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

railways kill an average of 100 per.
sons a month.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works
turned out last year L-520 engines with
q value Of $50 900 900.
OH burners 1895 and sos have been
brought in from the west me will be
~overhauled in the local shops.
w. r. Stubs has the contract for
building the Choctaw, Oklahoma &
Texas railroad from Amarillo to Tu-
cuneari.
Victor Proctor, bridge foreman on
the SaHya Fe Pacific, under Superin-
tendept d. A. Shope, is in the city buy
ing supplies.
The Ethiopian railway having been
completed, a number of Americans
are engaged in exploiting the territory
through which it runs.
A clever calculator estimates that
there are in use by telegraph, tele-
phone and trolley companies in this
country 10, 700, 900 poles.
In a head-on collision near Bryan,
Ala, on the Southern railway, on
Tuesday, three engineers, bur firemen
and one brakeman was killed.
The Canadian Pacific railway has
made the announcement hat it will
spend 81 goo 900 to destroy the United
Brotherhood of Railway Employees.
Charles F. Easley, one Of the attor-
neys 1Or the Santa Fe Central rail
way, returned to Santa Fe from a visit
on legal business to the Hagan coal
fields.
West bound passenger train No. z
OF Thursday passed through the city
this morning at 9:4s o'clock, running
as second No. 7 Of last night. 1t car
Med very few passengers.
The conductors and trainmen or the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul and
the Wisconsin Central roads have
been granted an increase of wages of
from 1914 to Is per cent.
There are now about six hundred
mon employed on the construction Of
the Phoenix & Eastern railroad, build
ing from Phoenix to Benson, and the
work IN being rushed as rapidly as pos
sibls.
1t is said that an engineer on a Kan
sas railroad has made a request to be
allowed to run faster than sixty-five
miles an hour because a jack-rabbit
has been making fun OF him on his
run.
The Santa Fe is sonding its trains
into Kansas City by way of the Mis-
souri, Pacific, the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas, the Wabash and a fourth line,
but expects to be using its own track
by tonight.
c. B. Bosworth and j. ]. Smith, DEM
ing ~railroaderS, went to Wilcox, Arizo-
ma, one day last week. Mr.. Smith re-
turned to Deming, while Mr.. Bosworth
made a business trip to Tucson before
returning.
p. F. Schenfieh, roadmaster of the
fourth division of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad, spent Thursday in
Santa Fe on business. He left yester-
day morning for his headquarters at
Antonito, Colo.
The Victoria railway station in Lon
don, England, is to be rebuilt at a cost
of $4,000, zoe. The building will be
seven stories high. The station has
the record Of training $4,000 passen-
gers in n hour.
The Santa Fe railway will give one
fare for the round trip to the Fourth
OF July Central Labor union celebra-
ton in this city, and will also issue
thousands of posters and circulars an
%nouncing the big celebration.
Major Waddill writes to the Deming
Graphic as follows: have definite in
formation that the Phelps-Dodge COM
pany will buy the Santa Fe road to
Silver City or build to Santa Rita and
Hanover, probably the latter"
Monday morning the offices of the
FL Paso & Southwestern and the
Southern Pacific railroads were con-
solidated and the business of both
roads at Deming will be transacted at
the Southern Pacific offices in the I'M
ion depot.
The Coronado Tent City band, with
A. A. Weiss, of Cincinnati, in charge,
will be in Albuquerque tomorrow after
noon. A free concert, lecture and ster-
eopticon exhibition at the corner OF
second street and Railroad avenue in
the evening.
Fireman Joe Wilson, who was in
jured out at Winslow a couple of
weeks ago, n has been in the local
hospital mending, was out for the first
time since the accident last night,
c. o. Young, foreman of the pattern
department Of the local shops, and
wife returned home this morning from
Los Angeles, where they have been