Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-06-20

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immense proportions, and it won't be
many weeks before it will be ready for
occupancy.
G. l.. Fountaine was in the city yes
terday. He is district freight agent
for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas. with
headquarters at Ell Paso.
A surveying corps of the Rock Island
railway has just surveyed a line
through Durant, Indian Territory, from
Oklahoma City to Denison, Texas.
Work will begin on the grade soon.
w. p. Mott, the ex-Harvey house SUI
perintendent who was arrested in
Los Angeles for sending obscene let
tiers through the mails and jumped his
bonds, has not yet been captured, but
officers are on his trail and hope to
land him, where he belongs, in a short
time.
The Tularosa Democrat says: Geo.
w. Hardin, land and immigration
agent of the Chicago, Rock Island & I'll
Paso, came from Waterloo, Iowa,
bringing with him ten prospective set
tiers along the Rock Island. Three
go to Carrizozo, five to A~lamogordo
and two anne to Tularosa.
Hon. w. S. Hopewell, w. A. Bayer
and J. E. Saint have returned to Santa
Fe from a trip to Kennedy. Mr.. Hope
well reports tna the wire for the tele-
graph line arrived at Torrance and
that the cross bars have also been re-
ceived. The holes for the telegraph
poles have been dug and the line win
now be completed in a short time
Wire will at once be sent up to Kenne-
dy from Torrance so that the line be-
tween Santa Fe and Kennedy can be
completed first.
James Sheets, millwright in the wa
ter service at Topeka N for twenty
years OH the Santa Fe pay rolls, has
quit the and will go to tort
Worth. Texas, where he has a job with
the Fort Worth & Denver road. Mr..
Sheets was in Topeka for a long time
until a few years ago, when he remov-
ed to this city. in the hope of getting
relief from asthma which bothered him
a great deal. A few weeks ago he re-
turned to Topeka, thinking that the
ailment had been cured, only to find
since that he was mistaken. He has
been unable to work on account of its
recurrence for about two weeks.
The Topeka State Journal says: Lo-
connective 9S7, the big decapod, which
went out for a trial trip Monday, ac-
quilted itself ~honorably, getting off
.he track before it had left the yards.
This was not due to its weight but to
some obstruction on the rail, and with
out great difficulty it was replaced
Tuesday the machinists were swarm
ing over it, giving the final touches
preparatory to its going west today.
It's destination for the present is IA
ton. n. NJ. where it will do duty for
the present. The whistle, which orig.
inally in a vertical position. has been
changed to an angle of about 40 de-
grees. This was done because its
sound was not loud enough when in
the first position and when the valve
was opened the steam blew back in the
cab.
The Topeka State Journal has the
following which hits the nail on the
head, for every blacksmith shop in the
world is a hot place either winter oil
summer: There are plenty of no
places in Topeka these June days, but
most of them are as a cold storage
room to the midday sunshine, as com
pared with the temperature of the
Santa Fe blacksmith shop. There is
no thermometer down there, and no
BODY WOuld pay any attention W II II
there was, so it is hard to tell just
where the temperature goes. 1t is safe
to say that the mercury climbs pretty
well to the top Of the tube. But the
veterans over the fires work steadily
along in the same begrimed overalls
and leathern aprons, that they wore
last January and the place that to an
outsider seems like a border to the in
formal repiOnS does not worry them a
whit"