Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-09-22

A union depot is to be built in FL
Paso. The Rock Island, it is said, is
the principal road interested.
Nebraska roads say that the move,
ment of grain and corn has begun and
that it will be the heaviest in years.
The Postal Telegraph company has
heen granted by the courts a right-of.
way in Montana along the Oregon
Short Line.
Harry Chapman, the brakeman who
made two trips on the local freight,
has returned to the passenger service
in that capacity.
The Chicago Great Western has
opened its line from Fort Dodge to
Sumner, the first in the extension from
Fort Dodge to Omaha.
Every private car line is to be taxed
for operating cars in Kentucky. Can
Kentucky hope to rival Texas in put
ting the screws On railroads?
The Chicago roads announced a $50
round trip rate from Chicago to Los
Angeles for the Presbyterian general
assembly, May 81 to June 1 next.
Notice is given that a meeting of
mechanical men of the Santa Fe will
be held in this city tomorrow. Super
%intendent Henderson will preside.
A mar who has defrauded railroads
by false claims was convicted in the
federal court in Quincy, ILL.,, recently.
And by the Omaha & Quincy road, too.
In the Mexican Central's line from
Tuxpan to Colima. forty-five miles,
there will be thirteen tunnels and sew
enteen bridges. The cost of building
the road will be SO, SOC, 900.
The Burlington bought the coal
rights under Al. 900 acres of lands in
Illinois. The Burlington has no line
within fifty miles of the land, but it is
expected it will build to it.
S. T. Park, who recently resigned as
master mechanic of the Santa Fe shops
at San Bernardino, passed through the
city Saturday evening en- route east.
He was accompanied By his family.
The Nebraska supreme court has be-
fore 1t reports of the referees in the
suit to compel the Union Pacific to pay
the state $650,000 for alleged viola
tions of the state maximum freight
law.
r. l.. McCance, the energetic and
pushing treasurer of the Pennsylvania
Development company, spent a few
days during the past week in Denver,
returning to Santa Fe on last Satur-
day.
Russell Barber, assistant clerk in
the Office of Superintendent of Motive
Power Henderson. passed through the
city yesterday en- route to Los Angeles,
where his wife has been spending the
summer.
1t is announced that Master Me-
chanic Patterson will leave the first
of October for Oregon, where he has
a better position. No one has been
mentioned as yet to take his place
Ration Range.
II. Mckenzie, who was here on bust
ness, has just arrived at Pennington,
and reports to the Hustler that he
passed a railroad surveying crew at
work near the Torione, headed to-
ward Pennington.
Senator w. H. Andrews, president
of the Albuquerque Eastern and Santa
Fe Central railways, is in Sierra coun
ty, where he will remain a day or two
on business in connection with his ex-
tensive mining interests near that
camp.
Mrs. j. l.. Sheets and children left
Saturday night for San B%ernardino.
where they will Join Mr.. Sheets. who is
working as millwright in the Santa Fe
Pacific shops at that place. Mr.. Sheets
was at one time employed in the local
shops.
Passenger rate clerks will meet in
st. Louis, October 6, to line up the
Colorado rate sheet from Memphis,
the action being made necessary by
the opening of the Colorado-Memphis
route by the Choctaw and Colorado &
Southern.
The Optic says: Mrs. Cora Archi-
DalQ, WlIe OF Iue Careful ana pOllte
locomotive engineer, who doesn't know
what it is to ditch a train of cars, will
take a foreign trip, starting next week,
and visiting Scotland and ireland in
her peregrinations.
j. NJ. Campbell. for eleven years
head of the advertising department
of Burlington lines west Of the Mis-
souri, river, has been made head of the
advertising department of the Rock
island. The immigration bureau has
been added to this department.
George w. Vallery, of Denver, gen
eral agent of the Burlington, who re-
turned recently from a hunting trip
to Montana, says that there is sufic-
lent cattle in that country to keep the
reads busy hauling freight cars for
years to come. One man has more
than $1,000"
$500. ~ -. II T