Las Vegas optic., 1914-10-01
OF THE
DOCTOR CAUSED
HIM PAIN
EMPLOYE OF RAILROAD COMPANY
SAYS MEDICO TOLD HIM HE
WAS ALL RIGHT

Santa Fe, n. NJ, Oct. declaring
that the physician and surgeon of the
St Louis, Rocky Mountain and Pacific
railway called on him after he was
thrown off coke car against a stone
wall and assured him there was no
thing the matter with him; that the
same physician and surgeon three
months afterward, when he had suf-
feTed excrueiating pains in his side,
tclJ him that something must have
got twisted inside of him and recon-
mended that he take the milk cure"
on a dairy farm, are among the un-
usual allegations in a complaint filed
by Julian Martinez of Ration, who has
just brought suit in the federal court
against the railway asking $4,000 dam
laees.
The plaintiff declares that this suit
is not for damages as result Of the
accident but for alleged neglect on the
part of the company's doctor whose
attention plaintiff expected to receive
as he had paid 50 a month into the
sick benefit fund.
The plaintiff declares that the acct
dent occurred at the coal camp of
Koehler. October 30, 1913.
The complaint in part is as follows:
"On or about February 9th, 1914,
the said coal camp physician and sur
geon again called at the house and
came to the bedside of your plaintiff
whose side and abdomen was at that
time greatly swollen and inflamed
and he told your plaintiff then and
there that something must have got
twisted inside of him, and that If he
would go to some ranch where there
were plenty of COWS, and that If he
would drink plenty of milk for time
that your plaintiff would soon be vel
again; and that as a proximate conse
Iquence of the aforesaid failure, neglect
and refusal of the said defendant tC
keep and perform his part of the saic
agreement, as aforesaid, your plain
ltiff after lying in bed in sickness, dis
tress, excruciating pain and menta
anguish, and in helpless state ant
condition ssom day soon following
his injuries, as aforesaid to and unit
the 9th day of February, A. d. 1914
being for a period of more than three
months, your plaintiff, at his own voli
ltion and instigation, was taken to the
city of Ration, in Colfax county, ant
was there compelled to secure neces
sary medical and surgical treatment
advice attention, and attendance else
where than from the said defendant
/, The plaintiff further states that he
, had to undergo a surgical operation
for traumatic abscess of the liver. ant
was put to great expense and loss o
time, which might have been avoided
liz he had had proper medical attention
soon after the accident.
| claim Case Continued
The state corporation commission
, has announced that an order of con
t tinuanee to October Is had been is
. sued in the case of the Santa Fe Coll
and Copper Mining company VS.. tn
J A. t. and S. F. railway over CLAIM
r for reparation on a coke shipment Il
. this state.
!. Railroad Map for Schools
The corporation commissioners ar
today sending out railroad maps Q
New Mexico to teachers of variou
rural schools where it is believed the
will assist in the teaching of get
graphy. The commission had STAG
of these maps left over and it was col
sldered wise to send them out t
schools where they would do the mos
good. 1t is estimated that at leas
300 of the maps will be sent out b.
fore the week is over. Some of tn
schools are so poor that they have n
maps at all and of course the teachin
of geography in those schools is a.
ccmplished under many difficulties.
De Baca Inspecting
Game and Fish Warden Trinidad
4 de Baca is up in Mora county and hi
4 friends say he is looking over the p
litical game preserves and whoopin
it. up for democracy.
viii Film Educators
IT has been decided to have badg
bearing a picture Of the New MexiC
building at the San Diego expositio
for wear by the delegates attendin
s 1.-The New Mexico Educational associ