Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-03-05
TRACK AND TRAIN.

n6. $3,044 passenger thAes VI ~ooh
41s passenger earnings for the quar-
ter ending December 81.
There is one person killed for every
day in the year In the streets OF New
York; the most prolific causes q TINS
mortality are street car accidents ana
careless driving Of horses and autos
The section house at Homer, out
west, was robbed the other day q
some razors, knives. canned goods
etc. Two men are under arrest sus-
pected Of the robbery.
An Official circular has been posted
Il many Of the Santa Fe railway
shops notifying the men Of 3 change
IN the gernishment rules Of the com.
pany on and after the list of March
any employe who is garnisheed Will
be suspended until the matter Is set
tied.
According to the New York Even.
ing Post it was learned definitely that
he New York Central had recently
secured s5,OoO.O 900 from banks Of that
city on a short term basis. The loan
carried with 1t 4 - per cent inter.
cat IN addition to a commission. which
makes il net the lenders about 5 per
cent. The loan is understood TO run
for ten months.
cruber's New Order.
j. N. Gruber, % general superln.
tendent 81 the Union Pacific, has Is.
sued an order that every package q
freight less than a car load must be
weighed. A system of scales has been
installed at local freight houses which
are used BY I'VE trunk roads. A saw
Inc 81 between 100000 and $2Oo,ooo
! year is estimated as compared with
he old custom of accepting weights
given by the shipper on the way Dill
A Swift Ceremony.
Neal i ammen, all electrician q
ST.. Louis, and Miss Clara McCormief
of ramona we're married on the chi
cage, Rock island & Pacific express
while It was making the fifteen min
ute run from Ramona to Harrington
Kansas. stammen and a clergyman
we're ABOARD the train when it reache'
Ramona and Miss Mccormick boarde'
il there. The end Of a car was cleare'
and the ceremony was performe
while the train was going at q ray
of fifty miles an hour. The bride an
bridegroom proceeded toward ?
Louis. where they will reside.
Double Track Texas Pacific
Geo. Gould stated that the Miners
Wells road will be extended to TIL
idad, Colo, to connect with the Del
YER & Rio Grande line, thus giyin
that system a trunk line from Y
northwest to the gulf via Weatne
ford. Fort Worth and the Internatio
Al and Great Northern. II IS also u
intention to double track the TEX
4 Pacific from Weatherford to TO
worth. There is already enough ste
and ties at Mineral Wells to build J
miles of the track. The Goulds ma
~endeayored for years to secure &C
troll Of the Fort Worth & Denver roa
but having failed. concluded 70 bn'
from Texas into Colorado.
Oldest EmpIoye.
IL Is said that Jonas STAFFORD
Dodge city. Kans., is the oldest 2
ploye of the santa Fe road. 81 cour
there are some disbelicsers but u
certain that some distinction IS q
Nj. stafford. Jones Stafford beg
york for the Santa re in 1868.
that time he was employed on
track between Atchison and Topeka
charge OF a construction gang and
has never left the service since. J
fourteen years in succession he
not eve lose an hour in laying 2
At eighty years Of age be Is sui =
and hearty and untfl recently has
charge Of the reading room at DO
city. He is now on the compar
pension roll.
The executive comittee Of the v
ern pass agreement met at Chic
and arranged 10 prevent the issua