The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-14
RAILWAY Notes.


morrow.
Mr.. Eccles, of the Union Pacific, is
not expected back before Friday.
JF. Dunn, general master mechanic
of the L. P. at Pocatello, was in the
city yesterday.
The Union Pacific excursion to the
north on August q promises to be
heavily patronized.
A H. King, superintendent of bridges
and buildings for the U. P, was over
from Cheyenne yesterday.
A change in time on the Union Pa
cific between Ogden and Milford will
probably be announced today.
G.. F. Richardson has been appointed
master of transportation for the
Southern Pacific, with headquarters at
San Francisco.
Through typographical error the
trains of sheep shipped by the Mis-
souri, Pacific, were yesterday credited
to the Union Pacific
Travelling Agents Yundt, of the
Rock Island, and Warren, of the Santa
F'e, were both down south yesterday
on the sheep trails.
J. NJ. Moore, of the Union Pacific
coal department, is back from Mon
tana, and reports coal business boom
ing in that section.
Car OSO goes south this morning with
Superintendent Young. Master Me-
chanic Dunn and Bridge and Building
Superintendent King.
B. P Cheney, son of the late Ben
jamin P. Cheney, of Boston, has been
elected a director of Wells, Fargo Ex-
press company, to succeed his father.
The choirs of the Eighteenth,
Twentieth and Twenty-first wards give
an excursion today TO Saltair. A good
musical programme is billed for the
evening.
Frank NJ Foote. of Evanston, and
T. S. Talliffaro. of Green river, Wyo-
ming, came in yesterday and chartered
the conclave at Boston.
California commandary No. 1, on
special train en- route to Boston will
arrive here over the Western on August
10 at $50 D. M, and Golden Gate COM
mandery, also travelling by special
train. will come in on August II.
The A 0. u W. will have a grand
excursion from all parts of the terri
tory to Garfield beach today. At $50
p. m. the select knights will have a
parade. The Union Pacific will run
a special train to the beach at 7:30
p. N.
-
known passenger conductor now run
ming out of Cleburne, Texas, has been
spending part of his vacation here, and
returned home last evening a firm con-
vert to the belief that all Texas people
should summer here.
C. C. Drake, general agent of the
Fort Worth and Denver railway, has
resigned. He has been connected with
the road for more than eight years.
His successor will be z. S. Beard,
formerly commercial agent of the E'ort
Worth and Denver at New Orleans.
At an early hour yesterday morning
a serious washout occurred on the U.
p. between Milford and Frisco, three
bridges being taken out by the fall
of water that rushed down. a con-
struction train was at once started out,
and by last evening new bridges were
in and trains running regularly.
Mrs. Jennie LOOMS, secretary of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, is somewhat retarding
work on the Valley road over in Cali
fornia. She stands guard and sees that
the mules are watered certain num-
Der of times a day, and irate team
sters are reported whenever they ac-
celerate the gait of the docile mule
by laying on pick handle.
The Sunset Limited fast express
train, which was run by the Southern
Pacific last winter between New Or
leans and San Francisco, is to be put
on again October /, and it will run
twice week, instead of once, as be-
fore. Trains will leave New Orleans
on Monday and Thursday mornings.
At Baltimore one day last week, the
Baltimore & Ohio had to sell 40 car
loads of watermelons at auction, the
value of the goods having fallen so
much that the consignees refused to
take them.