Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-06-21
RAILROAD NOTES..

MNSsAo' IldlntS anu 0dlu, tuSluetT
and fireman, took engine 1856. running.
light, to San Marcial yesterday.
Walter Worrell. who used to have a
job at the Topeka wheel shop. left FOR
Las Vegas. N. NJ. where he will fire in
the Santa Fe hospital.
The new Harvey museum, at the
handsome Alvarado hotel, is about
complete and will soon be ready for
the reception of %curios. etc.
w. B. Storey, Jr., was here yester.
day, leaving last night for the south.
Mr.. Storey is from Topeka and is chief
engineer of the Santa Fe system.
A meeting of the board of directors
of the Santa Fe Central railway was
held at the Catron block. Santa Fe,
yesterday. Only routine business was
transacted.
J. w. McCoach, formerly station
agent at San Marcial. now travelling
auditor of the Mexican Central, was at
San Marcial the past few days visiting
his family.
The railroads are excursion crazy
this year. Rates were never before as
low, and before the summer is owe
even stronger bids will be made for the
peoples money.
The frame work for the sixteen adj
ditional stalls for the Needles round
house is all completed. AID the big IN
gines will soon have a place to get in
out of the wet"
II. B. Greig. who was in Chicago on
business. passed through the city for
his headquarters at San Bernardino
last night. He is the test engineer on
the Santa Fe Pacific.
Mrs. A. Fl. Van Ness and Mrs. Steve
Arthalony left the other day for Win
slow. Arizona. the former having been
deputized to organize an auxiliary to
the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
at that point.
After a service of nearly twenty-five
years on the Santa Fe, Harry Norvell
died at the st. Anthony hospital. Den
yer. from the effects of a surgical OPP
Grafton. The body was taken to Dodge
City, Kas., for burial.
H. L. Reush, a brakeman, with home
and headquarters at San Marcial, is
laid up for repairs at his parents
ranch near San Marcial. While going
south on the train. he slipped and
fell from the engine and badly sprain-
ed one of his legs.
The house committee on m
has ordered a favorable report on the
senate bill amending the law relating
to automatic couplers, etc. on railroad
trains so that its provisions as to coup
lers, grab irons, etc, shall apply to all
locomotives. tenders and cars operated
by steam.
A mortgage for 81 900 900 has been
filed at Guthrie by the Choctaw, Okla
homa & Gulf at Tecumseh, Okla, and
while not made known indefinitely. ii
is reported that it is for the construc-
ton of the Choctaw extension south
west from Guthrie through Tecumseh,
Shawnee, Denison, Texas, to the Gulf.
The Ell Paso & Rock Island railway
shops at Alamogordo were closed
down this week until July l and 200
men were thrown out of employment.
Many of the men are leaving the city,
as they can ecure employment else
where. A small force of men will re-
main at work for emergency pur-
poses.
The Denver Republican says: Be-
ginning on July l the Colorado q
Southern railroad will put on a fast
train between Denver and Amarillo,
Texas, to connect with the Denver fly
err. a new train installed by the Choc-
taw route clear through from Mem
phis. Tenn, to Amarillo, a distance of
40 miles, and the additional distance
to Denver will make the through run
1926 miles.
At Emporia, Kas.. a man forged the
Santa Fe pay roll and received the
pay check of G.. NJ. Bennett. a brake
man. which amounted to $56.59. The
check was given out by a new man in
the offices, who has no idea who he
gave it to. After securing the check
the forger came up town with a woman
and had the check cashed. Forgery
was discovered wen Bennett called
for his check. The police were mott
fed.
Rice raising in the Coast Country
Of Texas" is the tue of a new edition
of a book issued by the Santa Fe for
the purpose of interesting immigration
in the possibilities of making money
in the business referred to. The book
consists of 1875 pages, we'll illustrated
and filed with interesting information
and statistics about the rice industry.
Rice raising Is as attractive a feature
of Santa Fe traffic in Texas as the
sugar beet industry in Colorado.
II. A. Huber. who has been assistant
car service agent of the Rock Island,
with headquarters at Topeka, has been
transferred to the Chicago Office to
take the position of general distribut-
ing agent of the entire system in lie
equipment department. The change is
necessitated on account of the action
of the Rock Island officials in abolish
ing the office of assistant car service
agent at Topeka. Mr.. Huber will take
up his new duties at Chicago on July
!.
The San Be~rnardino Sun says:
During the past several days the
force of guards placed at the Santa
Fe yards in this city. since the brew
ing Of the strike trouble, has been
gradually reduced until at the pres
ent time there is less than ten dep
uties stationed in the vicinity of the
shops. This reduction of officers is
duo fo tho foot fhat thpra has mot