The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-04
Railroad Notes.

Railroad Notes.
superintendent Noble of the Southern
Pacific at ogden was in Salt Lake yes
terday.
Hon. David Eccles, vice president o
the Utah & Pacific, visited the city yes
terday.
agent on the Oregon Short Line a
Fairfield.
Another party of men were sent t.
Milford yesterday to work on the Utai
& Pacific.
J: T. Andrus, chief clerk in tn,
auditors office, Oregon Short Line
goes east today.
The Short Line train with the Fort
/ Douglas soldiers got to Silver Bow al
l p. m. yesterday.
! F. z. Weadon. advance agent of the
Bostonians, was knocking around the
railroad offices yesterday.
L. 4. Wadleigh. general passenger
agent Rio Grande Western, goes to
Portland this morning.
j. +. Baker, district superintendent
OF the Pullman Palace Car company at
Ogden, was in town yesterday.
The excursion from Utah county
points under the auspices of the B. 7.
academy VIII arrive this morning.
L. L. Downing. commercial agent of
the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul,
left for Wyoming yesterday to look
after the wool that is moving.
At meeting of the directors of the
Mexican Central railroad in Boston
yesterday Robert Fleming of London
was chosen to succeed Robert X. Sy-
mon ana Henry q. Nichols of Boston
TO succeed c. a. Brown as directors
The remainder of the old board were
reelected.
Arguments were concluded in
the United States district court at Chi
cagO yesterday, in the hearing of the
demurrer of the railroad companies to
the bill of the interstate commerce
commission. Judge Kohlsaat took the
matter under Amusement. This is the
81 terminal charge made by the Union
Stock Yards company in violation of
ruling by the commission.
1t is rumored at New Whatcom,
Wash, that the Bellingham Bay &
British Columbia Railway company
and the Bellingham Bay Improvement
company and kindred corporations
have been sold to the Canadian Pa
cific Railway company. Color is given
to the report by the fact that abstrac-
tors are preparing abstracts of titles to
every piece of property owned by the
above corporations.
AT the annual meeting of the stock
holders Of the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern Railway company in Cleve-
land yesterday the directors submitted
a report for the year ending Dec 81,
1898, showing an increase in net earn
ings of $10,432. The following directors
whose terms had expired were re-elect-
ed for three years: Cornelius Wander
bilt. Darius o. Mills. j. Pierpont Nor
gan, James Schoonmaker
S. H. Babcock, general traffic man
ager of the Rio Grande Western,
leaves today for Washington. D. c., to
attend a meeting of the western rail-
road men and the Interstate commerce
commission to be- held in that city
May 10. The object of the meeting is
TO bring the railroad men and the inter-
state commerce commission closer to-
sether so that the interstate commerce
law will work more perfectly.
Attorney General Ford filed in the
United States circuit court at San
Francisco yesterday a notice to the
Southern Pacific company, that next
Monday he would move to dismiss the
action brought by the railroad COM
pany TO restrain the commissioners
from putting in force the reductions in
The freight schedule adopted by the
previous DOald OF railroad commission
RS. The resolution was adopted Sept. !
IS, 1895, and reduced grain rates 8 per
cent and all other classes of freight % /
Der cent.
The annual meeting of the share |!
holders of the Nickel Plate was held (
n Cleveland yesterday. The report of .
he directors for the year ending Dec J
i, 1898, shows a decrease in net earn b
ngs of $4,000 or 5.23 per cent. The
stockholders elected the following di- /
,ectors: William X. Vanderbilt. /
Cornelius Vanderbilt. Fred w. Wander I
)ilt, Hamilton Mack Twombly.
NJ. Depew, Samuel r. Gallo .
way, William II. Canniff, John S. Ken
ledy, Frederick p. Olcott, Charles NJ.
Reed, Ralph w. HickoX,, Samuel L.
williamson, Charles F. Cox.