Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1902-02-22
Railroad Topics

made a great success of his expert
ments in boring for water on the
Mohave desert He has put down wells
at convenient points all along the
Santa Fe Pacific and as n result the
company has all the water they can
use.
\ little furry of excitement occurred
at the Needles Harvey house the other
evening. a man was extracting the
shells from Winchester rifle when
the weapon was discharged. the buffet
passing through the floor uncouforta'
bly, close To those who were watching
the process.
The Cerrillos Register says The
activity on the Santa Fc Central Is
making things lively in our town nova.
days. a shipment of horses FOR the
grading work arrives every Few days /
and the town Is filling up with men
waiiinv for the work to start the FIRST
of the month.
The Atchison Globe is printing hints |
/ on etiquette from the Brakemens
/ Home Journal Here is one of them:
III "A gent takes a lady to n ball II Is
/ proper. about II o'clock. for him 10
/ couple up with her. switch her down To
restaurant and coal her up with an
oyster stew.
Thirty-fye cars of celery and seven.
ty cars of oranges passed up the road
the other day. They had been shipped
hy the southern California Fruit Grow
crs association To the eastern markets.
The truck farmers and horticulturists
of California by organizing find no diff.
ficulty in disposing of their products.
Tom Hughes. who has been conduc-
tor on the Morenci Southern ever
since trains ran over the road, was In
the city the latter part o! last week.
en- route to Bisbee for visit. He was
limping. which was caused by an ac-
cidentally discharged bullet from gun
he was handling. which scraped MS
foot i .ordsburg Liberal
The Socorro Chieftain says l.. NJ.
Iasley and w. Mitchell were in the
city Tuesday. MIR. Lasley had just
returned from business trip east. He
stated that there Is row being con
structed a transcontinental railroad
to extend from Norfolk, Va, to San
Diego. Cal. which will intersect the
Santa Fc at or near Socorro.
The Williams News says; Frank
, Dawson. who was implicated in the
, charge Of breaking a seal last October
, was taken to Flagstaff last Sunday
night by Constable Andrews, to await
, the action of the grand jury with
him went our last hope of ever getting
the suit of clothes we won in the rattle.
, Frank still says well get II, though
That popular brotherhood of railway
employees the Brotho rhood of l.ocomo-
, tive Fircmen, have engaged the Shaw
? building. San Marcial, for the evening
of March II. when they VIII give ball
- that will be social event which
.syI mic
z plcte arrangements. good music and
n dance programs form an inducement.
Fred Davenport. who recently left
u Socorro To undertake the engineering
work on a projected line of railroad
X from Cerrillos to some coal mines ilf-
g teen miles distant. rs reported sorely
a afflicted with inflammatrry rh"uma
Al tism. During Mr. and Mrs. Davenport 8
G etay IN Socorro they MADE many
friencs who now express hearty sym
s- pathy for them In their affection SO
g zorro Chieftain.
5 The switChmen In the Southern Pa
' chc yards at Orange, Texas, put in q
e demand for a raise of wages recently
and the answer the company gave
d them was to decrease their wages. The
n switchInen were getting S2.25 and de
y manded n raise To 81 40. The response
% To the request was an OTu'f ituutlut
n their wages to 81 The switchmen re
fused tn 20 to work and are now on q
!, strike and not a wheel rs moving II
/; the s T. yards nj that place.
T. The Las Vegas Optic says: Charles
"a W Maier. third vice grand master o
D. the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men Myer Hurley. OF the grievanc,
d committee of the Brotherhood of Loco
G. motive Engineers, and Thomas Burke
" of the grle vance committee from thu
IT, Firemen. arrived from the east ant
Al will visit the lodges of Firemen ant
Engineers ut al important meet!n,
n. which is called at the X. i. hall. Thu
a question under discussion seems to b,
IN that OF wages for running COMPOUND
to engines.
ia Willie Howard left San Marcial fo
Tucson To enter the employ CT th'
m Southern Pacific road as a machinist
" Commencing Tuesday of last woel
d the Southern Pacific ran all chair cars
n coaches. tourist and standard sleeper
\ from San Francisco to New Orleans
and return. thus doing away with al
70 changes at FL Paso This enables
~ through passengers TO pass III Pas'
q, without changing cars. change O
g. cars is always a nuisance, and tn
30 Southern Pacific Is endeayoring 4
make it's road as comfortable as posi-
A bile To ride on.