Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-02-04

Win rheumatism n other cOmpllca-
tons at the Las Vegas hospital, is
progressing nicely.
The Optic says: Travelling Engin-
Ger John A. Ross, of the Santa Fe,
went down to Albuquerque Saturday
afternoon with John McMurray, who
will take Mr.. Ross place on the Las
Vegas division, and Mr.. Ross will take
the north end. The trip is being made
to familiarize the new engineer with
his territory.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Railway company and the Great West
ern Railway company have practically
closed a deal for 100 acres of and in
Sioux City. The deal is considered to
mean that an extension of these two
lines to Sioux City is assured 1t is
further said that the two roads will
use the track for terminals. The price
paid for the tract is SIPS 900.
A Pullman sleeper on the zeal of
train No. s, which was wrecked near
Tucson, was detached by the tremen-
dous force of the collision and ran
down the grade into Tucson, crashing
into a switch engine. Both the en-
CINE and the sleeper were damaged
to a considerable extent. The arrival
of the company sleeper was the first
news of the wreck to reach Tucson.
j. w. Coburn, OF Los Angeles. COM
mitted suicide at Tucson by taking
strychnine. He was formerly in the
employ of the Southern Pacific, as con-
ductor on the Los Angeles-Bakersfield
run, and was a member of No. Ill, Or
der of Railroad Conductors. Coburn
left a note saying hat wine and wo-
men" were the cause of his downfall.
The remains are held at Tucson await
ing Los Angeles advices.
The Chicago, Peoria & Western rail
way company and the Glucose Sugar
Refining company are defendants in
twenty-one suits filed in the circuit
court in Chicago to o a total of
1872, 500 damages. The suits are brought
by various railroad companies to col
lect money alleged to be due for the
use of their cars by the defendants.
The Santa Fe claims $500 and the
Rock Island $1,000 u of the total.
The Las Vegas Record says: The
switch engine had a set-to with a Mex
leans wagon loaded with wood On the
Jackson street crossing Saturday, and
when the atmosphere had cleared sufi-
GENTLY to observe objects it was found
that the wagon was horse de combat,
while the Mexican and the wood were
piled gracefully on the track in front
of the engine. A narrow escape for
the Mexican as the wheels were with
in a few inches of his body.
Rock Island traffic officials have be-
come tired of holding freight cars for
eastern connections. Accordingly a
notice was served by that company at
Chicago on all eastern lines that
freight consigned to them would, after
a delay of forty-eight hours, be placed
in storage. The Rock Island has more
traffic than it can handle. Other west
ern lines, which are not in so badly
congested condition as eastern lines,
may take the same protective meas
ures.
A. Andres, who has ben working
as foreman of the cement factory of
Good & Co., along the new Dawson
branch of the Ell Paso & Northeastern,
is in Ell Paso from Tucumcari. Mr.. An
dres says: "The work along the line
has now all been finished except about
a weeks work at French, finishing up
some cement work there on a bridge.
Good & Co. have moved their entire
outfit up to Colorado to work on the
new Moffat road. | have not decided
yet whether l will go with them or
not. but probably will"
The passenger department of the
Rock Island has published a booklet
in which some of the history of the
selection of the name for their new
California through train, the Golden
State Limited, is told. The work of
naming this train was left to the pub
lie and the competition for the prize,
which went to the proposer of the
most appropriate title, drew thousands
of suggestions. Several hundred of
these names, which were not select
ed, are printed in the booklet. AS
dllhS inc ullCltnl lutd0 vi nat
is needed to make a good train name
they are varied enough to be interest
ing.
1t is now believed without doubt
that the Santa Fe railroad is seeking
to establish an entrance to New Or.
leans n secure terminals there. For
several days last week a party of cap
italists and railroad magnates were at
New Orleans, ostensibly on pleasure,
but it leaked u that they were busy
in real estate matters, just as the Fris.
co and the Shreveport & Red River
Valley railway officials had been before
them, In the party were Paul Morton,
of Chicago, vice president of the SAINT
Fe; Z. A. Potter, T. A. Shonts and Joy
Morton, all capitalists and heavy San.
ia Fe stockholders. They admitted at
the time that they had a proposition.