Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-04-21
TRACK AND TRAIN

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Engineer Uhrig gets rest today.
Engineer Schultz is laying off for a
day
Fireman Banning has reported for
duty.
Engineer Purcell is among the lazy
ones today.
Engineer Caldwell is indulging in a
season of refreshing.
Fireman Eason is spending a pleas
ant vacation at home.
Engineer Connell has reported for
his nerve racking duty.
Fireman Nelson is as idle today as
any Industrious man can be.
Fireman Tighe will let somebody
else handle the big scoop for trip or
two.
Engineer Strawmatt is rusticating
and another has his place on the
carpet
The carpenters of the shops are
putting the Castaneda in apple pie
order for it's summer patronage.
Fireman Chopetel has been given
time enough off to enable him to take
in the ball tonight and get over the
deleterous effects.
Engineer Green will spend day
quietly at home letting man who
has been kicking his heels together
in idleness take southern run.
j. H. Sheridan, financier of the Al
buquerque Lodge of the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen has serrupti-
tiously departed for parts unknown,
and the lodge is out nearly a thousand
dollars.
Chas. Morehouse, freight agent for
the Santa Fe at Denver, passed
through the city today on his way
home from Albuquerque, whittier he
went to meet General Traffic Manager
Biddle
The grading Of the Santa lie spur
at Albuquerque to the location Of the
mills of the American lumber com
pany, has been completed, the steel is
going down and the line will be ready
for business in week.
Twenty-Five men, the first detach-
ment of an order for 100 laborers to
work on the Santa Fe Central, left
last night for Kennedy. From Ken
nedy they will be sent along the line
and engage in laying steel of the new
road
H. U. Nudge general manager OF
the Santa Fe, and j. E. Hurley, gen.
eral superintendent of the same road,
left Topeka for New York. where they
are to attend meeting of the Amer
lean Railroad association. They ex-
pect to be gone about two weeks.
An order has been placed for twen-
ty-seven more way cars to be construc-
tel in the freight car sheds of the
Santa Fe at Topeka. The men are
now working on an order of fourteen
cars. and as soon as they have finish
ed these they will begin on the new
order
w. B. Biddle, freight traffic man.
ager of the Santa Fe. passed through
the city on No. last night, bound fer
his headquarters in Chicago. Mr..
Biddle was accompanied by his wife
and the lady's parents The party
had been in California on pleasure
trip. Al day was spent in AloIguer-
que. 8 III s.aa4ss5As 90 ~
C. A. Schooley, a capable machin-
ist at the local railway shops, has
been appointed delegate from the I.
M. c. A. here to the big railway con-
vention of the excellent organization
to be held in Topeka April. 3O-May
3. The convention will be one OF the
most notable in the worlds history OF
" M. c. A. work.
James Spivey returned to Santa
Fe Friday from Kennedy, where he
has been painting and lettering sta
ton signs for each Of the stations
along the line of the Santa Fe Central
railway The signs are very pretty
and creditable to the road and the
painter. Mr.. Spivey also painted the
mile posts for each mile along the
road.
Myron j. German, Santa Fe Pa
cific brakeman, was found dead IN
Conductor F. A. Murphy's caboose at
Albuquerque Monday morning. Satur-
day morning German had been drink
ing heavily It is though his death
resulted from alcoholic poisoning. Ap-
parently he had been dead for thirty
six hours when his body was found.
German was a member of the B OF l.
T. He leaves wife. to whom he WAS
recently remarked.
Orders have bcen issued to all the
trainmen which Indicate the precau-
tion the Santa Fe cf1icia,s are taking
to protect President Roosevelt from
railroad accidents while travelling
across the country. THESE orders
make it imperative for yardmasters
and all trainmen to see that all trains
are sidetracked for twenty minutes
before the presidents special is due
This is done in order to insure the
special the clear at all times.
The station at Mesilla Park was
robbed last Sunday afternoon about
four o'clock The agent, Fritz, left
the depot in the office for short time,
locking the door, ana when he re-
turned found that some one had re-
moved pane of glass from the west
side, opened the window and had
taken from the safe about $40 in mon
ey, q gold watch and a revolver. There
is no clue as to who committed the
robbery.
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