Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-04-21

ed for duty at San Marcial, after a few
weeks visit with his family in EN-
poria.
Ground has been broken at Ardmore.
|. T., for the erection of a Joint Santa
Fe and Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf
depot.
The Roswell cutoff will shorten the
Santa Fe to such an extent that it will
be by 200 miles the shortest line to the
Pacific coast.
]. p. Connolly has accepted a clerical
position with the Santa Fe Central,
and went up to Galisteo this morning
to begin work.
j. j. LETTERS, the old time telephone
I repairer, at Rincon. has gone to
the railroad hospital for a few weeks
to be treated for stomach trouble.
The Santa Fe is loading several ears
! of cattle every day at Ell Paso now.
The stock comes from the Sierra
Madre country and is going to Cali
fornia.
Walter Shipman, formerly a clerk
in the office of General Foreman d.. w.
Hitchcock, at San Marcial. died in To-
peka from lung trouble a couple of
weeks ago.
Mrs. A. N. Turner and daughter are
new residents of san Marcial. Mr..
Turner is connected with Superintend-
ent McNally's office and is at present
relief agent at Las Cruces.
Engineer Taft is said to be quite a
sick mar and unable to continue his
run on the Silver City branch. His
friends are advising him to try the
baths at Mineral Wells, Texas.
William Monehan, of Las Vegas. is
cast down. His faithful burro got into
a conflict with a Santa Fe train, and
there was one less burro to lift up its
voice and greet the opening day. ,
The Santa Fe Central has neatly ar
ranged offices at Santa Fe. w. A.
Hopewell is in charge of a busy force
of competent clerks. Miss Grace Ken
nedy is the accomplished stenographer
OF the force.
The Rincon Harvey house carpenters
are putting up the frame of the second
story. They will put in a lunch count
er as oon as possible. To finish the
building it will take from six to eight
weeks longer.
The Optic says: Engineer Del Stead
man and bride arrived from Santa Fe.
Their trunk was a curiosity to behold
being literally covered with old shoes,
bags of rice, bottles of milk, nursing
bottles, toy babies and the IKE.
G.. l.. Bugbeee, who for some time
was Southern Pacific agent at Lords
burg, and was transferred to Benson,
has been appointed auditor of the
Sonora road. with headquarters at
Guaymas, This is a fine promotion.
Two engine and two train crews and
quite a large pit force are at work
raising track up about La Joya. Some
of tho married men have their wives
with them and the work is expected
TO cover a period of several months.
Mrs. Thomas Clark was down at
Lordsburg from Clifton to visit her
husband, who has charge of the loco
motive on the work train on the Lords
burg & Hachita road. She made a trip
to the end of the line in order to see
him.
Willie Cadogan, night caller at San
Marcial, met with an accident We'd
nesday night. He packs a gun. 1t went
off in his pocket. The bullet went
through his leg in the vicinity of the
groin. His temperature is about nor
NAL.
The Wells-Fargo Express company
has opened an office at French, where
the new Dawson City coal road will
cross the Santa Fe line. The same
company has opened an Office at Pas
turo, on the Rock Island road. near
Ilfeld's ranch; and an office at Merino,
which is neal the ranch of A. p. Buck,
in the same neighborhood.
The Las Vegas Optic says: j. c.
Schafer, who was the popular chief
train dispatcher at this point, having
resigned to take a place with the Rock
Island system, f. V. King, the night
chief dispatcher takes Schafer's place.
Z. F. Gregory becomes the night dis
patcher by promotion, but the other
vacancies hav not as yet been filled.
Telephones will supplant the tele-
graph lines for practically all OF the
commercial business of the Burlington
railroad within a short time. Wires
are now being strung connecting the
principal division points of the system
and as soon as the lines are finished
all of the communication between the
officers and all directions, with the
possible exception of the train orders
will be thus transmitted.
Recently John A. Muir, who was
Southern Pacific superintendent al
Los Angeles, resigned to accept a bet
ter position in the street car service
under II. Z. Huntington. r. III. Ingram
has been appointed superintendent to
succeed MIR. Muir. Mr.. Ingram has
been appointed superintendent to sue.
coed Mr.. Muir. Mr.. Ingram was one
of the men brought from the east by
President Hayes. and is about the only
one left. He made al excellent i'm.
preston and was able to do good rail
road work. He probably will remain
permanently with the Southern Pa
cifc.
Winslow, Ariz., has been made a sta
ton for the icing of refrigerator cars
used in conveying fruits, vegetables
and other perishables across the con
tinent to its destination on the eastern
markets. Previously it has been the
scheme TO ice at Needles and run from
there to Albuquerque before replenish
ing the supply. According to the pres
emf schedule a quantity will be taken