The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-26
IN RAILROAD CIRCLES
Oregon Short Line and Union Pa
cific Troubles Adjusted.
BEATING THE COMPANY
Four Conductors on the Short Line Dis
charged for knocking Down Fares.
Railroads Discharge Employees
on General Principles.

/ The financial part Of the late troubles
| between the oregon Short Line and the
| Union Pacific has been adjusted. the
! Short Line conceding the claims of the
/ Union Pacific The latter road had set
! up the claim that the Short Line had
withheld $75 1000 due the Union Pacific
! on collections from passenger tickets
sold al points along the Short Line, the
| bulk of it being from Salt Lake. Legal
action for the collection Of the money
| was threatened. but the necessity Of it
has been averted by the Short Line
/ paying the full amount of the claim. the
money having been transferred day
or two ago, according to reliable re-
/ ports.
II Is announced that the Oregon Short
Line has discharged four conductors
/ from its employ. and that their dismis-
/ sal was due to the fact that some Of
/ them had been engaged in tilching from
| the company in a very neat fashion.
1 The manner of getting ahead of the
! corporation was to take the ticket from
| the passenger. make a bluff al punch
/ ing it, and when opportunity afforded,
| select from the bunch captured during
the day those which were salable and
| then dispose of them To persons for
/ sale, participating in the profits.
/ This scheme could be worked all
| right and would be a good way OF do
ing the company out of considerable
/ money in the course of a month or So.
Inquiry al the passenger office of the
| company in Salt Lake" says the Her
! aid "elicited no information. The gem
eral passenger agent did not care To
state anything. He would affirm or
deny nothing. Questioning another
! official was productive Of the same re-
| suit Nothing could be obtained from
! the inside of the building. On the out
side, however. rumors were thick and
/ fast A tour of the Offices of the bro-
kers of the American association which
/ are located here elected the informa-
ton that so far as any Of them knew,
nothing of the. kind had happened
| They were confident that no tickets of
the kind had been sold in their offices
and that the same conditions applied
to Ogden.
1T is the fear that perhaps an injus-
| tice might be done some one in con-
neCtiOn with the matter that the names
| of the conductors who have been re-
| Gently discharged is withheld, 1t hap
pens very frequently that some nno-
cent person is made to suffer for the
guilty and, until a definite statement
is made concerning the identity or
those who have been connected with
the matter. by persons in authority,
the case will be allowed to rest where
il is. Railroads do not always prove
principles"
The following reports Of gross earn
ings have been made. Chicago. MIL
wanukee & ST. Paul for second week Of
December. $3.50 1855. an increase of S44,-
500: Pittsburg & Western. same period.
55S 344 an increase of 315,6S Ann Ar
Dor, same period S24,5i7, an increase of
1861: Rio Grande Western same per-
iod S5o500, an increase of $3.50; Inter
@ Nh fI,.ysg aI,44 44&rs
iod 1881, an increase Of 9l,0l0: Chi
cage Great Western. for November,
BAH, 14T, an increase of Sl54,29o from
July l. $2,39Sos4, an increase of S4l9. :
b6S: Iowa Central, for second week of
December $37 26S. an increase of SIG, 592;
Lake Erie & Western. for October,
$299, 1S5, an increase of SS343: Kansas
City, Pittsburg * Gulf. for second week
of December. $40. 16S an increase of 23s,-
931: Wabash. same period. $2bo,4l3. an
increase of S27,724: Denver & Rio
Grande same period, Sl62. 900. an in
icrease of a3S. 400; Texas Pacific, same
period, s211 COZ, an increase of $2i.9l3.
All the railroads of the United States
are issuing circulars relating to passes,
| applying To employees and press tick
cts The Union Pacific & Western cir
culars have just been sent out. by an
apparently general agreement and con-
sent of the roads newspaper tickets will
the coming year be yellow in color
probably in Difference to the spread Of
eYellow journalism"
]. G. Doolittle. recently with the Rio
Grande Western at Salt Lake. has been
appointed travelling freight aud pas
senger agent Tor ST. Louis q san Fran
cisco. his territory embracing Utah
Colorado. Montana, Idaho and Arizona
with headquarters at Denver.
The statement is repeatedly made
with confidence and With apparent au-
thority that no matter who will be So.
lected as the head of the Union Pa
eifie system Ed Dickerson Is 10 be vice
president and general manager.
The Northern Pacific is handling al
! immense amount Of traffic notWith
standing that not more than one-thirt
of the wheat crop along that line ha!
bee moved The value Of Whea
, shipped out Of Oregon and Washington
, this year is placed at $50 100000.
Copies of the Christmas standard On sal,
( ut aIi offices OF the standard, in wrapper
: ready for mailing, price 5 cents. and b,
! newstieaIers. Domestic postage, , cents
foreign, Ii cents.
The social event If The season viii b.
the Christmas festival and ball given bs
$ Teoufunia lodge No. and Louise 1odgs
No. 8. Herman Sohn. at Renshaw hall
Dec 2sfh Tickets gentlemen, 81 cents
ladies = cents
: AT THE CHURCHES.
!, Church services will be held in Butt
Y to-day as follows:
r First Baptist ehurt h-Gorner .
: Broadway aud Montana streets. Rek
: j. r Saftsinger. pastor. preaching i
! n a m and 30 p. m; Sunday sehoa
Il APO u m. Calvary school III base
8 men5 If Union hail al , u m. youn
: mems prayer meeting at II a M. week
Il II prayer meeting Wednesday eNenin
al O'clock baptism at the close Of tn