Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-08-21

das morning ~ : oGasek. SAYS the Sill
v~r City Enterprise. The participants
weEe the driver 0f the STAGE from
Casks rsaa io satt and the section
foreman al Mutt the former KILLING
the latter. shooting him through the
heart The mea had a falling out.
one nf them claiming the ether in
suited MS vile. 80 il Is alleged. and
shooting followed The names az
neither party could be- learned. The
murderer Mas taken Ia Deming for
~afe keepins.
Ia he post railr sads ha"' fsuni
that when trains eoliided and the
tsldy u one car rolls above the body
az the next there il a tendency for
the under tgain Of the first a 10
sweep the stiperstruciure OF the Sec
ord car Off its unierframes. Several
raaas now In building new equipment
strengthen the door 0f the yestibule
entrances which are now constructed
of very heavy rolled steel and In 50
doing they greatly strengthen the car.
Mr.. T.. ]. Bet,on. manager Of the
Western Union telegraph NJ Ration.
viii be the new station agent Of the
Rocky Mountain route at Cimarron.
MIR. Betton and his family will move
10 Cimarron In 4 short time. and he
will take up his new duties.
Henry Buchoiz. night round house
foreman In the Santa Fe shops at
Ration, ief, Thursday evening with
his wife and sou. Theodore for Black.
weii. Okla, where they will visit with
Mr.. Buchoiz' sister. Mrs. Martin
Smith. Of that place,
The b. OF r. T, held a pleasant So
cial and bazaar al the residence OF
Conductor John vogel up In Ration.
The affair a. well a. being a social
c was q financial success. about
SIS being cleared.
Brakeman T.. E.. Eaton was unable
for duty yesterday afternoon. He got
n cinder In his eye and Il formed q
blister that would not down AT the
bidding.
Brakeman Vim. McNeilly will In.
dulge himself in a trip to the tall
mountains that frown down upon US
In the distance. having got a respite
from road duty for this purpose.
Engineer Dave Sulier. who had been
,,icn. ck;rg ia the mountains with
members Of his family. will likely go
.town 20 Albuquerque aud man his en-
CINE up to Las Vegas.
VIM. VI. L.aughi!n. chief clerk to II.
3 Montgomery. general watch nsIec'
COR of the Santa Fe road. office In
Topeka, was married to the latter's
daughter. Miss Percye Montgomery.
Conductor G. II. Gaines made his
maiden trip over the second district
this week and caught sixty cars out
nj Lac Vegas, the usual number for a
beginner.
That pass came at last, after weary
hours of waiting and wondering. n
I. u. Leeper. the brawny brakeman,
get off on his Ohio trip on No. : YES,
,r,J,v aftaruOon.
brakeman F. e. Ioakum ~ O
drctor Mike JOnes's crew. Is o
smashing baggage between !A'buauer'
cue and La Jrnta.
Brakeman F. H. Helzter Will rus
,,cate n week at Ell Porvenir. gaining
~ayc,,dupois aud getting the color back
IN his tace.
Conductor Sid Brown and wife OF
Ration are visiting Mrs. Browns Old
home in Waverly. Kans.
engineer Ed Sears. wife and TWO
stem daughters, got away for Cinein'
mt, Ohio. yesterday afternoon.
Conductor J. II. Mulhern and crew
went up to La Junta last night to
hiring No. 3 down this morning.
Brakeman L. E, Jensen went out on
stub train No. 2. with Con
ductor pritchell, yesterday afternoon.
In vulgar ~parlance a locomotive
engineer Is Familiarity known as a
"hoghead." a fireman as a "tallow'
not" a brakeman as a 'stinger" and
an office clerk as a %"pinhead" or "scis.
sors build"
E. r. Ketner. recently one of the
rroprietors of tine Busby hotel of Nc
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