Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-03-01
TRACK AND TRAIN.

ment yesterday for some work.
Machinist Kolar is on the sick list
and it not at his post Of duty to-
day.
e141 has left, having outlived its
life Of usefulness. It is said that It's
destination is the scrap heap at Ra-
ton.
weber & Fields theatrical com
pany was taken from Albuquerque as
the second section Of No. 4. It pass.
ed through the city at about half-past
four. The section consisted Of seven
ears.
Simpson Maxwell, who was formerly
i machinist here, writes to his old
friends from San francisco. where he
is established In the hotel business.
He says hat the Pacific coast is the
place to 60 and That the hotel trade
is the real thing.
The Albuquerque division. more es-
pecially the third district, will be in
. bad way for water unless the pres
ent drouth abates. Walnut dam is
empty and other storage dams are
going dry, and there is not q ~suficient
amount Of snow in the mountains to
put water in the dams with the spring
thaw. It looksn oW as though the
third districts water supply will have
to be hauled from Winslow and Del
BIO.
The story Is o floating around
among the shop officials here in To-
peka that Vice-President Kendrick
while in the city q few days ago
started to pass through one Of the
gates of the yard fence, and on hay
ing no pass from the superintendent's
Office was compelled by the gate keep
err to go around to the gates by the
super .~ntendent's Office for entrance.
The funny part OF 1t is that the gate.
keeper Is ignorant yet as to the fact
that he turned down a brass collar"
Topeka Herald.
Neal Stammen, an electrician Of
st. Louis, and Miss Clara Mccormick
Of Ramona were married on the Chi
cago. Rock Island & Pacific express
while 1t was making the ffteen-min-
ute run from Ramona to Harrington,
Kans. Stammen and a clergyman
were aboard the train when 1t reach
ed Ramona and Miss Mccormick
boarded it there. The end Of a car
was cleared and the ceremony was
performed while the train was going
at a rate Ct fifty miles an hour. The
bride and bril-. Sroom proceeded to-
ward st. Louis, where they will reside.
The Coast Auditor Dies.
Arthur Scott Jennings, auditor Of
the coast lines of the Santa Fee rail
road, died al his home at POOL Union
avenue in Los Angeles Thursday af-
ternoon about 1 o'clock. Although q
sufferer from tuberculosis for more
than a year, he had not been confined
to his bed until the day Of his death.
At the breakfast hour he told his wife
that he was not feeling well and did
not think he would get UP for a while,
but as the day wore on he gradually
grew worse. DR.. Morrison vas sum
moned about half an hour before
death came, but the dreaded disease
had done its work, and medical aid
was OF no avail. At his bedside were
his wife and his 9.year-old on. Mr..
jennings went to Los Angeles last
August to take the position OF audi.
tor or the coast lines Of the Santa Fe
railroad, and although a consumptive.
was able to take care Of the RESPONSE.
bilities d~evolying upon him In that
capacity until the day Of his death,
For three years previous to his going
to that city he had held the same 20
sition with the Gull. Colorado & San
Ia Fe railroads at Galveston. Tex. He
was q railroad nan Of wide expert
ence, having taken up the business
when a very young man in his OLD
home In Illinois. Through application
and hard work for many years he has
been regarded in railroad circles Al
an efficient official. His untimely
death will be mourned by all WHIT
knew and were associated with him
He was devoted 20 mis- family. a good
husband. a good father. and the wifi
and child he leaves TO mourn hi'
loss are heartbroken.