San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-03-05
Ratified OFF THE RAILS.
Talked by Telegraph, Told by Train
Men and Taken in Transit.
Disnatcher Sid Buchanan of the Suns

Dispatcher Sid Buchanan of the Sunset,
has returned from a trip west.
A speciaI car of the NJ. X. and 4. came
| in on the International and Great North
ern yesterday. .
Conductor Tom Beck of the Houston
Division, SIP. is at Alpine, Texas, at
tending court.
Conductor Sam BetterS and Shaefer, Of
the S. p. have returned from pleasure
trip to Houston.
Mr.. Matt Morris, clerk in the South
ern Pacific general offices at Houston,
was in the city yesterday.
The International and Great Northern
shipped car of fine bred hogs from this
point to Laredo, yesterday.
The contractor in charge of the work
at Shuma cut off, on the Southern Pa
citic, took out a large crew of laborer 8
yesterday.
Mr.. j. Kirby has again returned TO his
old post as roadmaSter on the division
between San Antonio and Glidden, vice
C. Melville, resigned.
The Southern Pacific will repair its Ar
iona waShOuts by next Sunday, and the
road will be again open for traffic
throughout its entire length.
The Southern Pacific, in consequence
of the washOuts in Arizona, has dropped
five crews and closed three stations on
the division between San Antonio and
SanderSOn
On No. 90 yesterday arrived an East
Tennessee Virginia and Georgia line
special, with some of the officials of that
road on board. 1t continued west on the
same train.
Mr.. Horace A. Bird the general pas
senger agent of the Colorado Midland
road, and an old time newspaper man, re-
signed the other day to embark in the
publishing business.
The Southern Pacific has issued very
handy table of stations, their numbers
and distances, what kind of stations, as
to freight, that they are, and on which
side of the track they are situated.
The special car, Texas, of General Sup
erintendent Van Week, of the S. P, ar
rived here yesterday with Master Me-
chanic J. J. Ryan and wife, Of Houston on
board. The party returned home on NO.
II, last night.
On Sunday last a new freight tariff
went into effect on the Texas and Pacific,
making one OF the greatest reductions
ever known in the history OF railroads.
The tariffs have been sent out to the va
rious connections of that road. The fig
auctions exceed 20 per cent, and in other
goes almost as high as 80 per cent.
A New Orleans exchange remarks:
"The most important question of the
day with railroad officials is the nececssi-
ty of union depot, and this is being dis
cussed more freely since the reports
published in many papers elsewhere, that
our passenger facilities are not to be COM
pared with many wav station depots in
the East and West, This was
noised about and received publication
through complaints of visitors who were
our carnival guests"
OF the recent attempt to GUST President
eastern exchange says:
.''Collis P. Huntington and the directors
of the old Texas Central railway company
were served with peculiar kind OF notice
by the stockholders of the old company OF
that name last Saturday. 1t is a request
to them to GUST Frederick p. Olcott, pres
ident of the Central Trust company, from
his trusteeship of the railway company,
and an intimation that If this is not done
by March 16, the stockholders of 1900
shares Of stock will ask the courts to re-
store the road to its old status before it
fell into the hands of Huntington and Oh
colt, who have manipulated the roads, it
is alleged, to the detriment OF the stock
holders and to the personal enrichmentof
Mr.. Olcott and the Southern Pacific COM
Dany, which is another name for Mr..
whose property this COM
pany is. The plan was developed by the
eminent railroad lawyer, Jefferson Chand-
Ter, of st. Louis, who represents the in
terests of the stockholders in the state OF
Texas and in the United States courts"