Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-11-16

trial Is slightly different from that
formerly filed.
Nearing Completion.
Only fifty miles of rails remain to
be laid on the new Salt Lake line,
between Salt Lake City and Los An
geles. The western half has jul.
been completed to Leastalk, a station
on the Barnwell branch OF the Santa
Fe road.
William NJ, Seaman, head of the
commissary department of the con-.
pany, returned to Los Angeles from
a trip over the newly constructed
tracks. He said that standing on 4
promontory between the extremities
of the TWO halves of the road. he
could plainly see the smoke from the
engines on both sides Of him.
John A. Ross, travelling engineer.
came in from the east last night, with
his wife.
Wyatt Johnson, night hostler at the
local shops. left today for a thirty-day
visit to friends in Kansas.
Ben Young has been doing double
duty as car Inspector, owing 10 the
sickness of Lou Gipple of that depart
ment.
Lewis Allmon has come to Las We
gas from Stewartsville, Indiana, and
entered the employ of the Santa Fee
company.
The Santa Fe Central has put men
to work preparing 10 lay a switch to
accommodate the Gross-Kelly people
at Estancia.
II. M. Creary, the travelling auditor
of the Fred Harvey curio department,
has zone to Williams to check up the
store at that place.
Drawbars were out of whack on
passenger trains Nos. 1 and 2 last
evening. the latter being held here a
half hour or so on this account.
Two cars Of structural iron in Con-
ductor Blackshere's train became en-.
tangled some way on bridge No. 353
In Inflated Shoemaker canyon ye5ter-
day afternoon and delayed the south.
bound trains for several hours.
No. 3 passenger train, the Califor-
MIA limited, did not pull into Las
Vegas till 7:25 this morning. the de-
lay having been occasloned by the
derailment Of some sheep cars at
Upton, up the country.
w. r. Mize Is day operator at the
Las Vegas yard office; Theodore
Thompson, index clerk: Pierce Muir.
ply Is day car sealer and Harry
Payne holds down this job during the
Silly darkness of the night.
M. II. Dice, a former conductor run.
ming out of Las Vegas, subsequently
in the employment Of the Lewis Shoe
and Clothing Co, here, Is now a divis-
ion round house foreman for the Mex
lean Central people down In our sis.
ter republic.
Charley Haynes, the erstwhile pas
senger brakeman out Of the Meadow
City. going thence to the Santa Fee
branch, passed through for the Capt.
tai city last evening. accompanied by
his wife, on the return trip from the
st. Louis expo.
Because the Colorado & Midland
railway ran a train into Denver thir.
teen hours late. thus depriving Attor-
ney Ernest Morris of the privilege Of
voting on election day, he has filed
a suit for $4,000 damages against
the corporation.
The travelling passenger agents, as
ISOLATION Is to hold its annual meeting
in the City of Mexico next month.
and members will begin arriving
there on the 18th. On the 18th the
agents are to visit the shrine OF Quad
alupe. At night a ball will be given.
J. M. Nortman, assistant general
passenger agent for the Union Pacific
railroad, died on passenger train No.
2 between Gallup and Albuquerque.
The remains are being prepared for