Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1902-04-26
Railroad Topics

llfeld's ranch; and an Office at Merno
which Is near the ranch of a. Il. Buck,
in the same ncighborhood.
Willie Cadogan. night caller at San
Marcial met with an accident We'd
ncsday night. He packs gun. IL went
of in his pocket. The bullet went
through his leg in the vicinity of the
groin. His temperature rs about nor
NAL.
Train No. yesterday had mcnag-
eric in the express car consisting OF
two "rubhcr.ncck' ostriches and
couple of small burros, To say nothing
of the messenger himself The os-
triches were from California. bound
ior Chicago.
An exchange says 4 railroad man
in any capacity who is not polite even
To an inquisitive. though gentlemanly,
reporter, trying to earn his salt, sci.
dom rises to place of responsibilities
and emoiuments with the company EN-
ploying him
Railroads of Chicago have volun-
tariiy increased the wages of freight
handlers The advance varies in the
different departments. hut the total in
crease is $4,000 per month. and az
fects 5000 men employed In freight
depots OF Chicago.
out of total of 600 or 800 goats
shipped into Emporia. Kansas from
New Mexico. n day or two ago, when
they were unloaded ii was found that
$40 were dead. They were in poor con
dition for moving and that Is largely
accountable for the heavy loss.
After several weeks Of rustling the
citizens "a Clehurne. Texas, raised $780,
600 To secure railroad from that
place to Eagan. The money was
raised and now the right of way has
been secured and work on the con
struction of the road will soon follow.
Mrs Jeanette Turner. of Cairo. H.,
first vice grand mistress to the l.. A. To
B OF X. T.. spent several days In Ration
the past week Her mission there was
to visit the local lodge and give in
strrctions in the work. Mrs. Turner
H. "A refined cultured lady and delighted
all with whom she came in contact
while there.
shorty" Sanderson of the Topeka
boiler shop. put out 1000 strawberry
plants on his place east of that city
few days ago and after making thor
ough search. he declares all of them
are growing Besides these he has M
" young cherry trees. thirty-five plum,
! sixty apple. and twenty five peach
! trees all thriving.
T. !. Hartman a resident of Springer.
| has been IN Taos all the week engag-
| Ing men to work on the Dawson City
branch OF the Rock Island railroad, now
building in Colfax and Guadalupe coun-
ties. The contractors wish to secure
| several hundred more men. They pay
81 80 and si75 for common laborers
and board Is $3.50 week.
The Las Vegas Optic says: j. c.
| Schafer. who was the popular chief
train dispatcher at this point. having
resigned to take place with the Rock
| island system, i. V. King. the night
chief dispatcher takes Schafer's place.
| u. r Gregory becomes the night dis
patcher by promotion. hut the other
| vacancies hay not as yet been filled.
The rush of eastern travel is more
than present train service of the Santa
Pc can handle, and arrangements are
being made 10 run the California Linn
| tied in two sections. On the eastern
trip April 20. and again May 3. the
! Limited will leave Los Angeles in two
trains, a service that II probably viii
ne necessary To continue for several
weeks
American railroad methods are IL
! Illustrated By the fact that while 40
| tons Is n load for an English freight
| train an average load on one OF our
railroads last year was $40 tons. On
| two British railroads Il costs from 4S y
| cents To 81 .3S to move a ton OF freight
one mile. while the cost on leading
| American road Is 2Sla cents mile.
Locomotive 1893, one of the new
prairie freight engines which the san
"a Fc is having built at the Baldwin
works in Philadelphia, went west on
| Tuesday for service on the Santa Fe
Pacific. says the Topeka State Journal.
BY way of giving II an lmpromptu test
as to tractiye test IL was sent up Paul
inc hill with 900 tons behind II and
did the performance wan ease.
Telephones will supplant the tele.
graph lines for practically all OF the
commercial business OF the burlington
railroad within "A short time. Wires
are now being strung connecting the
principal division points of the system,
and as soon as the lines are finished
all of the communication between the
officers and all directions. with the
possible exception OF the train orders,
will he thus transmitted.
Il. H. Ingram. executive secretary To
President Julius kruttschnitt. of the
Southern Pacific company. has been
appointed superintendent of the Los
Angeles division of the southern Pa
cine to succeed John A. Muir. MIR
Ingram was formerly in the executive
department OF the Louisville Nash
VILE Railway company. II. l.. Swaine
will continue as assistant division SUI
perintendent at Los Angeles.
On Tuesday the Pintsch gas plant
was blown in and the Santa he trains
supplied with gas. The plant has been
IN way of construction for several
months. Pipes are being laid to all the
depots In town. aud before the week IL
ended all the trains out OF vi Paso VIII
be supplied with Pintsch gas manu-
featured in FL paso. The plant has