Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-04-05

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II. II. Hawthorne is the name of a
new employe at the local round house
under Foreman J. w. Records.
John A. Ross. in charge of engines
on the La Junta-Albuquerque division
of the Santa Fe, is in the metropolis
today.
The Pennsylvania Railroad mpa
is to begin its tunnel under the Hud-
son river, New York city and the East
liver in a short time.
c. NJ. Taylor, a popular Santa Fe
official, is in the metropolis on bust
ness connected with his dudes. His
headquarters are at Ration.
George E. Roe, the district freight
and passenger agent for the Santa Fe.
with headquarters at Ell Paso, is on a
visit to the northern towns.
Washington, d. c., is to nave a new
union railway depot which will cost
5000, 900. 1t will be constructed of
white marble and will have a frontage
of 700 feet.
Fred Batman, a boilermaker, who
left Topeka shops about a year ago
and went to San Be~rnardino, Cal,
where he has since beer drawing COM
pany money, has returned to Topeka.
Oil burning engines GA, 675, 677 and
694, en- route from the Santa Fe Pacific
division to Purcell, Kansas. passed
through here yesterday. Special crews
are taking them through the entire
trip.
II is understood that four more of
the new Pittsburg compounds have
cen received at Fort Madison, Iowa,
and will be set up at that place. There
have been three erected and broken
into service there.
r. J. Turnbull. the ex-railroad shop
official, now devoting his time to bor-
ing for oil near Gallup, came in from
the west last night. He Is still of the
opinion that a big gusher will be struck
in a very short time.
Herbert T. Herr, recently appointed
master mechanic of the Chicago divis-
ion of the Santa Fee at Fort Madison,
Iowa, was in Topeka the other day in
consultation with the heads of the me-.
chanical department of the road.
Half a million railroad ties are be-
ing sent from the shores Of Lake Su-
perior into Mexico. the longest haul
shipment of such material ever made.
They are consigned to the Mexican
Central railroad for use in the central
part of Mexico.
The Topeka State Journal v
John Barnes. a machinist apprentice in
the south shop, who left Tuesday for
Albuquerque, N. NJ, stopped off on his
way long enough to capture a bride at
Hutchinson. Barnes and his wife re-
sumed their trip to the west at nee
Trainmen on The Southern Pacific
say that the road is storing al unusual
amount of coal at Deming and Lords
burg for some eason or other. Not
only are the regular coal yards full,
but other space is being used. At
Lordsburg switch tracks are being
filled with coal.
A. Walton. the day yardmaster at
Las Vegas, has gone to Chicago to see
his family for a week. Mr.. Walton
was Informed that his son had been
bitten by a dog quite severely. H. A.
Harmon. the night yardmaster, is
working in his place, and F. Frederick
is attending to the night SNIFF.
The San Bernardino sun says that
c. f. Lope, division master mechanic,
has been granted a patent by the
United States government on an i'm
proved fue sheet to be used on engine
boilers. Mr.. Lope is now trying to Sc
cure papers from the Canadian patent
department, to protect his invention
there.
President H. X. Bickford, of the
Denver, Kansas & Atlantic chartered
to build from Denver to New Orleans,
was at Guthrie, Okla, relative to the
construction of the line through Okla
homa. He states construction will be-
gin very soon as the greatest portion
nf tho rood haS hnnn rnufnH II iC ~
posed to build through the main cities
of Oklahoma.
The st. Louis & San Francisco CON-
pany has filed a map with the United
States Indian agent of the proposed
route from Minco to Muskogee, a dis
lance of forty-eight miles. The map
shows the line will cross the Arkansas
river near Choska. This map was
filed lnder the act of congress, ap-
proved February 2S. which provides
Tor the location OF railways within the
territory.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Fort Worth e Rio
Grande Railroad company elected the
old directors. The officers elected are:
President, B. f. Yoakum, of st. Louis
vice president, l.. b.. Conner, of Fort
Worth, secretary N auditor, ]. S.
Jones, of Fort Worth; treasurer, L. o,
Williams, of Fort Worth; assistant
secretary and assistant treasurer, F.
III. Hamilton, of st. Louis.
Division Superintendent Whisenand,
of the Santa Fe at Wellington, Kan,
has been notified that the company
expects to shortly commence ~relaying
it's liness from Florence southwest to
Wellington, with rs and S0-pound steel.
A building Tor a harvey eating house
is also to be erected at Wellington, in
dicating that the company is preparing
to make this a point on its new short
line to California by way of Amarillo,
Texas, and Albuquerque, N. NJ.
The Western Passenger association,
the largest organization of the kind in
the country. comprising railroads run
ming west from Chicago and many 9th
ers i'll territory a S OF the Missouri
river, according to the Tribune, is
doomed TO dissolution. Formal notice
..;.bl,ov.o1 from tEa aSSnpiatiOD