Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-07-03
Railroad Topics


wires here. has just installed. The
new wire between La Junta and Albu-
querque is completed and works like a
charm.
Rushed Back to San MarciaI.-J. A.
Harlan. superintendent of bridges and
buildings for the Santa Fe, on the Rio
Grande division, who has been spend
ing several days in the city overseeing
the work Oh the new freight house, left
hurriedly last night for San Marcial.
He received an unfinished telegram,
conveying the new that the Santa Fe
oflice buildings and freight depot at
that place were on fire. The wires went
down before the message was COM
pleted.
Hotel at Trinidad.-The Santa Fe
mas awarded the contract for building
the new $50, 900 hotel at Trinidad,
Colo, to Charles A.. Fellows, of To
peka. The hotel will be built on the
| general plan of the Alvarado hotel at
Albuquerque, but will be considerably
smaller. Mr.. Fellows was in Topeka
the other day. He is just closing up
his business connected with the con-
struction of the new $50, 900 building
at the Topeka State Agricultural col
lege.
Can Any One Raise Him?-Conduc-
tor Alexander, running on the Rock
Island. believes that he ho4As the ban
ner for the largest number of tickets
reported at the end of a regular trip,
says the Topeka Capital. His record
was made last summer during h dig
rush into Oklahoma just before the
opening of the Commanche -4ulan
lands by the government. On the trip
mentioned he collected 1922 tickets.
1t TOOK Alexander and his wife, with
the assistance of their children, one
entire day to prepare the report which
was turned into the auditor.
Sending Out Money.-A telegram
from San Bernardino, dated July l,
says: The striking boilermakers are
a very cheerful lot of men considering
the time they have been out of work.
The strikers are making enthusiastic
preparations for a big benefit dance
which they will give in the pavilion
and they have already received orders
for tickets from distant points as far
away as Kansas. This morning the
strikers received a letter from the
grand council asking that a list of the
strikers be forwarded n order that the
allowance of So a week for unmarried
men and 81 a week for married men
might be made. This indicates that
the council proposes to stand with the
strikers.
Thrown From Moving Train.-What
came near being a fatal accident hap
pened a day or two ago to John Worth
ington. a well known resident of this
city, says the san Bernardino Sun. Mr..
Worthington has been employed as
foreman on the Santa Fe construction
gang, which is at present working
near Peach Springs station on the
desert, and it was while moving camp
from this place that the accident &C.
CURED. Worthington was seated on a
moving fiat car on tor of a bundle OF
luggage. While the train was going
at a rapid rate me car struck a sharp
curve and overturning the luggage
threw Mr.. Worthington to the ground.
His fall was seen and the train stopped
as quickly as possible and backed up
to where the man lay unconscious. II
was thought he was fatally injured at
first. but further examination
oped the fact that his injuries while OF
a very serious character, were not nee
essarily fatal. The injured man was
brought to this city and is now at his
home resting easily.