Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-06-25


This insult made the owner swear
And rush to court, his griefs to air.
But still that claim for that old roar
With agent Moss had messy grown
? And stormy nights, the boys declare,
Her astral body rides the air;
That old cows spook seems conjur
eG back
And fits along the railroad track.
The Frisco railroad is negotiating
for GA, 900 acres of land in the Indian
Territory for the purpose Of ~tenantine
them with settlers.
d. E. Cain. general superintendent
for the western grand division of the
Santa Re proper, was a south-bound
passenger last night.
Brakeman Mcmillan Of the El Paso
& Northeastern is laying OFF and has
gone to Philadelphia, where, 1t is said,
he will soon be married.
The El Paso tribe Of Red Men will
hold their annual picnic at Alamogor-
do July 4th. at which time the Mes
calero Indians will give their annual
corn dance.
Arthur Peterson. who has been in
the city the past ten days visiting with
his family, left this morning on his
return to Argentine, kans. He is a
clerk in the storekeeper's department
Of the Santa Fe shops there.
H. l.. Huntington says that he will
spend $50. 600, 900 to parallel the coast
lines Of the Southern Pacific from Los
Angeles to San Francisco with troll
ley lines. 1t is reported that Harri-
man interests are ~endeavoring to
make a compromise.
The interstate commits
sion has prepared a summary of its
report Of railroads of the United
States for the fiscal year which closed
June 80, 1902. 1t shows that the total
single track railway mileage on June
80 in the United States was 202,471
miles, having increased during the
year 5,243 miles. The increase was
greater than that for any other year
since 1890.
The striking freight handlers of
Kansas City have been black-listed,
and the strike will not be arbitrated
by the railroads. The state board of
arbitration and mediation invited the
railroads last week to arbitrate the |
differences between them and the
striking freight handlers. The invi-
tation the railroad officials have now |
refused to accept. Nearly all the
places of the strikers have been filled.
President Yoakum Of the Frisco has
issued a circular from st. Louis head
quarters, announcing that effective
July /, the Ozark & Cherokee Central
railway. from Fayetteville, Ark, to
Okmulgee, !. H., 1879 miles southwest
thereof, will be operated by the Frisco
company, and will be known as the
Muskogee district, central division.
The jurisdiction of officials of the
Fricso system is extended over the
same.
Two natives, employees of B. L.antry
& Sons. contractors, constructing the
Santa Fe cutoff, were brought to AL
buquerque badly injured and are re-
ceiving medical attention in the Ian
try ward at the st. Joseph hospital.
One suffered a compound fracture of
the left leg, and the other got a mash
ed hand. They we're employed in one
of the rock cuts in Abo canyon, where
blasting is being done. and were in
jured by falling stone.
AT 1886 O'Clock yesterday afternoon,
says a Kansas City dispatch, the pile
driver which had been at work on ,
The temporary bridge across the Kaw
for the Rock Island railroad backed 9
on that structure, and exactly at eight
minutes later timbers were dropped
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