Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-02-21
NEWS

No. s arrived yesterday at 6 80 am.
Bob Vase OF this city Is employed
as a member of the engineering corps
of the Santa Fe,
The extension of the Southern Pa.
cific from Guayamas to G%uadalajara Il
being rapidly pushed, the recent
scarcity of labor having been in a
great measure overcome.
George G, Webb, chief engineer OF
the Michigan Central will arrive at El
Paso from Old Mexico In a Michigan
Central private car No. 2 on his way
to Chicago In the next ten days and
will pass through this city.
Chief Clerk Romero. who has held
office under Superintendent Provence
Of the Central at Chihuahua for some
time past. has resigned to accept a
position with a road under construc.
ton In Peru. South America,
The Jackson Hughes company were
rendered q verdict last week ut Ell
PasO In their suit brought against the
Santa Fee for the loss OF o carload OF
vehicles during the floods OF 1903.
Damages were awarded In the sum Of
1864.
The industrial" department Of the
Mexican National has been abolished
and Is now merged with the depart.
ment Of publicity. H. B. Hackley.
formerly In charge, has been trans.
ferred TO Eagle Pass as passenger as
sistant.
Suit has been filed against the G..
Fl. and the city Of Ell 'PasO, jointly,
for $4,000 damages, by James j: Riggs.
The allegation Of the plaintiff is that
the city allowed the G. H. to O n
struct a ditch along Its tracks which
flowed on his adobe house causing a
damage to the extent of the amount
sued for.
Steps were taken last week looking
to the establishment Of a w cents
per mile passenger rate on Wiscon-
sin railways, when Secretary of State
Walter l.. Houser filed a personal
complaint with the state railway COM
mission against the Wisconsin Central
railway, whose three cents charge he
declares to be excessive.
Madame M0djeska will be at Pueblo
on the 22nd. here on the 23rd. arriv.
ing Friday afternoon on No. I. She
will leave here or a special train to
Albuquerque for the next night and
on the 18th she appears at Colorado
Springs, making the trip on No. 2.
MOdjesks carries eighteen people and
travels in the private car Rainbow,
accompanied by a sixty-foot baggage
car.
William Howard. a resident OF Bur
ton, pleaded guilty at Newton. kas..
last week and was fined 500 and
costs on two counts, for having kill
ed and shipped $50 quail to Hutch
inson hotel keeper, December 10.
Howard, 1t is claimed, has been max
ing a practice of supplying several
central Kansas hotels with quail, and
some Of the hotel keepers may be
prosecuted, as the law is equally Sc
we're On them.
A soldier special passed through
this city early Friday morning carry
ing 275 enlisted men Of the Eighth
United States infantry, twelve Off
GERS and four members Of officers
families on their way from Fl. Mag
ara, N. Y, via the Lake Shore to Chi
cago and the Santa Fe to their des-
tination, San Francisco. The special
corries six baggage cars two COM
mon cars, one standard for the Off.
GERS and seven tourist cars. They
will pass through II on time about s
O'Clock.
santa r Sued FOR Damages.
The damage suit Of ira Echroll
against the Santa Fe railway com
pany Is now on trial in the district
court at Newton, Kas. Schroll,