Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-09-19


The Phoenix connection-The sill
vel City Independent has 1t upon re-
liable authority that the Santa IL mas
a surveying corps numbering between
fifty and sixty men surveying the pro-
jected line from Phoenix. The pres
ent intention is to ents !. New Mexico
somewhere in the Lower ella valley
and to run the line through The Burro
mountain district to Silver City. II
will requite quite a littl, time yet 70
complete the preliminary survey. and
upon the report of the engineers Will
depend the action Of the company.
The survey includes Globe and The
San Carlos section.
The promoters of the New Mexico
& Pacific railroad, which proposes to
build from Ration to ElizabethtoWn,
were in the city this week. The
party arrived in Ration Monday and
were entertained ait 7 o'clock dinner
by Jan Van Houten at his home. Tues
day the party were driven over the
proposed route by Mr.. Van Houten
and 4. s. Preston.
The delegation consisted of Thorn
as b. Harlan Of st. Louis, Henry
Kochler, president Of the Germania
Trust company; Hugo A. Koehler OF
the American Brewing company, Cap
tain H. S. Carroll, a railroad contrac-
tor, and w. A. Lambert and DR., Karl
vollmer Of st. Louis-Raton Gazette.
Santa Fe Calls A Halt!-1hird
Vice-President Kendrick, who has
been in the west for some time, look
ing over the Coast lines, with the
idea of cutting down expenses. has
returned to his headquarters In the
east. Just previous to leaving he
took a local official into his confidence
with regard to the cutting down of ex-
penses. Mr.. Kendrick said: There
is no chance Of making the proposed
improvements on the Coast lines this
wear. The Santa Fe has decided to
cut down expenses for the time being
and many other western roads are
doing the same thing. During the
past five years the western roads
have spent enormous sums on i'm
provements and it is now positively
necessary that this action should be
taken"
The police of Wichita, Kans., are
looking for two negroes who are sup
posed to have assisted Cora Johnson,
a negro now in the city jail, in rob
bling Taylor Reed, an Orient contrac-
tor, Of $3.50. According to Reed
himself, he had the money in his
pockets when he was attacked by the
trio in an alley within half q block
Of Douglas avenue, and while they
laughed at him they went through his
pockets. 1t was done SO quickly n
good naturally that their victim did
not realize that he was robbed until
he heard them running down the
alley. He Immediately notified the
police, who arrested the woman on
suspicion just as she was boarding a
train for Pueblo. Colo. None OF the
missing money was found on her.
Reed lives In Hutchinson. He had In
tended to invest the money in Texas.
Roads Short Of coaL.-The coal
situation among the railroads now Is
causing some Of the officials to sit up
nights and do some heavy thinking.
While there is no immediate danger
OF traffic being interfered with by a
coal shortage, 1t is now q fight among
the roads to get hold Of coal in sufi-
cient quantities to keep the engines
supplied for the present consumption
and at the same time store some for
a rainy day. The trouble between
the miners and the operators in the
Colorado coal fields Is responsible IN
q great measure for the limited sup.
ply at Newton. The Santa Fe has
been drawing TO some extent on Its
storage coal and the amount that the
company has stored on this and the
western grand division has diminish.
ed until there is less than 5000 tons
In storage now. where twenty times
that amount was stored last year at
the same time.