Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-04-13
Track and Train

Boilermaker ]. W. Cassell left All
buquerque Saturday night for Lawton,
Okla.
Boilermaker James Mitchell from La
Junta has cast his lot with the local
force.
II. W. Arnold Of Newton, Kansas,
has been made general foreman at the
Ration shops.
q. q. Hall, Machinist. at Albuquer-
que, has resigned and will SO east
shortly after pay day.
Harry Hartley, one Of the List Of ex-
ira conductors. is taking It easy for
d few days laying off.
Albert stevens. Austin Duyall, Fer
dinand staab and G. Easten have been
added to the list Of firemen.
Conductor James Hesson and fam.
ily will soon transfer their home from
san Marcial to Albuquerque.
Dad Cochran, formerly an engi-
neer On the Ration mountain, Is now
running an engine out Of Mexico City.
Daniel O'Connell Of the Albuquerque
shops. left Saturday for Omaha, Neb,,
called there on account Of the serious
Illness Of his father.
Jesse Uderdown, q former engineer
on this division, Is now round house
foreman Of the Mexican Central. ct
Mexico City, Mexico.
I. y. silk and Q. 4 Plat, boilermak'
ers Of the Albuquerque shops. have
resigned from the local shops and will
seek greener fields and pastures new,
The doors Of the round house which
protect the engines, are being chang
cd. Instead OF swinging out Is they
do al present, they will roll up hke
- 4 shadg. This will remove their be
ing in TIE way when opened.
II. ii. Kei, a machinist Of the AL
buqnerque shops, and wife passed
through the city last evening bouns
for Kansas City. After a visit there
they will go to Newton, Kas, wher'
MI. Keel will enter the shops.
j. Clusters has arrived in Albu
quernue from Topeka, and has take
up the duties Of store keeper witt
offices there, succeeding Srorekeepe
II. III. Rice, and is a young man g
recognized ability. He was very POI
ular III Topeka.
Owing to iii assignment Of all th
915 class Of enginess to the third q;
trict, some Of the latest arrivals
the list Of engineers will have to d
duty in firing. II is understood tha
about 4 half dozen mel will be a
fected I'M this manner.
Harry Rhodes, who for ten month
has had d clerkship with the compan
In the Ration store house, has resigne
his position and gone back to his HON
to Hoke, Kansas. He was a good ma
and a faithful employee whom the stol
house management regret to lose.
Going to Halifax.
g. r. Joughins. who has filled Il
position of mechanical s%uperinten
ent Of the santa re coast lines, passe
through the city yesterday on his WI
to Chicago. From Chicago he will (
to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he HI
accepted a position with the Int
Colonial railway. He severed b
connection with the Santa Fe on "a
Saturday. April 9th, and the office
now In charge Of r. H. Barber, Y
chief clerk. The company is loo
Ing for a man and the appointme'
OF a new mechanical superintendel
will be made in q few days.
New Scheme.
The Santa Fe has bit upon Q ne
plan to avoid damage suits throuf
shippers Of live stock. The Peco
Texas, Times. gets their informatit
through Inspector Tom Bell Of IN
road. who was there a few days 70
week. AS heretofore says y
Times, aMr. Bell win be stations
there 10 inspect all shipments Of IL