Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-12-17

freight which travels to Kansas City
On a circuitous route. II would give
quicker service from Nebraska points
to Kansas City. The plan is a tena.
tive one, and has not yet reached the
stage where any surveys have been
made. The Rock Island has not a foot
OF Main line into Kansas City. 1t
uses the Union Pacific tracks from To-
peka and the Burlington tracks from
Cameron, Mo.
Increase Of Force: Orders were is
sued Saturday for the employees of the
Pennsylvania railroad shops in Allie
ghany to work full ten hours a day,
with overtime when necessary, to get
out the work. Between 1000 and 5000
additional men will be given employ
ment. The company finds that it has
not enough men at work to get out
engines and other rolling stock to
handle the winter traffic.
Buys Engines: The Missouri Pacific
railroad has ordered fifteen new loco
motives Of the type used by the Bur.
lington road between st. Louis and
Kansas City. Several weeks ago these
lines exchanged engines for a week,
the Burlington using one of the Mis-
souri, Pacific engines on the Ell. and
the Missouri Pacific fast mail was
pulled by n Of the big Burlington
engines. The engine is a compound
Of the Atlantic type, carrying two
with trailer wheels. It is adapted to
q pressure Of 200 pounds Of steam.
Ran Over a Brake eam-The
Santa Fe train the other morning
coming around fro Highland toward
Los Angeles had a very narrow es-
cape from being wrecked within a
short distance Of the station at Red
lands. Upon passing Ninth street
near the packing house on the way to
the station, it encountered a large
brake-beam lying on the track. 1t
was too low to be caught by the fen
der, and, as a consequence, the engine
and all the train ran over 1t. The
strange part OF the occurrence is the
fact that all the trucks kept the track,
Notwithstanding that the beam was
about four inches in height.
New Mileage Books: The adoption
the new mileage book, which has
been the great question before the |
for some months past, espec-
tally the Rock Island and the Santa
Fe, has finally been agreed to be the
latter road, but o by the Rock ISL
and west Of the Missouri river. The
book is good for 1000 miles and IS
sold for $50. This makes the traveller
passable on all roads as long as his
book lasts. When the tickets are re-
by the conductors of each road
md sent into headquarters the amount
mileage service given by each road
. paid over to the respective compan-
In q certain length of time. The |
Santa Fe has adopted this book with
n the last few days and the books are
.aking the place of short service tick
It's among the travelling men OF the
titles along the route. The good re-
by all is that considerable time
$ saved and. most of all, the bringing
II the different roads into a mutual
agreement, which has been looked for
ward to for some time is realized.
Bound Home: The first and third
quadrons of the Fifteenth cavalry Of
he United States army. under the
Command OF Lieutenant Colonel Rog
RS, passed through Ell Paso last night
n route from the Philippines to Fort
ethan Allen, Vermont. says the Ell
'aso Herald. Hhe Fifteenth cavalry
as been in the Philippines for over
We years. The two squadrons came
rom the Islands Of Mindanao and Jolo
espectiyely. where they have been sta,
ioned. The troops came in on the
'outhern Pacific and left over the Ell
'aso & Northeastern. Lieutenant
loss OF A troop, first squadron, upon
eaching FL Pas0, learned OF the seri.
us Illness Of his brother In Houston,
and leaving his command here,
G went TO his brothers bedside over
he q. II. The soldier boys travelled
] two trains, as first and second Sec.
ons of No. 10 into Ell paso and left
5 extras out of FL Paso over the
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