Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-12-11

travelling live stock agent, necessitatins
the retirement of the genial Lawson
at least temporarily.
The c. M. & st. Paul will, on the first
of the year, allow General Agent
Mitchell to put on travelling live stock
agent. We will call him Jimmie Gin
ton, and let 1t go at that.
Passenger business on many Of our
western lines is all shot to pieces, and a
pick up In such earnings cannot as We.
be discovered even by the aid of mi
croscope.
We sincerely trust that the advance
agent of prosperity" so glibly promise d
us by the victors, will strike our young
state before the first of the year, else
hundreds of men familiar with the
business done on iron rails will be given
q reduction In pay for a New Years
gilt. Such is the iron.clad order of
things owing TO the earnings, and
naught can avert 1t save an increase, or
semblance in the very near future. Ii
the reduction plan must needs be car.
ried out, 1t will effect every man In IN.
service. And women too, of course.
The election of United States sena-
tor for Utah is fast assuming proper.
lions beyond state inteFest-the nation
is looking on-how will we, as a people,
acquit ourselves1 Viewed impart,aIIy
and from an unbiased standpoint, the
question calls for expression of every
Utahnians purest and best thoughts
and to stand idly by is the part of an
uninterested or craven citizen. In our
next we shall pass upon the matter in
manner that is all our own, and we
promise that great ragged chips will fiy
promiscuously about from every single
stroke Of clean cutting ak having be.
hind 1t for power, sincerity and honesty
of purpose.
The pass agreement of the central and
western lines for 81 has not been modi-
ned to any great extent. The mini.
mum number of miles on exchange
has been raised from az to 90 miles,
and advertising restricted to regular
papers and periodicals, thus doing away
with ads run on the guerrilla" plan, as
should very properly be the case.
The great d. p. has been filed with
columns of "Short Line" stuff since the
order of foreclosure and sale, and It con
tanned nothing new from the facts pub.
lished in all the Inter-mountain papers
sixty days ago, through special CORES.
pondence from this city. Even after
such publications, the associated press
fell down through sending out a rank
story that events have disproved.
The country press of Utah should not
be slow In matters of impending Iegisla.
ton The great majority ofour country
editors are bright and energetic fellows
whose ideas remain at par the season
round, and they should come boldly
out OF their shell and not leave 1t all To
those who push fabers In the capitol.
On all Legislative matters their editorial
quill should be driven in the interests 81
an honest constituency, aided by their
own clear mental acumen, and the dis
gruntled advertiser should be very
squelched when too Numerous
with his advice and an eye single for
selfish motives. A patron of this stamp |
should be thrown out together with his
lad" II we view it In the right light
During the past ten days there has
been general mix up among three of
he lines, and all on account of a twenty
Ear shipment by John Hilton, of Wells. |
New. The fun has been fast and furious.
MIR. Hilton was going on the K, C.
Market and one week ago last Saturday
igned the routing order In Ogden, Civ.
ng 1t to the Midland and Santa Fe
Then the wiley Hawkes., of tho D. &R.
~ went to Nevada and succeeded In
letting Hilton to change It to ar.
,. Then Cole, of the Midland. sped to
Nevada and got from Hilton a specific
md iron clad order superceding all pre-.
'ious, and giving 1t back to the Midland.
s well as changing the date of ship.
nent and number of cars to load out
Even that wasn't a lead pipe cinch.
or the d. & R. G. took VIII White out
buy the stnff, which he did, and paid
remarkably stiff price. It went with
ne deal to ship D. & R. G. and Rock
sland. which means Omaha instead Of
-unsas City, and that is a cause for the
anita Fe TO "howl."
taken all In all, the Westerns operat.
'g and traffic department succeeded In
.bbing up a mess that will sooner or
tier rebound TO the interest of the
MON Pacific, and lose or abridge In
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