Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-03-27
Railroad Topics

Engineer Charles Davis is on the
sick list.
The largest engine in the world. No.
9S7, runs between Las Vegas and Albu-
querque.
The firemen on the Gulf. Colorado &
Santa Fe recently received an increase
of 1914 per cent in wages.
C.. M. Wood. travelling passenger
agent for the Burlington Route, with
Office at Denver, is in the city.
1t is announced that J. J. Cohn, gen
eral foreman of the local s~torehouse,
has resigned and will go to Chicago.
A couple of coal care run over the
wrong end of the coal chutes yester-
day and were pretty badly broken up.
The S. F. p. & p. railroad will soon
erect a handsome depot at Prescott. 1t
will be surrounded by concrete walks
and beds of flowers.
II is reported that as the leading
daily papers of Oakland, Cal, are con-
trolled by the Southern Pacific, the
Santa Fe will shortly have a paper
there also.
hC ohO last VI iitASht ais IN
is reported by several of the western
railroads would indicate that Jim Hills
promised slump of prosperity is still
quite a long way over the divide.
Harry Johnson, formerly with the
Santa Fe at Wichita, Kan, passed
through the city last night en- route to
Los Angeles. Mr.. Johnson is an old
friend of Ticket Clerk Carpenter.
Postal Clerk Ben s. Sawyer, who
was so badly injured in the wreck at
Esmond, near Tucson, has sued the
Southern Pacific for $50, 900 damages.
Mr.. Sawyer is now a physical wreck.
o. w. Youngquist, recently appoint
ed storekeeper of the Santa Fe coast
lines, has gone to Kansas City to meet
his family and accompany them here.
They will make their home in Albu-
querque.
Machinist Helper Rensing has tired
of duty in the house of great griefs
and has accepted a position feeding
the goat in the local yard. He is mark
ed up as a real fireman now.-Las
Vegas Record.
Michael Hunt, a waiter of Tacoma,
and Frank McCluskey, of Lake City,
Ore, were found dead in a refrigerator
car. They had built a fire in the car
and had gone to sleep, being smoth-
cred and burned.
AS all the documents in the Wabash
injunction case must be printed in
book form for the perusal of the court,
it is stated that a decision of the case
probably will not be handed down until
next week, or even later.
The Choctaw branch of the Rock
Island has just gotten out some new
playing cards for advertising purposes.
On the back of each card is the picture
of an Indian. The only cards upon
which there is printed any advertising
matter is the ace of spades and the
joker.
w. l.. Horn, the new night ticket
clerk, recently of Topeka, Kan, has
received orders to be on duty all night.
Heretofore he only worked part of the
night. The killing of U. G. Hart, the
night operator at Cerrillos, which &C.
CURED on Wednesday night, is respon-
Slble Tor the new orders.
A change has been made recently by
which the mail car on No. 2, arriving
here from the west in the morning,
goes direct through from Los Angeles
to Chicago. Before the change the
mail from the west was transferred to
the mail car from the Ell Paso train,
which car wen to Chicago.
Frank Cain, formerly of Topeka, who
has been in the railroad business for
the Santa Fee in Chanute, has returned
to Topeka to accept the position of
chief clerk to John Purcell, superin-
tendent of the Santa Fe shops. He
succeeds B. Payne, who has been trans
ferred to the accounting department
under D. E. Fitzgerald.
The Texas senate has passed, finally,
the bill prohibiting railroad ticket
s~calping. Amendments were adopted
requiring railroads to redeem unused
portions of tickets in proportion to
their actual cost, and extending from
ten days to twenty days the time with
in which the railroads must redeem
unused tickets and portions thereof.
A dispatch dated from Ogden, Utah,
says Superintendent Noble, of the Salt
Lake division of the Southern Pacific,
returned this morning from the con
ference of railroad officials in San
Francisco and stated that a satisfac-
tory arrangement had been arrived at
in regard to an increase of wages. He
stated that the freight men will get a
rise of Is per cent and the passenger
trainmen a rise of ~ per cent.