Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-01-02

California limited between AIbuquer
qfe and Las Vegas. this season. Is
held by Engineer KIRK IL this city.
With Engine 1850 he made the run
Tuesday liz three hours and tifty.fYe
minutes, which is the fastess run ever
made by this train between tie poil.s
named. The train vas IN large Of
C1nd:cto. tlde.t ard Eli i aear Kirk
had fireman Montgomery with him.
Sues MexicancentraI: Suit has been
filed in FL Paso by the Colorado Fuel
and Iron company against the Mexi-
can Central railway for $4,000 al
legged to be due on account, The com
plant is brief and simply contains the
allegations that the Colorado Fuel and
! Iron company, through its local rep
resentative. from the first day OF
June to the first day of October, sold
to the Mexican Central Railway com
pany coal and track spikes to the
amount Of $4,000, for which the lat
ter has failed to pay and for which
sum the plaintiff demands Judgment.
The local banks and some Of the
railroads doing business In this city
are summoned as garnishees in the
action, on the theory that they may
have money in their possession be.
longing to the Mexican Central com
pany. The plaintiff has filed a bond
for s2,0oo.-El Paso News.
Santa Fe's New Ticket System:
It is announced that January 1, the
Santa Fe road adopted an entirely
new form of coupon tickets and the
millions of tickets now in use over the
system will be called in. checked uI
and destroyed. The work of issuing
the new tickets will be done under
the supervision of the passenger de
partment and the work of checking uI
the old ones will be handled in the
Office OF the ticket auditor. The worl
coming at this time will necessitatt
the employment of several new
clerks. About 900 different forms O.
the new tickets are to be put on salt
at the different stations along thu
company's lines and something like
800 forms Of the old tickets are Il
be checked up. II is thought tina
it will take about a month to accomp
lish this part of the work. II is stat
ed by local officials of the road tina
the great difference in the number o
forms between the old and new tick
cts is the principal reason for tn,
change. In the last issue of coupon
tickets 1900 different forms Wer,
handled but in the issue Of the nev
tickets this amount has been Gu
down to about 800. Thus it will b
seen that as the result of the adoption
Of the new ticket by the Santa F
/ the company's ticket agents will onl,
, be required to handle 900 differen
!, forms of coupon tickets where here
a tofore it was necessary for them I
: familiarize themselves with twice tn
a number. According to an explans
ton of the tickets given by a loca
official of the Santa Fe, the principe
) change has been made in the ticket
' that are to be used when it is nece'
e eary for the agent to route the pas
j senger over another road. Hereto
g fore the agent has kept a differen
form for each road in stock, but here
s after the ticket will have the name
of all of the necessary roads printe
e upon it is that the agent will onl
!. have to punch the road that is n
\ quired. The new coupon tickets tina
: have just been adopted by the Sal
) ia Fe were originally the charlotte
s ticket, but since the Santa Fe ha
g taken hold Of it it has been change
{, SO that not much Of the old ticket +,
8 mains.