Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-08-16

large number of steel freight cars.
w. A. MCGOWAN, travelling freight
agent for the Nickle Plate line, is in
the city.
There were thirteen freight trains
out of Las Vegas in both directions
Wednesday.
The rush eastward of the Elks will
begin at Salt Lake today. 1t is sup
posed that 5000 will return via Denver.
When the Frisco takes over the Chi
cago & Eastern Illinois, the salary list
on the road will be cut $4,000 a year.
John Bingham, a boilermaker from
the Ration shops, is a new typhoid pa
tient at the Las Vegas railroad hos
pital.
1t is again rumored that the Santa
Fe has secured the Oceanic company,
and will operate transpaciic steam
ships.
Business is said to be much more
easily handled by the Rock Island and
Union Pacific opening a joint freight
office in Pullman.
iut SOluutlOl Jlll SdIllSlt. WIFI
a run between this city and Las Vegas,
is now in the employ of the Santa Fe
Central company.
The Rock Island will run a sleeper
out of Denver to connect with it's new
C~hicago-San Francisco service, which
goe on September /.
Considerable fear is expressed that
the live stock and packing house prod
ucts wal between Chicago and the Mis-
souri, river will spread to other classes
and west of the river.
Conductor Rhodes was taken sick at
Glorieta Wednesday and Brakeman
Wiser brought his train to Albuquer-
que. also acting in his stead on the
return trip north from this city.
j. A. Murray, the former passenger
conductor and proprietor of a curio
store in Las Vegas, is now a superin-
tendent of construction on what is
known as the Moffat road, up in Colo
RADIO.
The approximate gross earnings of
the whole system of the Mexican Cen
tral railroad during the first quarter
of the present month, were S347, 71S
against $2S0,049 for the same period in
1901, showing an increase of $67, 500.
B. l.. Washburn, with the Santa Fe
at Gallup, has returned from Chicago,
where he went for treatment for an at
tack of paralysis affecting the muscles
of the left side. He is much improved,
but is not yet able to return to work.
The new folder of the Ell Paso-Rock
Island, just issued, is the first to show
the Albuquerque Eastern and Santa Fe
Central railroads in the black line of
an operating road. The railroad lines
in New Mexico are given with start
ling accuracy for a railroad map.
George H. Daniels, general passen-
ger agent of the New York Central,
who has been leading the war on
scalpers, has finally succeeded in con-
v%icting one in Detroit. The man was
fined 81 and costs under a city ordi-
nance hat makes a "scalper a public
nuisance"
The excursion of Las Vegas railroad
people to the hot springs near by
Wednesday under the auspices of the
ladies' auxiliary to the o. r. c., was a
pronounced success, about forty-two
persons comprising the party and all
having one of the merriest times in
their born days.
Mrs. Lucy A. Bailey and daughter,
Iva, of Ell Paso, have filed suits there
for $1,000 damages each, against the
Southern Pacific railway, charging
that they were elected from the com
pany's train in California, the train
crew alleging their tickets to have
been purchased from scalpers.
Freight men will make a determined
fight in the next meeting of the west
ern freight association to have the
wool men and not the railroad men,
do the work in connection with the
shipment of wool from the western
sheep districts. There is every pros
pect of this becoming one of the bit
terest contests for years among the
freight men.
The Topeka Journal says: Private
letters received in Topeka from the
boilermakers who until a short while
ago were on strike at Needles, Cal,
say that they are fairly rushed to
death with work since the settlement
of the differences. Every night the
boiler men are kept on duty until 9
and 10 o'clock, n they say the wealth
er down there is almost unbearably
hot-probably 10 or 10 degrees higher
than in Topeka Wednesday. Before
the trouble came up there were sufi
cient repairs to keep the men on duty
Sundays, as many as cared to put in
the time, and it is supposed hat there
is the same chance now for overtime,
ANYBODY doubt that those fellows will