Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-08-14

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the Los sn4eles Evening Neg* A
report has Just bsen received bs him,
This sas made after careful investi'
cation I'D Probably l. the mos. cer
rect report yet made. aeeording b
this report the total insurance car.
ried on burned buildings and contents
il approximate. 500. 0as. Ooe. OF this
amour, rs per cen, has been paid. or
o total Of about 50. aso. ossa.
Pay day tosnorrow.
n. W. Hoyt. travelling auditor .or
the Santa Fe. has heea visiting Alba
aueraue.
Engineer James Miller of Ration II
visiting In Topeka with his mother
and sister.
Brakeman =. VI. Settleman has set
tied down to switching in the tAs
Vegas yard.
Engineer Ed Sears viii co east with
members Of his family ON the 10th.
after the pay checks cone In.
]. n. Mcfarland has relieved
George Labadie as night officer In
the las Vegas railroad yards.
Brakeman ]. ". Dckerson. Who
had been Oft nick for a week. IL again
nj and willing for train service.
Machinist Patterson has quit the
lathe In the shops here and win lose
no time 10 getting to San Francisco.
n. Fredericks. night yardmaster In
the local wards. Is off duty for a spell.
being -"lteved by Brakerisa Vim
McMeiIty.
Brakeman +. Belmoth has recover
ed from his sick spell and Is ready
for road duty again on the south end
out Of the Meadow City.
Samuel Hyde. neat and industrious.
Is now janitor at the passenger de-
pot and office building I'm Las Vegas.
Conductor n. l.. Creswick has safe.
~ passed the crisis in his disease.
typhoid fever. and will soon be him.
self again.
Fireman Fitzgerald. a typhoid pa.
tent nj the local railroad hospital,
was we'll enough to venture down
town yesterday.
N. J. Drury, division master me-
chauic. came down from Ration yes.
terday on his usual daily visit to the
local railroad shops. OF late.
Engineer J. A. Rush and wife and
Mrs. NJ. Sizer. expect to leave Ration
about the 18th inst. for California on
a two months visit.
Earl Purdy. sou OF T. E. Purdy,
station agent for the Santa Fe at Al
buquerque. has accepted the position
of assistant cashier for the Santa Fa
at El Paso.
Roy Sund Is night caller at the local
yard office and Is as obligiug a lad
as can 10 found anywhere in the land
He has a future before him and
| should aim high.
Brakeman VIM. Jones has knocked
off work for a season. by permission
of the powers that be. and will pay
] that long-promised visit to loved
ones back In the Penn state.
Conductor George Moye deadhead
ed to Kennedy station on the Santa
Fe Central yesterday to pilot a light
engine from that road to the Albu
querque shops for repairs. .,--~
Switchman VIM. Rhodes applied 70!
"a ten day lay off and got It.. He |;
now a member of a fishing party al
Black lakes and will be- disappointed
beystd utterance If he doesn't meet
j with the average fisherman's luck.
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Engineer Arthur Langston and
Fireman CliiY TraIne.-, with engine
7s, double,headed out. on No. ! 'as'
evening and continued to hit tie rails
as far south as BelsI. 5ut from Wien
place they are today ptIIiug Ged.
Mgr. ]. E. Hurley's spe,'iak>
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Conductor J. W. Jackson, ,Sho has
running a train out Of 2xss Vegas
or something like twenty ye;,rs, has
..Signed his pOsitiOp and vSIl nerhaps