Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1902-05-03

The engine In the new Hotel .,Var.
ado Is receiving an overhauling today.
and some needed repairs are being
made.
The Santa Re Pacific base bal bows
are anticipating n good time al their
benefit dance which Is To be- given at
Grants hall tonight
The Frisco Is about to complete its
30o mile road to Vernon. Texas. which
taps a rich country and opens it's way
To build on TO ,.,o great southwest
Mr.. pierpunt Morgan. having socur.
ed control OF some of the London sur
face railways. IL now turning his at
tention to those lines under ground
Engine 1876. witch has been in the
back shop for some time past. was
moved ont into the front shops yestor-
day and will receive a thorough over.
hauling.
David Patterson, master mechanic al
Ration. whose field of labor extends
from La Junta to III PasO and who
was recently appointed from the Colo.
RADIO southern. Is due here today
General Manager Mcfarland. Of the
Canarca made an offer the other dav
in BlsDee To bet that the Southern Pa.
ciiic company will be running it's
trains into Naco inside Of six months
time
There is a certain young man work.
ing In the mechanical department of
the local Santa Pc Pacific shops. who.
week from next Sunday. will wed q
certain charming young lady from Los
Angeles
T. f. Roberts. an old conductor on
the Choctaw railroad. died in Alamo
gordu the other day The remains
were shipped To his home AZ AleXan.
dria. Indiana His wife and brother In
law accompanied them.
Thomas Apodaca. Of Albuquerque.
came up TO the city Saturday to see
his wife who is .'ro under the pro
fessional care OF Dr Upton. MIR, Apo
daca is foreman Of the santa Fc paint
shop at Albuquerque. says the Las We
gas Optic
Testimony was taken last Friday at
Roswell before \. j. Nisbet. commits
siOnor. in the case of W \ Johnson vs..
the Santa Fe Railway COMPANY. lohn-
son claims 81 900 damages for injuries
sustained last August. While In pas.
songrr coacu. a trausom fell on his
head The suit was brought in the
circuit court OF Jackson county, Mis-
souri,
\ force OF men were busy yesterday
! removing the wafer Jacket from the
/ large air compressor I'm the main en-
/ CINE room of the local Santa Fc Pacific
/ shops It's removal was made ueccs-
sary by the leaking of the air pipes on
! the inside It will require several days
! 10 make the needed repairs and IN the
meantime air viii be supplied by the
/ small Westinghouse air pumps.
/ The Santa Fe system according to
dispatches from Topeka has donated
TO the seventh day Adventists the old
/ MontcZuma hotel at Las Vegas for the
purpose OF converting 1t into a sanitar
ium The church has asked FOR II and
nave signitied that they viii put in y
sanitarium equal To the famous Battle
/ Creek sanitarjum. The old hotel
while magnificent building has not
been success financially and ps the
new one AT Albuquerque VIII soon
opened the Santa Fe people Will have
no further use for II.
President T. y Ripley is quoted as
saying that the Santa Fe railroad viii
probably not comply with the recent
ruling of the interstate commerce com
mission in the Los Angeles citrus fruit
case in which IL was held that the
practice Of the Santa Fe aud Southern
Pacific railroads OF taking into their
own hands the matter Of selecting the
route by which fruit shipments fror,
southern California 10 the east shall
be sent. is legal Our course in re
gard 40 the ruling of the interstate
commerce commission in the citrus
fruit case will depend on what the law
yors advise said Mr.. Ripley Il do
not expect that we VIII comply with
the ruling but will le, the courts de
eide If we are right or whether the
fruit shippers are right do not think
Tho rnlinr III Tho shlunprs Is rnnlta-