Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-04-10

Oh MeAlCO, pdSSeu InrOuSn tne city last
night.
Quinliven & Norton have been
awarded the contract for furnishing
ties for the Santa Fe Central which is
building from Santa Fe to Torrance.
While Jack Donahue is attending
court as a witness in the old town.
Joseph Harrison, a freight conductor.
is temporarily handling Donahue's
passenger run between this city and
Ell Paso.
j. e. Saint. secretary of the Albu-
querque Eastern and Santa Fe Cen
trail railways, passed through the city
last night on his way to Ell Paso, and
thence to Torrance. the junction of
the Santa Fe Central with the Ell Paso-
Rock Island road.
The usual spring shipments of stock
over the Mexican Central road will
probably start in on the 18th, at the
rate of about a train load a day. The
Santa Fe company is making elabor-
ate preparations for the lively move
ment of these cattle.
At the annual election of the Hous-
ton G. Texas Central G.. H. Tweed of
New York was elected president and
G. c.. Markham vice president and ex-
ecutive. The old directors headed by
E. H.. Hartman were reelected with
the exception of j. H.. Locke, who was
replaced by w. ]. Chew.
The supreme court of Colorado has
decided that the Postal Telegraph com
pany may construct ines along the
right of way of the Union Pacific rail-
road. The Union Pacific company and
the WesterE Union Telegraph compa-
ny had resisted the application of the
Postal company for right of way.
The San Francisco Examiner says
that before the end of the present
week, deeds will be placed on record
at Matinee, Contra Costa county, con-
veying to the Southern Pacific compa-
ny a right of way to THE water front
at Point Richmond, which is the pres
ent terminus of the Santa Fe road.
F. 7. Dolan, brother of the day ticket
agent at the local depot, G. B. Dolan,
arrived here last night, accompanied
by his wife and son His mother and
sister have been in this city for some
time, and they will return to Chicago
with Mr.. Dolar. The gentleman is the
popular superintendent of the Chicago
division of the Santa Fe.
American methods are illustrated by
the fact that while 100 tons is a load
for an English freight train, an aver
g load on one of our railroads last
year was $40 tons. On two British rail
roads it costs from 4Sk cents to $1.3S
to move a ton of freight one mile,
while the cost on a leading New York
road Is 23h cents a mile.
1t is announced at Guthrie, Oklaho-
ma, that the Rock Island will enter
the field at once with an extension of
it's line from Enid to Guthrie. thus
winning out over the Frisco. Choctaw
and Fort Smith & Western in their
proposed extensions from Guthrie to
Enid, which is considered the most
important gap yet unconnected in OK
lahoma.
rho st outs & Sal francisco COM
pauy has filed with the governor of
Oklahoma an, application for the APP
pointment of appraisers by him to
assess the damages done by the CON-
pany in constructing its Blackwell,
Enid G. Southwestern line from Ho-
bart, Okla. to the Red river, through
several .hoIqcnd acres of territorial
scseol Lance.
john Mor5an, the Postal telegraph
operator at Barstow, was killed recent
~ Ey falling from the bridge that
spans the Mojave river just west OF
Barstow. The telegraph wires and
cross arms are attached to the up
rights on the bridge, and while reach
ing over to grasp one of the wires
Morgan lost his balance and plunged
over the side of the bridge. His neck
was broken by the force of the fall
and death was instantaneous.
There will probably be a change of
time on the Santa Fe railway on June
/. Train No. l from the east will stop
for dinner at Albuquerque. Breakfast
is to be taken at Las Vegas. Mail train
No. 7 from the east will be at Albu-
querque for supper n at Las Vegas
for dinner. The California flyer is to
run twice a week instead of daily. By
next fall a train is to be put on be-
tween Chicago and Los Angeles that
will be the most lu%xuriously equipped
train in the world. The fare to be
charged is to be double first class, and
only fifty persons will be taken on
each train. If these changes go into
effect it will make considerable change
in the arrival and departure OF mails
in this city. The Harvey eating station
at Lamy may be discontinued. Meet
ings of the division superintendent OF
all the divisions OF the Santa Fe proper
will be held in Topeka from day to
day, beginning May ~, for the purpose
of stringing the new card. At the
same time the division s~uperintend'
ents of the coast lines will be meeting
at Los Angeles, Cal, for the purpose
of making a new time card for the
lines west of Albuquerque.
Accidents come with distressing fire.
queney on the farm. Cuts, bruises
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