Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-01-20
GALLUP.
Special Correspondence.

Gallup, N. M, Jan. 17.-Saturday
was pay day for the railway employees.
About IFS men find work here from
the company, in addition to the regu-
lar crews which run out of here.
The new coal shute for the S0-ton
hopper bottom cars has been in use
for some time. The switch crew when
they want to put up coal, first clear
h cars away from the platform on
the house track and then make sew
eral runs before they succeed in put
ting up three cars.
Yardmaster Sweeny has resigned his
position. A new man by the name of
Eckstein has taken his place. He Is
from Denver.
The big engine passed through here
two days ago. 1t brought 800 tons
fromAlbuquerque in good shape. Twelve
hundred tons is the rating for a dou-
BILE header. Everybody was out to
see the big engine. which goes to show
that Gallup is not dead yet.
We have had snow for a week and
another storm is threatening.
Mr.. B%oulanger, from Fresno, CAL,
took the remains of John Steizer east
to Pitsburg, Pa, this morning. Steizer
was a passenger on No. Z going west
last Saturday morning and died on the
train this side Of Bluewater in a fit,
from the result of drinking too much
whiskey. His head was injured by
falling in the car. and 1t is said that
he jumped through a car window at
one of the stations when the train
stopped. He was insured in several
companies. Boulanger claimed to be a
brother of the dead a An inquest
was held on the body by Justice of
the Peace Juan Welsh.
here and didn't beat anybody out Of a
cent. Some of these towns on the
road must be dead easy.
N. E. Stevens, of your town, is doing
a rafting good business here for the
Montezuma Building and Loan asso-
citation.
Business Is good here and the town
is fairly prosperous.
DR.. T. p. Robinson has sold out his
property here and will probably go to
Mexico.
Gregory Page bought DR.. Robinson's
store building for about $4,000.
Robert WIPER devotes n night
each week to teaching dancing to a
party of forty young people.
Sam Day, the Navajo Indian trader,
Is building a new store house at his
place on the reservation, north of Fort
Defiance.
The Union and Old Diamond mines
having overstocked their market are
laying off for a few days.
The Otero is working about two
thirds of the time.
Clarkville and the Colorado Fuel e.
Iron company's mines are working
steady.
The Colorado Supply company have
the most complete, best arranged and
largest retail store at Gibson that can
be found in the territory.
DR.. e. d. Harper, who has been east
for the past two months, is expected
home tomorrow.
Michael O'Rourke, a section fore
man, who married in Albuquerque six
weeks ago, left here after a few days
and Mrs. O'Rourke does not know
where he is. He left a quantity OF
household goods in her charge.
W. H. Wolff is putting up a line Of
poles to Gibson in order to furnish that
village with electricity from his plant
here.
Manager Young, Of the telephone eX
change, now has forty-three telephones
on his pay roll.
A union revival has been in progress
here a couple of weeks.
Hudson Bros. have opened a cash
bargain store on Front street and are
doing a good business.
Fred Nitz has returned from Ger
many and is again in the transfer
business with a new outfit.
Carpenters and coal miners are al
ways in demand here.
The brickette plant will be finished
by the first of February.
The county commissioners have or
dered steel rails and a twelve foot
fence for the Jail.
Hotels, restaurants and lodging
houses are all doing a good business
The Mammoth Oil company are drill
ing four miles west of town.
A new arc light has been put up or
West Aztec avenu