Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-06-04

ed TO WOrK AFTER enjoying q ldy-OH Oh
several days duration.
Engineer August Zeuz. who has been
laying off some time suffering from an
innamed eye, is again able to be at
work.
Travelling Engineer William Daze
was in Albuquerque yesterday.
Fireman Hugh Quigley, who has
been visiting in Texas, has returned
here and is again at work.
Jesse O'Neal, agent of the Ell Paso
& Northeastern at ~Alamogordo, and
Miss Loretta Lullman of st. Louis
were united in marriage in st. Louis
on June 1, After a trip through the
south, the happy couple will return
to Alamagordo.
Boilermaker J. J. Miller has resigned
his position in the shops at Ration and
will leave in a few days for Spokane,
Wash.
J. f. Lobdell, formerly in charge of
the Harvey house at Ration, has beer
appointed superintendent of the dining
car service on the Denver & Rio
Grande.
John Scott, after several months
absence during which time he resided
at Springfield, Mo, returned to Ra-
ton and has accepted a position in the
engine service Of the Santa Fe.
A. F. Villepigue, for several years
past manager of the Harvey house in
Ration. left for Trinidad. where he will
l.,-- g A. r@,lz,oH hAtn1
being the elegant new structure put
up by the Santa Fe at that point. Mrs.
Vilepigue and children are still at Ra-
ton, but expect to go to Trinidad in
a few days.
]. B. Schreck, the well-known and
popular machinist at Las Vegas, left
for Montana, where he will join a par
ty of friends and spend the summer
camping out in the Yellowstone park.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen at Las Vegas are making ex-
tensive preparations for their ball,
which occurs at the casino on Friday
evening, July g..
Superintendent J. F. McNally, of the
Rio Grande division, arrived this MORN
ing from San Marcial and is spending
the day in the city. He will return
south tonight on passenger train No.
q.
jeff Bell and Chris Nelson, two Albu-
querque boys. who have just finished
learning the machinists' trade at the
local shops, left this morning for
Chicksha, Oklahoma, where they will
enter the Rock Island shops.
John r. Kirk, the well-known Santa
Fee engineer, has recently invented a
se~lf-locking or gravity" nut which is
applicable to all kinds of mechanism,
but more especially for bolts used
with fish plates in track laying. Mr..
Kirk has sold a half interest in his
invention to Mr.. Petit, car foreman
in the Las Vegas shops. The gentle
men have applied for a patent, which
they expect to receive very soon.
The Santa Fe company now has
plans for enlarging the shops at La
Junta. which, when completed will
cost the company about $50, 900. At
the present time the company has
Dol 100 men employed in the car
shops alone and in order to provide
working place for them the addition
to the shops is to be made.
j. H. Conlen, division superintendent
of the Chicago, Rock Island & Mexico
Railway company, will o move his
division headquarters from Dalhart,
Tex, to Tucumcari, n the machine
shops will also be moved.
At the meeting of the grand lodge of
the Switchmen's Union OF America,
just held in Indianapolis, Ind, a reso-
luton was adopted condemning sym
pathetic strikes and favoring the set
Element OF all differences by arbitra-
ton.
For some time the Santa Fe passen-
ger department has been issuing a
booklet called the Santa Fee" but it
is now said that the copy just issued
will be the last, and that the company
will spend the same amount OF money
in other channels, which, 1t is thought,
will bring in better returns.
Grading has commenced on the Rio
Grande & Southwestern railroad be-
tween Lumberton n the timber belt
around Gallinas in Rio Arriba county.
The road will be about forty miles in
length when completed and will open
up the extensive timber section on the
headwaters of the Rio Gallinas.
The Santa Fe did a kind act for
those of its employees who suffered in
the iood at Topeka by paying them
their wages in advance so that they
might have some ready money to meet
the demands the unfortunate occur,
renee will bring upon them.
ROSWELL HEARS GOOD NEWS.
The Survey Party Pushing Rapidly