Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-03-16
NEWS

The Union Pacific will provide a
large greenhouse at North Platte for
the supply of flowers for the depots
and dining cars ON the system.
Conductor J, II. Gormley, who has
been laying off several months suffer
Inc from Injuries received. the result
or an accident, Is at work again on
the Ration division.
Frank Somers. formerly conductor
on the north end. and for the past
few weeks acting trainmaster, has
been appointed trainmaster for the
north division Albuquerque Citizen.
X, Y, Hatmaker Of Defiance, Ohio,
Is said to have secured the right Of
way for a railroad To connect Fort
Wayne and Detroit, The route Is by
the old canal bed to Defiance, and
thence north by Wauson. Adrian and
Ann Arb0r.
+. A. Rankin has rendered his resig.
nation as bill clerk at the A~lbuquer-
que freight office and will leave in a
few days for the east. Mr.. Rankin
will be succeeded at the bill clerks
desk by a Mr.. Peterson, who Is com.
ing from Chicago.
w. J. Coapman. for a number Of
years q train dispatcher at Needles,
but who has been for the past three
years living In the south and east, re-
turned to Needles the first of last
week. and will probably connect him.
self with the Santa Fe telegraph Of
flee there.
The Erie railroads eleventh annual
family dinner was given at the Hotel
Savoy. New York. and was attended
by $50 officials ana agents. President
Underwood's speech a delivered
from a monograph, as he was en-
route to California and could not be
present in person.
The Rock Island management has
decided to suspend the previous order,
requiring bonds from the passenger
conductors. A year ago the order was
placed in effect, passenger conductors
being required to furnish a bond OF
81 1000 and those on freight trains
handling passengers, $500.
The Gallup Republican says: The
first OF the week the office Of the
chief engineer of the Arizona & Colo
RADIO railroad was established at Gal
1up. The rooms in the rear of the
offices of DR.. Stofer, In the Caledon- !
ian building, were selected for the !
railroad offices and the furniture was !
moved In Wednesday. !
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The Ration Reporter says: The st.
Louis, Rocky Mountain and Pacific
road has commenced to lay tracks I
from Preston to Cimarron. They ex-
pect to put In the first three miles Of /,
track by hand, and after the laying :
OF that will then use track laying ma :
chinery, which will enable them to :
lay It very rapidly. The company Is ]
making all haste to get into Cimar. !
ron. o
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William d. Fossett, who will be !
succeeded as United States mai sial s
in Oklahoma by John R. Abernathy, !
has accepted his old position with :
the Rock Island railroad as chief spe- i
cial agent. He will assume his new i
duties on April g. Fossett was with !
the Rock Island for years, and 1t was /
while in that capacity. unaided and
alone, he routed the robbers who held ii
up the Rock Island passenger train Z
at Kiei. /,
A few weeks ago the divident rate \
on the common stock OF the Union Pa J
cific was raised from 5 to s per cent, :
but Wall street still clings to the be- :
lief that a big extra dividend Is to be
eXDeCt6u, Ill spite Vi SHCs iuNt tuo'
since June the expenditure OF S12,-
100000 In improvements and extern II
sions has been authorized and that +
many further important extensions, in i
a line from Portland to Sc. )
attic, are. in prospect. a
within the past week. eighteen b
families with household goods have r,
passed through the capital city via n
the Santa Fe Central Railway com c,
pany to new homes In the Estancia II
valley. Reports received by the rail- a
way officials are to the effect that G,
much Of the available land from "
Mountainair to Estancia has already b
been filed upon and arrivals from now G
on will have 10 hurry. d
Night Officer Guy has resigned his I,
position as special officer at the SAM II
"a re depot in San Bernardino and
win be temporarily employed at the Ii
rip tracks in the local yards. 1t Is c
said there is something better In store Il
for him, however, and as soon as the r.
has made the arrangements v