Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-11-18
Track and Train.

Santa Fe Pacific at Gallup, N, NJ,
IL stopping at the Rawlins house with
his wife.
p. w, Zimmerman, claim agent for
the Santa Fee, came up from Albuquer.
que last night on another of HIS per
iodical trips.
No. 3 passenger train from the
east, the California limited, did not
reach Las Vegas till about s o'clock
this morning.
s. +. Busser, superintendent of San.
Ia Fe reading rooms, was a west.
bound passenger. after a brief visit
in Albuquerque.
Mrs. Upton Hays and two little
girls, family of the passenger con-
ductor, left Las Vegas for Missouri
points on No. s last night.
The remains of Brakeman Seals Of
the Santa e who was killed at Up.
ham station Monday night, will be
sent to Syracuse, Kans,, for inter-
ment.
r. N. Moffatt Of the local bridges
and buildings department left Las
Vegas last night for Denver, having
been transferred to that point. He
was accompanied by his family.
+. M. Bisbee, resident engineer for
the Santa Fee covering the New Mex
leo and Rio Grande division, has been
visiting Las Vegas and Albuquerque.
His headquarters are at La Junta.
The Santa Fee Railway physicians
association will meet in convention In
Topeka, December Sth. DR.. ]. M.
Diaz, the physician at Albuquerque
for the company, will attend and read
a paper.
w. j. Black, general passenger
agent of the Santa Fe al Topeka, who
was injured in the Upton, Mo-, wreck,
is able to be out of the hospital for
brief periods. He hasn't recovered
enough, however, so that he can as
sumo his duties.
William Lewis, foreman of the local
car department and superintendent of
the wrecking crew, has returned from
Shoemaker canyon with his force of
employees, having cleaned up the de-
bris from the recent head-end coils
ion at the Shoemaker switch,
At the directors meeting of the
real estate exchange, to be held in
Denver tonight, a resolution will be
presented asking the legislature to
enact laws for the creation of an eff
ficient state railroad commission sim
liar to those in ether states.
A. l.. Walden Is day yardmaster in
the Las Vegas yards; NJ. Fredericks,
day foreman In charge Of the goat"
and Jess Peyton and Ross Obermesser
are day switchmen. Hannah is night
yardmaster here and w. G. Heidel is
night foreman in the yards.
1t Is rumored that r. E. Marshall,
formerly station agent for the Santa
Fe at Glorieta, will soon return to
Las Vegas from the Indian Territory
and he connected with the freight de-
partment here, His family arrived
in the city about two weeks ago.
r. NJ. McVickers, formerly with the
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern rail-
way, has arrived at San Bernardino
with his family, to assume the posi-.
ton of machine shop foreman, to sue
ceed John Phillips. who was recently
promoted to the general foremanship
at Albuquerque.
H. B. Hubbard, who. once upon a
time not very long ago. was voted the
most popular conductor running into
and out Of Las Vegas, In a newspa.
per voting contest. has been called
to Glenwood Springs, Colo. by the
alarming illness OF his mother. He
left on No. 8 last night.
Engineer Charles Ginter is at the
throttle during the daytime On the
engine Uncle Dick" which has been
Inundated to the place Of an humble,
ordinary switch engine In the Las
Vegas yards; Engineer Billy Grey be-
ing in charge of switch engine 1888
which does the putting, blowing and
snorting at night.