Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-01-12
TRACK AND TRAIN.

Nachinists Koler is putting in the
day in easy. laborless fashion.
Engine 1898 came in yesterday for
repairs on the steam apparatus.
Twenty-four more iremen have
been put to work during the past week
at A~lamogordo.
There are now about eighty cars
Of eastern coal passing through Dodge
City for the west every day.
Another of the big engines is in for
repairs. This time 1t is 936 and the
trouble is somewhere in the link-mo-
tons.
A considerable portion Of track In
the yards near the water tank Is being
relaid and put in better shape gen.
orally.
The Santa Fe still needs several
trainment to fill out the full quota
for the Ave new crews it is putting on
out Of Dodge.
The Santa Fe has begun storing
coal in the yards at Dodge and will
dump about 800 cars on the ground
just east Of the coal chute.
Machinist McIsaacs took a lay-off
yesterday afternoon. His friends be-
lieve that the social life which he in
dulged in on Sunday was too strenu-
ous.
The back shops and round house of
the Santa Fe at Topeka are being
wired for electric lights. power for
which will be furnished by the com
pany's own plant.
Engineer CASTOR has gone to Tope-
Is, Kans., to consult an eye specialist
In regard to his eye, which was in
jufed Tuesday by the explosion OF
the lu3ricator on his engine.
Engineer Seelover who proclaimed
himself yesterday on the sick list mas
sufficiently recovered to be at his ac-
customed seat by the throttle.
New tickets have been sent out
over the entire Santa Fe system. The
new tickets are about 900 in kind.
The old ones number nea 1900 and
we're very complicated. The new
tickets are very simple.
Daniel Sullivan, the Rock Island en-
gineer who was injured several weeks
ago in a collision on the Union Pa
cifc road, is lying in q critical con-
dition at Stormount hospital. His fam
lily has been summoned here from
Kansas City.-Topeka Herald.
At Alamogordo the following
named old firemen have been
promoted to engineers: J. F.
Donaldson, H. w. Williams. A.
Young, M. Saathoff. F. s. Kinds, A. II.
Barup, A. L. McClendon, 0. H. May,
s. A. Barnes. r. P. Cook and w. J.
Tricke.
Engineer Ben Williams, who was
suspended a week ago for running
over the Missouri Pacific crossing
near Pueblo without stopping. has
been reinstatei. 1t was found on
investigation that he had reasonable
excuse for the action and he was
given his same run.
The Kansas City Journal says:
The rumors that the Rock Island will
build its own tracks from Topeka on
entering Kansas City from the west,
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trance to this city in the near future,
are denied here. The Rock Island at
present Uses the Union Pacific tracks
from Topeka and the Burlington from
Cameron.
The conference between the Off
cials OF the Santa Fe and the commit
tee representing the firemen EN-
ployed on that road, has been brought
TO q close, but both of the officials and
the men refuse to say anything in
regard to the meeting. They say that
the meeting has been postponed In
definitely and that there Is nothing Of
interest 10 be given out.
New President.
L. F. Loree, the new president Of
the Rock Island system, Is now in
charge Of the New York Offices. and
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