Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-02-21
Railroad Topics

him $500 for the land. Mr.. Gill wants
$1,000.
The Santa Fe has obtained an in
junction against V. Green, of Ladona,
Texas. preventing him from using the
company's tracks for his tricycle.. Ii
is understood that the company will
take similar action against all persons
using the tracks for bicycles. tricycles
and like machines, owing not only to
the danger attending the use, but also
to the loss of
Llewellyn Mason, a conductor on the
Chicago & Alton railroad, has just re-
ceived assurance that courtesy to the
travelling public sometimes has its re-
ward. When the will of w. A. Tyler, a
Bloomington millionaire, was probated
it was found to contain the following
clause: ITO Llewellyn Mason | be-
queath the sum of 81 900 as a ~recogni-
ton of the courteous treatment accord
ed me while travelling on the Alton
road"
Few people know much about time
tables or the work that is involved in
getting them out. Only the men who
get them up and the men who print
them, and the men who use them APP
~preciate their Importance. To the av-
erage man the time table is a book of
reference to be consulted on the rare
occasions when he is about to take a
trip" But the time table is the rail
road mans bible, his compass and his
rule of life.-San Bernardino Sun.
Passenger Brakeman M. j. Sickles
of the Santa Fe came nearly ending
his earthly existence yesterday after
noon by carelessly permitting a heavy
ladder to tall on him at the new. resi-
dence he is having erected on Virginia
| street in Ell Paso: He vas knocked
seuseless and restoratives had to be
applied to bring him back to conscious
ness. However, he rallied from the
blow sufficiently to go out on his reg.
ular run last night.-El Paso News.
John C. Sears, day agent at the
Santa Fe railway depot, Santa Fe. has
returned from a very enjoyable trip to
Denver, where he visited two sisters
one of whom he had never seen before
and the other of whom he had not seen
for almost twenty-five years. The
meeting was of course a most enjoya
BILE one. Mr.. Sears had beer east last
year and about the time he arrived in
New York state, his old home, the two
| sisters mentioned above started for
Denver, and he missed seeing them at
that time. They will probably visit
Mr.. Sears and family at Santa Fe some
time this June.
A system of warning signals is. to be
installed in the Bergen tunnel near
New York of the Erie road to guard
against accidents similar to the recent
one caused by falling rock from the
roof of the bore. A row of incandes.
cent electric lights with red bulbs will
be placed inside the tunnel 200 feet
apart and switches 500 feet apart will
operate to turn the current on for the
entire row of lights. If anything wrong
is found all the warning lamps may
be turned on at any one of the switches
and the same current will operate the
warning signals in the towers at each
end of the tunnel.
A special to the Globe-Democrat from
Oklahoma City says: 1t is reported
here on good authority that the Okla
hcma & Western Inc has been pur
chased by the st. Louis & San Fran
cisco railway. This line is being con
structed from Oklahoma City to Qua
nah, Texas, on the Colorado Southern
$50 miles west Of this city. CROSSING
the Rock Island at Chickasha, thence
through Lawton, the new city. The OK
lahoma & Western line, in addition Il
traversing the new reservation JUS
opened, gives the Frisco direct con
n~ection with the Colorado Southern. l
will be. in operation by January l next