Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-06-23

1t is hard to keep operators at Rim
con, about five changes having taken
4 place in one month.
Charles Gill, nurse at the local rail-
way hospital, will leave in a few days
for a visit in Chicago.
George Haines, an injured brakeman
at he local hospital. expects to report
for duty some time this week.
The families of Emery Comstock
and Harry Armstrong, of a Marcial,
have gone out to the mountains.
The family of Engineer John Gala
CHER are to join him at San Marcial
this month, to become residents.
Reports from the local railway hos
4 pital are to the effect that all the pa
4 tients are slowly but surely getting
well.
Miss Teresa Ericsson, a trained nurse
from Chicago. has arrived, and mas
taken a position at the local railway
hospital.
The steam shovel gang finished the
work near Rincon and will now put in
a few days at the mesa south of San
Marcial.
Henry Bignell has taken a contract
from the Santa Fe putting on break
waters at some of the arroyo in the
vicinity of Rincon.
j. E. Mcmahon. who has been the
chief dispatcher for the Santa Fe at
Ration. has been transferred to Las We
gas, +. Folgen taking his place at Ra-
ton.
Engineer Chas. Shepherd and family
left Needles for Los Angeles. Mr..
Shepherd will return to that town in a
few days, after locating his family at
the coast.
Thos. Johnson. the faithful night
yard foreman, secured a lay off and
with his family left last Saturday night
for San Francisco and southern Cali
fornia cities.
DR.. David j. Saylin, brother of DR.. l.
Saylin. surgeon in charge of the local
railway hospital, will arrive tonight
from Los Angeles and will remain here
in the future.
Lawson Lowe, who was acting as
temporary stenographer in the city tic
ket office of the Santa Fe, at Ell Paso,
during the absence of Burt Semple,
has returned to Las Cruces.
Mrs. A. NJ. Warner, wife of the chief
clerk of Trainmaster Wescott, of lne
Santa Fe, has arrived at Ration, from
ottawa, Kas., their former home. Mr..
and Mrs. Warner are now at home in
Ration.
Engineer F. w. Jackson and family
left Needles for Coronado Beach where
they will join the dwellers of the tent
city for the summer. They expect to
remain on the coast for about three
months.
Mrs. Mary Clement, of Pittsburg,
Pa. sister of Engineer Clement, who
has peer visiting her relatives in Ra-
ton for some days, left for the Dane
ranch. where she will make a visit of
some days.
Engineer Chas. Ireland, of Needles.
left for the north. At Portland. Ore.
gon, he will meet Mrs. Ireland and
baby and accompany them to LOS An
geles, where they will remain during
the summer
w. d. Savage. who was formerly
connected with the Santa Fe black
smith shop at San Bernardino, left for
Tucson, Arizona, where he has taken a
similar position with the Southern Pa
cific company.
w. L. Rynerson, a deputy sheriff of
Dona Ana county, who is kept busy
down at the Southern Pacific construc-
ton camps, was appointed a deputy
sheriff of Ell Paso county, Texas, by
Sheriff Boone, of Ell Paso.
Dan Britton. a boilermaker in the
local shops, will go east in a few days.
Mrs. H. f. Griffith and children, fam
lily of Conductor Griffith, departed yes
terday morning for her old home in
Michigan. They will be absent several
months.
Today the electric transfer table
was put in operation here by Electric
ian Warren Armour Mr.. Armour has
the distinction CT putting into service
the first trolley line in New Mexico.
The table is operated by a three face
trolley and will carry the heaviest &C
connective.
The family of ]. d. Thompson, who
recently went TO Topeka to take a job
as foreman of the scrap iron gang, has
arrived there from Albuquerque, where
Mr.. Thompson was in the employ or
the company until he lost part of his
right hand under a steam hammer a
few weeks ago.
The Missouri Pacific is increasing its
force at Fort Scott. Kas., on account of
good wheat prospects. The Santa Fe
policy is TO wait until the wheat is in
the farmers wagons n on the way to
! town before they make any advance. If.
his rain continues the Santa Fe policy
will be the money saver.
Robert C. Short. chief clerk in the
Southern Pacifc's freight house in
Los Angeles, at one time depot agent
in San Bernardino, has been appointed
to the position of southern California
freight agent to the Lake Shore Mer-
chant Dispatch line. He will be under
]. A. Gill. general agent for the compa-
ny in California.
Another contrivance of A. T. Parftt,
foreman of the Topeka boiler shop, is
TO be put into use there with the result
of a great saving on time and labor
IL is a furnace for welding locomotive
iues and is arranged for the use of oil
as fuel. BY means of it between $50
and 200 lues an hour can be welded.