Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-06-30
SPIKE AND RAIL.

A week from today the Short line will
put on its Soda Springs sleeper.
At Lagoon today the employees Of
y. G, NJ. l. shoe factory are enjoying
themselves. .I,-.
Mr. Clark Of the Rock Island. VIII re-
turn from the East about the first Of
the week,
The Opal club goes to ogden tomor-
row morning over the Oregon Short
Line. The train leaves here at 9:45,
Thomas II. Biddick OF the Short Line
offices here commences a two-week's
vacation today He Will 30 to Omaha.
E. D. McKenna. first vice president
and general solicitor for the Santa Fe
system has been operated upon az Chi
cage for appendicitis.
w. n. Whitney viii tomorrow assume
the duties Of the position Of assistant
superintendent Of the Wyoming division
Of the Union Pacific.
In the city Of Chicago the Pennsyl-
yanla railroad has l2O miles OF track.
all OF which Il win proceed TO elevate
az cost Of 100000.
Official confirmation Of the report OF
the resignation Of 5. A. Hutchinson
from the passenger department Of the
Union Pacific has been made.
The City Council has appropriated
$1,000 to assist in defraying expenses Of
removal Of the Utah Central tracks
TO route outside Of the city limits.
It is reported from Chicago that
Judge VIM d. Cornish will soon be-
come vice-president Of the Chicago q
Alton,
A statement TO the effect that Chief
Dispatcher c. a. Boies Of the Union Pa
ciho has rendered his resignation, is
made by the Laramie Boomerang. f,I
Superintendent Ererbeck Of the Utah
& Pacific is up from Uyada The tenn
perature down that way registers
around the 100 mark all the time.
Two extra trains will be run daily TO
Saltair by the Salt Lake a. Los Angeles,
commencing with tomorrow. One OF
them Will be In the morning and the
other In the evening.
The combination recently effected be-
tween the Northern Pacific and the St
Paul * Duluth has been declared 10 be
Illegal and void by the Minnesota state
railroad commission.
The members Of Granite Stake went
out 10 Saltair yesterday, They had
big crowd and enjoyed themselves
splendidly, without hitch In the pro,
ceedings
Being unable TO bring the Short Line
Offices 10 Itself Omaha now says that
the Union Pacific offices here and In
Denver are 10 be consolidated. The
last story is a little bit more silly than
its predecessors,
Today the last meeting Of the stock
holders and directors Of the Colorado
Midland was held at Denver for the
purpose OF turning over the line and its
business TO the reorganized Rio GFande
Western Colorado & Southern company,
on account OF a rear-end collision near
Dell. Mont. the Oregon Short Lines
Butte train did not arrive here until
after . o'clock last night A cabOOse
and some box cars were splintered up
and a big engine was somewhat dam
aged. but good fortune interposed be-
tween danger and death and the lives
OF the trains operatives.
Mr.. Donald Rose, commercial agent
here for the Illinois Central, says the
business Of his line Is increasing In a
wonderful degree The branch line and
extensions which the company from
time to time IS continuously construct
Ing or purchasing are proving their
great utility as feeders to the big sys-
TEN.
A traveller from the East said today
that while coming from Helper here on
the Rio Grande Western yesterday he
passed thrty-slx trains. That shows
the amount OF business being done by
the Colorado-Utah line The freight
tonnage Is becoming 30 great that the
rolling stock IL continually kept with
hot bOyes," so 10 speak. except when
IN the repair shops More engines and
cars are absolutely necessary and they
are being secured as fast as possible.
The Santa Fe railroad company will
begin the operation Of passenger trains
over It's completed system from point
Richmond tomorrow. The traffic OFF,
Gals OF the Southern Pacific company
assert that the interchangeable mileage
system will not 80 into effect In the
San joaquin valley with the opening "
the new Santa Fe 10 San Francisco.
They assert the system has not been
agreed 10 by the two companies and
that II Il had been II could not be re-