Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-07-11

from tomorrow, and this afternoon
after their labors for the day are con
cluded. they will go out TO Reynolds
field for practice.
Brakeman Mcneil, the Irish Monte
Christie, after thoroughly enjoying
himself on the lay-off list for severa,
days past, has once more announced
his intention Of grasping a brake club
as a means of earning a livelihood.
Fred Gaul, who has just resigned
as clerk in the office of the general
foreman. left for Santa Fe yesterday,
where he will view the many sights
of interest around the capital, prior
to his departure for Minturn, Colo.
where he has accepted a position I'M
der E. E. Chrystler. former round,
house foreman here.
William Crook of the firm of Orman
& Crook, who are building the cutoff
for the Ell Paso & Southwestern be-
tween Forest and Naco, was in Ell
Paso on his way from Pueblo to Naco.
Mr.. Crook says that the work on the
cutoff is progressing very nicely, ex-
cept that they have considerable trou-
BILE in getting enough men.
Pulaski Leeds, master mechanic of
the Louisville & Nashville railroad,
was shot and dangerously wounded
by G. B. Werner, a former employee
of the road. Werner, after shooting
MI. Leeds, fatally shot himself. Wer-
ner had recently been discharged, and
it is supposed he was wrought up over
some alleged grievance.
y
Fred Ellston, who has been perform
ing the duties of painter at the round
house for some months past, has tired
of the grief and turmoil Of a painters
life and so has handed in his resig-
nation, to take effect at once. He
is succeeded by Jack Gordon, who
has been on the road brakeing for
several months past, but who has
tired of that strenuous life and seeks
a less dangerous way of earning a liv-
ing.
A great development in secret or
ders is on at Dalhart. Tex. With a
of 1000, nearly every or
der is represented with a membership
that is truly amazing. The A. F. &
A. NJ. has some fifty live, wide awake
members. The Railroad Conductors,
Brotherhood Locomotive
Engineers, thirty-fve; Brotherhood
Trainmen, forty; Brotherhood Rail
road Clerks, forty; Woodmen of the
World, forty-eight; Carpenters I'M
ion thirty; Macabees, thirty; l. o. O.
F., twenty-five; X. p, recently orga-
nized. one hundred and twenty-five.
Passenger traffic on all the Chicago
roads for the past three days was the
heaviest for any Fourth of July sea
son in the history of the roads. 1t
left all previous records for similar
periods away in the real 1t was with
the greatest difficulty that enough
could be obtained to pro-
vide accommodation for those desir-
ing to take an outing on the occasion.
General passenger traffic also Is I'M
heavy at present and promises
to continue SO indefinitely. The roads
are now moving more people and de-
irving more revenue from that branch
of their service than ever before in
their history.
DR.. N. H. Morrison, chief surgeon
for the Santa Fe west of Albuquerque,
rs preparing to take a welI-earned va
cation. Accompanied by his wife, DIR.
Morrison will leave San Francisco
July 16 for Honolulu, and will make
tour of the Hawaiian islands. He
expects to be absent five weeks and
possibly two months.
The Santa Fe Is preparing to re-bal-
last its tracks from Marceline to To-
peka. The contract has been award
ed to D. Lantry's Sons, who have