Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-05-27

work yesterday after an extended lay
of.
Engineers Franklin and Englehart
are among those laying of recuperat-
ing.
A. e. Powell. route agent for Wells
Fargo Express company, returned to
the city last night from a trip to the
north.
T. A. Boardman, a clerk at the local
Santa Fee freight Offices, left this morn
ing for Newton, Kan, to visit his
parents.
W. E. Ogston, fruit and refrigera-
tor man for the Santa Fe, was in the
city yesterday and left for Winslow
last night.
The cattle rush, which has peer ex-
pected, is now on. Three trains passed
through the city yesterday and six
more today.
James Peoples, section foreman at
Riordan, died the other morning of
heart failure. The remains were taken
to Flagstaff for interment.
Brakeman Campbell and M. Walsh
have handed in their designations at
Las Vegas and will search for a posi-
ton in a more agreeable cline.
Engines Nos. 051 and 0140, recently
doing duty on the Rio Grande division.
have lost their usefulness and have
been consigned to the scrap heap.
p. b. Davis and w. E. Floyd, two of
the Santa FEES switchmen at Winslow,
have been transferred to road service
and will run between Winslow and
Seligman.
The American Association of Trav-
November 10 as the date of the an
nual convention, which is to be held
at New Orleans, La.
G. F. Easley, Esq, attorney for the
Santa Fee Central railway, left yester-
day afternoon in company with Gener-
al Manager w. S. Hopewell for a visit
TO the Hagan coal fields.
Walter Nelson has resigned his posi-
ton at the local Santa Fee Pacific shops
and left last night for Chicago. Walter
has a number of friends in this city
who regret his departure.
The Topeka State Journal says: J..
f. Robertson, of the machine shop,
drew his time Saturday. He will leave
shortly for Albuquerque, where he will
probably again go to work for the COM
pany.
Chief Engineer r. B. Burns, of the
Santa Fe Pacific vas at Flagstaff OF
Monday, comforting with George E.
Sullivan, the agent here, with regard
to needed improvements in the local
yards.
Superintendent of Machinery c. M.
Taylor, of the western grand division,
is reported as having said hat the
man who will succeed Master Mechanic
been selected.
George E. Roe, district freight and
passenger traffic manager for the San
ia Fe, with headquarters at Ell Paso,
arrived last night from the north and
today is attending to local matters of
official business.
w. S. Hopewell, the hustling general
manager of the Santa Fe Central rail-
road, returned to Santa Fe Monday
from a trip of inspection along the line
and left for the Hagan coal fields again
in the afternoon.
Two hundred Navajo Indians who
have been laying steel at Mellen the
past few weeks, passed through King
man on their way to Yampai, where
they will lay steel through the canyons
to Peach Springs.
The Winslow Mail says: John M,
Spiers went scouting Tuesday morning
for $50 Indian braves for the Holmes
employed on the Santa Fe system, to
be distributed along the line between
here and Needles.
Brakeman Morrison, while stepping
from one car to another at Lamy Sat
urday night, missed his footing and
fell, dislocating the cap of his knee
and causing a very painful injury. He
was taken to Las Vegas and at last ac-
counts vas doing nicely.
Engineer John r. Kirk returned to
Las Vegas from a trip to California,
where he thoroughly enjoyed his vaca-
ton sporting in the ocean waves. He
is now ready to assume his RESPONSE
bilities at the throttle, feeling much
better than when he left.
Edward Lavelle, of this city, an
experienced railroad man. is laying
track for the Santa Fe Central from
Kennedy TO meet the gang laying from
Torrance this way. Lavelle has
about fifty men working under him,
and wants about twenty-five more i'm
mediately. Wages from $1,75 to $500,
and good spikers receive s2.25.
The survey for the new line of rail-
road from Congress to cross the Colo
RADIO river neal Parker, has been COM
pleted to a connection with the main
line of the Santa Fe at Amboy, Cali
fornia. The road passes through one
OF the richest mining sections of Ari-