Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-09-03
Motto Is Live and
Work without dictation."

have organized themselves inlo az
independent Order Of Workmen,
The motto Of the new lodge is, "Niye
and work without di%ctation,' and is
The direct opposite from union or
CARNATIONS.
. The order has now over forty men,
hers in Albuquerque and Is on the
same plan as the independent lodges
being formed on the Union Pacific.
Boilermakers and machinists compose
the membership, which began with
twelve and now has reached nearly
half a hundred.
A meeting will be held in the near
future to elect officers and the mem
bers believe that they will receive Of.
ficial recognition from the railroad
New Rio Grande Shops.
Within a short time work on the
new Rio Grande machine shops and
roundhouse, in Denver, will be com
menced. Contracts for tearing down
the buildings now located on the site
are being prepared and this work will
shortly be begun. There are twenty
three buildings, large and small, that
will have to be removed from the
yards. Among these are the old de-
pot, the r%oundhouse, the machine
shops, the coal buildings and a num-
Der of others. The intention OF the
company is to make the new machine
shops the finest In the country. They
will be large and will be equipped
with the latest machinery and ap-
pliances, and when completed will
handle all. the work for the Rio Gran
de division ending in Denver, ana
for the Missouri Pacific as far east
as Hoisington, Kansas. The round
house will be of a size to aceommo-
date from forty TO sixty locomotives.
Trouble Coming. +
A message was received IN Dallas
by the Order of Railway Telegraph
ers from President Perham at Sc.
Louis, stating that he had learned
authenticity that the stockholders
of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas are
becoming impatient because OF the
delay of the settlement Of the strike
and that they propose taking the
matter up themselves with the oper-
ating department with a view Of hav-
ing the matter adjusted,
The officials Of the railroad com
pany at Dallas headquarters cont
nue. to assert that sd far as the com.
pany Is concerned there is nc strike;
that they have all stations opened,
and are selecting the best applicant
for positions az operators and station
agents.
The trouble, however, is apparent
~ very acute and approaching a
crisis, as the new cotton season
necessitates the best Of telegraph
service.
Mrs. Doyle, wife of Conductor Rich
ard Doyle. Of the New Mexico diyi-
sion, left Albuquerque to visit at her
old home in Trinidad.
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Sd Sheridan, a former Albuquerque
machinist, was married this week at
Dodge City, Kansas, to Miss Daisy
Hughes, also formerly Of that city,
Travelling Engineer C.. +. Thomas
of the Baldwin Locomotive Works,
has entered the st. Joseph's hospital
at Albuquerque for a purse Of treat.
ment.
It is learned that ". Vizzetti, the
competent and popular superinten.
dent of Fred Harvey's eating houses
on the Santa Fe coast lines, is slow.
~ recovering from a surgical opera
tion performed on him at the Los An.
geles railway hospital.
Bids for the construction Of the
new III Paso union depot will not be
opened until September Is.
The date of opening them was
postponed from August Is owing to
the fact that all the contractors were
no ready with their estimates and
some Of them asked for the delay.
For the territorial fiar the Santa
Fe will sell tickets TO Albuquerque
and return from all points between
Denver and FL Paso, Texas. Hhe
rate from Santa Fe TO the fair will
be s2.65 for the round trip, dates oil
sale October 9Th TO 1ith inclusive,
good for return limit until October
nth, 1904.
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