Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-11-09
The Golden
State Limited
This Large and Handsome
Train TO Be Resumed BY
The Rock Island People

Tho first train Of the Golden State
limited service will leave Los Ange-
lee for Chicago December 80, The
train win be operated daily during
che winter over the Southern Pacific
and Rock Island lines.
Engineers Langston and Lynch are
taking a lay-off from arduous duty at
the throttle.
Locomotive Engineers Bursk. Me
Quiddy, Sells and Martin and Fire
man Meyers are off duty on account
OF sickness.
Thos. Scully OF the Las Vegas
st~orekeeper's department. has swap
ped places with J. A. Peterson OF Ar
g~entine. Kans.
Engineers have been notified that
receipts for Insurance and all other
division dues may be found at the
Center Block drug store.
J.. n. Farwell. chief engineer OF The
Santa Fc Central. has returned from
Oswego. N. Y. where he was called
by the death Of his mother.
n. y. FRANKLIN, claim agent for tho
western division OF the Santa Fe, now
has offices on the co. ner Of Third and
Hill streets, Los Angeles, Cal,
Carlos Dreamer. who mas been
working at Estancia a. a telegraph
operator for the Santa Flo Central for
the past few months, is in Santa Re
to visit his mother.
Frank Gibson, a former telegraph
line reporter here and brother Of
Frank Gibson. nov holds a RESPONSE
bio position with the Santa Fc com
pany 1t San Bernardino. Cal.
The Railway club which was ye'
Gently organized At Alamogordo, N,
NJ, has now = membership Of $50,
The club has 4 substantial fund and
viii . add ! gymnasium TO its
many features.
Cleo. n. st. Clair, foreman Of thu
Las Vegas round house. employing
about sixty men 1t the present time
n n eastsrn gentleman with : loni
aAA yAf1sd experience In railroad me
chanicai matters.
No. I passenger train from the eaa
arrived N La Vegas on time Lar
euoningx The first time this has hal
1snsd II ! month. However. befor
n rnAay moons III thu Santa 70 train
t1ll 10 running With their usual pun'
tdsisv.
President Ripley ana party are tai
lex I trip Of inspection ri the 81
tire SANTA " System. II Il the firs
trip Mr. Ripley has made over Ia
lines since the Inauguration Of IN
machlnists' strike and The Optic |
reliably Informed that this trip Of II
spection ana Investigation will hav
much TO ~ wrh ! settlement Of til
trouble With these skilled laborerl
n. D. Gibbons. division master mi
canic. has returned to his duties I
the Las Vegas shops from artendin
the funeral Of hi4 brother. J. r. OIL
hons, In Albuquerque. Dceeascd N
Ia his fcrtyeighth year and unma
ried. Hssiived only twenty-four hcuI
aftsr reaching Albuquerque. dying
the s~anitarium there a pneumons
h was m old4ime railroad man
thsse parts. having been With A. ]
Roblnsoat u tAs early 'yois during 4
construcsIon Of the Santa Re ros
through New Mexico.
4 Feswses Las Vegas Conductor.
Recently nc Los Angeles Hera'
presented I large cut Of Conduct,
william Hixon. Who has just retire
froh tho service Of the Santa 70 ra'
ROAD altar forty year, n &c ~
conductor. Regarding lfailrcs
record the Herald says:
"Bflly~ Hixon began service on II
railway when ! young man. contin
ing for nearly forty years. bcsfd
which, ne held responsible county
ficial positions for several years
Missouri. He started A. telegraI
operator In 1857 on the Mad River
Lake Erie railroad In Ohio. He n
his first train a. conductor In ISL
The following year he came west nj
vas employed AZ telegraph operat
under Colonel II. c. Ciowry. mr.
OrAaideut ~ the Western lrniou !