Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-05-09

headquarters in this city, was a west
bound passenger last night.
Two cars loaded with Italian immi-
grants, direct from Italy, passed
through this city last night on their
way to California.
Fourteen railroads reporting for the
fourth period of April show aggregate
earnings of $3,S60, 102, a gain of $685.
497, or 1913 per cent.
The new time caro- will go into effect
on June 1. The mail trains for the
west and south will depart several
hours earlier than now.
The Rock Island railway is going to
advertise Ell Paso with as much en-
ergy as If that corporation owned the
town and had lots to sell.
Fred T. Perris, of the oil department
will have charge of the Petroleum De
velopment company's lands at Bakers
field. recently acquired by President r.
p. Ripley of the Santa Fe.
w. F. Kidder and e. w. Griffith, of
the American Locomotive works, are
in the city on business, and after a
stay of a couple of days here, they will
continue west to the Pacific coast.
Arthur Griffith. who was formerly
toItllttttu Will Nv IA oiOI a. SiI
Bernardino, but who has been located
in New and Old Mexico for several
months, has returned to that city.
The work of building t~ranscontinent-
al railroad lines continues. Senator
Clark and his friends have all arrange
ments completed for a new line from
Denver to Los Angeles via Salt Lake
City.
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of electric machinery at local shops.
l.. A. Gain, who was out west on bust
ness. has returned and will be kept
busy at the local shops for q few
weeks.
w. H. Mann, who has been operator
for the Ell Paso-Rock Island at Alamo
gordo, has resigned and gone to Jimul-
CO, Mexico, where he will accept a po-
sition as second train dispatcher for
the Mexican Central.
Santa Fe Pacific engineers and fire.
men are helping out the cattle rush on
the Rio Grande division. Three stock
trains from the south passed through
the city, on passenger time, yesterday
afternoon and last night.
The Chicago. Rock Island & Mexico
railway will build an ~interlocking plant
at it's crossing with the Fort Worth &
Denver City railway at Dalhart, Texas.
The interlocking machine will have
twenty-five working levers.
Elmer Jacquay, according to reports,
is to quit his job as boss boilermaker
for the Santa Fe at Ration, N. M, to
take a similar place with another road.
He was an employee of that department
in Topeka about ten years ago.
The railroad company, fearing a rep
etition of serious washouts of track
along the hlo Puerco, has the work
train stationed in that vicinity riprap-
ping and preparing to meet any KIND
of a flood in the t~reacherous Rio
Puerco.
Lory Barnes, of the r~oadmaster's
office, San Bernardino, has rendered
his resignation and will leave shortly
for Salt Lake City. He goes to take a
position with the chief surgeon of the
Oregon Short Line, whose headquar-
tiers are in that city.
A car load of machinists from Den.
yer went west from Deming to Cana
nea to take the place of the strikers
there. There may be something doing
when they reach the border for the
strikers have determined that no i'm
ported machinists shall work.
Eight boilermakeTs are wanted on
the western lines of the Santa Fe-
four at Ration, N. NJ, and four at La
Junta. Colo. There is a great demand
for mechanics all over the country and
the man who has a trade can find work
on almost any western road.
William E. Symons, newly appointed
mechanical superintendent OF The Gulf,
Colorado & Santa Fe lines, has retired
from mis- position of superintendent OF
motive power for the Plant system at
Savannah, Ca, and is now in control
of affairs at Cleburne, Texas.
At Las Vegas a ladies' auxiliary to
the Brotherhood of Trainmen has been
organized with the following officers:
Mrs. Ida Rhodes, mistress; Mrs. Clara
Bell, vice mistress; Mrs. Lizzie Wiser,
secretary; Mrs. Margaret Yoakum'
treasurer; ]. w. Burks, councilman.
Six of the fourteen patients in the
Santa Fe Pacific hospital were dis
charged yesterday. The more serious
cases were Jose Malta, who lost a leg
under a switch engine here; Charles
Illetta, a Jap, who lost a leg at Wins
low, and Mike Chavez, whose foot was
amputated.
Tuesday morning some time after
the Rock Island train going to Ell Paso
had passed, the long bridge at Pintado
eight miles south of Santa Rosa, was
entirely consumed by fire. Freight
traffic on this end of the road has been
suspended and will remain so for sew
eral days until another can he built
The bridge was evidently set on fire by
incendiaries as the bridge is a new one
and the green wood would not be like
ly to catch on fire from the engine.
Executive officers of western roads
met at Chicago to discuss the rate sit.
uation. The Post says: The object OF
the meeting is TO prevent freight rates
from going to pieces. Oficially it is
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