Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-03-30
NEWS

9. b, Grimshaw, manager of the
Santa Fe Central railway company.
has gone east on business.
Brakeman j. N. Lacey and family
Of Winsl0w, Ariz, left for California.
where they will make their home In
the future.
An emplOye OF the water service
was struck by the engine used on the
short run white standing too near
the track on the depot platform At
Trinidad. and sustained painful inju'
ries about the head.
Members Of both branches OF the
New Jersey legislature have adopted
resolutions calling upon the states
representatives and senators at Wash
Ag to support President Roosevelt's
rate Legislation policy.
NJ. j. Phares Of Winslow, resigned
his position as engineer with the San
tn Fe railroad company. and left Tor
Grand Junction, Col, at which place
he will reside with his father and
engage In the ranching business.
IN. the suit with the Western Paci'
tc regarding rights Of way and pre-
cedence along the bay shore at OAK
land, Cal, the Southern Pacific mas
won every contention. under a decl'
sion In the United States circuit court
by Judge Morrow.
A spur OF the FL Paso & Southwest
ern railway has been completed from
.Iarilla to the Mamie Baird mine, upon
which a compressor. hoist and boilers
have been installed In anticipation OF
the building Of the proposed smelter
vat Orc Grande.
John Sullivan, one Of the old time
track layers OF the Atlantic 4 PACING
railroad, and for the past few months
foreman OF the track laying gang
west OF Bagdad, has gone to the ho'
,springs near San B%ernardino. He Isl
suffering from rheumatism.
4 change has taken place IN the
western Union Telegraph on'ces al
Winslow. H. r. Getzendanner. mana
ger has been transferred to Cleburne,
Texas. F. II. Jones Of Fresno, Cai.'
will succeed him. and V. F. Hogg mas
been transferred from Winslow to the
Fresno office.
A bill before the Rhode Island leg
islature seeks to limit the working
Of all conductors. engineers nre
men brakemen and others engaged
In outdoor labor on railways. 10 ten
hours, and all must be performe'
within twelve consecutive hours. Al
axception is made In $ or MONDAYS.
7. W. Shankland. a locomotive en-
gineer who ran out OF Needles LOT =
number Of years, but who mas peen
sick and out Of the service the past
six years. died the otter day ~ MS
home In Los Angeles. He leaves al
up,fa and a child. The dead engsI
neer was well known among local
trainmen.
The four steel gangs situated AZ,
Yucca Cons. Bagdad and Arctic. on
the coast lines OF the Santa re, are
laving on an average Of two miles 81
roi,s ner day. The Santa Fe during
tho past month has been maln'aih'ns
eleven work trains on that division,
In connection with the ballast WORK
rail- distribution and picking up .ae
old rails, and on the cut-of between
Needles and Mellen. /,
Frank Kane. a young man wsD q
been employed in the Santa re gents
Office in Needles. and later at 9 serent
n,aces around that town, was eHusht
n me act OF begging upon the |F4ets
n vas later found that he had pcr'I
kt;on Of other peoples belongings ~
hia pockets, taken from a mouse ~
which he had no business to make en-
trance. He pleaded guilty and was
,zen4enced to six months imprison-
ment in the county jail at San Bpar-
dino.
The supreme judicial court OF me
that the rule Of lawktnat
nersons walking upon railroad aeks
are bound to a~pprehend that no
t,ves NAV swiftly approach aoy
t,ma and are bound to be cor 2AM
IL On the watch for them and 80
the tracks In time to avoid COLI
The mere fact that the railroad
many does not prosecute persons WAX
ing on the track cannot be taken ny
q as a license or permit tcl
use the tracks as a foot path.
Railroad passenger men now
that the spring tide Of tourist
il setting in toward the east. Thcus-l
ands Of people who have been spend
ing the winter on the coast are nov
planning to return home for the
-. .us 40 o,arfnC tn0utrv as TO