Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-08-09
RATTLE OF THE RAILS

ssssssaa rates Enixht eiesray Nv hronkhs
washia the provisions prohibiting dis
ordinations % any Kind. II 10 claim
81.
Pay fssss " WAN
PAY fares or saik h the edirs
which has gone forsh % the people
sho have heretofore enjoyed the
eouFsesies al the railway companies
L0eal passenger traffic managers
have met and entered into an agree
ment 10 issue no more transportation
except for cash Al regular rates. az.
ter August -. except where contracts
now exist xith newspapers and maya
zines Tor such transportation n may
become due for advertising. These.
ton viii b. cut off III the end Of the
year when aii contracts expire. The
agreement IL the result of the Law
enacted by congress which goes into
effect the last of the month. and Ii
supposed 70 entirely M out free
rides or especial favors 10 travellers
and shippers. Railway men say they !
will comply with the law.
Maehinist Tally II under the wealth
or.
Edward Young. Of Sedaiia. Mo-. ID
a new employee on the rip track.
The wife ~ Machiuist Harm Is
very IN. necessitating his presence
II home.
Firemen Addison and Columbus
have quit the foot-boards and gone
TO the brakes for reasons best known
10 themselves.
Conductor ". G. Hurt and family
have gone TO the woods for an outing.
his way car and its contents having
been turned over TO Conductor VIM,
German.
Brakeman n. J. Fathergail Is back
I'm the city Of magnificent distances
from I.amy. where he had been re-.
lieving Charley Haynes on the Santa
Fe branch.
Conductor ]. u. Muihern Is threat.
ened with a spell Of illness and Con.
dactor N. II. cramer has charge OF
his freight run on the south end out
Of Las Vegas.
c. J. McNuity. acting division fore.
man at the Las Vegas shops. will go
up to Ration on the LIST Of the month
and receive a promotion at the hands
OF the Santa Fe people. |,
j. w. Records, a former acting al.
vision foreman here. IL now master
mechanic for the st. Louis. Rocky |
& Pacific. with headauart. ,
ers at Cimarron aud Ration. N. NJ. ,
Mrs. v. p. Gilpin and Miss MAY
Livingston OF Albuquerque. passed
Las Vegas for their home AZ b
Emporia. Kansas. after having wit. ,
messed their brother c~leverly married I
% Miss Ode Rousch. at Winslow last {
week. I
Engine No. 1927. n Of the engines
took part In the San Francisco v
mountain collision. 10 which Engineer 4
lost his life. is sitting b
IN the Santa Fe tracks near the Rail. {
Dad avenue crossing at Albuquerque.
nd is attracting much attention.
Prof A. NJ. Thompson. of the Uni G
ed States geographical survey, died a
n Washington. d. C., aged 81 years. II
lie was associated with Major How. p
III. his brother-in law, In the explora. &c
ion Of the Grand Canyon of the Colo 9
ado. which, IL on the Santa Fe, in 81
arizona.
Geo. Diegoldt. foreman of the San d
a Fe paint shops In Albuquerque. re- "
eived word on Saturday Of the death Is
Il his father. who died at Huntington, n
Y. Va. at the age of 81 years. Mr.. u
)iegoldt saw his father only a few $;
weeks ago. says the Citizen. and
hough he was failing some then, he
hought that the old gentleman would u
i've for some time to come. g,
Superintendent E. J. Gibson Of the +.
cast lines division. arrived In Albu. n
Saturday night in his private r
from Winslow. He corroborated
he story that a large appropriation
0 be used in enlarging the shops in III
he Duke City had been asked for, II
ut added that as yet nothing definite HI
ad been learned as to whether or not "
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