The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-29


The Northern Paeifc has placed orders
sor e mikes Of steel rails. II cost Of
Frank wateYhose. OF the Bsisish-Asner-
icsn Steamship Company. went 10 Victoria
yesterday.
l. a. Nsdsau, general agent Of the North
efn Pac1nc. left for Spokane yesterday
afternoon.
A. @. Barker. general agent Of the Chi-
from Portland.
Jamea Walsh has been chosen president
Of the soushern Indiana, IN place OF r. B.
Ogden, resigned.
Frank May. Of q Louis WIN succeed
O. G.. Post a. auditor OF the Minneapolis
= D. Louis. May l.
The White Pass 4 Yukon has juN b.
sued . fine map % the Attn mining district
Of British Columbia.
George Mel Brown. executive agent OF
the Canadian Pacific. was here fran VAN
couysr, h. c.. yesterday.
The Illinois Central r. laying eighty 1--WE
pound steel rails In the place Of the sixty
pound on its lines In Iowa.
The Phillips Judson Excursson Company.
operAtin& between here and Boston. has re-
Gently Received forty new tourist cars.
l. v. bruce. general agent Of the Grand
Trunk. returned Yesterday from tour OF
tho mills Of the Pue>s sound country.
H. n. 0ehanb cAsef clerk In the local
once cf the burlington. has returned from
his recent vacation spent In California
Frank Bruce. master mechanic Of the
Montana Central = dead nj 0reas Falls.
He was in the railroad business for thirty
years.
Wenern roads running out OF Chicago
have been o11ctaiiy notified sha; all win
ter tourist rates viii 70 out Of effect IT The
end OF this month.
g. =. Cline. city passenger agent Of the
Oregon Railroad and NaviGasion. returned
Yesterday from Carbonate. ana left lAgf
night for iaszquah.
When application vas recently made In
crease ~ capital stock sIAsoo.ooo the fee
Mtos4o 1paEstexe amounted to u,sD.
Vice pfcaident A. II. Plough. Of the st.
rauf - ~Dufuth.- narrwwty escaped With
his life from the wreck OF the burlington
train near Aurora. H.. few DAYS ago.
The second-clasr rate 10 the coast by
way Of the Missouri river gateway has
been increased from t34.0 10 - from 81.
| Paul BY way Of the Chicago Great West-
esn.
william Forsyth has resigned ~ super
tntendent OF motive power of the Northern
Pacific. and his place will be taken to-
| marrow by Assistant Superintendent A.
| Lowell
The Denver. Northwestern q Terminal
/ has been Incorporated to build . railroad
| between Denver ana Piedmont. Wyo.. and
| also south Ia Pueblo. The capital stock 10
U0W aD
/ The Snake River Valley railroad. recently
Incorporated In Oregon. Is To run . line
| from umaulia TO the mouth Of the Snake
| river. by way OF Kparia and Lewiston. TO
| Huntington.
Walter Katie has resigned AZ chief en-
son River. a position which he held for
thirteen years. He Will continue with that
road AZ consulting engineer
Allan Cameron. distric; freight agent Of
the Canadian Pacing. accompanied by his
wife and her sister. Miss Wood and Capt
Hepworth. master OF the Pacific liner
Aoranxt. are here from Vancouver. >. c.
y. d. chettam. who has been In the local
once Of the Alaska Steamship Company
s n.s e e
day To take charge az the northern bust
ness Of that company Frank Burns. who
now ~ snsxwsy viii shange hs head
Exports Of locomotives from the United
States already show for the nRcal year
ending June ~ next, an Increase OF 81 per
cent. the value Of shus- exported during
INK ST as.i n"' si roe e, .se e or-
responding months Of last year, and 81 .9eA-
~ IN me saz4e montAs Of the preceding
yer.
e ~ Mciske. who was formerly travelling
PASSENGER agent for the Tnisn Pacific .
reported to have gone into pArfnershtr
with hts brother. Roy McPike. In the GUS
toms brokerage business at Dawson. The
latter has Just left the rcsision OF cona-
Dental clerk and private secretary TO Capt
Hanseu general manager Tor tie Atask
Commercial Company IN Alaska and the
Northwest Territory.
The San Eruncisco Y. NJ c. A has ar
ranged for special sntrsft and standard
x1espsnk car fu be taken 10 thr International
convention 10 he held ~ Grand Rapfie
Mich. May IS 10 - The excurssonisss viii
lssvs Fan Francisco MAY IS ard will go
VIA Ogden, Ps4sAlo. Kansas city and Chi
cage. I. Is the desire that delegates OF the
Northwest join this excursion and go In
body 10 the meeting.