Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-31
On the Road
And In the Shops

Conductor q. ii. Rhodes is off his
way ear, sick. Conductor Miller TAX.
Ing his place,
+, =, Barnes, division master me.
ehanic at the Ration shops. went down
20 Albuquerque On No, Z last night.
r r. Williams of Denver, Colo,
has been appointed as night operator
NJ The Manuelito station, on the Rio
Grande
II IS rumored around the shops
that Marivan Angel, acting engine In
spector viii oon be married to the
you9e ladytof his choice.
Charles j. Lantry, Of Lantry Bros,
the big railroad contractors. passed
through Las Vegas for Arizona and
Califoraia parts last evening.
Conductor Frank smith, who was
held partially responsible for the Tip
ton wreck, left for Denver this after.
moo accompanied by his wife.
Fred Lenpcn is driving piles at the
steel bridges, three miles west Of
Manuelito. down the country. and ex-
poets to be done there in one week.
The Eel so.Northwestern system
has just issued a handy pocket folder
In which is a complete time table of
all the roads running into FL Paso.
Alex Council will of his own v~olition
take a position as m%achinists' helper
at the local shops, being relieved as
call boy by John Reynolds. late Of
Ration,
Tim OLeary, who has risen from a
plain, ordinary depot policeman In Las
Vegas to be a trusted and travelled
special agent Of the Santa Fe, his du.
ties calling him all over the line. was
en- route for albuquerque On No. Z last
evening.
H.. c. Close, who a few years ago
was at Albuquerque in the capacity
OF view taker for the Santa Fee rail-
road. is under arrest at Vera Cruz.
Mexico. He embezzled many thous-
ands of dollars while employed by the
Misunderstanding manufacturing COM
pany of New York.
1t is reported that William c. Stan.
ley, a Los Angeles contractor. who
fell from the platform OF train No. /
at The Needles, the other night, is
confined to his bed in the hospital at
Los Angeles. His injuries were
thought to be slight at the time the
mishap occurred.
But six miles of construction re-
main to bring the northern and south.
ern extremities Of the Salt Lake rail-
way together. These will be covered
with ties and rails by February LIST.
AS soon thereafter as the water
tanks. side tracks and depot buildings
can be erected the line will be open
for traffic.
c. G. Wood, who was for solne time
manager of the Postal telegraph of
flee in Santa Fe, N. NJ. about four
years ago is now travelling auditor of
the Santa Fe Pacific railway with
headquarters at San Barnardino, Cali
fornia, Mr., Wood has purchased an
orange grove neal that place and is
doing well from a financial viewpoint
~
Fireman1student Tom Cody denies
the soft impeachment that he was "all
in" at Lamy the other night and an
other man had to be substituted ia his
stead. He claims that engine 935 turn
ed around at the junction and instead
: of coming back with her, he preferred
taking another engine and going on to
Albuquerque. so as TO learn all the
road.
Geo. b. keynon, cashier at the Cas-
taneda hotel, who has just been reliey.
ed at his W request by A. ]. Atwater
OF the Cardenas In Trinidad. Colo.
will leave Saturday afternoon for Sc
attic, Wn., In which city he will en-.
gage in business for himself. Mr.. Key.
non is an affable gentleman, accurate
and painstaking in his duties. and the
good wishes of all will follow him to