Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-02-06
Carl Deed is in from winslow.

r. S. Goodrich, private secretary to
Superintendent |. l.. Hibbard, of the
Winslow division, is in the city.
Eleven stone masons passed through
the city last night en- route to Belen to
go to work on the Santa Fe cut off.
officials of the New York Central
have engaged sixty emergency sur
geons. Such honest confession really
is startling.
F. l.. Myers, the popular, accommo-
dating agent of the local Santa Fe
station, is around this morning with
n eye tied up. A severe cold is the
ailing.
Yardmaster AL Walden was able to
resume his duties in the Las Vegas
yard yesterday, after several days on
the sick list. Not feeling any too good,
though.
Alfred Jaques has recently been pro-
noted to the position of station agent
at Mesilla Park, N. NJ, where he has
been for several days in the discharge
of his duties.
Passenger No. 1 from the north, due
here last night at 10 o'clock, did not
get in until about 5 o'clock this morn
ing. Bad weather on the Chicago di-
vision was the cause of its lateness.
Harry Lantry, of B. Lantry Sons, the
railroad construction contractors,
passed through the city last night
bound for Rio Puerco station, where he
will superintend the building of a
bridge over the Rio Puerco.
kid" Burch, who claimed to have
fought Dummy" Rulan fourteen
rounds at Butte, Mont, March 16, 1901,
with favorable results, was recently
employed on the ice train at Las
Vegas, but resigned to go to Winslow,
AriZ., to give two sparring exhibitions.
Father d. w. Kendrick, of st. Louis,
the Catholic priest who fell off an
Southern Pacific passenger train at FL
Paso, Friday night, died on Saturday
at the Hotel Die as a result of his in
juries. The deceased stepped from the
a - bClOlt AZ hdu oNOppCu dlu was
very badly hurt. He was a very promi-
tent divine in st. Louis.
&. The report comes from Jefferson
City, Mo, that one of the legislators of
that state has introduced a bill requir-
ing all train ~disptachers to learn how
to operate a typewriter, and also re-
curing the railroads to keep one in
every little way station of Missouri.
The legislator has an idea that if all
train orders were typewriter it would
lessen the number of accidents occur
ring because of misread orders.
r. X. Thompson, a Santa Fe Pacific
engineer in the employ of the company
on the Arizona division, was killed in
Seligman Monday morning. According
to reports which reached here he met
his death by being run down by a
switch engine in the yards. He was
in the act of boarding his own engine
to leave the station when the goat"
which was running on a parallel track
caught him, grinding him to pieces I'M
der the wheels.
Passenger No. 2 from the west this
morning brought to the city private
cars Nos. 223 and 100, occupied by the
following Santa Fe coast lines officials:
General Superintendent F. j. Shepard.
General Manager Arthur G. Wells and
Division Superintendent /. l.. Hibbard.
Trainmaster E. ]. Gibson, of the Albu-
querque division is also here. They
are on n of their periodical tours of
inspection and will spend a day or two
in Albuquerque.
Mrs. Eckles, wife of Fred Eckles. the
well known and popular switchman at
Las Vegas, died Tuesday afternoon at
l o'clock of tuberculosis, aged 80
years. She leaves a husband and two
children to mourn her death. The re-
mains were shipped to Chicago on No.
s Wednesday night, accompanied by
the sorrowing husband and motherless
children. The husband will place the
children, a boy of 6 and a girl 8 years
of age, at school ere he returns here.
Mr.. Eckles has the sympathy of the en-
tire community in MS sad bereave-
ment.
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