Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-03-03
NEWS

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Chief Clerk Romero. In the office
of the superintendent of the Chlhua.
hua division Of the Mexican Central,
has been succeeded by Mr. Heckle-
man, formerly deputy collector al
Eagle Pass and Of late with the Goa.
hula 4 Pacific.
The Santa Ne Central Railway com
pany, Tuesday, handled two ears OF
graders and other machinery for the
Grant Construction company, from
Kennedy to Torrance, The machine.
~ wus then taken to Epris via the
III Paso l. Southwestern railroad, for
work on the Belen cutoff,
\ reception and banquet was held
Tuesday evening In the hall OF Ration
Division, NJ, 25i, Brotherhood Of L.o.
connective Engineers, In honor OF G. G..
Reynolds, who has been chairman Of
the grievance committee OF this order
for the past six years. The order pre-.
scented Mr., Reynolds with a handsome
gold watch.
r0ris Colip, an employe on the
Ration 4 Eastern railroad. while rid.
ing on top OF a moving freight train
Tuesday. a short distance east OF Ra-
ton, lost his balance and fell to the
ground, allghting on his head. He
is unconscious from concussion of the
brain. Colip's father Is an engineer on
the Panama canal He mas been noti-
fled.
Just an even $5O0,OOW In silver
passed through the city Wednesday
in a Wells.Fargo express car. care
fully guarded. en- route to New York,
from which place 1t will be shipped to
London to the Bank OF England. The
silver was In 167 strong boxes, and
1t laid edge to edge In a row. would
have made a line Of dollars over fif.
teen miles long, and II stacked in m
large pile. would have been a mile
and a half high. Each box weighed
1875 pounds, and contained, with n
exception. $4,000 each.
II the United States authorities
should desire to ascertain the nor
nous extent with which the contract
labor traffic Is being carried on with
the natives Of Mexico, they could get
4 good idea Of the situation by meet
ing train No. 10 at the local station.
The smoking car was loaded with
poems a day or two ago. A similar
number passed through on train No.
10 yesterday and on Monday the mum
Der was even larger. Within the past
three days at least 200 Of this class
of laborers have passed through en-
route north.
While holding the coupling bar on
a pile driver car a day or two ago
Gus Holm Of the Santa Fe was Sc
verely injured by the two cars JAM
ming together and catching him be-
tween them before he could jump out
Of the way, says the San Bernardino
Times-Index. The accident happened
at bridge A 95, near Etiwanda. Holm
and another man were holding up a
long bar and as the coupling vas
made they were required to jump be-
fore the cars could come together.
Holm was handicapped by a stiff leg
received near Los Nietos in 1898,
from which he was laid up in the
Santa Fe hospital for owe a year. He
could moi jump into clear and the
cars crushed his left side. breaking
the ribs and inflicting severe internal
injuries.
The Flagstaff Sun says: Work on
the new depot and Harvey eating
house at Ash Fork has commenced at
last. Monday, a large force Of men
and teams. with scrapers. started the
excavation work a half mile west OF
the present establishment. Accord
ing to contract, the building must be
completed and ready for occupancy In
seven months, so that work on it will
OF necessity have to be rushed; but
it is thought it will be completed on
schedule time. The frame work will
be started next month. The building
is to be on the order of the Alyar-
ado, at Albuquerque, n. NJ, but not
on 20 large a scale. It will he built
on the Mission plan. with pebble ce.
ment finish, and will have under the
one roof an ice plant, hotel and din
ing rooms; dspot, ticket office, etc,
and will be one of the prettiest houses
on the line.
There seems to still be much doubt
in the minds of many at Gallup as to
whether or not she will get the new