Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-01-29
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Aachinist Hockett "a on the sick
list yesterday.
S2S babe aiieu to the repair section
a the shops yesterday and Is not out
on her usual run.
The mountain climber Of Engineer
6turrock Is In for repairs. No seri-
GUS disability is reported. merely over
strain In the high altitude.
Things are beginning to settle down
to the old routine again after the Elks'
ball, which many Of the boys attend.
cd. The next day Jagged = little but
few lay-offs were reported. All pres.
ent at the function declare that they
never had q better time.
George E. Roe, general agent Of the
Santa Fe at Kansas City, is in FL Paso
from a pleasure trip to California, and
viii leave in a few days for his post Of
duty. Mr.. Roe was recently trans
ferred from the division freight and
passenger agency at Ell Paso to Kan.
sas City, where he was made general
agent OF the system.
B. w. Nudge, chief clerk Of the Col
orado division OF the Santa Fe railway,
4 son Of General Manager H. U.
Nudge, has resigned the position in
Pueblo, to accept that of chief clerk
Of the general Offices of the Fort
Worth & Denver City railway at Fort
Worth, Texas. Mr.. Nudge will leave
for his new duties Tuesday. F. ".
Edwards, time clerk In the Offices. will
succeed Mr.. Nudge In Pueblo.
The rush Of fruit and other traffic
over the Santa Fe has been SO great
that the company has had to order
ave engineers from the north to take
trains out OF San Bernardino. that the
congestion of traffic may be removed.
Saturday afternoon there arrived En-
giners Dan Curgrue, Tom Erwin. D.
r. Judy and Henry Please, all Of
Point Richmond. There were five en-
gineers t~elegraphed for, but only these
four could be spared. They will re-
main on that division until the NOV
ing Of the fruit crop is over.
"A Land Company.
The latest in the way Of railroad
news for Roswell Is that the Off
cials Of the Dallas & Western have or
ganized a land company. This com
pany will be called the Western Land
& Townsite company and is formed
for the purpose Of forming towns
along the line OF the proposed road.
The company was formed in Dallas
the early part Of the week. A. P,
Wilgus Of st. Louis. Is the president;
e. p. Spears Of Dallas, vice president;
and Will "A. Miller OF Amarillo. the
second vice president and general
manager of the company.
Record Runs.
The conductors, trainmen and por'
tiers on the Santa Fe limited trains
make the longest runs, In that part Of
the service, Of any men in the employ
OF the company. One Of the long ones
Is from Kansas City to La Junta. Col.
and the long run back on the return
trip. They leave Kansas City at S:1C
o'clock in the morning and arrive a.
La Junta at 1925 p. m. All Of this
time is almost continuous running, this
train making but few stops. This IL
the only run on the road where the
conductors run through Dodge City
the other passenger conductors stop
ping at that place when they arrive
from either direction.
There is a baggageman on train No
Z through Hutchinson who runs from
Kansas City to Albuquerque without
stopping Of. This is the longest bag
gage run on the road. There are also
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some express employees who run trains
Nos. S and 6. This gives them long
hours but all Of the e have a lay
over which is long enough to give
them plenty Of rest.
How He Did u.
The Roswell Record gives the fol
lowing details Of how that man that
took the depot instead OF his train:
It seems that a well known CONNER
cial man, who comes to Roswell reg
ularly went to the depot yesterday
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