Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-07-11

G. w. Classon, fuel and ice inspector
for the Santa Fe. is making the rounds
IL the local yards today.
Edgar Strumquist has resigned as
requisition clerk at the local shops and
will leave today for Durango, Colo.
Mrs. James Hennessy, wife of En-
gineer Hennessy, is reported seriously
i'll at her home, 713 South Third street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Evans, chief
clerk in the auditors office of the Bur
lington route, at st. Joseph, NO., are in
the city visiting friends.
John Barr, who as signal inspector
for the western grand division, has his
headquarters at La Junta, Colo, has
gone to Chicago, where he will visit
relatives.
c. o. Young, of this city, who was
recently designated to go over the
Santa Fe lines and inspect the condi-
tons of the Santa Fe fire departments,
is in Topeka.
One 150-horse power engine for the
new Topeka power house has been re-
ceived there from Chicago. Two small
slx-horse power vertical engines to be
used with the fuel and cinder handling
machinery of the same building have
also arrived.
F. N. Risteen, mechanical superin-
tendent of the eastern grand division,
has been placed on the board of the
Santa Fe Hospital association, taking
the vacancy created by the withdrawal
of John Player, formerly consulting SUI
perintendent of motive power, from
the service.
The Topeka State Journal says:
G.. S. Stiles and William Johnston,
who look after the electrical eqaip-
ment of Topeka shops, have been sent
to albuquerque, n. NJ, by Shops Super
intendent Purcell to inspect the new
plant CT that kind which the company
recently put in operation there.
Mrs. G.. w. Smith and children came
in from San Diego this morning and
continued On to Topeka, Kan. where
they will meet Mr.. Smith, who is now
master mechanic with the Illinois Cen
tral. They have been in California
since Mr.. Smiths displacement as
master mechanic of the Santa Fe coast
lines.
Mrs. L. D. Bartlett, of San Bernar-
dino, and Miss Francis Bigelow, who
has been visiting at that place the past
month, are expected to arrive in the
city tomorrow. Mrs. Bartlett is the
wife of L.. d. Bartlett, at one time fore
mar of the paint gang at the Local
shops, but now with the Santa Fe at
San Bernardino.
Elbridge G.. Rust, whose death by
drowning off Galveston. Texas, was re-
corded in the Geographic dispatches of
last week, was a cousin of Engineer
II. G. Rust, running between Topeka
and Marceline, Mo. The two were to.
gether much while they lived in Mich.
igan and Ohio, although they had not
seer each other since 1881, when En-
gineer Rust visited Dallas. The death
OF the unfortunate man came while he
was in bathing, and at the same time
. James N. Davis, night editor Of the
: Galveston News, who was with him,
was drowned.
J. D. Notgrass is III. d. Notgrass,
formerly passenger conductor running
between Las Vegas and LaJunta, is
the lucky man to get the trainmaster-
ship at Las Vegas. An order to that
effect passed over the wires last night.
Mr.. Notgrass was at one time freight
conductor running out of this city. He
was promoted to passenger conductor
runnig out of Las Vegas and at one
time occupied the position of train
master at LaJunta.
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and has occupied that position a year.
His promotion as train master is a
pretty good recommendation of abil-
ity. He lives at Las Vegas.
Diamond for Westcott.-Last Tues
day afternoon the conductors, brake
men, engineers and firemen of the first
district, New Mexico division of the
Santa Fe held a joint meeting at |. o.
o.. F. hall. raton, and cited r. c. West
colt, the retiring trainmaster to appear
forthwith TO answer certain charges,
Mr.. Westcott was summoned to the
hall and presented with a solitaire dia.
mond ring. Never has there been an
official of the Santa Fe located in
Ration toward whom a warmer feeling
existed thu toward Mr.. Westcott and
whose departure was more sincerely
regretted. He left on No. 2, the same
evening for Colorado, where he has
been rendered a position by the Den.
yer & Rio Grande Railroad company.
Dawson Railway Right of Way
The case of the Dawson Railway com.
pany VS.. The Red River Valley com
pany. the latter being the owners OF
the Pablo Montoya grant, came up be
fore Judge McFie yesterday afternoon.
Chief Justice w. j. Mills Icing dis
qualified to hear the case. The hear
ing was whether a preliminary injunc'
ton against the defendants should be
made permanent. The injunction had
been Issued to restrain the defendants
from interfering with the construction
of the Dawson railway across the
Pablo Montoya grant. Hearing will
also be had in condemnation proceed
ings for the right of way across tho
grant and for the appointment Of ap'
praisers unless the contending parties
should reach a settlement. w. \. Haw'
kins, of Alamogordo, and Charles
Spiess. Of Las Vegas, represent the
Dawson Railway company, while
George p. Money represents the Red
River Valley company. Chief Engineer
Sumner. of the Dawson railway, and