Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-11-08

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tors and brakemen of the FL Paso
a. Southwestern road.
One OF the new features of conven.
fence on the Pennsylvania's fine
trains Is the introduction Of a service
for pressing clothes during the night
by the porter.
The Frisco system Is building a
%sixteen-stall round house al Chaffee,
Mo-. about fifteen miles south of Cape
Girardeau. and arrangements are be.
ing made to erect new shops at the
former point.
Charles II. Breed, for some time the
efficient bill clerk of the FL Paso &
Southwestern railroad at FL Paso, has
resigned to accept a position as In.
spector with the Arizona and New
Mexico inspection bureau.
News Agent Rose of the Southern
] IdCIIlC, Ouc vi tuC NCtCIdh uSWS
butchers of the southwest, has return
I'd from a thirty days vacation and Is
on his run between FL Paso and Los
Angeles.
With George w. Cook as president
the Denver Business Mems league has
been formed for the purpose of fight
ing the rebate evil and securing
more favorable rates for Denver and
the state Of Colorado.
Every stub switch. that frequent
source Of derailed cars, has been re-
, moved from the Ell Paso G Fl. yards
and has been replaced with a split
rail switch. A gang of laborers are
engaged in completely %remodeling the
yard arrangement.
Homeseekers' rates are still in ef-
feet, being placed or sale in eastern
cities at intervals OF two weeks. The
thrush OF settlers will continue
throughout the winter, but the lowest
rates of the year are past.
Grand Secretary w. s. Carter, Of
the Brotherhood Of Locomotive Fire
men. was paid $50,4I0.85, PRINCIPAL
and interest, by a surety company for
loss sustained by the brotherhood
when the Peoria National bank closed
it's doors.
Wabash firemen are working under
a revised schedule, effective Nov. 1.
providing an advance from $3.50 to
1910 per hundred miles. Missouri
Pacific's Fort Scott shops took back
all men laid off recently and begin
working full time.
Speeding along at twenty-five miles
an hour a Missouri Pacific passenger
train struck and demolished a wagon
containing 1000 pounds of dynamite
at the Spring avenue crossing near
st. Louis Saturday. killing the mule
attached to the vehicle. There was
no explosion.
Daniel Orr. of Pueblo, Colo, has
been made western track inspector of
the Santa Fe, with his headquarters
at La Junta. He will work under the
direction of General Superintendent
r. J.. Parker. The track inspectors
will be the immediate supariors of the
roadmasters and section bosses.
The celery crop for the season of
1905 has commenced to move from
Southern California and it promises
TO be a big one. AS yet but few cars
have been sent out. but with the ap-
proach Of Thanksgiving the move
ment will be very heavy for the
north and states of the middle west.
and some parts of the south.
Judge Henry l.. Waldo, solicitor of
the Santa Fee railway for New Mex
leo, has gone to Kansas City for a
short visit. and will return to New
Mexico in a week or ten days to be
present at the hearing Of the Ease Of
the Caledonia Coal company VS.. The
Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe Rail.
way company. which will be on hear.
ing before Judge Ira A. Abbott at the
district court in Albuquerque about
the middle of the month.
The Santa Te railway is putting
into service thirty new balance com.
pound locomotives on It's passenger
service at Las Vegas. The overland
trains are now all provided with these
engines, which are considered the per-
lection Of models. Division Superin.
tendent Hitchcock recently rode IN
one Of them from San Bernardino to
that city, saying that 1t rode like a
Pullman car. They are capable Of a