Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-11-06
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Auditor II. McCreary. of the Harvey
system, was an Albuquerque visitor
Sunday.
Travelling Passenger Agent II. II.
Moore of the Santa Re, with h%eadquar-
tiers in Los Angeles. was in the city
yesterday.
Frank Dibert, assistant treasurer Of
the Santa Fe Central railway. was in
the city from Santa Fe yesterday, at
tending to official business.
Jesse Miller. conductor on the santa
Fe Pacific, ont Of this city. accom-.
panied by Mrs. Miller. has gone to
Mexico for an extended trip.
superintendent James Kurn, Of the
Rio Grande division. spent yesterday
in the city and returned TO his head
quarters at San Marcial last night.
AT the Los Angeles Office of the
Texas Pacific railway notice has been
issued of the raising of the quaran-
tine at all points on that line in Lou
isiana.
One of the new features of conven
fence on the fine trains of the Penn
sylvania railroad is the Introduction
of a service for pressing clothes dur
ing the night by the porter.
With George w. Cook as president
of the Denver Business Mems league,
they viii fight the rebate evil and en-
deavor to secure more favorable rates
for Denver and the state Of Colorado.
The Frisco system is building a six
teen stall round house at Chaffee. Mo,
about fifteen miles south OF Cape
G~irardeau, and arrangements are be-
ing made to erect new shops at the
former point.
The Rock Island machine shops at
%Chickasha, /. T.. which were closed
the latter part Of last month on ac-
count of appropriations being ex-
hausted, were %reopened last Friday,
with a full force of men.
Mrs. c. E. Bottsford, wife of a
former Santa Fe agent at Las Vegas,
passed through the city on one of the
delayed trains the other day, on her
way to California. The Bottsfords
now live in Milwaukee.
Grand Secretary w. S. Carter, of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen,
was paid S50.470.S5. principal and in.
terest, by a surety company for loss
sustained by the brotherhood when
the Peoria National bank closed its
doors.
A Southern Pacific freight train
was wrecked near Langtry, Tex, and
Brakeman S. o. White was killed, X.
ID. Adams. a bridgeman, sustained in
juries from which he will die, and
George Grimsinger was seriously hurt.
The locomotive and fifteen cars are a
total wreck.
The Santa Fe oil fields of Califor-
MIA are reporting a steadily increas,
ing production, due to the bringing in
of several new wells. The October
production of the Olinda field was 63,-
241 barrels, while that of the Bakers
efld country was 65,025, a total OF
119, 266 barrels.
Attorney w. B. Childers has gone to
San Francisco in connection with the
case of certain railway contractors
against the Southern Pacific, in which
the contractors are suing the railway
company for a large amount on a con-
tract for building a branch line in the
southern part of the territory.
William j. Curtis, travelling passen-
ger agent for the Santa Fe, is on a trip
of a varied character. He went to
Chicago to accompany a train load of
race horses bound for California, as
far as Albuquerque. and he will es-
cort back from there a special train
of the delegates who have been at
tending the national Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union convention at
Los Angeles.
James Z. Hurley, general manager
OF the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe,
has issued an order which becomes
effective on the first of the month, re-
ducing the working hours of track
forces from ten to nine hours a day.
This reduction Is made because of the
early twilight, the men not being able
TO see to work we'll after ) O'Clock.
The shortening of the working hours
- - b"Nhhleu - Hhdue edtn ldll anu
continues until about the middle Of
March, and is in effect all over the
road.
III Santa Fe railway is putting
into service thirty new balance com
pound locomotives on it's passenger
service at Las Vegas. The overland
trains are now all provided with these
engines, which are considered tine per
lection of models. Division Supcrin-
tendent Hitchcock recently rode on