Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-09-15

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Quite q large number of local rail-
road men took their families on the ex-
cursion to Las Vegas.
Mrs. F. H. Sutton. wife of DR.. Sutton,
acting chief surgeon Of the local Santa
Fe Pacific hospital. has returned to her
home at Los Angeles.
Paul Morton, second vice president,
has returned to Chicago after a tour
of inspection over the lines Of the Pc
cos Valley G. Northwestern road.
Avelino Romero has entered into a
contract with the Santa Fe company
to do some track raising zeal the Tiff
fanny ranch and south of San Marcial.
H. NJ. Foster. of New York, has been
sent to Flagstaff, Arizona, where he
will act as lumber inspector for the
Santa Fe under General S~torekeeper
N. M. Rice.
p. Walsh, general baggagemaster for
the Santa Fe, has beer in Denver for
several days attending the meeting of
the American Association of General
Baggage Agents.
Santa Fe locomotives are being
equipped with electric headlights at a
lively rate of speed. Nos. 1913. 1920
and 1896 are in the Ration shops re-
ceiving new lamps.
There is some talk in railroad cir
Giles of the erection of two stalls on the
site of the Williams round house, for
the accommodation of the seven or
eight engines usually in the yards
there.
1t is estimated that the Santa Fe will
have its second track between Ration,
N. NJ, and Morley. Colo, completed. a
distance of about fourteen miles and
covering one of the most dangerous
parts of the mountains.
Con Jackson, a Rock Island brake
man out of Santa Rosa, n. M, has en-
tered the bronco riding contest which
is to be held in Denver tomorrow. He
has won prizes in Kansas City, Okla
homa City and Wichita.
VIM. Hunt, an employee of the Santa
Fe store house at Topeka, and a broth
er of Mrs. Geo. Rose, attended the fun
eral of Engineer Rose at San Marcial
on Tuesday, and accompanied Mrs.
Rose to Fierro the next day.
A. E. Stillwell, president of the Kan
sas, Mexico & Orient, has sailed from
London in company with a lumber of
the finance committee of that road.
sTI1 ,,Arorz I'LL ho talrn, Avnr thn
proposed route of the line.
The work of improving the local
Santa Fe Pacific hospital continues
persistently. The new wing which is
added on the north is finished n a
large force of men are busily engaged
in repairing and repainting the old part
of the building.
Orders have been placed by the
Pennsylvania for the construction of
1900 new freight cars to be delivered
within the neXt six months. The ma
jority of them will be of the 100, 900
pounds capacity, the remainder of So
600 and 10000 pounds capacity.
An agent was at San Marcial last
ooNuAh a SoNhSA NP III "a
rock quarry heal aWtrous. He stated
that they had 200 men at work and
wanted 200 more. The scale paid is
$1.50, S1.75 and 80. The product of the
quarry is being used as ballast for the
Santa Fe tracks.
In accordance with the agreement
recently reached by the traffic mana
gers of the western railroads a general
advance in freight rates on grain be-
came effective today between Missouri
river points and Chicago. The ad-
vance is from 7 to IL cents a hundred
weight on wheat and to IL cents on
other grains.
The Las Vegas Record says: Hon.
Eugenio Romero left yesterday even
ing for his tie camps in he Gallinas
mountains. to pay OF his gang. He
goes to Albuquerque, then overland
sixty miles 10 Torreon, the home of
his son, Serapio, then on forty miles
more overland to the tie camps in the
mountains.
The Williams News says: Conduc-
tor Billy Bromley came near having no
place to lay his weary head last Mon
day night, all because a spark from a
passing engine set fire to his bed in the
caboose, which was side tracked in the
local yards. The way he threw the
mattress and other things outside the
car and began shaking them might
have given some the impression that
he had gone wrong, but for the column
of smoke ascending.
The Winslow Mail says: Fred
Hughes is the latest unfortunate
among the railroad men. While en-
deavoring to couple cars at Dennison
he slinnnd and threw out his hand 70