Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-03-27
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PASSENGERS BY WEIGHT
railway Age Says It Is the Best Way The Fat
Man Should Pay More Railroad Fare
Than the Slender Lightweight.

nan OF engines between Las Vegas
and La Junta. with headquarters In
Ration.
Engineer Heydt Is o running on
the south end, having been transferred
from the run between this city and
Ration.
Parchal McCarter, who has been
working In the Ration shops for the
past few months, is visiting his pa
rents in Maxwell City for a few days.
Engineer +. w. Davis and Fireman
Tibergheim, of the $40 on the ballast
run, observed the Sabbath yesterday.
This train runs six days in the week
only.
Charles Haynes, brakeman on the
Santa Fe branch, is able to be out on
the streets after a long illness. n
Haynes expects to leave Santa Fe this
week for Mesilla Park and El Paso, on
a short visit.
The grand international auxiliary to
the brotherhood Of locomotive engi-
neers will give n Of their famous
hops at Albuquerque IN the evening Of
the goth of March. Gentlemen fifty
cents. ladies free; supper twenty-five
ccrts.
William T.. Clark who for the past
months has been an employe at repuh-
lioan territorial headquarters at Santa
Fe, and who did good service during
the last campaign, has accepted a posi-
tion with the railroad company at
Alamogordo.
There are usually four helper en-.
gines employed on Glorieta mountain.
Three Of them are il charge of Engi-
neers Marion Stewart, James Stur-
rock and Collier and the fourth is adj
vertised, though the selection of an
engineer has not yet been made.
The machinists' hall given at the
opera house in Needles, Calf. the
other evening, was n Of the finest
affairs Of its kind this season. The
floor had been specially prepared for
the dancers with the resulting onse-
qlence that the dancers thoroughly
enjoyed themselves.
General Manager Arthur G. Wells,
OF the coast lines of the Santa 'Fe.
passed through this city Saturday
evening in his private car at
tached to No. /. Mr.. Wells was on
his way to Los Angeles from Chicago,
where he went to meet his daugh1
who has just returned from a trip
abroad.
Several of the Indians from San
Juan and Santa Clara were in Santa
Fe en- route to Albuquerque, from
which place they will go to work on
the construction of the Albuquerque
Eastern railroad. They report that
this seasons crops are being put in
and that prospects are bright for a
very productive yield.
G. +. Selby, a brakeman on the
Grand CANYON road, met with quite a
severe accident the other evening.
While coupling the air brakes the en-
CINE backed on him, catching him In
such a way as to cause a bad contu'
sion on the head. Selby had a very
narrow escape, but will be able to re
turn to work in a few days.
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A large force Of the Lantry-Sharp
, %company's men, with grading utensils
which had been employed on the Chi
ma Basin work at San Francisco, and
were shipped from there for the Santa
D Fe cutoff, is said to have been stop
5 ped in Arizona to repair washouts
caused by the recent heavy rains. II
this is true, work on the cutoff will
be resumed just as o as these
washouts are repaired.
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&. L. Tallmadge left st. Louis Wed
nesday evening in charge Of the lare
: est party of h~omeseekers that ha'
ever been taken into the Pecos valley
They went over the Santa Fee, an,
I the special train which was run fror
Wellington. Kan, to Roswell, N. NJ
y consisted OF a car from Gaiesburg, III.
one from Dies Moines, n from Wicf
tia. one from Winfield, Kans., and on
a ffrom Kansas City.
=, General Superintendent Pettibon'
General Freight Agent Hershey an
General Passenger Agent Keenan, o
the Santa Fe are spending their leis