Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-06-18

All passenger trains through Las
Vegas are still running late.
Railroad officials say that it is a
matter Of absolute impossibility to
form any reliable estimate of the
damage done in the west and south
west by recent floods.
Ben Astel. a smith in the Santa Fe
blacksmith shop, has been transferred
to the company's blacksmith shop at
Albuquerque. Mr.. Astel will leave for
his new home Friday.
David Profftt, last Thursday morn
ing sustained a yer injury to his
back by falling down between a car
and the coal chute in the yards at
Ration. He fell about ten feet landing
on his back on some timber.
The Burlington has at last succeed
ed in restoring a regular train service
between the two Kansas Citys and
Omaha and practically to all other
points on the line. A day train be.
tween Omaha and Kansas City has
been running on an irregular sched-
ule for several days, but NO trains at
night.
]. H. Conlen, division superintend-
Spt of the Chicago. Rock Island &
Mexico Railway company, will soon
move his division headquarters from
Dalhart. Texas to Tucumcari and the
machine shops will also be moved.
This means a pay roll Of about So,
a month at Tucumcari.
The "dinkey" engine at the Bloss-
burg mines was overturned Tuesday
morning caused by the track being
undermined by the heavy rains. En-
gineer Lee Robinson suffered some
painful bruises about the head and
body and fireman Sam Officer sus-
tanned a cut on one of his hands and a
bruise on his head.
The quo warranto case brought
againstth e Santa Fe and twelve 9th
err railroads to end discrimination in
freight rates was decided yesterday
in favor of the railroads by the Mis-
souri, supreme court. The suit was
known as the reconsignment case and
was brought by the state attorney
general for the benefit Of the Kansas
City board of trade and shippers in
st. Louis.
A charter was granted here today
to the Fl. Smith, Blackwell, yelling
ton & Northwestern railroad company
with a capital of $1,000, 600. The
route of the proposed line will be from
Fl. Smith northwest through the
Cherokee and Creek countries to
Cleveland, Ok, thence through the
Usage and POnca reservations to
Blackwell. From Blackwell n line
is to run northwest to Wellington and
another south to Perry, Ok. The in
corporators are residents Of Blackwell
and Wellington.
The Colorado, Oklahoma Il Texas
is running a survey southeast from
Duncan toward Ardmore, and a line is
also being run northwest of Duncan
toward Lawson. The probable destin-
alton Of the road is Denison, Tex.
The road is to be built from Pueblo,
Colo, and has been chartered. 1t is
intended to go through the middle
portion of the Chickasaw nation and
thence south. Promoters have sub
mitted propositions to the chamber of
commerce to place Ardmore on the
proposed line. A bonus aggregating
nearly 100000 is wanted.
One of the two largest passenger
locomotives in the world races each
day between Chicago and Blooming
ton, Ill. This is engine No. COL, of the
Chicago & Alton railroad. The other
of the two largest engines is owned
by the same company, and is used
on a western division. These engines
each weigh 219,500 pounds. Of which
there is carried on the drivers a
weight of 141, 700 pounds. The water
tank has a capacity of S.400 gallons.
and when it is filed and the tender
loaded the total weight Of the locomo-
tive Is 1877 tons. The drivers, of which
there are six, are eight feet high.
Because negro laborers were put to
work with them, union freight hand
lers employed at the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe freight depot in Kansas
City went on a strike and the bust
ness coming into that depot was hand
led with difficulty. When the men
went on a strike. the thirty negroes