Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-03-25

vide this morning.
w. H. Phillips will leave tonight for
Bakersfield, cal. where he will again
enter the service of the Santa Fe COM.
pany.
ID. Patterson, division master me-
chanic. was here yesterday. leaving
last night for his headquarters at Las
Vegas.
Mrs. George Henry and children ex.
pect to leave this evening for Topeka,
where Mr.. Henry is employed in the
Santa Fe railway shops.
The Santa Fe Central railway is
preparing to send out a force of men
to construction of it's tele-
graph line from Torrance to Santa
Fe.
Division Superintendent F. c. Fox
and NJ. r. Williams. superintendent of
bridges and buildings, between Albu-
|. querque and Winslow, arrived from
the north last night in Mr.. Fox's pri-
vate car.
Hon. w. H. Andrews, president of
the Albuquerque Eastern and Santa Fe
Central, and w. S. Hopewell, the vice
president. are in the city today, con-
sulting with the secretary of the com
pany, J.. e. Saint.
Two special trains passed through
the city this morning bound for the
coast. The first arrived about 9:15
and was a Gates excursion, and the
second which arrived at 10:45 was
loaded with soldiers en- route to the
Philippines.
A subscriber writes the New Next
can from Tucumcari hat there are
now in that Guadalupe county town
at the junction of the Rock Island and
Dawson railways, one dry goods store,
three groceries, three fruit stands, two
wood yards, five restaurants, two no.
tells and eight saloons.
o. E. Stout. a packer in the Topeka
~storehouse. quit Friday and will leave
at once for Hot Springs. near Las We
gas. N. NJ, where he will take a posi-
ton in the Santa Fee hospital as nurse.
He has been in the store department
about a year, previous to which he
servey a years time as an employee of
a sanitarium.
A bill has just passed the congress
granting a right of way across the for
est reserve to a railroad to be built to
the Colorado river near the mouth of
Bill Williams Fork from a point in
Coconino county. The road will cross
southern Mohave county. Arizona, and
will open up one of the richest mineral
fields in the southwest. Already a
preliminary survey of the line has
been made.
The Topeka State Journal says:
Lewis Steinrauf, foreman of the paint
ers on the second floor of the paint
shop, is now in the western part of the
state recuperating from an illness
which has caused his absence from
his men for several weeks. He was on
the point of having serious trouble
with his throat and lungs and may yet
have to be sent to the climate of New
Mexico to complete recovery.
Recently an order was received at
Topeka to ship from that part of the
system eight or ten Wells, Fargo Ex-
press company refrigerator cars to
points in Texas, where the crop of
strawberries will be picked shortly.
They will be sent down at the rate of
three or -four a day. For several weeks
a large number of them have been in
the shops there for o~verhauling. re-
ce;ving roof repairs and q touch of
paint.
At Guthrie, Oklahoma. the recent
rains washed out a dam for the Santa
Fe and temporarily the water supply
there is considerably disturbed. A
plant for bringing down the sub
stances which form an incrustation
On the lines of engines, was recently
installed there, and has been a sue
cess, n since the supply was lowered
a method has been found practicable
for clarifying the waters of the i'm
mense quantity of silt which is in it
since the rains.
There is a fairly heavy shipment of
oranges eastward over the Santa Fe
lines from California, n~otwithstand-
ing the reports that the fruit crops
were reported badly damaged the first
part of the season. That class of stuff
is still being handled under ventila-
ton, it being unnecessary to use ice
in transporting it across the country
to market. The lemons will not be
shipped in large quantities until later,
the general demand for them being
when h weather gets warmer.
Information has been received by
the passenger department of the San.
ia Fe that Charles ]. Allardt md John
r. Nelson, two ticket brokers having
headquarters at 1876 Clark street, CHI,
cago, have beer indicted by the grand
July Oh NIt Nld Sc vi Stll, anu art
now confined in the Cook county Jail
under default of $4,000 bail. These
two brokers will be tried before the
criminal branch of the superior court
of Cook county, and ii is stated that
the chances are good that they will be
convicted. Ticket scalping may be all
right if it is honestly conducted, but
indications are that it is very difficult
to conduct the business in that way.
J.. F.. Bayles, travelling watch in
spector for the Santa Fe, is in Topeka
holding forth with his biennial rating
of timepieces at the office of General
Yardmaster Kennedy. BY rating a
watch its efficiency as a timekeeper is
determined after it has been given a
close examination individually from
the Inspector. There are three posi-
tions in which it is placed while I'M
dergoing this test; pendant up. as
when carried in the pocket of a train
man; dial up and dial down, as when