Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-11-26
Depot Force
All Resigned
Discharge Of Baggagcman At
FL Paso Results In General
Step Down and Out

A little trouble has just arisen be.
tween Agent Rochester OF the Santa
Fe and his employees, which has left
the station short handed. says the III
Paso Herald. II appears thar there
has been trouble brewing at the sta.
ton ever since he took charge, when
he %inaugurated a different policy to
that of his predecessor, Agent Wood
ward, in the handling Of the employees.
Tho matter was brought Ia a head
when Mr., Rochester night before last
advised Baggage Agent Putnum that
he would have no further need for
his services.
Putnum has been with the office
for nearly three years and Is next
to the oldest mar in The station and
consequently his removal caused
quite a little surprise, and was the
signal for all the old men In the Of.
flee. except two, to resign, effective
as soon as they can be relieved.
superintendent McNally, at San
Marcial, Is expected to arrive tomor-
row. when it is thought the matter
will be smoothed up.
w. S. Reid, a a inspector, Is a
visitor from Ration today.
Fireman Billy Holmes boarded No.
Z last evening for a trip down to FL
Paso.
Brakeman Brannon was employed
In Las Vegas yesterday and sent up
to Ration last night.
General Manager II. U. Nudge left
Topeka on a special train for a trip
over the Pecos Valley line.
r. M. Spivey. general inspector for
the Harvey system. reached Las Veg
as from Trinidad last evening.
H. c. Short. a prominent official Of
the Santa Fe. with headquarters at
Topeka, has been visiting Las Vegas
and Albuquerque.
Operator Church of Chapelle Is on
the sick list, a chest of medicine hav.
ing been sent down TO him from Las
Vegas yesterday.
Charles Damon. a repair track en-
ploye at Gallup, N. NJ, lost his thumb
while lacking up a car. He is now
in the hospital at Albuquerque.
Mrs. F. Meredith Jones and chill
dren, family of the Santa Fee locating
engineer. are preparing to leave Las
Vegas for California for an indefinite
stay.
w. r. Phares of Parsons, Kansas,
IS the new operator at the Santa Fe
depot in the Capital city. Cashier
Bishop Is attending to the duties of
Agent Fl. S. Lutz during the latter's
illness.
The new general superintendent OF
tho Colorado & Southern railroad ap.
pointed to assist General Manager J,
NJ. Herbert will be Joseph II. Young
at present general superintendent OF
the Rio Grande Western. with head
quarters at Salt Lake City.
Orders were received by all of the
ticket agents in Pueblo, Colo. who
represent the transatlantic STEAMSHIP
companies concerned in the rate wa.
to restore at once all passenger rates
to the level that existed before the in
auguration of the disastrous fight.
DIR. j. j. Pattee has been appointed
railroad physician at Gallup. N. M.
in place of DIR. Clayton. resigned.
D. B. Summers, a well known SAINTS
Fe engineer of the lower division. Is
In albuquerque from San Marcial
visiting his wife, who Is stopping a,
the home of her fatherin-law, J. A
Summers.
Florence, the ni~ne-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs H. S. Lutz, diei
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