Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-08-01
TRACK AND TRAIN

Fireman williams is at work.
Engineer Denniston is taking a lay
on.
Engineer Langston is on the sick
list.
Engineer Reed has gone back to the
throttle.
Fireman Tingley still minds the
medico.
Fireman Boatman is still under the
weather.
Enrineer Brown is among those
who are resting.
Engineer Steward is at it again al
ter a short term Of rural life.
h TAX. a big passenger engine, IS
being. o~yerhauled in the round house,
Fireman Tanner takes a tiny term
~ troublesome time in the tall I'm
Der.
Engineer McQuiddy, after q long
siege Of hard work has gone 70 the
hills.
Fireman Strawmatt has the tlreu
feeling and will stand at ease TOT .
day or two.
Engineer Hodsworth, whose speciai-
~ ia hard and steady work, will take
Just one trip of.
Machinist l.. D. Richards has q
reckoning to settling with several Oh
his associates who object to his meth
cd Of suiting himself.
Fireman Graham. who has been on
the sick list for two weeks, was taken
to the hospital yesterday. The young
man has 4 severe attack Of stomach
disorder.
According to a recent and accepted
computation, railroad stocks whose
par value is g, 400, OOo. 900 can be
bought today for $1,122, 10000 0 less
than 1t would have cost to buy them a
year ago. Industrial stocks with q
al value Of 81. $50, 0o0, 900 are cheaper
by $s44, 600, 900 than they were in
July, 1902.
The stockholders of the Western
Pacific Railroad company have form
ally authorized the directors OF the
company to issue $780, 900, 900 worth
of bonds, redeemable in thirty years.
It was stated that the company has
fourteen surveying parties at work
mapping out q route from San Fran
cisco to Salt Lake.
There has been during the past few
days a revival of the rumors that
the Pennsylvania Railroad company
Is planning to get a foothold west OF
the Mississippi river and that this is
to be accomplished through a pur-
chase or traffic agreement with the
Santa Fe. The declaration that this
is merely a repetition of an old story
that has not solid foundation to sup
port 1t has not served to remove the
impression that there Is at least
something In It,"
A dispatch from Hutchinson, Kan
sas, says that the body OF G. E. Lon
uecker, who was killed In the Santa
Fe-Missouri Pacific wreck. VA ship
ped to his former home In Bartlett
Kans. At the coroner's inquest beine
held the Santa Fe trainmen all sssti
ned that their train stopped for the
crossing and three passengers testi
0ed that It did not stop. Three Mis-
souri, Pacific passengers testified tina
their train did not stop. The examin
alton viii be continued tomorrow
when the Missouri Pacific trainmeF
will be examined.
Fence Around the Shops.
The high board fence which is be
ing erected around the Santa Fe shop
ut Topeka Is nearly completed. Thu
fence will be . great Improvement
All Of the men will have to come init
the yards through the gates made 10
this purpose. It IL said that each mai
Is to be equipped with a card an
that he will have to show his car
to the Waterman at the gate befor
he gains admission to the yards. TIL
real purpose OF the shop oficials 4
building the fence was to reduce tn
great number OF thefts which occu
every night at the shops. Formerl
a great amount OF material was lus
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