Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-06-13
Railroad Topics

% F. II. Nudge, of the engineer corps,
of the Santa Fe, with headquarters at
Las Vegas, was here yesterday.
j. A. Peterson, of the shops, where
he is the distributing clerk, and wife
leave Monday night for the Pacific
coast.
The Canadian river bridge on the
Rock Island railroad is all right. 1t
stood the floods and high water sue
cessfully.
John Bell came in from Santa Fe
last night. called hither by the serious
illness of his brother who is down with
pneumonia.
The Rock Island is having some trou-
BILE in transferring IS cattle rains
over the Fort Worth road for Montana
and Wyoming pastures.
A severe hail storm visited Rogers
construction camp on the Dawson rail
way. thirty miles west of Tucumcari
and destroyed the tents.
Mrs. H. S. Lutz. wife of the railroad
agent at Santa Fe. left with two of her
children for ~Morganville. Kansas, to
spend the summer with relatives.
All the steel but two miles is laid on
the Lordsburg & Hachita road. and
the work of laying steel is suspended
until more is received. The men are
at work surfacing the road.
The roof of the large railroad eating
house at Tucumcari is being shingled.
The building when completed will be a
beauty. Tucumcari will be a breakfast
and supper station for rains in 10th
directions.
Ct,ngrintandnn Ham Orch r1 with
car log of the International Core
s%pondence school, will leave for San
Marcial tonight. The car was at the
local shops. where instructions were
given the railroad men the past week.
NJ. J. Drury and wife, of Arkansas
City. Kas., after g pleasant sojourn on
the Pacific coast. stopped pver here for
a day. They resumed their journey
north last night. Mr.. Drury is division
foreman of the Santa Fe at Arkansas
City.
The board of equalization Of Arizona
has lust completed it's labors in the
assessment equalization of the various
railroads in the territory. The Santa
Fe Pacific is assessed as follows:
3S7 40 miles in Arizona, at 1900 per
mile. making a total valuation of 1906,
S45. This includes all improvements
The San B%eruardino Sun says: j
r. Richie. who rendered his resigna
ton as foreman of the boiler shops
at this place a few days since, has
been appointed to a position which Is
better in several Ways than the one
previously held by him. 1t is that OF
boiler inspector for the Santa Fe anc
carries with it a tempting salary. The
many friends of Mr.. Richie who fear
ed that it might be possible that he
was to be a victim of the r~eorgantZa
ton which has been shaking up the
system of late, will be glad to learn o.
his good fortune.
A telegram from Santa Fe to thu
Denver Republican says: Bad bloot
that has been existing for some time
between Thomas j. Helm, genera
agent of the Denver & Rio Grande il
this city, and Harvey S. Lutz, genera
agent of the Santa Fe. over railroad
business, resulted in a clash this nool
in the postoffice while Lutz was on hi
way about the city showing its sight
to Julian s. Eaton, claim examiner o
the Travellers Insurance company
who is on his way from New York t
California. Helm had two fingers bro
ken and Lutz received cuts on tn
head. blood flowing freely. Arrest
followed and Helm paid the fine an,
costs imposed on him as the aggressol
and was discharged.