Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-09-20
Track and Train

Attorney e L sidebottom, Of Ala,
mogordo is sick with fever,
J. NJ, Walker, OF the store house
force, was at Weed Monday looking
after business interests,
There Is a move on foot among the
engineers and firemen at A|lamogordo
10 cut their extra list down about fifty
per cent
Mrs, j NJ. Walker was called to
Silver City Tuesday nrom %Alamogordo
by a telegram announcing the death
!. Of her brother.
Superintendent Dawson continues
sick with fever. Master Mechanic
T.. Gordon Of Dawson is filling Mr.
Dawson's office for the present.
Engineer Wiedenbeck who was I'M.
jured in the wreck at Watrous Satur
day had just returned from a yaca.
ton spent at Salt Lake City.
Engineer Young of the north end is
taking a lay off, His little daughter,
who has been visiting him, became
sick and he took her back to Kansas.
Engineer Pete Smith, of the north
end, left Tuesday morning on No. s
for st. Louis and other eastern
points, expecting to be gone about
six weeks.
Since August 18th last, engine fail
ures have been decreasing 100 per
cent which certainly speaks well for
the skin Of the employees of the shops
at A~lamogordo.
c. c. Boggs, E. p. & N. f. car in.
spector at Pintada, has resigned his
position at that place to accept a SINH
lar one on a Colorado line. Mr..
Boggs has been an employe Of the
company for the past year and a half.
1t is rumored in railroad circles that
if Theodore Roosevelt is elected presi-
dent OF the United States, w. b. Bid
die, freight traffic manager of the
Santa Fe system, will be elected to
fill the vacancy caused by the appoint
ment Of Paul Morton to the cabinet.
The washout situation on the McXi-
can Central seems to be about as it
has been for several days ana It is
hard to say when the line will again
be pen for through traffic. In the
meantime a stub train is being run
between Ell Paso and ~Chichuahua.
During the past year there has been
an increase of 900 in the number of
stockholders of the Rock Island road
common stock and 500 preferred. This
is about forty per cent in each class
of securities. Holders of the com
mon stock now number about %, 900
and the preferred 200.
s. f. Pelphrey has the contract for
building the stockade around the shops
and round house at Alamogordo. This
wall will be ten feet high with four
strands of barbed wire on top. This
is done to protect the material. An
opening at the north and south ends
will have regular guards night and
day.
Eight conductors OF the P~ennsylva.
mia railroad company are envied by
all the. others, and the reason Is good
and sufficient, says the PHILADELPHIA
Evening Bulletin. These eight are
arrayed in all the glory of the new
uniforms which the company intenls
to provide for its conductors, and
which, in addition to its beauty, does
not REQUIRE that its wearer shall be
an all-around atheIete and rubber
jointed man to get into his pockets
Pushing Things.
L. J. Post & Co, Albuquerque. N. NJ:
Sanea Fe, N. NJ, Sept 19.-Irder
= those six-foot scrapers at once. Have
them shipped to Albuquerque. Rus.
order. w. S. Hopewell. The above
telegram was received by e. J. Pos,
& Co, at Albuquerque. Charles F
Myers has telegraphed for the scra
pers and they will reach that city in