Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-06-22
SPIKE AND RAIL.

3D. IT. shepherd Of the Alton IS here
from Denver
ON Tuesday the FIRST spike on the
sumpter valley extension was driven
a. G.. Fonda chief clerk at Galveston.
Texas f9r the Santa Fe is here on vac
cation
Arthur %. smith OF Omaha assistant
general passenger agent for the Bur
lIngt0n. is in town.
The meeting OF railroad presidents 20
Chicago adjourned yesterday No im-
p0rtaut results are recorded.
Twenty Union Pacific engines were
recently thrown into the scrap pile.
They ailI Boo succeeded by twenty new
and improved machines.
Work ON inc lake CUTOFF OF the
Southern plcU. WiI bee commenced in
the near future. orders for great guam
titles of material have been given out.
mi.s travels from ST. Louis to SAN
Francisco tne Sixth cavalry came
oven tnp Rio Gr0nja Western part of
One Way There aye % men and an
officer
ON inc l1,h the Chicago & North
western opened am extension of ls5
miles ln Minnesota and Iowa. The
piece of line is the Belle Plain and Fox
Lake extensions
Three new steel bridges win be con-
stuCted on the Rio Grande Western,
one over Price river at WOodside, one
over Spanish Fork river at Castillo and
O. third over Salt Wash at Ruby.
Assistant General Freight Agent Mac
MILAN of the Michigan Central, with
headquarters at Chicago, went 90 Port
land % week ago on business aud died
there Of pneumonia last night.
The Denver Times says that Supern-
tdndent Sample of the Denver a Rio
Grande has been offered AN excellent
position hy the Colorado Midland. but
what the position is has not been made
plain.
T.. W. Wilson, who for the past three
years has had the supervision OF the
motor power accounts In the auditors
Office OF the Short Line. leaves tOmOr-
row for Montana where he has ac-
Cepted the position OF storekeeper for
the Boston a Montana copper 4 Sill
yer Mining company
Mr. W. H. Petty. a prominent young
railroad man of Logan.and his wife are
I'm the city on their wedding tour, hay
Ing been married at the Logan Temple
yesterday morning. The lady is well
known I'M Logan as Miss Beer. and both
left home this morning with all kinds
OF rice and old shoes thrown after
them
The Carson City Appeal says that
the Eureka & palisadc railroad has
passed into the hands of a receiver and
the people of eastern Nevada have given
out the idea that the true motive OF
the road is that IL has been absorbed
by the salt Lake & Los Angeles line.
10 rs supposed that the road will be
bought In by this road In a few weeks
and that construction work through
Southern Nevada viii be matter Of
short time
A telegram from General Passenger
Agent Bailey of the Colorado Midland
railway who is now IN New York, am
nounces the conviction there OF W. j.
Blaze who was arrested last Suptem-
Der on the charge Of forging tickets OF
the Midland road. About 100 of these
tickets We're found the loss 20 the COM
pany being in the neighborhood Of 49,
900. The tickets were Of the coupon
variety over eastern lines with which
the Midland connects This is said 10
be the first time a ticket f0rger has
been convicted In this country. Blaze
is said 90 have been connected with
previous forgerles OF the same kind.