Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-12-30


pneumonia.
Conductor Charley Stevenson has
returned from California greatly i'm
proved by the trip.
DIR. P. W. Cornell. physician and
surgeon for the Santa Fe, is a guest
at the Castaneda hotel, Las Vegas.
Charles White, stenographer in the
Office of Master Mechanic F. p. Barnes.
is sick at his home on South Second
street.
John Boardman. a clerk in the AL
buqucrque railroad office, is down with
pneumonia at the Las Vegas railroad
hospital.
The Santa Fe Railway company op-
ened a telegraph station at Dorsey sta
ton Sunday, and at Hebron and Otero
yesterday.
r. T. Davenport, formerly hight chief
for the Western Union at Las Vegas,
will, on January /. take a position with
the Postal Telegraph company in this
city.
Mort. ]. Reid and wife, of Gallup,
will leave for San Bernardino. Cal,
next Monday morning. dt is reported
that he will fire an oil burner on the
Santa Fe.
Word from Senator Andrews is to
the effect that he is greatly improved
and after a short business trip to Chi
cago will return to Washington to join
the statehood forces.
The Santa Fe Central railways tele-
graph line between Kennedy and Mori-
arity was blown down by the wind on
Sunday and it took some time to re-
establish communication.
The bent and twisted remains of the
engines that took part in the Peach
Springs wreck a week or so ago, were
brought to this city yesterday and
dumped off in the local yards.
Commencing December I. just pass
ed, the machinists in the employ of the
Santa Fe at Needles had their scale of
wages raised from s3.75 to $3.50. On
March l, 1903, the payy will be raised
to $500.
j.. r. Hollinger, a Gallup round house
employe, had the misfortune to break
his leg on last Tuesday night. He was
trying to start an air compressor with
a crowbar and was off his guard when
ii started.
J.. z. Saint, of the Santa Fe Centra'
Railway company and postmaster at
Torrance, left Sunday evening for that
point where work is to be commenced
in a few days OF the laying of rack
for the Santa Fe Central.
The Santa Fe railway fire depart
ment at Needles expects to receive a
steam fire engine 500 and when it ar
rives it will furnish Needles with the
best fire protection on the desert. They
are also about to close an order for
twenty-one new uniforms.
Hon. w. S. Hopewell passed up the
road Sunday morning from a visit to
Hillsboro, Sierra county, whittier he
had gone the day before Christmas on
his return from the east. He is on his
way to Chicago, where he will meet and
confer with Senator Andrews on rail
road business.
The Lordsburg Liberal brings out
that town to stand alongside of Dem
ing and Santa Fe as the only towns in
the territory with three railroads. The
Liberal proudly calls attention to the
fact that not only has it three railroads
but Lordsburg is the only town in the
territory which has a union depot into
which all passenger trains enter.
w. 5. Burdick, city passenger agent
of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railway at Denver, has been promoted
to the position of travelling passenger
agent. He will work from the Denver
Office. This win give the company two
travelling passenger agents in the Den
yer territory, but is made necessary by
the increase in territory which will go
into effect the first of the year.
Dan CuAningham. former chief of
the Santa Fe railway fire department
at Needles. was called TO the hose
house the other evening and, after a
short speech by the newly appointed
first assistant chief, j. II. Advantage,
he was presented with a fine Knights
of Pythias charm by the boys as a tok.
en- of their appreciation and esteem. e.
L. Cumbach succeeds him as chief of
the Needles department.
General Manager Wells. of the San
ia Fe coast lines, in acknowledging
the receipt of the big petition asking
that the proposed new Santa Fe hos
pital be located at San Bernardino in
stead of Los Angeles, plainly tells the
San Bernardino people that unless
they can arrange for an abundant and
permanent supply of good water for
that town the proposition for the loca-
ton of a hospital there can not be Sc
rlously considered.