Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-09-26
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RAILROAD NOTES.
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Cade Seivy, special officer on the
Santa Fe coast lines, is in the city
from Los Angeles.
Superintendent SIZE n, of the Har-
vey eating house, accompanied by
Mrs. Stein, is IN the city today.
Adelaio Delgado. a machinist help
or, has gone to work in the local
shops. He halls from Santa Fe.
Dan Elliott, the trainmaster. with
headquarters at Las vegas, is In the
city today attending to his duties.
Special Officers A. d. McEvoy. sta
toned at Isieta, is in the city today
or court matters. He is proving a very
vigilant officer.
A machinlst helpers union was or.
ganized Friday evening by Hartman
II. Wynkoop, district organizer for
the American Federation OF Labor.
They number about sixty.
C. A. Shope, the superintendent OF
bridges and buildings OF the Santa
Fe Pacific. with headquarters at
Winslow, is here today, Inspecting the
IRE ruins at the local shops.
w. l.. Horn. the popular night ticket
agent at the local depot. left this
morning for Topeka, where he will
reside in the future His successor
here Is Toney Werries from Newton.
Kansas.
Trainmaster Coughlan, OF the Rio
Grande division, arrived last night
from Dodge City, Kansas, accompan.
led by his family. Mr.. and Mrs.
Coughlan will make their home in AL
buquerque.
Earl Kirk, machinir.. who has
been employed In the Newton shops
for some time resigned his position
and will go to winsiow, Arizona. He
has accepted position there as gen.
eral foreman of the Santa Fe shop.
A grievance committee representing
5000 employees In the car and locomo.
tive shops OF the Chicago & North.
western railroad is IN conference at
Chicago considering action to be taken
grant a better wage scale.
A Newton. Kansas dispatch says.
The resignation OF II. A. White. a con-
ductor on the M. & NJ branch. who
has seen fifty years OF service. thirty
OF which he has run a train on the
Santa Fe, makes the following
changes: Conductor Kugler goes
from the passenger pool south to the
vacated run, Conductor James takes
the pool and J. G. Jackson from
Strong City branch takes run 527 out
o? here.
The new transcontinental freight
rates affecting California and the en-.
tire Pacific coast will be put into force
October ~. Railway freight officials
have just made this announcement
for the benefit OF the shippers and
merchants who regulate their pur-
chases and shipments for the trans
portation charges. Some commodi.
ties have been raised in price, a few
were lowered and a large number are
differently classified. Copies OF the
new schedules will be out In about a
week.
A dispatch from Topeka says:
There is much talk or railroad
from Denton and Decatur through
this section to Roswell. N. NJ. and II
is said that work is being done at Ros.
well on the grade. However true or
fQlaA N lie al Ia. l.,
needed through this country TO de-
velop its farming interests, and II
would be a paying Investment. open.
ing. as II would, scope of country
22O miles wide by 900 miles long that
Is not touched by road.
Engineer Seelinger, who was so
badly hurt by being knocked from his
engine and by falling through the
bridge on which his engine was pass.
ing, the falling being a thirty foot
distance. has since been In the Las
Vegas hospital. where DR.. J. p. Kas.
ter surgeon In chief OF the Santa Fe.
has arrived to assist Doctors Shaw
and Smith. the Las Vegas company
doctors. in performing a surgical OPP
Grafton. On Wednesday, Seelinger
gave the first indication OF conscious
ness. exhibited during the entire
month since the accident. Dr. Shaw
asked him II he knew him and the
patient replied. "Dr. Shaw" Later |
reports say that DR.. Raster refused to
perform an operation, saying II was
altogether useless as only the vitality
of the patient was keeping him alive,
and when this snail be exhausted !
death will inevitably follow. the end |
being only fastened by any operation
reducing the vitality.