Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-04-20

Conductor Harry Boas, of San Mar.
cial, is planning a visit to his old home
In Arkansas,
Contractor Harlan has set a gang Of
carpenters at work on the new depot
building at San Marcial.
A horse belonging to Carlos Hidalgo,
of Dona Ana, was killed by a south
bound Santa Fe freight the other
night.
President Frost, of the Topeka Com
mercial club and formerly land COM
missioner for the Santa Fe road, Is in
Las Vegas looking around.
1t is officially announced that the
loss of oil at the burning of the Santa
Fe tanks at Bagdad several days ago,
amounted to 10000 barrels.
Fred Griffith, of San Marcial, who
was on the sick list for several weeks,
went to Belen to relieve Conductor Ell.
wood Hayes on the cut off supply
train.
Machinist Isaac Holloway is recov-
ering his health, and believes he will
be able to resume work at the Ell Paso
Texas Pacific shops the first of next
month.
Firemen w, ]. Parsons and Noah
Darr, of the Rio Grande division, have
passed the examination for promotion,
and the throttle instead of the shovel
will be their specially in the near
future.
Conductor H. G. Hubbard, by a vote
of 3,207, was declared last Saturday,
to be the most popular conductor run
ming out of Las Vegas, and will receive
the handsome silver mounted lantern.
This ends the Las Vegas Record con.
test.
Edward Johnson, who has been en-
ployed at Kennedy with the Santa Fe
Central railway, arrived in Santa Fe
Saturday and departed yesterday for
Espanola on business for the same
company and from there will go to
Alamosa, Colo.
H. U. Nudge, general manager OF
the Santa Fe, and j. e. Hurley, general
superintendent of the same road, left
Topeka for New York, where they are
to attend a meeting of the American
Railroad association. They expect to
be gone about two weeks.
Mrs. r. l.. McCance, wife of the eff
cient treasurer of the Santa Fe Cen
trail railway and Pennsylvania Devel.
opment company, who has been seri-
ously i'll, is slowly improving. Mr.. and
Mrs. McCance now have rooms at st.
Vincent's s~anitarium, Santa Fe.
B. M. Read, Esq, and Juan Delgado
were in the city yesterday to
see the latter's son, and Mr..
Reads son-in-law, j. P. Delgado,
who was injured in the Santa Fe
railway shops here last Friday. He
had the great toe of n of his feet
Glt off, and is reported getting along
nicely.
The next annual convention of the
International Railway Master Boiler
Makers association will be held at the
Southern hotel, Columbus, Ohio, begin
ming on Tuesday, May 10. President
G. w. West of the American Railway
Master Mechanics association has
promised to deliver an address.
James Spivey returned to Santa Fe
Friday from Kennedy, where he has
been painting and lettering station
signs for each of the stations along the
line of the Santa Fee Central railway.
The signs are very pretty and credita.
BILE to the road and the painter. Mr..
Spivey also painted the mile posts for
each mile along the road.
~ ~ Small curyaynr Of tho Alamo.
gordo & Deming short line railway,
was in Las Cruces Tuesday for sup
plies. The outfit is camped about IF
teen miles from that town. They are
working on the second survey of the
road-all of which looks mighty favor
able for the cary construction of the
line.
The Ell Paso News says: Engineer
Ray Thompson, who has been running
the helper engine between Ell Paso and
Straus, has taken a lay off and gone
to Albuquerque on a short visit to
friends. His place is being filled by
regular Engineer Love, who has been
visiting in east Texas for the past two
months and who has just reported for
duty.
No one may hereafter fear that,
should he die in a strange country of a
contagious disease, the railroads will
refuse to transport his remains to the
land of his birth. At a conference
held at Chicago between representa-
tives of the state health boards and of
general baggage agents, it was decided
that the present restrictions with re-
gard to the transportation of dead
bodies should be less strictly observed.
The station at Mesilla Park, on the
Santa Fe railway, was robbed the
other afternoon at about 4 o'clock.
The agent, Fritz, left the depot in the
office for a short time, locking the
door, and when he returned found that