Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-04-24

atCoNo E6Sh ~ ~ loNOiig VI Nht
Wells-Fargo Express company, went
north last night.
A batch of natives left last night for
the Lantry grading camps at Rio
Puerco, and another batch went to
southern Arizona.
1t is officially announced that the
loss of oil at the burning of the Santa
Fe tanks at Bagdad several days ago
amounted to 1900 barrels.
F. p. Barnes, the efficient master
mechanic in the local shops, who has
been visiting cities in the east for sew
eral weeks, will return home today.
Four box cars were run over the new
track to the site of the American Lum.
Der company yesterday afternoon. This
track runs across North Fourth street.
r. H. Ripley and family will arrive
in this city this evening. They are on
their way to visit Los Angeles. Mr..
of the Santa Fe.
DIR. Eugene Baltes, assistant sur
geon and physician on the Santa Fe
cutoff. is at the st. Joseph's hospital,
q patient himself. He hopes to be up
and around in a few days.
Lou Atkinson, injured in the steam
pipe accident at the local rallyaw
shops night before last, Is at his
room, 219 West Gold avenue, and is
reported getting along nicely.
J. d. McLachlen has been promoted
and appointed manager of the Western
Union telegraph office of Las Vegas,
succeeding Bell Brooks in that posi-
cisco.
Car loads of steel rails and other
supplies are being rapidly received by
the Santa Fe Central railway at Santa
Fe. The Denver & Rio Grande trains
are run in with two engines, SO heavy
is the traffic.
The railroads, in their appeal, give
~thirty-four reasons why the merger
decision should be reversed. In the
array is every conceivable technically
except that the bailiff once said hear
you" instead of hear yez."
ollCidlS VI Tue NUN lSidIu uVSidiV
that the Golden State Limited" train
will not be taken off this ummer 1t
is stated that ~tri-weekly service will
be maintained, as travel to California
during the summer has greatly in.
creased.
Mrs. Sam. Bushey, president of the
G. /. A. to the b. of l.. E., at Las
Vegas, has resigned her office and will
leave that city. The ladies of her
lodge held a meeting the other eve
ming and presented Mrs. Bushey with
a handsome star and crescent pin, en-
blematic of the order.
r. M. Hodges, the wide awake gen.
eral purchasing agent of the Santa Fe
system, together with his wife and Mr..
and Mrs. Ellis, of Chicago, passed
through here last evening in a private
car bound for the coast. Mrs. Ellis is
the accomplished daughter of Presi.
dent Ripley, of the Santa Fee road.
The shut down of the Minneapolis
-four mills, undertaken as a protest
against discriminatory freight rates on
flour, as compared with wheat, has
com to an end. While no formal con
cessions have been made by the rail
roads, assurances have been received
which justify the millers in resuming.
Stewart l.. Moore, general freight
agent of the Northern Pacific road,
died suddenly of pleurisy at his home
in st. Paul, aged so years. Mr.. Moore
wac of hiO dnCE q fouy hntro hnfnro
death and though he did not feel well
he was not thought to be seriously ill.
Mr.. Moore was widely known in rail.
road circles throughout the United
States.
c. L. Cramer, who is the travelling
engineer of the Baldwin locomotive
works, came in from Douglas, Ariz.,
this morning, and will remain a few
days with his family. Mr.. Cramer
was at Douglas personally superin-
tending the putting up of a number
of new Baldwin engines for the Ell
Paso & Southwestern railroad, known
as the Bisbee road.
A branch of the Order of Railway
Clerks of America was installed at
Denver by District Organizer w. E.
Sanford. The purpose is to affiliate
this body with the other railway or
CARNATIONS. The order is said to have
already extended over much of the
United States and to enjoy a member
ship of many thousands. All clerks
and other employees of railway offices
are eligible to membership.
1t is not generally known, but one of
the big passenger engines in use on
the Santa &c will consume twelve tons
of coal in travelling 125 miles. This is
probably more than is consumed by
any other type of engine in use on any
railroad. 1t almost seems impossible
that an engine could consume that
much coal in travelling that number of
miles, but it is done under ordinary
conditions.