Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-03-21
TRACK AND TRAIN.

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Henry G. Collins, engine watcher at
Wagon Mound. has passed in his res.
ignation.
]. G. Gordon and Rix Shaver, boiler
maker helpers, have drawn their time
and will leave for the east.-Albuquef-
QueCitizen.
Gull LaRue of Albuquerque, has re-
signed at the local machine shops and
viii 20 with the Denver & Rio Grande
at Burhnam. Colo.
Mrs. Hart, wife Of g shop machinist
At Alamogordo. was successfully ope,
rated on for appendicitis by D. Geo.
O. Bryan at the hospital there.
The following machinists have sew
cred their connection with the local
force: VIM. r. Devine. August Gall
lard, Chas. v. Williamson and VIM.
Gohr.
j. NJ. GRADER. general superintend-
ent OF the Union Pacific railroad.
visited Denver for the first time since
he took the reins Of his position and
Is accompanied by a company Of gen
eral officials Of the road.
The Chicago C Northwestern rail
road has issued a complete wal mar
OF the field Of operations where Rus
STA and Japan are fighting, The maps
are supplied to the general agents,
who make a nominal charge for temh.
The round house is again open to.
business. The first engine in after
the opening Of the new turntable was
one of the 500 class and came In Sat
urday night. Since then a number Of
engines have entered and the usual
work is going on.
William Fredericks, office boy in
the santa Fe ticket auditing depart
ment at Topeka, Is sick at the Santa
Fe hospital in that city with an at
tack OF appendicitis. 1t is expected
that il viii be necessary for him TO
undergo an operation.
I'll Paso & Northwestern train No.
"A, north-bound on Monday morning
while between Corona and Torrance
met with an accident. A journal un
der the water car was burnt off and
and the car derailed. The track was
torn up about a quarter of a mile
Train No. 3 was delayed about ter
hours.
The places on the water run a
Lamy made vacant by the resigna
ton of the ~pTeYicus crew, have beer
filled BY Engineer A. Lowe ahd Fire
man A. Peeler. The new crew wen
down yesterday to the Albuquerque
shops to bring up the engine, which
has been undergoing repairs in tn
Duke city.
VIM. Lee, car inspector met Will
an accident at Winslow the othe
night. One of the men engaged il
filling the water tanks on the coache
dropped an iron hose nozzle from tn
top Of the coach onto Mr.. Lees head
Lee says it is the first time he ha
been completely knocked out 70
many years.
General Agent A. II. Moffett Of III
Rock Island has resigned for the pun
pose Of engaging in private bushes:
says q dispatch from Denver. Hi
resignation will take effect Tuesda.
He will be succeeded by Charles |
Sloat. formerly agent Of the sam
road at Denver.
Officials Of the st. Louis & Sa
Francisco railway have announce
that q new fast train to be know
as the Hummer" would be put o
between Oklahoma City and Quannal
TEX. April /. It will be a night trai
and will permit Kansas City and )
Louis passengers to go straigl
through to Texas without delay.
According to a telegram receive
from Topeka, Kansas, r. X Srthe
land will succeed J. II. Carman J
superintendent Of the FL Paso diyisio
of the Rock Island, and will probabl
take up his duties on that diyisio
the first Of the coming month. NJ
sutherland has been occupying III