Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-06-29

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Save the Coupons.
sent out from Los Angeles, with war
rants for the arrest of several per.
fsons, 1t is stated that the striking
f~naechinists were in no way implicated
in the trouble.
Runaway Train.
A special from the San Bernardino
Times1ndex says: y
This morning at ss15 a runawas
train passed.through here, but no one.
was injured.
An extra west bound freight train
left here at $50 this morning with
eleven coaches of the interurban type,
and a caboose on the rear end of it.
As they We're taking the siding at hex
for No. ?, the fifth a drawhead from
the rear end pulled out.
The DISCONNECTED section started
down the steep grade. A brakeman
placed a red flag on the head end OF
the now wild train and set the hand
brakes and rode to Java. Here the
train slowed up some and he jumped.
At Kimefelter the westbound local
took the siding for No. 2 just in time
to avoid a head-end collision with the
wild train.
AT Needles two specials of sol.
diers were on the siding for No.
2 and a large crowd was gathered
about the depot. The main line was
cleared. The wild train dashed through
at thirty miles per hour, creating much
excitement. The brakes were burn
ing up. Immediately the yard crew
pursued with the switch engine and
caught it on a small grade four miles
east Of this place. II Is considered
most fortunate that no serious acct.
dent occurred as the chance for sew
eral was very great. Had No. 2 been
reported late as it was, a soldier train
would have been badly wrecked.
Conductors Strike it Rich,
President Frank A. Irwin, and DE-
rectors Harry johnson, Robert Troupe
and o. K. Mopse OF the Dalilart Mining
company, have returned to Da!hart,
Texas, from the inspection of their
properly at Good Fortune, New Mex.
leo. They report great activity in
mining circles in the San Andreas
mountains. This company has the
largest and most valuable proposition
on the range. The report the com
Of a 100-foot tunnel on a lead
showing s65 in copper and gold and
are now sinking a 100 foot shaft IN a
blow pipe showing a 800 copper and
gold run. This company cosider the
proposition so valuable that no stock
Will be disposed Of and will be con,
exclusively by the original
owners. Should this plan be carried
out and the values increase as deyel-
indicates. several Rock Island
and engineers will soon be
In the millionaire column.
The superintendent of schools for
..ernalillo county, Eslavio Vigil, was
bound over to, the grand Jury Satur.
lay in the sum of $500 bond, charged
assault with intent to kill Abra
a machinist in the Santa Eel
shops at Albuquerque. The bond was
given by a friend of vibil1s and w. O..
Hancock, his attorney, waived prelim
nary hearing.
Dimas, who was severely beaten by
Vigil the early part Of the week. lodg
ID complaint against him. Dimas
las been confined to his bed ever since
he assault and 1t was not until Satur.
lay that he vas able to appear In
,ourt.
T. l.. Wilson, fourth vice-president
If the international Association Of
dachinists, Is to take charge Of the
Santa Fe machinists' strike. Mr..
is charged with the RESPONSE
'ility of the present strike. and It is
he plan of the machinists to push the
of a settlement n way or the
'ther. The Santa Fe management
reiterated It's determination TO
ave nothing to do with the union, as
hey have plenty Of the best kind Of
aachinists TO I'll the places made Va. I
ant by the strikers.
J w Dean, formerly superintend
Mt OF the Colorado & Southern rail
pad on thp Denver diyiqiOu has been ,