Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-16
In Railroad Circles
Here and Elsewhere

Special Officer Ben Williams is up
from Albuquerque.
=, w. Zimmerman, claim agent, had
business at Romeroville today.
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j. A. Peterson, the local s%torekeeper,
spent the Sabbath with his wife In AL.
buquerque.
Frank Singer, foreman of the Las
Vegas round house, has sent in his
resignation.
Mrs. George Moye and children,
family Of the Santa Fe brakeman,
left for Glorieta last evening.
Sixty-two native laborers went
down to Ribera yesterday afternoon
In The employment of the Santa re
company.
The pay checks came in on No. l
yesterday afternoon and were dis
tributed among the railroad men this
morning.
Fireman Bailey, recently married,
has traded engines with Fireman
Shemeley and now sweats his brow on
the 913.
Engineer Frank Wilson is again
manipulating the throttle, after hav-
ing been off the f~ootboard a couple
Of trips.
Garnett Burks, the boiler washer,
has been resting up for a few days,
but is not making up for lost time It
the local shops.
Wilfred G. Fralick, M. D., and
Oskar Eckstine, Phi d., gave talks
and experiments at the Santa Fe read
ing in Ration.
The Ell Tovar hotel at Grand Can
yOn Is TO- open for the reception of
guests and two trains a day now run
out of Williams. Arizona.
49,
Albert Wallis. the railroad con-
tractor who formerly resided in Las
Vegas, has established his winter
quarters at Cooks Peak, N. M.
j. w. Dean, a former trainmaster at
Las Vegas, has been appointed super
= intendent of terminals for the ILL
nois Central at Memphis, Tenn.
Fireman Abe Peeler of the 745 is
up from Lamy and down with the
measles. Fireman Mcintyre is spad- |
ing black diamonds In his stead.
tIhiuh SihiiSs puofiiS, VIII pun |
in a bid for the mountain run, has
been assigned to the 1852 and will
likely go down the line tomorrow.
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DO" Harrison. the day yardmastcr |
at Ration. left a few days ago for the
Santa Fee hospital in Topeka, where
he will undergo a surgical operation
Junius Smith of New York, who had
been at Roswell visiting his wife and
two sons for three weeks, went back
east, taking his son Harold with him.
Conductor Frank Smith, whose
train unfortunately was caught In the
Upton wreck, has gone up to Ration
for a day or two, in company with his
wife.
A fire department composed of
twelve members has been organized
al the Las Vegas round house. The
chief Of the fire fighters is yet to be
selected.
G. p. Jones of Santa Fe has been
appointed live stock agent OF the San !,
Ia Fe Central railway. and A. r. Man.
by Of Taos assistant live stock agent
of the same road.
Fireman Mcneil of a local switch
engine put in an application for
the Waldo run and got IL, being the !
oldesr man in point of seniority who
applied for the place.
V. r. Bartlett, a right-of-way agent
for the Santa Fe, is visiting these i'm
mediate paris, probably in connection
with the proposed change of road
bed from Shoemaker to Watrous.
NJ. L. Cory. the Santa Fe railway
agent at Silver City, has information
that within the mex thirty days a
straight passenger train service will
be %inaugurated between Silver City
and Deming.
An investigation of the deadly and
destructive collision near linton sta