Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-04-18

owing TO q serious attack OF neural
gia, Fireman McCannon is still of
duty.
In less than one year an American
company has built twenty-seven via
ducts on the British Uganda railroad,
using 5000 tons of steel in the work.
Jack Taft, engineer on the Rincon-
Deming-Silver City branch, is at Min
eral Wells, Texas, for his health. For
some time Mr.. Taft has been in poor
health.
A meeting of the baggage agents OF
Texas will be held at San Antonio next
week to discuss important matters.
One of them is the transportation of
dead bodies.
The Fort Smith & Western railroad,
now building 200 miles from Fort
Smith, Ark, to Guthrie, will establish
full train service next Monday, re-
100 miles of the road completed be-
tween Fort Smith and Weleetka, l. 7.
J.. C. Balcom, a civil engineer In the
employ of the Santa Fe Central Rail
way company, who has been working
at Kennedy, arrived in Santa Fe We'd
nesday and came on to this city, where
he will visit for a few days. From here
he will go to Denver, his former home.
for a visit.
The Rock Island Railroad company.
it is reported on good authority. has
leased from the Santa Fe railway the
use of the Hutchinson & Southern
from Anthony, Kan, to Hutchinson
and will make Hutchinson the ter.
minus of the Choctaw, Oklahoma &
Gulf Railroad.
The New Mexican says: George
Riddle, engineer on the Denver & Rio
Grande passenger train, did not go out
on his regular trip north this morning.
He is suffering from an attack of con-
gestion of the lungs. B. o. Wetzel,
the fireman on that run, took the train
out this morning.
B. F. MCGUIRE, boilermaker at the
round house, and Lou Webb, machin-
list, who have both been working for
the Santa Fe company in that city and
have built homes and raised thei fam
lilies there, have concluded to browse
in newer, if not greener, fields. and
will go to work for the Midland road
in Colorado.
1t is thought that there will be a
home for old and incapacitated train
men erected in Denver soon. The home
will be built by subscriptions from the
different railway orders. The cost OF
the home, as estimated by William G.
Lee, vice grand master of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen, will be
about SIS 5000.
The New Mexican says: Postmas'
ter Paul A. F. Walter returned yester-
DAY from a ten days leave of absence
which he spent visiting the country
along the line of the Santa Fe Contra
railway and the Ell Paso & Rock Isl
and railway. His observation in the
shape of interesting and extremely
well written letters have appeared In
the New Mexican during the past few
days and have been received witt
great favor by the readers of this pa
per.
Plans have just been consummatet
for the immediate completion of a line
of railway in Central America, extend
ing from the Atlantic to the Pacific
coast, which, it is believed, will hav'
the effect of diverting a large share o
the Central American exports from for
eign ports to those of the Unite'
States. The coffee output alone ave
ages 1000 900 bags annually, of whicl
almost the entire amount is shippe,
to Hamburg and other European ports
due to the difficulties in transportation
to the Atlantic seaboard.