Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-09-08

Fireman Clifford Trainer has been
put on a switch engine for a change
and seems to fit the place all right
enough, at least for a spell.
Ben Williams, special agent for the
Santa Fee, with a keen eye and a
cool head, went down the line on No.
Z last night.
Engineers McGraw, Jessoy and
Kerr e out hunting yesterday az
ternoon. Result known to their bosom
friends, only.
Mrs. F. A. Boone, wife of the pas.
senger brakeman, who seldom mis-
ses q trip, only when too i'll to ven.
ture out on the road, and who never
fools away his pay check, has return.
ed from her trip to Ell Paso and Me.
silla Park. Her daughter, Miss Yuma
Boone was left at the latter place
where she is a pupil in the Agricul.
tural college.
Fireman Nielsen has reported for
duty on the TAI, after having been
enjoying a resDite from unremitting.
toll for a few days.
Fireman Stevens isn't kicking the
least bit. He has been designated as
the running mate of Engineer George
Seelover on the 1927.
Engineer F.. H. Schultz has been
given the $50 to speed over the road
as speedily as he can with q heavy
drag behind him and 1t.
Engineer s. c. Smith has gone
down to Lamy from this city to re
lieve Engineer William Schultz on the
Santa Fee branch. whose son Is very
Ill in the Capital city.
1t as a settled fact that Trainmaster
James Kurn of this city will go to
San Marcial as superintendent OF the
Rio Grande division as soon probably
as his successor Is named.
H. ]. Ryan and assistants board.
ed No. l passenger train last evening
for PecOs, at which point they will
inspect and pass upon about $4,000
railroad ties, delivered there by J. w.
Harrison for Gross, Kelly & Co.
George Elliott, lately arrived from
Ottawa, Kansas, is catching on as
catch can at the depot ticket office in
this city. The young man will learn
the ropes and then he may apply for
q position and get 1t.
Engines 900 and 902, in charge OF
Engineers Bursk and Hanson, have
been put In service on the second dis
trict between this city and Ration, con
sequently these jerkers OF the throt-
tie are resting on their oars till they
hear something drop.
Engineer Parnell and Fireman Ed.
wards rode on soft downy cushions
OF ease to albuquerque yesterday for
the purpose Of bringing back to Las
Vegas engine Ills, just out Of the
shops In that city.
Engineer John r. Kirk, who has
been at deaths door, is reported
some better today, though not out Of
danger by any can This Is the
first serious sickness he ever had In
hts. life and 1t is going hard with him.
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II Is stated by an Albuquerque
paper that David Sulier. former road
foreman of engines. may conclude to
arrive an engine on the north end out
of that city.
Thomas McNallan has gone to
Buffalo, N. Y. accompanied by his
family, as a representative at that
meeting of Meadow City lodge No.
80, brotherhood of railroad carmen.
George williams Of Winslow, Ariz.
ona. also a delegate, passed through
for Buffalo yesterday.
! Former trainmaster T. G. Mulhern
of this city. with a fine railroad head
on his shoulders and a heart In him
as big as an ox's. IL now running q
train on the Grand CANYON branch CT
the Santa Fe N Of Williams, Ariz.