Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-02-28

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try, was called to his home in Vermont
on account of his mother falling and
breaking one of her hips.
There is a scarcity of engineers on
the New Mexico lines Of the Santa Fe,
and engineers are arriving almost
daily from the Kansas divisions.
Mrs. C. N. Taylor and children, fam
lily OF the ~well-kncwn railroader, will
pass through the city in a few days
from La Junta, en- route to Los An
geles, Cal.
Many of the eastern newspapers
have given extended notice to the big
decapods which were recently built at
the coast division.
William Reaves has resigned his po-
sition of switching in the Las Vegas
yards, and will leave soon for Pueblo.
where he will take his former position
in the train service.
Wabash earnings for the last ten
days in January were S534,645, an in
crease of $27 .624; for the fiscal year,
July to January 81, $11,597 ,SS0.7S, an
increase OF 1915, 330.23.
The Ration Gazette says: 1t is gen.
orally understood that as soon as the
contractor gets through with the build
ing at Albuquerque. he will commence
on the new depot and hotel at Ration.
William II. Mohr. who supervised
the architectural work of the new
Santa Fe Pacific shop building, spent
= yesterday in the city, and left last
night for his home at Los Angeles.
Mr.. Peterson, an engineer, is moving
his family to Las Vegas from Ration
and has rented for a year the stone
house corner Eighth and Jackson
streets, belonging to Mrs. j, H. Ward.
The Rock Island will build a cutoff
ninety miles long from Fairbury, Neb.,
to Harrington, Kan, making a direct
line from Omaha to FL Paso and cut
ting off 100 miles between Omaha and
Herington.
The Santa Fe Railway company in
tends to introduce the ~quadrupleX sys-
TEN of telegraph on it's telegraph lines,
involving a heavy expenditure in con-
struction. 1t will also give employment
to more telegraphers.
Duncan Bell, late of Los Angeles,
has accepted a position in the office of
the Albuquerque Water Supply com
pany. Mr.. Bell was for a time. about
a year ago, employed in the local
Santa Fe Pacific timekeeper's Office.
1t is among the probabilities that be-
fore the end of 1902 construction of
the Santa Fe Central railway to Tor
renee on the Ell Paso & Rock Island
railroad, a distance of 100 miles, will
have been completed and that trains
will be running yer the line.
There is some talk along the line
that the Santa Fe will displace it's col
ored porters with white men, the same
as was in vogue three or four years
ago. Complaints have reached head
quarters that the colored porter is
growing impudent and wants to be
tipped" IN every occasion.
James S. Gormley, head brakeman
in trying to get on the engine while il
motion at Maxwell City last Friday
fell and broke both bones in the left
leg. The conductor Immediately
hitched the engine to the way car an6
brought him to Ration, where the com
pany physician attended him.
Work on the construction of a new
modern coal chute has been begun by
the company at Ration, N. NJ. All Over
the system the Santa Fe is putting in
a style of coal chutes looking to hav
ing the cost OF handling tuel cut dowr
to a minimum OF expenses. The fue
bill of the railroad is In the neighbor
hood of three million dollars annually
The Topeka State Journal says: S
e. Busser. superintendent of Santa Fe
reading rooms, is seriously i'll at his
home ut Los Angeles. Cal. Mr.. Bussel
was in Topeka some four weeks age
on his way to Point Richmond. where
a library was TO be opened and at thai
time was unwell. He was formerly
pastor of the Episcopal church at En-
poria.
The Tularosa Democrat says: En-
CINE No. 65, pulling the regular pas
senger train from Ell Paso to Santa
Rosa, was wrecked last Wednesday
about twenty miles west of Santa Rosa
Five cars were ditched but 10 n was
hurt The wreck was caused by the
ties being burned and the rails giving
way. The work is supposed to have
been done by incendiaries.
Jas. Edgeworth, a brother of Ear
Edgeworth, of the Topeka machine
shop tool room, has been appointed Il
weigh mail for the government on the
Santa Fe between Kansas City, Mo.
and Albuquerque, n. nj. This job II
usually lone one every four or five
years, ana consumes a ptTlOu Vi dDOul
fifty days time. Edgeworth has beer
on a fruit farm at Santa Rosa, Cal. and
is a son of G.. H. E~dgeworth, a posta
clerk. whose headquarters are in Otta
wa, Kas.
The Ration Range says: Mrs. j. w
smith, aged 80 years. the wife OF the
agent of the Santa Fe road at Maxwell
City. died Sunday evening, the 16tf
inst. of pneumonia. the funeral TAX
ing ulace from the Maxwell City
church Thursday, the goth, being con
Quoted by Rev. Armstrong. of Ration
Mis-. Mary Holmes, neither OF the de
ceased. together with three sons anc
two daughters, in response to q teie
gram announcing the death came from
Milwaukee, Wis, TO attend the funeral
Harry NJ. Prindle, forman of the Den
yer G. Rio Grande switching crew
working IN the Bsssemer yards at Pu
eblO. was Instantly killed at 9:3'
O'Clock on Monday n!gnt, by having hi:
III o-,ghaA hafuaan two freight cgrS