Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-04-13
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TRACK AND TRAIN

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Fireman Jones will rest for a short
time. gnr 5
Engineer Evans is under the
weather.
I Fireman Banning is marked up on
the sick list.
The 833 is being overhauled in the
local round house. s@n
Engineer Lynch has reported Tor
his strenuous duties.
Engineer Danfelser is taking an en-
forced rest. It's the doctors orders.
Firemen Bailey and Fletcher, after
a season oof rest, have reported for
duty
1 P--W. Zimmerman, claim agent for
the Santa Fe in New Mexico, left
this afternoon for his home in Albu-
querque.
No. 2 passenger train from the
south, which arrived yesterday a lit
tile late, was delayed here for an hour
while the coupling gear of the bag
gage a was undergoing repairs.
The foundation is being prepared
just outside the engine house for the
stationary boiler, now doing duty in
side. The inside space is needed for
the new air compressor and both sta
tionaries will operate from the exte-
rior.
The bridge crew is down at the
burned bridge, near Romero to-day.
The ties on one side of the bridge
were well scorched, but through the
able efforts of the trainmen, assisted
by enterprising passengers, the great
err part Of the structure was saved.
w. A. Coombs, of Kansas City, as
sistant general live stock agent of he
Santa Fe, who came here to adjust
the losses on the car load of blooded
horses that had the tumble at Ribera,
left for Missouri yesterday afternoon.
1t has been learned that r. H. Bar
Der, chief clerk to Mechanical Super
Fe, is to leave Topeka shortly for Los
Angeles, where he is to fill the posi-
ton Of chief clerk to Mechanical SUI
perintendent G. R. Joughins of the
Santa re Coast lines.
The grading on the Santa Fee Cen
trail Railway hear Moriarty has been
completed and the entire out
fit of graders commenced work on the
Albuquerque Eastern. The camps
have been moved to the line of the
Albuquerque Eastern and are located
about two miles from Moriarty. Work
will be actively pushed until the grade
into Albuquerque is ready for the
track.
Several grading outfitshave arrived
at Tucumcari and begun work on the
ChOctaw extension from Amarillo to
Tucumcari. Contractor Chearne has a
contract for thirty miles of the work,
including the first ten miles out of
Tucumcari. The contractors out from
Tucumcari to the state line are as
follows: Chearne, j. A. Sparks, Court
ney Bros, w. j. Pitman, Johnson, Du-
vail & Co., G~odcharles Bros. and Jerry
Connolly.
Pumper O'Brien, of the E. p. & N.
E. at Pintado, while attempting to
cross the railroad rack from the sta
ton building to the pump house Tues
day night, was knocked down by a
moving train and killed. Mr.. O'Brien
was attempting to cross the track
ahead of some freight cars that were
being switched, when his foot caught
In the frog and the moving cars struck
him in the left temple. which killed
him instantly.
Ford Harvey, n Of the owners Of
the Harvey system, and wife passed
through the city or No. s yesterday
morning, bound for Kansas City. Mr..
Harvey, while at Albuquerque, accept
ed the pans of the fine new hotel to be
built at the Grand Canyon. 1t will be
a quaint structure of unhewn pine
logs, and rough stone. The furnishings
will be Of orential richness. Mr.. and