Albuquerque evening citizen., 1906-11-15
RAILROAD TOPICS

creased
Auditor r. W. Hoyt, OF the santa /
Fe, came in last night from Las
Vegas.
e. "a. Ball. of the Santa Fe civil en- /
gineering department, came in yester-
day from Winslow.
The Union Pacific has placed orders
to build ten additional motor cars in
it's Omaha shops.
The railroads running into Chicago
are asain figuring on reducing the
time between that city and New York.
Garrett A. Dobbin has resigned as
general colonization agent of the Gulf,
Colorado & Santa Fe at Galveston,
Texas.
The newly elected governor of Colo
rado, Buchel, who is a minister and
university professor, was at one time
a brakeman on the Santa Fe road.
Robert Il. Smith has been appointed
commercial agent of the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific at Little Rock,
Ark, in place of II. w. Polk, resigned.
b. +. Young is chief dispatcher of
the Panhandle and Amarillo divis-
ions of the Chicago, Rock Island q,
Pacific at Oklahoma City, Okla, in
stead OF trainmaster, as recently
stated.
A. L. Smith has been appointed
travelling freight and passenger agent
of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
at El Paso, Texas, and w. A. Gem
eron has been appointed contracting
freight and passenger agent at that
point
William Daum, the accommodating
agent at Hollnoh, has been transfer
red 10 Selignan. Mr.. Daum has held
the agents chair at Hollnoh for the
past two years and HIS numerous
friends while glad TO see him ad-
vance are sorry to haves shim leave.
One hundred thousand unemployed
laboTing men in the territory west of
the Missouri river from Kansas City
TO San Francisco, could find railroad
work at wages. running from so to
rs per cent higher than two years
ago, said Charles Lewis, manager of
an employment agency, at Kansas
City.
On account of similarity to the
names of stations already on the sys-
tenn, the Santa Fe has changed the
names of five towns on the recently
acquired Denver, Enid & Gulf branch
to take effect November 4, as follows:
CorwiR to Writ, Douglas to Onyx
Coldwater to Hillsdale, Nashville 10
Nash, Burlington to Wheaton.
II is rumored at Newton that Trav
cling Engineer Roddy, who makes his
headquarters in that city, will resign
his position with the Santa Fe tC
enter the employ of the Dearborn
Chemical company, of Chicago. Mr.
Roddy is popular man with all the
employees of the road, and his resigna
ton will be heard by them with genu
inc regret.
The Texas railroad commission hai
undertaken to master the perplexinl
sleeping car question in a novel man.
ner. A hearing has been set for No
vember 20, when the railroads of the
state OF Texas will be cited to appear
before the commission and show VIII!
an order shall not be issued by tn,
commission requiring all roads IL
Texas reducing to present schedul,
of Pullman rates 20 per cent on
horizontal reduction, including charge
for beTths and seats in sleeping cars
correspondent writing from Ala
mog0rdo says: The change of pas
senger and freight division on the l.
'aso Southwestern from Alamo
gordo to Carrizozo took place Monda
night. There is a great deal of spec
ulatiye comment on this move of tn
southwestern, as the water question
has ever been a very important Quei
tion in this section Alamogordo ha
all the water needed for any purpos
and will always have plenty of watel
No ether place on the Southwestern
line north of FL Paso has the amour
of water this place has, hence tn
comment on this change of the div
sion from here to Carrizozo.
NINETEEN TRAMPs
TAKEN FROM TRAlf
As a result of the cleaning up can
paign started by the police. twent
one men have been locked up in th
city jail. charged as vags or su
picisus characters, says the Fl Pas
Herald This is just the catch fC
the daylight hours of Wednesday an
does not include many others arrestC
during the past twenty-four hours.
or this number nineteen wei
picked up by Captain Greet and OF
Ger Cherry as they alighted from
Rock Island freight coming in fro
the east
The men were arrested on "a tel
phone message from Marshal Fran
Taylor at Jarilla, n. NJ, who state
that a man in that town had bee
robbed of 1920 Tuesday night by u
known parties who We're believed
have taken the train to El Paso.
the nineteen arrested by the Office
six bad enough money TO put up a s
cash bond each for their appearan,
in the corporation court i'm the eve
ing, while one Of them had $50 al
another Sl7. Every one of them hi
some money on his person. Chars
of yags or suspicious characters "a
against them, and the case Of II
robbery at Jarilia is being inyes
gated
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