Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-08-08
Railroad Topics

Al c. Hood, a former resident OF Sll.
yer City, is again In the employ OF the
Santa Fe and is agent at station in
the northern part of the territory near
Ration.
Every wheel On the Norfolk G. West.
ern road system was stopped for ter
minutes Thursday during the funera
at Philadelphia of J. F. Kimball late
! president of the Norfolk S Western.
Engineer w. n. Cornell. who for the
past seven years has been running an
engine on the Mexican Central at va.
rious points along the line, has given
up rniiroading in Mexico and gone 10
/ Coronado. Cal. to spend a vacation
Representatives OF South African
railway syndicate have been in Vic.
toria. b. c., inquirirg regarding the
possibilities of securing 1900, 900 hem.
lock railway ties for South African
| railroads OF which 900 miles are to be
built at once.
c. NJ. Atwood. who year ago last
July resigned his position as auditor
Is now the proprietor of farm In
Oklahoma. Mr.. Atwoods place is To-
Gated near Croft postofiice, Day coun.
ty. Kansas.
| A. Dnan has been appointed master
mechanic of the middle ana the Okla.
homa divisions of the Santa Fe. He
succeeds w. s. Grandy who has re,
signed to take place in the Rock
! island mechanical department at Chi.
oago. The headquarters for this dl.
vision are at Newton.
That the Central Arizona railroad
will be built from Flagstaff to Jerome
within the next twelve months Is al.
most an assured fact. This road will
pass through the fertile valley OF the
Verde. and Flagstaff will receive the
products of one hundred thousand
acres OF the richest soil in Arizona.
| T.. o. Faulkner. assistant to General
Manager Nudge. Is now In Europe on
a vacation which is to last until about
september /. He sailed from Quebec
July on the Allan Royal line steam.
ship Partisan. He reported that the
trip across the Atlantic was extraor-
dinary by virtue of the fact that the
sea was SO smooth.
The railroad commission of Texas
has issued a schedule lowering the ex.
press tariffs in Texas. The new min
imum Is 35 cents per hundred pounds
for distance of ten miles or less. The
tariff increases proportionately until
the maximum II reached at $3.50 for
800 miles. The former minimum was
40 cents and the maximum 81 for a
like distance.
The FL Paso News says: The de.
composed and mutilated remains of a
man. supposed to be S. II. Campbell,
formerly yardmaster OF the Mexican
Central at Victoria station on the Chi.
huanua division, were found Sunday
afternoon. urder a railroad bridge at
Screwbeam, a station five miles north
OF Guadalupe, n. NJ. on the Pecos Val.
ley a. Northeastern railroad by the
train crew.
Jake Quigley, a freight brakeman
In the employ If the El Paso & North
Eastern. on the Santa Rosa division
net death at Pintado Thursday night
While coupling cars with automatic
couplers. he was caugh. between them
and mangled. The unfortunate man
was still alive. though suffering agon.
les. when the cars were separated.
but died a few minutes afterward.
His body was taken to Santa Rosa
for interment The company made a
diligent search TO discove, the where.
abouts of his relatives, but no trace OF
them could be secured.