Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-05-10

crease in the force the last of March
have been ordered filled, owing to a
rush of stock trains.
T. ]. Helm, agent of the Denver &
Rio Grande at Santa Fe, who has been
confined to his home with illness the
past few days, is able to be out again.
The train and engine men have beer
requested to report to the trainmaster
as soon as possible for examination for
the new book of rules going into effect
June l..
The Citizen has received a copy of a
booklet, just Issued by the Santa Fe,
entitled, Coronado and Some Califor-
mia Missions" IT is appropriately illus
trated.
The Central Pacific railw ay is going
TO build a bridge forty miles long over
a portion of Great Salt Lake. shorten
ing their line forty-one miles in a dis
lance of AS.
Almost every week brings forth a
new claimant for the record of the
longest straight stretch of railway
track. The line from Nyngan to
Bourke, New South Wales, runs 126
miles without a curve.
Engine S25, a new oil burner from
tbt Saols Nh lOuiC W OdlllO nd, Has
arrived here. II is fitted with the pat
n Vanderbilt fire box and the travel
ing engineer of the California division
is accompanying it through.
The entire mail carried by the Cali
fornia flyer that was wrecked this
week heal Flagstaff, Ariz., was de-
stroyed. The mail came from south
ern and central California and was
destined for points east of Albuquer-
que.
Train No. 3 struck a freight al
above Trinidad Thursday morning and
smashed it. The car had been switch
ed on the main track and was forgot
ten, and is nov no more. The pilot
on the engine was torn away and The
front end generally bunged up.
DIR. Norris, camp physician of the
Pennsylvania Development company
at Kennedy, was struck on the head
by a stone from a blast. He was rem
dered unconscious for a time, but re-
vived and managed to reach the camp.
His injury was attended to by Dr.
Ayers, of Albuquerque.
The Topeka State Journal says.
Boilermaker Ernest Wynecoop closed
his seven or eight years service with
the Santa Fe as an employe at Topeka
shops and today eft for Ration, N. NJ
where he will follow his trade. Sew
eral other boys here are talking o
going west.
r. E. Pellow and wife expect to leave
Albuquerque in a few days for Wins
low, where, it is said, he will have
charge of the Harvey eating house
there. For the past few months Mr..
Pellow was in charge of the eating
house in this city, and his friends here
wish him success at WinslOw.
The Gazette says: c. NJ. c. Houck,
who has ably assisted the Santa Fe
company at Ration the past eight years,
mas resigned and accepted the agency
for the express company. Mr.. Houck
is an able business man, popular with
the people and will he a first class en-
ploye for the new company which he
now represents.
Work on the Santa Fe Central rail-
way at Kennedy is being pushed rap
idly. The pile driver n scoops are
working to the limit of their capacity,
and the sound of dynamite blast is
heard at frequent intervals. New men
and new teams are being put on daily,
and passengers on Santa re trains
passing Kennedy notice h long line
of teams at work.
j. F. Yale, travelling freight agent of
the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe. has re-
signed. He will go with another COM
pany as traffic representative in an I'M
portant capacity. Mr.. Yale's successor
will soon be announced from headquar-
tiers at Galveston. 1t is expected that
Mr.. Yale's resignation will mean sew
eral important changes in h trat1c
department of the road
After a service of twenty-one years
as master mechanic of the fourth di-
vision OF the Rio Grande railroad,
George H. Shone has been asked to
resign and his successor, j. Schilling.
from the Wabash system, has arrived
at Alamosa, Colo, to take h position.
1t is rumored in railroad circles that
Superintendent Harris OF the fourth
division has also been asked to step
out the first of June.
The Southern Pacific company has
decided TO take under its own manage
ment the eating houses and lunch
places or its entire railroad system oil
more than 5000 miles in California
Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico
Texas and Louisiana, and to assume
direct supervision of the restaurants
in the San Francisco trans-bay ferries
between San francisco N Oakland
and San Francisco and Alameda.
At a camp about q mile and a halt
east of Deming, on the line of the
Southern Pacific railway, a man who
was only known to his companions as
Van" became unconscious from NOR.
phine poisoning. DIR Cassell had the
man removed TO the Deming hospital
where he died the next day. There
were no papers to establish his identi-
ty. He had but 5 cents in his pocket
He was buried at the county's expense.
The New Mexican says: T. j. Helm
general agent of the Denver & Rio
Grande Railroad company in this city.
has been informed, although it has not
vet heen officially announced. that SUI
perintendent F. S. Harris. of the fourth
division of the road, which comprises
the line from Santa Fe to Alamosa
Salida. lie Veta and from Antonio 70
Durango. is to be superseded by MT
y o,I Master Mechanic u. ii