Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-05-26

at Las Vegas, left for his home in In.
diana.
The first mile of grade on the Ration
mountain will be completed by the first
of July.
Mrs. L. H. whittlesey is here from
Chicago. Joining her husband. who is
the sculptor at the Alvarado.
Engineer Fred Hammer. of Las
Vegas, carried off the honors at the
gun club shoot Saturday. he making
fourteen birds out of twenty.
One of the new wrinkles n mechan-
les is a big machine that lays a com
plete railroad track, putting the ties
down and spiking the rails to them
properly.
Lantry Brothers. contractors, expect
to begin ballasting the road from Wat
rous about June 5. Work will hen
be pushed at the rate of one mile in
three days
Mrs. J. w. White, wife of the Santa
Fe division storekeeper at Ration. N.
NJ, is in Topeka for a brief visit with
relatives. She is on her way to her
former home in Illinois.
On the 4th day of June five Pullman
palace cars, loaded with members of
tnt OlutI VI lAt W. ollC SlllllC, VIII
pass through this city en- route from
the east for San Francisco.
G. N. Harrington, dispatcher. and
wife, have left Las Vegas for a three
weeks trip to California. They will
take in all places of interest in the
southern part Of the Golden state.
Andrew Rodriguez, patient at the
local hospital, is reported getting along
tsAA1,- IL --1l " -
on the Santa Fe Pacific near Puerco
the other day. and was hurt internally.
Mrs. II. r. Nickerson and Mrs. j. A.
Henry, OF Mexico City, went through
in a private car the other morning.
Mrs. Nickerson is the wife of the gen.
eral manager of the Mexican Central.
Lawrence Walsh, a machinist helper,
has gone to Pittsburg, Kan, where he
will enter the shops of the Kansas City
Southern in that city. Friends were
at the local depot to see him safely on
the train.
From a reliable source it is learned
hat the California Eastern railroad,
from Blake to Marvel, Uai., has passed
into the hands of the Santa Fe, they
having just purchased the balance of
the stock.
n lltlShN Wltth ONNulltu vi Au0
Santa Fe railway between Haywood
and Spaulding. in Grant county. the
other day. Eight cars left the track on
account of a spreading of the rails.
Fortunately no n was injured.
Mrs. George Porter and two children
nave arrived at Topeka from Ration.
N. NJ, and are the guests OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Israel, Topeka. Mrs.
Porter is the wife of a machinist form
erly employed for a long time in To-
peka shops.
C. w. Maier, the third vice president
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men, who was entertained by the local
lodge last Friday. made an official visit
to Gallup. He returned to this city
Saturday night, and with his wife con
tinued on TO Las Vegas.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men in Las Vegas is preparing to give
a big ball at the Duncan opera house
on the evening of July 4th. Visitors
are expected from Ration, Trinidad,
La Junta, Lamy and Albuquerque. 1t
will be the big affair of years in that
organization.
James Thompson, until a few years
ago a blacksmith in Topeka shops, and
now in a similar capacity with the
company at Albuquerque, N. NJ. is at
Topeka for a visit. Thompson recent
ly had the misfortune to lose all but
the little finger on one hand under the
steam hammer while at work here.
According to the Deming Herald. a
truce has been proclaimed between the
Southern Pacific and the Ell Paso &
Southwestern railways and the latter
will use the Southern Pacific track into
III Docn nc n will talyn tho RiChnn limo
owe a yea to complete its line from
Carizilillo to FL Paso on account of a
TUNE at Strauss in Dona Ana county.
The Santa Fe Railroad company has
just completed sprinkling the roadbed
between Seligman and Mohave with
oil. The settling of the dust by this
process is a great thing across the
desert and will make a trip to Cali
fornia over this line one OF pleasure.
The Santa Fe is always to the fore in
all matters of improvement.
j. w. Reynolds, an engineer, was ex-
amined at Gallup by c. w. Maier, third
vice president of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, for the amount
of insurance policy, 1880, which he
holds in the Brotherhood. The exam
i~nation, so ii is understood, was salts
factory, and Mr.. Reynolds expects to
receive the money in a short time.
The Topeka State Journal says:
G. p. Tillotson, formerly air brake
inspector in the field yard. who went
to the hospital several months go, is
now at the Santa Fe sanitarium in Las
Vegas, n. M. Writing to Topeka
friends from there a week ago today
he says that the doctors, after examin-
ing him, pronounce lung as being
badly affected, but that there is hope
for his recovery. They have imposed
upon him as part penalty for his re-
covery that he suck a dozen raw eggs
daily, which in itself will require a
little practice.
For Those Vino Live on Farms.