James Davis of
the Santa Fe shops at Needles, Cal.
wlll be chosen for the t~oremanship of
the blacksmithing department at San
Bernardino, T. A. McNeal having re-
signed that position to accept a similar
one in Los Angeles.
The Santa Fe has completed another
line in indian Territory and opened it
for freight and passenger traffic. The
new Dad is known as the Kiowa,
C~hickasha & Fort Smith railway and
runs from Paul's Valley, /. T., to Lind
say, a distance of twenty-three miles.
Ed Quinlan, an old time conductor
formerly on the Rio Grande division, is
in the city. Mr.. Quinlan has been Wis
iting with his father in law at San
MaTcial. He will leave this evening
for Helper, Utah, where he is con
ductor on the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad.
The Topeka State Journal says:
Inspection of the Santa Fe hospitals
west of Topeka has been begun, the
committee appointed for that purpose
having gone out Sunday afternoon,
after completing the work of looking
over the property east of this point.
The members of the committee are DR..
j. p. Raster, Conductor Dad" Griffith
n Engineer James Thomas. They
will go as far as Los Angeles, Cal. the
trip consuming two weeks. Mrs. Kas-
ter accompanies the party.
Work at Shops-D. A. Shope, super
intendent of bridges and buildings on
the Santa Fe Pacific, with ~headquar-
tiers at Winslow, came in from the
west last night. His mission this
trip is to superintend some work which
is being lone on the turn table at the
local round mouse. When the old table
was ohC Out VI the PIT IL was lOulu
that the foundation had moved and a
new foundation is being put in.
Secured the Mules.-Hon. w. S.
Hopewell, general manager of the
Santa Fe Central, has received from
A. H. Hilton at San Antonio 100 mule
teams that will be put to work IN the
grading outfits on the road. They a
peer used for hauling coal from Car
thage to the railway, but since Beau
mont oil has entered the field there
has been no use for mules. Word was
received that sixty-two men have been
engaged from Rio Arrlua county and
will report at the camps at once. 1t is
expected to double the present force
during this month and rush matters.
Mr.. nopewell came in from the south
this mornin, and is here today. He
will go north to Kennedy tonight or to-
morrow morning.
Clerks Demand Horizontal Increase
in Waees.-A telegram from Chicago
avs Railway clerks are preparing
demands for a horizontal increase in
wages of SO a month, which will be
presented to the several roads within
a few days. In addition to the wage
increase, the men will insist on a
workday of eight and one-half hours,
instead OF twelve and fourteen, as at
present.
Already demands have beer sub
mitted to the officials of the Chicago
Great Western, Wabash and Lake
Shore railroads, asking for a 20 per
cent increase, but these were sub
mitted by the men as individuals, and
not through the railway clerks asso-
citation. The union officials believe
that they were presented at the insti-
cation of the companies, so that they
could offer a slight increase to their
employees, n head off the demands
of the union, which they know will he
made.
The railway clerks are now paid
from S45 to $50 a month, and say they
work fourteen hours a day. They also
have TO contribute for the maintenance
of a relief fund. which, they assert, is
of little benefit to them.
New Kansas Road.-A Hutchinson,
Kan, dispatch says: The hutchinson
& Arkansas River Railway company
was chartered in Topeka last week. Its
capital stock is S5S,000, and it is in
c%orporated Tor the purpose Of building
a road from Hutchinson to Kechi in
Sedgwick county. This would give
this city the long desired connection
with the Frisco railroad and also with
the Fort Worth branch of the Rock
Island railroad.
The ~incoTpoTators and directors of
the company are J. p. tracy, r. w.
Barnes and Arthur Grinfin, of Chi
cago; Frederick 1. Eakman. .iver-
side; J. c. Baddelly, Frank Vincent, c..
Phillips and w. Y. Morgan. Hutchin-
son. Judging from the Hutchinson di-
rectors of the road, the line is PROBABLY
more in the interest of the salt indus
try of this city than of any railroad.
However, the road would give the
long desired outlet to the Frisco and
also connection with the Rock Isla nl.s