Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-06-24

Lis the end of the line. When the
| Choctaw is finished to Tucumcari the
work will be started from Santa Rosa
to albuquerque, and the shops at San
ia Rosa will be enlarged to accomm0-
date the Choctaw road.
j. j. Byrne, general passenger agent
for the Santa Fe coast lines, wife and
daughter passed through the city yes
terday for the east, where Mrs. Byrhe
and daughters will spend the summer
months with eastern relatives and
friends.
William Peterson, who has been fir
ing west of Albuquerque, has gone 10
work on the San Marcial division as
brakeman. He is the son of Engineer
Chris Peterson of the Silver City
branch, aud used to live in San Mar
cldl Wueu d UUy.
J.. A. Harlan. who is building The
San. Marcial depot, received the good
news that he had been awarded the
contract for five of the nine new brick
and stone buildings to be erected at
Fort Bayard. Their construction will
occupy fully a year.
The Santa Fe Central people have
given up the hope of having trains
running into Santa Fe by July I. They
won't even be there to help celebrate
the Fourth. 1t will take at least an
other month to complete the railway.
other month to complete the raillay-
ing.
The Santa Fe will sell tickets from
Las Vegas to San Francisco for $35
for the round trip for the occasion OF
the national G.. A. r. encampment,
August 1922. The tickets have a thir-
ty-day limit. There will be reduced
rates at all points in the state of Cal
ifornia during the time.
r. S. Van SAINT, of the ticket audit
ing department of the Santa Fe, re-
signed his position Saturday and left
for Topeka, Kans, where he has Sc
cured a position with the Swift Pack
ing company. A. X. Carson OF the
freight auditors Office succeeds him
in the ticket auditing department.
Conductor C. s. Lemon, formerly OF
the Santa Fe limited and overland SER
vice, who has a host Of friends here,
is surely climbing both the ladders Of
fame and fortune. Profits" a Phila-
/, delphia trade publication, comes out
with a first-page interview Of Lemon
and a very good half tone. He tells
the dear public all about the fortunes
which he alleges are to be made at
Tonapah by certain investments. He
is vice-president and general manager
of the Tonapah & Rhodes railroad,
which at present exists on paper.
What might have been a fatal ac-
cident occurred at the crossing OF the
Santa Fe tracks and Fourth street
in Topeka Saturday morning. Two
! Santa Fe switchmen by the name of
Henry McDade and Fred Austin we're
riding on the rear footboard Of a
! switch engine. The %footboard had
t probably been jammed al some time
) or other, for as the engine was cross
5 ing Fourth street the board caught
on the edge of the sidewalk and was
) pushed back underneath the tank,
thus depriving the two men of a foot
hold. Austin was thrown clear Of the
( engine, but McDade was not quite so
S lucky. The wheel caught his shoe,
E but he kept his presence Of mind and
$ with a quick pull wrenched his foot
$ out OF the boot, thus saving his foot
from being crushed. The wheels pass
ed over the shoe. The fact that II
was a congress gaiter was all that
saved McDade from being a cripple
d the rest of his life.