Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-08-21

Fourteen patients yesterday at the
Las Vegas railroad hospital.
1t is denied that there is any pros
pect of a strike on the Mexican Ma
tional.
Road Foreman William Daze, of
Winslow, was an Albuquerque visitor
yesterday.
Engineer Jack Fenner Is able to be
at work again after a severe siege with
rheumatism.
Conductor ]. B. Cunningham has re-
turned from an extended outing on the
Pacific coast.
Fireman DeBrun is enjoying a much
needed rest. He has a thirty days
leave of absence.
Heavy shipments of material are be-
ing sent out from Chihuahua for the
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient road.
DR.. ]. Saylin, chief surgeon at the
Santa Fe Pacific hospital, is under the
weather a little on account of over
work.
Seven handsome new passenger
coaches have been received by the
Rock Island which will be put into SER
vice from Ell Paso.
The site for the new depot at Dem
ing has been surveyed and the on
struction work will be pushed forward
as rapidly as possible.
Santa RE officials point with pride
20 tha foot chat tIa;, trai,. aro tha
only ones that have been reaching Ell
Paso regularly on schedule time for
the past few weeks.
William Errett, a railroad man from
Ration, continues critically i'll of ty-
phoid fever at the Las Vegas hospital.
The other four typhoid patients are
reported convalescent.
The proposed railroad from Congress
Junction to the Colorado river is now
assured. 1t will open up one of the
richest mineral sections in Arizona.
Frank NJ. Murphy is one of the lead
ing promoters of the enterprise.
Several cars of a north bound Colo
RADIO & Southern freight were wrecked
near Verde on the joint track between
Trinidad and Pueblo at midnight on
Monday night. The wreck is said to
have been due to a broken wheel.
The Santa Fe is trying to get addi-
tional employees for their mechanical
department. The reason given is that
a rush of business is expected later in
the year and that all bad cars are en-
pected to be put in shape while traffic
is light.
A Topeka dispatch says that Assist
ant Superintendent of Motive Power
w. A. Nettleton, of the Santa Fe sys-
tenn, has rendered his resignation and
will locate in Kansas City, where he
will attend to private business. Mr..
Nettleton was formerly connected with
the Memphis" road. His successor
is not known.
A number of railroad men at Alamo
gordo, n. NJ, have been discharged by
John H. Harris, the new superintend-
ent of the Ell Paso-Rock Island. En-
gineer Boatright, one of the men dis
charged, is another on the long list of
parties who have skipped that town
leaving blllS unpaid. lie succeeded III
getting away with his trunk, but his
household goods were attached at the
depot.
Mrs. Ida McEwen, formerly Miss Ida
Croxford, so badly burned about two
months ago by a gasoline explosion at
La Junta, where her husband is a
~switchman, arrived in Las Vegas on
Saturday evening, accompanied by her
mother. She will remain there for
some weeks on a visit to her parents.
She still has no use of her hands and
arms, owing to the fearful burning of
the cords in the anne.
Christian Smith, the oldest living
engineer in the country, is spending
the declining years of his life in quiet
ude near Harper's Ferry, says the Phil
adelphia Record. He is 80 years old,
but still hale and hearty, and a fine
speciment of manhood. He is over six
feet in height and erect, and possesses
all of his faculties. His eyesight is as
good as that of the average person
OF years, and he does not have
to wear glasses.