Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-08-29

GU W COmpleIlOn.
f. H. Nudge and w. C. Manager, of
the Santa Fe engineering corps, are in
the city from Las Vegas.
A. r. Frost, of Topeka, is in the city.
Mr.. Frost is employed in the electrical
department of the Santa Fe.
NJ. r. Williams, superintendent of
bridges and buildings on the New Mex
leo division, was an Albuquerque Wis
itor yesterday.
Cade Selvey, who is the Santa Fe
Pacific special officer. is still in the
city. He has been operating in this
vicinity for the past week or ten days.
j.. ]. Lotus, a Santa Fe employee at
Lamy. was married to Miss Mary c.
Johnston of that place by Rev. A.
Rabeyrolle, in Santa Fe.
Mr.. Mussleman, formerly with the
Burlington route in Iowa, has been en-
ployed in the machine department at
the local Santa Fe shops.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Booth have re-
turned from a months visit at their
old home in Chicago. Mr.. Booth is a
machinist at the local shops.
The walls of the new Winslow freight
depot are now completed. The ma
terial for the roof has been delayed
several days.
A conference was held between Gen
eral Manager Nixon, of the Gulf, Colo
RADIO & Santa Fe railroad and the strik-
ers at Cleburne, Texas, and as a result
the strike was called off.
William Mumford, who was run over
by a passenger train up the road, the
other day, died from his injuries at the
Las Vegas railroad hospital at mid
night, Wednesday night.
The bridge gang of the Santa Fe has
been at work putting in several bridges
in the canyon below Kingman. No iron
bridges will he put in for some time to
come and the company is compelled to
strengthen the old structures.
Another party of surveyors have
been looking over the route from the
Santa Fe near old Powell to the mesa
country below the Boundary Cone
mines, nea Kingman. There is a
strong probability that the line will be
built.
Mrs. j. E. Hurley and party are now
in Salt Lake City and will visit points
of interest in Colorado till September
Is, when they will go to Topeka, where
Me-, II,rIo,. onJ ahi1Irnn mi1l inin Gu
perintendent Hurley.
w. E. Armor, chief engineer at the
local shops, has resigned. j. p. De
Heart, his assistant, will succeed Mr..
Armor in that position. This promo
ton of Mr.. De Heart will be gratifying
to that gentleman's many friends.
A territorial charter was granted at
Guthrie, Okla, to the Guthrie, Shaw
nee & Coal Gate Railroad company,
with $1,000, 600 capital, to build a line
from Guthrie westward to Beaver, a
distance of $50 miles. Among the in
corporators are Ex-Governor Barnes
and half a dozen other O~klahomans.
The county commissioners at Cot
tonwood Falls, Kan, have decided to
submit a bond proposition to aid the
Orient" railroad. John Eaton, of
Kansas City, was present. It was de-
cided to hold a special election October
IA to decide the bond question for
Bazaar, hatfield and Toledo townships.
The announcement is made that the
Santa Fe will be operating the Eastern
Oklahoma extension from Ralston to
Shawnee, Okla, fifteen miles, within
the next ninety days. The grading is
nearly completed and in many places
the steel is being laid. This will be
the Santa FEES shortest line to the gulf
when completed.
The Santa Fe this winter will run a
through Pullman car between Denver
and Los Angeles. attaching it to its
California limited at La Junta. Here
tofore the passengers for Los Angeles
out of Denver have been compelled to
change cars at La Junta. The sleeper
will be a new n and of the same
style as the coaches of the ten special
trains which the Santa Fe is having
built for its California service.
Watrous is becoming one of the live
lest towns in the territory on account
of the blasting gang of the Santa Fe
railway making its headquarters there.
Four men came down from Mora and
each opened up a saloon and the 200
odd laborers make the nights weary
for the residents. a Mexican circus
was also there a few nights ago and
between the saloon and the circus
there was life all night. The Santa Fe
quarry, one and a half miles on the
other side of Watrous, is turning the
rock out for the blasting two train
loads a day and the Santa Fe will have
one of the finest roadbeds on its line
when the work is completed. The crew