Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-07-09
RATTLE Of The RAILS

Y accept Inc resignation ~ superinsen.
dent D~nair ana have Insisted that
Ne take a vacation from bis duties
and granted him leave of absence 81
ninety days On full pay. During this
period Trainmasier Tuftie or Needles
viii hold the position 81 acting super.
intendent az the Needles division and
q n. Meadows Of san Bernardino
viii BE- senf 20 Needles temporarily
10 shoulder the duties of trainmastef
Of the Needles division q B. Gill.
van. az present fosdmasier viii IN
the office % trainmaster during the
absence Of Mr.. Meadows. Mr.. Gill
van win also look after the duties
az his own position.
Bsndits Operate In Railroad Yards
A Wellington. KaS.. dispatch says:
-Four men held up ten men In the
railroad yards ut Medford. Grant
county. Okla. Sunday morning. The
robbers got SIS. several watches and
minor piunder. locked their victims IN
an empty boz car. stole a handcas
from a tool house ana pumped Il to
Caldwell. just acros tho line In Kan
sas.
They we're oyertaken at Caldwell
by the marshal OF Medford. c. T. God.
frey. but they refused TO 20 back 10
Medford without requisition papers.
They were held In the Caldwell city
jail. and this morning made an At
tempt 20 escape. They broke from
the cage Ia which they were confinei
hut the guard heard them and sum,
moned armed men to his assistance
They were brought To wellington
and are held In the sumner county
jail pending the arrival Of requisition
papers. Burglars tools were found
u the mems clothing.
Rock Island RshuiIds. Telegraph
with AN appropriation of upwards
of half d million dollars the telegraph
department Oh the lines of the Rock
Island syste improper u being reorgan'
ixed and rebuilt.
New through wires are being added
Ia facilitate the handling of the In
creased business, and All wires ars
being made 10 handle double the bnsi
ness formerly handled. BY use Of tho
a~nadruplex and multiplex sets.
The telegraph department of ths
Rock Island is being made 10 conform
to the system used on the Santa Ft
railroad Thee Northern Pacific rail
road 10 said to have been the firs'
railway system 10 adopt the meth
DDS and improvements Of this system
and the Great Northern railway was
the next to fall m iinte. Later Tho
system was adopted by the Santa r
and by autumn the telegraph Of the
Rock Island will have been entirely
~overhauled and rebuilt.
The two principal offices will be 10
Gated at Chicago and Topeka. The
office at Davenport will be the larg
est repeating Office on the line. but
the repeating will be accomplished
automatically. and the ~repeaters
which will do the work OF 2G individ
uai operators. viii be handled BY ont
{ Imam.
within thirty days an entirely new
set OF equipment will be In use Il
the Topeka offices. and the facilities
OF the local office will be more thar
doubled.
The rebuilding OF the telegraph 4
! one OF the features embraced in tn.
i general plan being worked out 3,
In. u. Nudge for the betterment o
1.-THE Rock Island system. The wori
Ills directly III charge Of J. g. zen
!. nings, superintendent Of telegraph
] ana r. s. Spafard, assistant superin
4 tendent Or telegraph, u nov IN Tone
ka III charge 81 the work within n
jurisdiction OF grand division Of ii,
, road governed from that point.
/, Repeating stations, testing points
. and important points where Quadrt
, plex apparatus Ii used will be Chica
20, Davenport, Kansas City, Topeka
Harrington. Little Rock. Oklahoml
City. Cedar Rapids, Des Moines. Fall
bury. GoodlAnd and Trenton.
] Aside from the Chicago office
which VIII constitute the genera
headquarters aud fountain hen
/. from which source the bulk of the tel
I egraph business emanates. Topeka
win be the most Important TELEGRAPH
! station On the lines.
n The Topeka office Will be the cen
! ter o. q system of through wire
reaching To Chicago. TO Little Rock
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