Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-07-12

Passenger trains are now running
regularly over the Dawson ranch of
the Rock Island from French to Daw-
son.
Fireman B~ritenstein is shoveling
coal on the Waldo branch in place of
Fireman Gristwold, who is visiting in
Missouri.
Engineer Talbot has The run on the
Waldo branch until the oldest engineer
is assigned to the run The engineer
will he w. A. Shaw.
The boys at the Gallup round house
have organized a base ball club and ex-
pect to beat any club in Mckinley
county by the first of August.
d. e. Cain, newly appointed general
superintendent of the western grand
division, left Topeka for La Junta.
Colo, his future headquarters. Mr..
Cain Occupied private car 215, that for
merly used by c. F.. Resseguie, attach
ed to train No. l.
Hubert A. Dodge, who has been ap-
pointed superintendent of telegraph Oh
the Santa Fe Central railway, has ar
rived at Santa Fe from Denver. Mr..
Dodge has been in Santa Fe before as
chief operator for the Western Union.
He is a skilled operator as well as
wire man.
Harry Evens, of st. Joe, Mo-, who
with his wife and daughter, has been
visiting friends in the city for some
time past. left last night for st. Joe,
to resume his duties as chief clerk in
the auditors office of the Burlington
Route. Mrs. Evens will remain in AL
%buquerque indefinitely.
The Topeka Journal says: Mrs. G..
p. Tilson, wife of a former car shops
employe, expected to leave today for
Las Vegas. n. NJ, where her husband
is in the Santa Fe hospital for lung
trouble. Reports from Tilson indicate
that he is worse than he has been,
there being frequent hemorrhages of
the lungs.
Contracts have been signed at Dali
las, Texas, by a citizens committee
and the Rock Island company by which
that road is guaranteed a bonus of
$4,000 for a right of way into that
city. The survey has already been
made and the Dad is expected to begin
its service into Dallas, via Fort Worth,
within three months.
The Santa Fe Railway company has
asked the Santa Fe Central Railway
company to remove its telegraph poles
from the Santa Fe company's right of
way wherever they encroach upon it.
This will be done by the Santa Fe Cen
trail people. New difficulties have also
arisen over the crossing of the Santa
Fe Central over the Santa Fe tracks at
Kennedy.
A double-header freight train was
wrecked in a small washout On the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad Thurs
Ia,, ,,soht about ninh+ tAi1AC frnt,
Santa Fe. There were twenty-five cars
in the train. The wreck. was not a Sc
rious one and by yesterday afternoon
the derailed cars were OF the track
again and the train from Santa Fe for
4 Denver was able to pass through.
J.. p. McMurray and wife, of San Mar
cial, are in the city, having stopped
over on their return home from an eX-
tended visit at different points in the
east. Mr.. McMurray is an engineer on
the Rio Grande division and while in
the east attended the national owen
tion of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, which was held at Norfolk,
Va. They will continue their journey
to San Marcial this evening.
important Plat FiIed.-The Senta Fe
Central Railway company yesterday
filed in the Office of the territorial sec
rotary a plat of the santa Fe railway
from Torrance, Lincoln county, to the
boundary of the Santa Fe grant.
Bill CLERK at Dodge City kilIed.-The
trainmen from the north report that
one of the Santa Fe bill clerks at
Dodge City got the top of his head
blown OFF Fourth of July night about 8
O'Clock. He and a friend were helping
to mage a big noise with a gas pipe
and anvil when the gas pipe exploded
N tore the top of his skull off, killing
him instantly.
A New Division Made.-The Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe has purchased
80 acres of land in addition to proper
ty in pauls Valley, |. T., the alleged
purpose being to establish a division
in the new eastern Oklahoma. The
Atchison has bought the Gulf, Colo
RADIO & Santa Fe tracks from Purcell
TO Paul's Valley, making Paul's Valley
a center for the main lines.
Rock Island changes.-The Rock
Island system announced the follow
ing changes:
A. l.. Studer, formerly assistant SUI
perintendent of motive power, to he
master mechanic of the Kansas divis-
ion.
f. o. Cole, master mechanic of the
Nebraska division.
w. Z. Anderson, master mechanic Of
the Colorado division. With the lat
ter's appointment the Office of general
foreman is abolished.
A. C. Adams is appointed master
mechanic OF the Chickasha and ID. ID,
Robertson, master mechanic of the Ell
Paso division.
New Sprinkler and Weed Burner
The Gulf. Colorado & Santa Fe has a
new machine for sprinkling its tracks
with oil and at the same time destroy
ing the weeds growing between the
rails. 1t is rolled along by an engine