Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-05-02
Contributed by an
Old TfnIer

There are not many people now
here who came with the railroad in the
spring OF 1880. or who arrived shortly
thereafter. Those few who are with
us could state extraordinary exper-
fences. recall but four lanes of
those who were old timers before the
railroad: Franz Huning, Leonard
Skinner. w. H. H. Metzger and H. R.
Whiting.
They antedate new town many
years. OF the new towners, though.
there are a few who nave knowledge
of it's foundation and infancy.
Geo. II. Cred Holt Frost can say
that he is the oldest rain service man.
He was running to the end of the At
lantic & Pacific track when it was not
forty miles from here. Passenger fares
were Is cents a mile. or all a man had
that would come e that figure. Ev-
cry train was like an excursion of to-
day. Eth! Wasn't she a great town?
Eth! Red Hot?" George was once in
the grocery business on First street
but the firm name was too much fol
this climate and the Winters of 1t was
too much for Frost.
c. b. Hawley can relate two tragic
occurrences. He witnessed the killing
of Harry Brown by Milt Yarberry. on
Sunday evening, March 81, 1881. and
the killing of Charley Campbell by
Yarberry on Saturday night, June IS,
of the same year. These were two of
the three cold blooded murders of our
whole history.
Ben Myers "a tell of his mining
and shipping by bull team, Rio Puerco
coal. our main supply hen coming
from Trinidad at $l2 the ton.
IT. G. Ames can tell of the tin and
hardware business, when s~tovepipe
was made by the cord and not by the
piece: Sibley stoves by the hundred
and hardware shipments by the car
load.
Billy Trimble drove from Kentucky
and brought with him the stock which
was the foundation of the still exist
ing stable of w. l.. Trimble & Co. He
arrived in old town in November, 1880
r. b. Myers can tell of the construc
tion of the big ditch and the then ne.
cessity of ii. Railroad avenue, from
First to Third street, was a bog. In
front of his store. now lis Railroad
avenue, was n of the holes where
native wool haulers would stall. He
could also tell of the sport the gang
had in calling some overloaded nav
Wy" from across the street to take
a drink and seeing him founder in
that same hole. II. b. kept a news
stand and confectionery. States pa
pers 10 cents; all magazines 80 cents,
r. Fl. Greenleaf will nev forget the
afternoon of June II, 1881, when the
Allison gang were captured at what Is
now 115 First street. II was an ex
citing time for all of us, wasn't it
Pap? I'll tell the story of that capture
one OF these days.
b. Ruppe has not been selling drug
all the time. For a short time in 1888
he was city marshal. If he don't re
member It. / can't blame him. He wal
younger then and those were troubloui
times.
John Brady could tell of the tim'
Charlie Wilson returned Unexpected!
and found a mule in the stall. How
that mule escaped through a rear win
dow, without a harness; how the no
torious Cora was driven out the from
door clad in shift, and how the offend
or Wilson took from the house bal
and baggage, clothing, furniture AM
ixings. piled them in the street AM
burned them: how Wilson afterward
came down town and was so knocke'
out in one round by Charlie Zeise
that he STAYED in bed for two weeks
and how that mule" arose from
railroad contractor to a railroad pres
dent.
w. II. Burke partially filled the biI
ditch soon after its construction Bill
couldn't use cactus and he had tende
feet in 1881. There was very rapi'