Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-05-16
Railroad Topics

Thomas Mulvihill, formerly of the
shops at San B~ernardino. has gone to
work for the Rock Island company at
Horton.
Superintendent McNally, of the Rio
Grande Division, came up from the
south this morning and is spending
the day in the city.
There are twenty-five engines in use
on the Pecos Valley lines now, seven
teen of which belong to the system
and eight are leased from the Santa
Fe.
r. NJ. Ramsdell. chief car inspector
of the Santa Fe system. who has been
in the west for several weeks. is on
his way to his headquarters at Tope-
ka.
Mrs. Joughins has arrived at San
Bernardino from Canada and will visit
with her husband, Mechanical Super
intendent G. r. Joughins for several
months, and may locate there.
Attached to passenger train No. 8
from the west was a Wells-Fargo ex-
press car with twelve fine running
horses and a white dog. The horses
were on their way from the California
race tracks to New York.
The Santa Rosa stage brought to
Las Vegas the report of a wreck on
the Rock Island between Santa Rosa
and A~lamogordo, at a place called Pas
turia. Several freight care were badly
smashed but no n was hurt.
A contract has beer made at Gallup
for the services of $50 Navajo labor
ers. The work to be performed is on
the SAINTS Fe Pacific at Barstow and
Mohave. The men will leave Gallup
in the early part of ext week.
Fred Luning, of the big steam ham
mer force. at the San Bernardino
shops, caught his right thumb between
two axles badly mutilating the mem
Der. Although no bones were broken,
he will be obliged to be off duty during
the remainder of the week.
The Las Vegas Optic says: Mrs. G.
M. Taylor ana two children came in
from California, where they have been
visiting for h past thirty days. and
the visiting the family of c. d. Chan
dler. Mr.. Taylor came in from La
Junta, Colorado, and joined the family
here.
The report that E. H. Andrews, chief
clerk in General Storekeeper Rice's Of
fee, has beef rendered a position as
manager of the Santa Fe company's
oil fields at Bakersfield, Cal, has been
authenticated and Mr.. Andrews will
leave tomorrow for the new field.
The new position is quite an advance
ment over the position here and The
Citizen joins a host of friends in ex-
tending congratulations.
Two new men from Winslow, Arizo-
ma, have arrived at San Bernardino,
to take positions in the shop Office al
the instance of Division Master Me-
chanic Park. One is to take the posi-
ton of stenographer, while the other
will fill a new desk heretofore not al
lowed in the shop Office. Names a n
not be found for either of them, as Mr..
Park has gone east for his family and
the men are strangers to the Office
force.
Charles Wincheck, formerly general
foreman of the local Santa Fe shops,
was at Ell Paso Wednesday, leaving a
short time after arrival there for City
of Mexico. He will assume the duties
of superintendent of the Mexico City
division of the Mexican Central upon
his arrival there. Mr.. Wincheck is a
personal friend of Mr.. Robinson, pres
ident of the Mexican Central, and it is
through him that the appointment was
rendered.
j. S. Morrison, the well known and
popular up town ticket agent of the
Santa re at Ell Paso, is telling an in
teresting zeal story at Ell Paso. The
Times quotes Mr.. Morrison as saying
that he came to Ell Paso in the early
days when bear were SO plentiful in
A. t@x.F, ,A,rl fhA,, nor N mi
ance. He remembers n morning he
came out on the porch of the old Grand
Central and saw a bear prowling
around in the park. He rushed into
his room and got a rifle and killed the
bear with the first shot. He thinks it
odd that he cannot find anyone who
will believe the story.