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

bought a tract Of ground near indie
pendence, Mo-, where they will open
a quarry and establish q rock crush.
er. The track between Kansas City
and Topeka is to be raised.
The Santa Fe railroad has filed suit
against Crawford county, Kans., to
recover several thousand dollars taxes
which it paid under protest, alleging
the tax levy to be one mill higher
than statutes allow.
Santa Fe officials at Kansas City
are still busy with the freight which
was destroyed in transit during the
recent foods. Since the floods there
has hardly been a day that w. j.
Healey. freight auditor of the Santa
Fe, has not been out on the line look
ing after this part of the work. Many
cars Of freight were standing in the
Kansas city yards at the time Of the
flood and were almost totally destroy
| ed. while others received only slight
damages. All Of this freight had to
be gone rel and that which 1t was
| thought would be accepted was taken
to Emporia for distribution. Some
freight which was not totally destroy
ed was distributed at that point and
what was refused was sent back TO
Kansas City for storage. Some freight
remains TO be distributed, however,
and this is now being handled at Flor
ence. The Santa Fe now has about
twenty-five men at that point looking
after this part of the work.
Fireman Tingley was practicing
target shooting with a 22-caliber rifle
at Lamy the other day and is now
sorry that he ever aspired to become
a marksman. He became tired of
shooting at inanimate targets, SO Sc
lected a Incorporating burro which
was grazing upon a distant hillside,
and thinking that the aforesaid burro
was too far away to get hit, blazed
away at his living target. The first
shot failed to reach the target, and
the burro grazed on as though moth
ing had happened, but the next shot
struck the New Mexico nightingale
behind the foreleg and penetrated the
heart, sending it to the happy hunting
ground for burros, much to the sur
prise Of Ward McADister Tingley.
That comprises the prologue. The
first and last act is made up entirely
of the angry claims of the wne of
the burro, who appeared OF the scene
and demanded an exhorbitant
price for the life of his animal.
Tingley finally compromised the case
by paying 50 and is now a sadder, but
wiser man, and hereafter when he
practices shooting he will select a
target that does not cost so much.
Great as has been the extension of
the Rock Island system in the last two
years, it has by no means reached
its lisait. Plans have been airesdv
adopted for further extensions, to be
completed within two years, which
will add very materially to the mile
age of the whole. Among the aces
sions decided upon are the following:
In addition to the recent purchase
of a half interest in the Houston and
Texas Central, an interest in Houston,
East and West Texas, Houston and
Shreveport, and San Antonio & Aran-
sas Pass is certain. The position of
the Frisco and Rock Island lines in
Texas makes either of these lines 49,
sential or else the building of lines
to parallel them. Parallel construc-
ton is the last thing that the Rock
Island proposes.
Frisco and Rock Island trains will
run from Memphis to New Orleans
and from a point south of Memphis
across country to Houston and Calves
ton. In this territory, also, the sys-
TEN will avoid parallelling existing
or projected lines. The routes will
be obtained, but in the obtaining of
them neither their future o the fu-
ture Of the lines Of the Missouri Pa
cifc or Iron Mountain will be endan-
gered.