The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-26
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Distribution Of the Union Pacific
Hospital Fund.
NOT A BRIGHT PROSPECT
New Livestock Rate for Idaho Points.
Dollars Per Carload-Discord on
the Wyoming Division OF
the Union Pacific.

tai u which IL is proposed to distri-
butte among Union Pacific employees.
Master-in-C hancery Abbott is quoted
as saying: There has been no distri-
button of the fun made and there will
not be any until all the property be-
longing to the hospital department is
sold and the proceeds added TO the
money OF the department now or hand.
/ am not sure just what this amount
is. but i believe IL is between s50.O 900 n
5000. 1t is in the form of cash and
Is on deposit in a bank credited to the
hospital department.
THE department also has two hospi-
tai buildings on it's hands which IL is
trying to sell. One of these is located
In Ogden and the other in Denver In
neither of these cities is the real estate
market active at present and the sue
cessory receivers have not yet re-
ceived what they consider fair bid for
the two buildings. They do not want
to give the property away and will
hold II until something like a fair
amount can be secured for them.
when both properties ave been
disposed of n the proceeds added to
the cash on hand. the court will
consider the question of distributing
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how this will be one no one knows.
The court will not decide on the rules
for the distribution of the fund until
the two hospital buildings have been
sold and the fund made complete.
lone rule hat has been proposed to
the court is that after a person has
left the employ of the Union Pacific
he hould cease 10 receive any bene-
fits from h hospital fund. II this
rule were adopted IL would exclude
those who subscribed for the hospital
fund and later left the emnloy of the
company from participation in the ben
efits resulting from the distribution of
the fund But the court has not pass
ed on this question and has not adopted
as yet a single rule concerning the dis
tribution."
The Union Pacific hospital building
In Denver cost $45, 900 when II was
originally constructed. Several years
& IT was condemned by the Denver
board of health OF account of its mark
ed unsanitary condition. 1t was prac-
tically without a drainage system. n
company physicians pronounced II an
unfit place for keeping patients. The
building Is located on ground belonging
10 the old Union Pacific Railway COM
pany, near Fortieth street. Tn until ten
years z the grounds were eauti-
fully kept, and the spot was one of the
prettiest i'm Denver on account Of
the large expenditure of money neces-
sary to make the building of any use
as a hospital the company abandoned
IL. and since that time all Union Pa
ciic accident cases on the Colorado di-
vision have been treated at the st.
Joseph's hospital. nve
Such equipment of the old hospital
I'm Denver as could be used has been
sent to the Denver headquarters in
this city and taken care of by the med
| fpal Hnnarffnanf II has haan Tannrfa6
in Denver that the old building may
be purchased and used for a soldiers
home. and the old soldiers moved there
from Monte Vista. Colo. Such use Of
the building. however. would involve
an enormous outlay of money TO make
the building thoroughly modern, and
it is now thought that it will not be
purchased for any such use.
Should the sale of the Denver and
the Ogden hospital buildings bring in
si5, 900 the fund to be divided would
amount to 800. 900. As there are about
$4,000 applicants for a distribution OF
the fund this would give each of them
about $3.50. 1t is not thought the dis
tribution will give this much 10 each
applicant. as there is not a bright
prospect for realizing a large sum on
the two buildings now offered for sale.
How many men there will be TO share
in the distribution cannot be foretold,
as the number depends altogether on
the rules for distribution finally adopt
ed by the court.
Early in the present year. the Union
Pacific. cooperating with other Ne
braska railroads. abolished the sys-
TEN of charging for shipments of live
stock in cents per 100 pounds and es-
tablished n system Of rates based on
dollars per carload. This applied TO
all shipments on the Union Pacific and
1 nraOnn Shnrt limo 70 Omaha and other
Missouri river points. on shipments
to Chicago the cents per 100 pounds
system Is kept in vogue.
When this change was made a small
territory of the Oregon Short Line
was excepted. on shipments of live
stock from points on the Short Line
between Dubois and Pocatello. Idaho.
the cents per 100 pounds was continued
in order to conform to the system OF
the Great Northern. a fierce competitor
of the Short Line and the Union Pa
cifc in the live stock territory Of
Idaho.
1t is now announced by Traffic Man.
ager Eccles of the Oregon short Line
that on Jan. !. 1899. the live stock rates
from this territory, as from all other
points on the Short Line, will be in dol
lars per carload. The announcement
is said to give satisfaction to the stock
shippers of Idaho, who have protested
against the cents per 100 pounds sys-
tenn several times of late.
There Is discord on the Wyoming di-
vision of the Union Pacific and every
newspaper along the line is sounding
a note of warning. Encouraged by the
success of the call boys of the Union
Pacific at Laramie, Wyo., who last
week struck when their force and
wage were both cut, the operators and
station agents are letting out a howl at
the importation OF Elkhorn station
agents to the best agencies on the Wy
oming division.
The Union Pacific agents at Green
River and Rawlins. Wyo.. have been
removed and their places filed by the
Elkhorn agents from Chadron and Hot
Springs. AS Rawlins and Green River
are division terminal points they are
regarded as the most important sta
tons. and n big amount OF traffic IL
handled by each station every month
Since these places have been given TO