Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-05
Some Railroad MoNs
Of Passing Interest

that mas been broker or worn out.
w. b. Duddleson and Charles Will
SOL are new freight brakemen on the
south end.
Engineer Garvin has reported for
duty. after having been under the
weather for some time,
Frank Boone. the passenger brake
man, has been assigned to the south
end with Conductor c. l.. milford.
Conductor Hook is not in the enjoy
ment OF his accustomed health and
Conductor Joe Burks has his run
George Labadie, a handy man
about the local shops, has resumed his
position after laying off for some time
and taking life easy.
Frank Singer, the new foreman of
the round house here. has been sum.
moned to Canon City. Colo, by the
serious illness of his mother.
' Harper Harmon, late apprentice
boy. is now taking object lessons"
in the air room at the local shops un.
der the tutorship Of Albert Slack,
Fifty ears of ice are coming
down daily from the Hot Springs a n
yon, some trains loaded with the con.
gealed luxury being sent up to La
Junta. This. besides the regular traf-
fic. makes things lively ip the railroad
yards.
Andy Devine, section foreman In
the local yards, Is now acting road
master during the illness of Dan FL
lott; Devine's place is filled by Frank
Flaze, the latter's by M. Mcvay. while
Ale Gallegos fills McVay's place as
foreman of section No. A.
Archie Tally, VIM. Barnes, Owen
Harmon, Joe McCabe and w. G. Viii
loughby, who have been drawing pay
checks for helping the machinists,
have been marked up a notch and are
now known as handy men," the last
two named doing duty at night.
Jesse Treat, formerly a locomotive
engineer at Winslow, now holds the
position of roadmaster on the Nevada
Central, with headquarters at Battle
Mountain, Nevada. Nelson f. kid
Bartoo is also employed as master
mechanic of the above railroad. with
headquarters at Battle Mountain.
The Santa Fe railroad has not ,io
lated the spirit of the interstate com
merce law and the interstate
1bliliNl CG toIiiiliosiou UdS DCtl uoSt
az a cats paw in the furtherance o.
a suit for damages is the answer
made by President f. p. Ripley o.
the Santa Fe to charges made agains'
the road and of which the road has
been acquitted.
Instead of a "lost train it was f;
lost sleeping car which gave cause TO
anxiety for thirty hours TO official.
| and dispatchers on the Northwestern
!, railroad. 1t was found all cars of tn,
train had entered Milwaukee on timt
} except one sleeper, which, with ii
full quota of occupants, was fount
at Eau Claire, where it had been hell
up by the blizzard.
Close connection on the Santa Fe
D Lamy branch between Santa Fe ant
: train No. / from the east has recon-
{ menced. The branch train will leav'
!, Santa Fe at APO and In return viii
t reach Santa Fe at 6:20 In the after
4 noon. The local agent of the roa'
g will be found at the depot at tn
r proper time for the accommodation 0
passengers who desire to leave Of
e the afternoon train for the south an
S for the west.
Says the Western Liberal at Lords
burg, New Mexico: The crew of
It west bound train found fifteen China
men in a refrigerator car. near Can
brey Monday. A telegram was sen
to Chinese Inspector Bonner, VIII
went down to meet the train. II
found the fifteen orientals all RICH
but on close inspection found the
were all Japs. There Is no exclusio
law against a Jap. and so he turne
Y them loose.
The railroad reporter for the New
took Christmas dinner yesterday wit
the T. & p. Conductor Charles Gar
ner and wife. His landlady deducte
the reporters board bill today
Paso News. Conductor Gardner ra
a train out Of Las Vegas for man
o years and 1t is pleasing news to h
e friends up this way to know that
o has at last done the most sensib
: thing of his life in getting Marie