The herald., 1898-05-28
NEWS OF The RAILWAYS
SOLDIERS TO ARRIVE EARLY
THIS MORNING
A NEW TARIFF IN OPERATION
Increased Freight Rates on West
Bound Observation-Disclosures
Not Running Away

The soldiers from New Orleans via the
Southern Pacific road will commence to
arrive in this city this morning between
z and o'clock. There will be five train
loads of them. all regular troops OF the
same classification as the government took
from San Francisco to the east a lew
weeks ago. The soldiers will arrive from
a very trying journey over the DESERT ana
will have to depart in short time LOT
trip across another barren waste OF sand'
so that it will be the least the people OF
the city can do to give them plenty TO
eat and drink The Merchants and Man.
ufacturers' association and the ladies' OIL
the Woman's Relief corps have arranged
to provide the boys good breakfast ana
supply them with fruit and flowers. Sol
diers are very partial to tobacco, and some
of them like beer, but perhaps this Will
occur to some philanthropic giver who will
foresee that there is likely to be plenty OF
oranges and boutonnieres.
Increased Freight Rates
General Freight Agent Shepperd of the
Southern Pacific yesterday, In San Fran
cisco, Officially recognized the action OF
the Transcontinental Freight bureau at
Its recent meeting in Milwaukee In raising
rates on west-bound freight, so as to in
clude the different classification of carload
and less than carload lots. This means
much to the jobbers of the coast, at whose
request the matter was brought up at the
meeting, and the present action taken.
The fact that eastern jobbers could have
the advantage of sending less than car
load lots to little towns on this coast ana
territory tributary, at the same rates as
car lots, has for a long time initiated
against the dealers of Los Angeles and
San Francisco. Merchants in st. Louis,
Chicago and Cincinnati were thus enabled
to do business with places that by all right
should have got their supplies of goods
from this city or some other coast jobbing
point.
The merchants of California asked that
the rate be increased at least fifty per
cent. on carload lots, and that the diff
ference in any individual case should not
be less than fifty cents. To this the rail-
ways had virtually assented, and the re-
suit Is that the jobebrs in the eastern
cities are in a white heat of rage over the
hoss of the territory which they have
heretofore controlled, but that condition
will not do them any good or alter the
situation.
According to the information received
by the Southern Pacific officials, the rail-
ways have in their new tariffs arranged
for a number of commodity or special
rates, to be applied to import goods when
shipped in carload lots or in smaller guam
titles, so that in all essential particulars
the bound freight tariffs have been
made over. In the new rating most OF
the class rates from the east have been
materially increased, some of the instances
which will give a good idea of the run of
the new rates being as follows:
Goods in Glass one will now take a rate
of SO per 100, in place of $2.40; Glass two
has a rate now of $3.50. in place of s2.16;
Class three takes a 1920 rate. in place OF
&; Glass four will be charged s1.9O. in place
of $1.7O. The new rate of Glass A is put
at the same figure it was before, s1.6O; but
Glass B is advanced to $125, in place of
e1.1O; Glass c keeps its old rate Of 81, while
Glass D is reduced to So cents from ST.
Glass E is also reduced, being now S. cents,
when 1t was formely 95.
Huntington Not Running Away
Whatever opinion people may have of
the character of c. p Huntington, 1t has
never been advanced before that he was
afraid of anything on, in or under the
earth, so the recent cry that he had lun
away from the Investigations of the state
railway commission excited considerable
surprise. 1t now turns out that he
was misnformed as to the meaning of the
adjournment of the last meeting and
thought he was excused until the question
of the boards jurisdiction had been de-
termined in the Robinson case. w. Z.
Herrin, counsel for the Southern Pacific
company, appeared before the board on
Wednesday and said that was Hunting
toms understanding, and that he was will
ing to return at any time the commission
ers wished and continue the investigation.
He asserted that Huntington was not at
tempting to evade any more meetings. In
view of this presentation of the matter,
the board decided to postpone proceeding
In the matter of contempt for month.
Notes and Personals
General Freight Agent J. J. Byrne Of the
Santa Fe-Pacific railway Is expected to
return from San Francisco today. He
was to have come yesterday, but was de-
tanned by further conferences on mat
ters in which his line and the Southern
Pacific are interested. Mr.. Byrne, in the
Chronicle of Thursday, had the curious
privilege of reading that he had returned
to this city and had been interviewed on
the great increase of business experienced
by the Santa Fe. AS this was in dis
patch containing the wonderful news
that the Santa Fe-Pacific was likely tc
absorb the Baltimore and Ohio, Mr.
Byrne's qualification must have been COM
plete.
A Santa Fe freight train on Tuesday
went through bridge at Hauck's tank
near Holbrook. The engine and seven cars
went down the ditch, but not a man was
injured.
The two cowboy robbers who robbed the
Santa Fe train at Belen on Tuesday were
youths, not over 20 or % years old.
The Southern Pacific company has
placed an armed guard at the high bridge
at Pecos, where there are numbers Of tur-
bulent characters.
On Saturday last a train of sheep of
the Santa Fe was wrecked in the yard at
Barstow, five cars of the poor creatures
being sent down an embankment and $50
of them being killed. How such an acci-
dent could occur in yard is puzzling to
railway men.
The San Diego Sun is now building the
Rock Island railway to that city, the line
to be completed in two years!
THE DEAD OF THE YEAR
Stanton Post and Corps g. A. R. Hold