Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-25
ANOTHER RUMOR ABOUT
TIE SANTA FE AND ROCK
ISLAND CONSOLIDATION
Traffic Agreements That will Revolutionize Rail.
road Business of the West and Perhaps Break
the Power OF h. II. Hartman.

aud another train of equal length dur.
Ing the day.
Wn.. Scott, car foreman at Lamy,
spent the Sabbath here and left for
home last evening,
The Albuquerque Eastern now has
l2O teams at work on the line to the
Hagan coal fields from Moriarity. and
Is shipping in a ear load OF hay every
day.
The railroad bridge at Springer
was damaged somewhat by high waters
Sunday night, but was put in condition
FOR trains TO cross ove It by noon yes
;erday.
Manuel C"Chic") Romero. a former
Las Vegas young man, Is now holding
the desk OF chief clerk in a division
superintendent office at Chihuahua.
Mexico.
There were wash.outs yesterday and
last night east of La Junta and west
of Albuquerque on the Santa FEE Pacif-
ic and today's trains have been great.
ly delayed in consequence.
A snow slide of some proportions
occurred on the Ration mountains Sun.
day night, judging from the fact that
a freight train was imbedded in three
feet of snow for several hours.
Andy Clark of Arkansas, a well-re-
membered deputy sheriff and deputy
U. S. marshal of these parts, is now
connected with the mechanical depart
ment of the Mexican Central, having
his home in the City of Mexico.
Sunday night the engineer OF No. S
passenger luckily saw a pile of rocks
ahead OF his train in time to apply the.
air brakes and stop the train before
reaching it. Whether the rocks were
placed there maliciously or not is not
known.
Kid Aber. formerly OF this city, is
now running a passenger train on the
Mexican Central out of the City of
Mexico and he is said to be as kind
and thoughtful as ever to the travelling
public, particularly old friends whom
he had not seen in years.
Miguel Gutierrez. residing on the
west side. was badly injured at the
Representing works last evening.
While assisting in unloading bridge
timber a heavy piece fell on him,
striking him in the back He was
taken out to the railroad hospital in
the ambulance last evening.
Clay Belden, formerly OF Topeka,
who had also lived in Terral, /. T..
yard clerk in the Texas & Pacific rail,
road terminal al FL Paso, Texas, lost
his life under a freight train Saturday
while checking cars. He had Just
gone there 10 take the position and
met death the first week. He was I'M
married,
Manager G. W. Bowen. Of the Amer
lean Fuel company, operating the
mines of the Colorado Fuel & Iron
company at Gallup, accompanied by
a party of friends, passed through the
city last night on a private car bound
for the Carbon City. Mr.. Bowen said
that no particular business called him
to Gallup. The trip was one of general
inspection merely.
A revolution in railroad fares be-
tween Los Angeles and all Southern
California points is said to be under
consideration by the steam roads OF
that section. One-way fare for the
round trip is the new schedule that
nay go into effect during the early
part of summer, which arrangement
would, of course, make the sale of one
way tickets very in~frequent, and have
the direct effect of cutting local fares
in twain.
There was a head-end collision one
mile east of Sulzbacher Sunday night.
Engine 9tS. Engineer Davis, and en-
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