Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-02-03
TRACK AND RAIN.

| seriously SICK this morning.
| p. Callahan went down to Ribera
station this afternoon TO begin a JOB
| of stone work for the Santa Fe COM
pany.
| DR.. Michaels, formerly of Las Veg
as, has accepted the position OF com
pany doctor on the Dawson branch Tor
Geo. S. Good & Co.
Carl Zetterman has resigned his
position with NJ w. Mills at Springer
and will again go to work for the San
ia Fe at Las Vegas.
Engine 9S7, Jumbo will make
three test trips on the south end be
tween Las Vegas and Glorieta. the
iron monster went down the road this
morning, hauling 1,100 tons.
George Crandall left Springer Tor
Belen, where he will be employed BY
big contractor on the Santa Fe cut
off out of that point east, as time
keeper.
Conductor A. l.. Forkner is holding
down Conductor j. NJ. Leseney's pas
senger run a few trips, the latter be-
ing off duty on account of the illness
of his wife.
Clinton Jones, of San Francisco,
the richest passenger agent in the
United States, has resigned He rep
resents the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific, and is reputed to be worth
100000.
Mrs Fred Eckles, wife Of the rail
road man residing at No. 1904, Dia-
mond avenue, died this forenoon, leay-
ing two small children The remains
of the wife and mother, whose death
is so deeply deplored, will be shipped
to Chicago tonight.
The sleeping car tickets bearing
revenue stamps returned oy the Pull
man company to the treasury depart
ment at Washington, for the rebate
due in consequence of the abolition
of the war tax, filled thirty-six cases
and weighed 210 tons. A half-dozen
clerks will spend six months or SO as
sorting the tickets
It is reported that the telegraph in
struments of the Santa Fe operating
the line from Hillsboro to Lake Vel
ley will be removed and "a telephone
system will be installed; also that the
present agent, G. A. Hallock, VINO
has made many warm friends ours s.
his stay at Lake Valley, will soon
leave for other parts.
Last week somewhat of a change
was made at the Santa F'e depot. Nick
Kranawitter, who has for some
months been night operator, is now
day operator and manipulating tie
express and baggage department a
Mr.. Elliott is night operator. and
Agent Parrish attends to nothing lat
the work of the agent Spris-st-
Stockman.
The Pullman Car company has post
ed a notice in Pullman, ILL.,, announc-
will be paid for nine hours work to
every man employed in the works.
Nearly 5000 men are affected and
more than $4,000 will be added to
the companys payroll each month
One thousand extra men will be en-
j ployed to do the work performed in
the tenth hour by the old force. En-
ployes of the Pullman company in
Denver to the number of 400 are jub-
liant over this bit of news.
Willard S. Hopewell, general man.
ager of the Albuquerque Eastern rail
road, on which active construction
terview with the Journal-Damoera
Saturday, that neither tne recent com.
bine between the Santa Fe and Rock
Island systems nor any other railroad
maneuvre could possibly affect the
building of the Eastern. Work will
be pushed rapidly on the road and
Rock Island trains will be running in
to Albuquerque long before the East
ern railway of New Mexico has been
built from the Rock Island junction
to Rio Puerco.
A Southern Pacific railway employe
in talking of the Tucson wreck says
l eA0l AIh6AAOCA AA5A Gill VI LII sr1D III .
is certainly a lucky man. 1t was In
grams time to go out with the fatal
No. 8 from Lordsburg, but feeling. I'M
well he decided to lay off for trip.
| who met such frightful death in
the wreck. About six weeks ago In
gram had another and similar lucky
escape from death. He stepped off
his engine at Lordsburg, and short
time afterwards its boiler blew up,
almost completely demolishing the
iron monster. A still more peculiar
feature of the circumstance is that
1t was this same engine which was in
the Tucson disaster.
Seventy-five freighters are going
back and forth all the time between
Belen. N. M. and the railroad camps.
1t takes them about two days and a
half to reach the furthest camp. at
the summit of Abo Pass. There are
five OF these camps at present, one
on each side of the river at Belen,
and the other three from twenty five
miles out. There are now at work
between $50 and 400 men. while 275
teams of horses and mules are toll
ing away at the wagons and scrapers
and grading machines Track is laid
almost to the river. and as soon as
delayed materials arrive the work Of
building the bridge will begin. a. T.
Howard, superintendent Of bridges
and building, says that it will be COM
pleted in forty days after the first