Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-09-12
Railroad Topics

Third Cook Van Endert left the Cas-
taneda, Las Vegas, to take a position
in the Aivarado in this city.
F. c. Fox, division superintendent,
and ]. d. Notgrass. trainmaster, are in
the city today from the north.
o. L. Merrill, James Walsh and A. NJ.
Bigger. surveyors in the employ of the
Santa Fe Central, are in the city to-
day.
S. s. Mendenhall has shipped his
railroad grading outfit from Tucum-
carl to some point in Oklahoma and
expects to find work there before long.
Mrs. Mendenhall is at Bethany, Mis-
souri,.
AS the time draws nearer the pros
poets for a grand excursion to Las We
gas grow brighter. Passenger coaches
are being brought in from both east
and west, to be used to accommodate
the crowd that will go.
The new freight depot is almost
ready for occupancy. Station Agent
Meyers says that the Offices will be
moved in in about a week. 1t will be
a wonderful improvement over the old
red freight house on Railroad avenue.
The reported building of the Santa
Fe branch from San Angelo, Texas, to
Pecos City has been confirmed and rep
resentatives of the company have driv-
en- over the line. The surveying corps
iC pXnnntnh in about tupA urnnEC 70 no.
gin work.
I. G.. Mulhern has taken the con-
ductorship of the construction train
on the Dawson coal road, out of Tu-
cumcari. which was rendered vacant
by the killing last Friday of Conduc-
tor Foster, he having been run over
by his W train.
J. E. Bayles, travelling watch inspec-
tor for the Santa Fe company under
H. S. Montgomery, at Topeka, is at Las
Vegas and will remain there a week or
SO, making az favorable reports on the
railroad boys time pieces as the facts
III the cas- will warrant.
Mrs. II. L. Miles and daughter. Miss
Catherine, who were here the past few
weeks visiting the formers mother,
Mrs. H. G.. Whitcomb, and also Mrs. w.
Y. Walton. returned this morning to
Wichita, Kansas. where Mr.. Miles has
his headquarters as the Santa Fe dis
trict passenger and freight agent.
A couple of young fellows stealing
a ride in a box car on Conductor Wat
sons train Wednesday night, were at
tackled by hobos with drawn revolv.
ers at Lamy, and robbed of $50 in
money, their watches. rings and other
jewelry. 1t would have been far cheap
er had the young fellows paid their
fares and ridden in a Pullman instead
of a box car.
1t is said that the railroad attor-
neys and politicians of Kansas and
other western states are considerably
agitated by the entrance into pol
itics of the question of reform in the
system of railway taxation. Dispat-
ches from Washington indicate that
an effort will be made in Kansas to
discourage the election of w. II. Grad
dock, the democratic nominee for gov
ernor, on this ground.
Five million dollars will be expended
in terminal improvements by the rail
roads entering st. Louis in anticipation
of worlds fair business. All the roads
entering the city use one great passen-
ger station which covers eleven acres
and stretches from Eighteenth to
Twentieth streets. The extension will
carry it at least another block to the
westward and in place of the thirty
two terminal tracks, at present, there
will be about fifty. Twenty-Five great
railways now use the station.