Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-04
SENATOR CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW
MAKES STARTLING PREDICTION
within Fifty Years There Will Not Be a Steam
In the Country, Except
In the Museums.

engine, has gone back to firing the
924. being relieved on the night shift,
by Engineer Fishburn.
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Engineer J. w. Cook deadhcaded W
from Albuquerque yesterday. having
been taken Ill In that city. Engineer
F. II. Schultz was sent down to manip
ulate the throttle In his place.
a.. II. Jake, employed on the rip
track, awkwardly sprained a finger
yesterday, though at first 1t was
thought that the little accident that
befell him was of a more serious ma.
ture.
B. p. Cheney Of Boston, the old San
Ia Fe director whose name Is almost
a household word along the whole sys.
tenn, is scheduled to pass through Las
Vegas. going below. tomorrow after
noon.
Joe O'Brien of the Albuquerque
freight office force is again on duty.
after being laid up for some time past
with a bad case Of blood poison. While
handling a box he tore his hand on a
nail and has had quite a serious time
with 1t.
The body Of a man named Hart J.
Rogers. who died In Los Angeles, was
taken off No. 8 this morning by s. r.
Dearth. the undertaken. 1t not having
been properly embalmed. It win be
shipped to its destination, Hartford.
Conn. on No. 2 this evening.
No. Z passenger train from the east
last evening had an unusually light
I'll Of passengers on board. Only two
Of those celebrated Harvey meals
were ordered ahead by telegraph,
though the lunch counter and cheaper
places We're better patronized.
There was a landslide near Canon
otto, N. NJ, last night, delaying pas
senger and freight traffic for seven
hours. A huge rock is said to have
broken loose from it's fastening and it
came laundering down the mountain
side. bringing tons Of dirt and gravel
with it.
The chamber of of Ell
Paso, Texas, which was asked 10 take
some action III the matter of anti
scalping legislation refused to take a
stand either way, and has remained
neutral despite the protestation of the
representatives Of several of the rail-
roads who we're present.
Claude Schrott, who has completed
his curse as special apprentice in
the Santa Fe shops, left Albuquerque
for Buffalo. N. Y, his home. Mr..
Schrott is a Cornell graduate and has
made a fine record in the practical
part of his mechanical education on
the Santa Fee. It is understood he will
accept a good position with an east
ern railway company.
The Optic is informed that there Is
a strong probability that the grade on
the summit of the Glorieta mountains
will be reduced. Estimates have been
made and it is thought the work Of
reduction, to cost in the neighbOr-
hood of SEC, 900, will oon be begun.
The grade will be reduced by easy
stages and the running of trains will
not he greatly interfered with.
w. r. Stubs, the Kansas politician,
who may now be said to be on top in
the politics Of that state, passed
through Las Vegas Saturday evening
for Mexico to figure on a big contract
which the Mexican Central railroad Is
about to let. The company Is build
ing a line to the Pacific coast and Mr..
Stubs will figure on the heavy grades
through the mountains. The contract