Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-09-29

OvJ water purifying plant at Cheyenne.
The Rock Island expects to have
trains running into St. Paul on Octo-
Der 8.
TraTlc officials are now wondering
how they are going tc take care of the
fall business.
Passenger men are talking of how
rates should be graded for the st.
Louis exposition in 1908.
Trainmaster Gibson of the Winslow
division, is in the city visiting with his
family on east Gold avenue.
S. j. Hardy has been appointed chief
dispatcher of the Rio Grande at Pueb-
10, Vice j. Munday. resigned.
The Rock Island will run a special
train from Denver to Chicago for the
G. A. r. the night of October 5.
The rate to the Ration convention.
which nvene on October 10. will be
one fare and one-fifth for the round
trip.
The rail cutting machine was set in
motion last week heal San Marcial
with a gang Of about twenty men to
serve It.
Reports from Topeka say that the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe company
have decided to build a round house
at Socorro station.
It is said that it is now as much as
any employees position on the Santa
Fe lines is worth to be caught taking
a drink of any intoxicant.
After October Is freight transfer
men of the Union Pacific in Cheyenne
will receive Is cents each per hour adj
ditional to their present wages.
The Vandalia recenriy made ninety
eight miles in ninety-six minutes be-
tween Effingham and East St. Louis.
The engine was M of the new Allan
tic type.
]. II. Ballou, the well known and
popular engineer. with his wife, return
ed this morning from their visit to
southern California. They report hav-
ing had a splendid time.
Charles E. Jewett, of the Santa Fe
Pacific railroad. with Headquarters at
Los Angeles. spent several days at
Flagstaff last week on business con-
nected with that company.
Richard Devine, joint clerk for the
roadmaster's Office. Las Vegas, has re-
signed to take effect October 1. He
will go to Quincy, ILL.,, for a course in
stenography and typewriting.
r. B. Nudge, day clerk at the Alva,
RADIO. who has been spending a months
vacation visiting at different eastern
cities. returned last night and resumed
his duties at the big hotel today.
Some of the eastern roads are talk
ing of placing a photograph of the
holder upon every annual pass to pre-
vent the pass from being used by 9TH
ers than the person to whom issued.
The Southern Pacific company is re-
ported to have purchased six acres of
land near the Welsh oil fields. Louis
lana, for development purposes. The
price paid is said to have beer $4,000
per acre.
Superintendent j. F. McNally. of the
Rio Grande division. came up from San
Marcial yesterday afternoon and left
last night for Topeka, where he is
called to assist in making up a new
Santa Fe time card.
Engineer Shellenberger returned
from Kansas. He was called away some
weeks ago by the news that his broth
er, also an engineer, had been seriously
injured in a wreck. He vas dead when
Lee reached the home of mourning.
X. c. Lee, a Santa Fe Pacific engin-
eer running out of the Needles, is in
the city, having arrived last night from
Sedalia, Mo-, where he has been spend
ing a months vacation. He will con-
tinue the journey homeward tonight.
c. f. Lyle, who is in the employ of
the Santa Fe Pacific road at Seligman
as a machinist, was married at Pres
colt, Arizona, to Miss Lulu Summers,
an intelligent and attractive young
lady. The young couple arrived at San
Marcial last Wednesday to spend a few
days with the groom's relatives and
friends.
What S. Z. Busser, superintendent
OF santa Fe reading rooms, considers
the finest room on the Santa Fe with
the exception of the one at Albuquer-
que n. NJ, has been opened 1T Chilli
cothe, Ill. The formal dedication took