Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-02-11
TRACK AND TRAIN.


3. A. Mcdonald has succeeded Jack
Beck as night yardmaster at Winslow.
The Santa Fe is soon to build q new
store house at San Bernardino which
will cost $4,000.
The Santa Fe will help the town Of
NEEDLES build q viaduct across the
tracks at that place.
Engine 1928. which has been in the
shops for slight repairs, went out
about her regular work yesterday.
Two big 900 oil burning engines
were in the yards this morning en-
route to the coast division from To
peka.
A plat of the albuquerque Eastern
railroad into the Hagan coal fields
has been filed in the office Of the
Territorial Secretary ]. w. Reynolds.
Engine 1924, a simple cylinder en-
CINE, made q run down from Ration
yesterday. These engines are in use
east Of Ration, bat this is the first time
that one has come in this direction for
a long time.
Engine 1853, which has been getting
her joints supple after a considerable
lay-up in the hospital, is working
nicely and was sent back to the fast
nesses OF the Glorieta mountains this
morning to resume her regular task.
Canadian Pacific railway officials
announce that the company has been
condemned by a British judge in Hong
Kong to pay the Chinese government
$480,000 for the sinking of a Chinese
gunboat BY one of their steamers, the
Empress OF Japan.
The total mileage Of railroads open
to traffic In Japan at the end OF 1900
was 4,025 miles. OF this mileage LOGS
miles belonged to the government and
1896 miles to private companies. The
outlay for the construction was SOL
900, 900 on the part of the government
and $103, 900. 900 by private companies.
E. S. Cook, the truck man at the
Ration round house who received q
broken arm about six weeks ago, I'M
der q pair Of falling trucks. had the
plaster cast removed from the injured
member the other day, but he will be
unable to resume work for three or
four weeks.
Owen Mastie, yardmaster for the
Arizona & New Mexico railway at
Clifton, Arizona. met with . myster-
ious death recently. After making
q coupling he sprang from between
the cars and fell dead. Ma mark OF
injury was evident on his body. He
was formerly OF Deming, where the
remains were taken for burial.
The Golden State Limited on the
Rock Island last week killed n man
and injured another In exactly the
same manner Both were unaware OF
the approach Of the Limited and step
ped out onto the main track from an
engine on a side track into the way OF
the flyer. One was an engine cleaner
at Three Rivers, Otero county. and the
other a Dalhart fireman.
President r. M. Murphy and Super
intendent Drake of the Santa Fe lines
in Arizona are out on a tour through
the country that will be tapped by the
Phoenix & Eastern. and 1t is rumored
that they are looking over some pro-
posed changes in the route. For
some time there have been rumors
that the road would not go to Benson
as the first surveys would be made.
The committee having In charge the
arrangements or the machinists' ball
IL hustling about on its mission. The
tickets have been put on sale and are
going fast, although the dance does
no take place until the oath or March.
BY mistake OF the printers the union
label does not appear on the tickets.
but the machinists want It to be known
that they belong TO the organization.
Firemen's Grievances.
The Ration Reporter says: VIM.
McGrath, who was representing the
locomotive firemen at q conference
with the oficials OF the road held In
Topeka, is in return and reports hav.
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