Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-11-15

izlns a uentlst or TWO,
Fireman fyock Is sight seeing about
town today, not feeling well enough
to make his usual trip on the rails.
Brakemon Morrison and Chapman
are off duty today and Conductor
Hook has resumed his regular iua.
Larry Trainer has changed his res
idenco from Grand avenue TO tho
Earl Hollingsworth house on Eighth
street.
A. c, James, v~ice.president OF tho
H. p. 4 S. W. came up from El Paso
with a party in a special car this az
ternoon on route for Chicago.
Conductor ], f. Mulhern deadhead-
ed up TO La Junta last night TO pro-
tect No. 3. the California limited. on
the down trip.
II win be remembered that Engineer
Boomer took the Santa Fee prize en-.
CINE TO the worlds fair, an earnest of
his competency and c%arefulness.
A black cat by the name of Judge
Parker" having a white tip on its
tail, has been mysteriously missing
from the Las Vegas round house since
election day.
Five new machinists arrived at the
Las Vegas shops yesterday and were |
Immediately assigned to work. making |
about fourteen machinists in all en-
ployed here at present.
Passenger trains Nos. l, 3 and Z,
arrived in Las Vegas almost in a
bunch last evening. the delays being
occasioned by the freight wreck in
onoenlaker canyon.
f. G. Gilchrist, car clerk in the Las
Vegas freight office, Is filling Chief
Clerk B. l.. Coy's place, while the
latter is acting ticket clerk during
the absence of r. c. Larimore.
w. j. Fugate. the passenger con
who was drafted to serve his
country in the jury box, was excused
from serving in that trying" capacity
almost before court convened In Las
Vegas yesterday.
The L. A. to b. OF r. r. will give a
ball Thanksgiving evening at the
opera house In Ration. This will be
no exception to their entertainments,
and will be an enjoyable affair.
f. A. Ford. general passenger and
ticket agent for the Pennsylvania sys-
tenn, went south for California last
night in the special car Ranger" &C.
by his family and a party
If friends.
A steady upward movement in
rates commensurate with increased
,ost Of labor, material and other ele-
nents Of the cost Of conducting trans.
,~ortation Is expected by heads OF op-
departments Of the leading
'ailroads of the country. The era Of
heap transportation Is believed to
nave passed. i,
The Burlington handled a party of
seventy-six Filipino natives leaving
IT. Louis Sunday en- route to Seat {
lie, from which point they will leave {
18th in the Boston Steam. !
hip company's steamer fremont for
Manila, OF this party thirty-four are
~'isayans and forty-two Igorrotes.
Four call boys are employed by the ,
Fee company in Las Vegas for ,
lay and night duty. Alex ConnelI ard -,
Cd Heidel are employed in th!3 ca. ,
'acity at the local round house and
Ios. Murphy and Chris Wertz at The f,
ard office. 7
No. 3, the California flyer, made Its
initial daily trip on the winter sched-
lie into Las Vegas last evening about :
leven hours late. The mishap to
trains in Shoemaker canyon !,
; responsible for the provoking delay
n the first transcontinental trip OF 4
he fast and handsome train.
Charles Dyer, formerly division SUI .
erintendent at Las Vegas and sub ;.
.quently general superintendent of :
western grand division of the !,
anita Fe, visited Topeka recently. Mr.. !,
yer left the Santa Fe to enter the '
mploy OF the Colorado Southern. He .
ecently left that company to engage !,