Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-08-01

man EIiley at Lamy.
Ben Williams, special agent for the
Santa Fe, spent yesterday in the city
and went north last night.
Jack Williams has gone to Santa
Rosa to accept a position on the left
side of the cab with the Rock Island
people.
Ernest Espelin, formerly employed
in the local shops, but now of Topeka,
is expected to arrive in the city the
last of the week.
The Ell Paso & Southwestern track
is being laid toward Strauss, N. NJ, at
the rate of a mile a Gay and ten days
more will see the ROAD finished to that
point.
Conductor James German. whose
ankle was injured in an accident at
Maxwell City some days ago, will soon
be discharged from the railroad hos
pital at Las Vegas.
F. Lewis, inspector of buildings for
the Santa Fe, who has been spending a
couple Of weeks looking over the new
Santa Fe buildings Of the city, left last
night for Trinidad, Colo.
Dispatches from Washington an
hOuhNN Nv SiohtibS VI pdtcht W n
r. Davis, formerly general foreman of
the Santa Fe shops at Topeka, for a
machine for tracing piston ring bush
ings.
The Burlington has been making
some fast runs recently in Nebraska.
One from Seneca to Alliance was 10S
miles in 112 minutes, and another from
Alliance to Ravena, 25S miles in 279
minutes.
Special car PIT, which went to Glor-
ieta mountain last week bearing the
family of General Superintendent
Nudge to the scene of their annual
outing, was dead-headed back to To-
peka Tuesday afternoon.
Ground was broken last Tuesday on
the Tombstone branch of the Ell Paso
& Southwestern railroad. Three grad
ing camps have beer established, one
at Fairbank, one a few miles out from
Tombstone, and one midway between
the two points.
Yesterday Manager w. S. Hopewell
and Treasurer j. T. Mclaughlin. of the
Santa Fe Central Railway company,
signed the 2 500, 900 bond issue by the
company, of the proceeds of which
81, 100000 are to go for construction
and the other $500, 900 for track and
other improvements after January l,
1904.
Thomas S. Payne, a Chicago, Rock
Island a. Pacific passenger conductor,
shot himself in the forehead at his
home at Trenton, Mo. He was con-
valescing from an attack of typhoid
fever and is supposed to have been
mentally unbalanced. Physicians say
he cannot recover. Mr.. Payne is about
AZ years Did.
The Optic says: ]. l.. Mosher and
wife nave taken charge of the boarding
car, formerly presided over by Mrs.
Hammond. He is also foreman of the
force of Western Union linemen VINO
have been operating below Albuquer
que. They are in Las Vegas for a few
days; awaiting further orders and lay.
ing in needed supplies.
General Manager Wells, of the Santa
Fe Pacific road. has declared against
bull fighting. He has ordered the com
pany's legal department to cancel the
lease granted promoters for a proposed
exhibition of the Spanish national
sport on the Santa he's land at Point
Richmond. The bull fight promoters
dle odiu W nave ODtdlntu Tie ntteo
sary permission by Misrepresentation
Nothing could have been more time
ly for the Santa Fe water supply or
the Chicago extension than the rains
which have fallen with such regularity
and generosity this spring and sum
mer. The great reservoir which the
company completed this year at Tolu
ca, ILL.,, is now filled and it will be sew
eral moon before n demands tina
the railroad will make can run it dry
1t covers an area of twenty-five acres
and holds nearly 8 ,000,0 900 gallons o
water.
Scrip books of the Transmississipp
scrip bureau went on sale Throughout
the TTansmissouri territory July 30
For a week the central Office in Omaha
has been sending the books to al
points between the Missouri river an
the coast and St. Paul and Gulf. TIL,
books contain scrip which represent
$50, e~xchangeable for tickets. TIL,
covers are r~edeemable for an amour
representing the difference between
the cost of mileage books and the reg
ular ticket rates.
NJ. F. Hand, who ~inspects electrical
lighting apparatus of passenger cars
is home from a stay of about a month
on the Pacific coast, says the Topeki
State Journal. Mr.. Hand first went t
Los Angeles, Cal, to supply a vacancy
and after the regular man, who haC
been away on a vacation, had resumed
his work, Hand gave some days t
recreation. Harry Townsend, another
inspector of this place, is now out o
town, having gone Tuesday afternoon
to substitute while the man who us
ually does the work there takes a la!
off.
Fred Gilyeat, who quit a position il
the general Offices at Topeka som,
weeks ago in order to become time
keeper for the engineers and firemeI
at Las Vegas, n. M, writes to relatives
at Topeka that he is pleased with th'
place which he now holds. Gilyeat re