Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-11-09

the %roundhouse at Ration, returned TO J
Ration Monday from Denver with his
bride.
The car department Of the La Junta
shops Is now working nine hours, the
new order of things going into effect
last Monday morning.
Samuel Huffine of Ration has sew
cred his connection with the Santa
Fe and accepted a position as carpen-
ter with c. d. Stevens.
The business at the Denver and Rio
Grande station at Santa Fe Is SO large
that the company has sent an assist
ant to Mr.. Mcbride, the regular agent.
The Chesterfield & Lancaster. a
South Carolina railway, proposes to
extend seventeen miles from Ruby,
s. c., to Mount Croghan, Iryington
and Five Forks.
Kansas has commenced a suit In
the supreme court to GUST the Pull
man Car company from doing business
in that state unless it pays its char
ter fee of $4,000.
r.. S. Lovett, president Of the Hous.
ton & Texas Central. has also been
elected president OF the Galveston.
Harrisburg & San Antonio, succeed
ing E. H. Hartman.
Authority has been granted by the
Arkansas board of railway incorpora-
tors to the Anderson and Saline
River railroad for an extension north
westerly into Grant county.
The Ladies' Auxiliary to the B. OF
l.. e. of Ration are making arrange
ments to give a turkey supper and
dance at the opera house Thanksgiy-
ing eve, Wednesday. Nov. 29th.
Robert p. Hindmann, a former rail-
way conductor, died a few days ago
at st. Joseph's hospital in AlbuQuer-
que. The direct cause Of death was
inflammation Of the lungs, caused by
poisoning.
Engineer s. II. Luck and wife left
for Topeka Thursday night, where
Mr.. Luck will enter the Santa Fe
hospital for a weeks treatment for
his eye. which is rapidly improving.
Ration Reporter.
Application has been made by the
Atchison. TOPEKA & Santa Fe to the
district court at Muskogee, !. T., for
the appointment Of an appraisirg
! board to condemn a right Of way from
Tulsa to Shawnee, Okla. 100 miles,
to connect two branch lines.
Abe Berry, for several years past
yard track foreman at Ration, has re-
signed his position and will leave In
a few DAYS for Newton. Kans,, where
he has been offered a position under
Superintendent Easley. Mr.. Berry's
family will remain in Ration for sew
eral weeks.
B. r. Pinney Of Los Angeles, son
OF Conductor Pinney. and who is well
known here, has received a very flat
tering and merited promotion. beins
appointed TO assistant local freight
agent of the Southern Pacific In tina
| city. He will have at least eighty
men under his charge.
Train service is in operation
, throughthe Bakers Hill tunnel on thu
Louisville and Nashville south o
Guthrie, Ky. II formerly required
two engines to pull . train over TIL
) incline Of the hill, two miles. will
a grade Of 234 feet to the mile. Con
struction Of the tunnel occupied eight
cen months.
The American Railway guild, whicl
Is composed OF railway presidents an
other former and present officers o
committeeman Of the American Raj
!. way association, has elected E. {
Carter. chief engineer Of the Cnicag
& Northwestern, master, and Rober
Pitcairn, assistant 70 the president Q
the Pennsylvania lines. warden.
An Increase Of 235 miles Of railwa
lines in operation in Alabama Is r.
ported by the Alabama Railroad con
mission to have taken place in tn
year ended June 30 last. There ar
now 1872 miles of tracks In the stat
Of which 4.i95 miles are main linz
LAO yard tracks and sidings and I
miles double track.
n the directors of the Jalisco raj
way company fail to build the lin
between Guadalajara and Chamela o