Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-23

survey parties between that place and
Kansas City.
Application has been made 10 the Cen.
trail Passenger association and the
western lines operating in Wisconsin
Iowa and Missouri, for one-iare
round-trip rate for the Bryan notlhca-
ton melting TO be held IN indianapolis
on August Sth.
The ST. Louis Globe-Democrat says
that the Central Passenger association
roads have adopted a rule that hereat-
ter no free tickets viii be given with
party rates. Il has been customary for
some time 90 give one free ticket with
every party which bought ten or more
tickets.
Attorney General Smyth and the state
board of transportation have been en-.
Joined from putting into effect reduced
freight rates upon certain commodities.
JudgeMuuger OF the United states court
issued the Injunction upon application
OF the Burlington, and In his opinion the
court held that the state board Of trans
portati0n had no legal existence.
Kansas lumbermen claim that the
Santa Re. Missouri Pacific and the Mis-
souri,. Kansas q Texas are discriminat-
INK against them and In favor OF the
lumbermen of Kansas City In their
lumbermen OF Kansas city In their
OF the State of Kansas viii commence
legal proceedings against the lines
named 70 compel them TO lower their
tariffs.
Edmund Mack, n tramp was yester-
day found near the Wasatka botthns
works TO the north OF town, In badly
used-up condition. He had been SET
upon by tramp companions ana beaten
and robbed OF So, according 20 his story
! The thieves also took his shoes. ne
was on his way TO the coal mines az
scofeld with his asailants an OF them
riding IN an oregon Short Line box
car
Clyde Hagan. the young man who,
! with Frank LeviCk IL IS alleged, trled
| TO wreck the Memphis flyer two miles
west OF Lamar, No, on the night OK
/ May 2lst. was arrested near here today.
! LevIck has been In custody since last
/ Monday and confessed, but asserted
/ that Hagan placed the obstruction on
the track. Lenieucy may be shown as
each Is under 20 years OF age.
For the G.. A. r. national encamp-
/ ment the diderentlal lines have settled
upon applying that principle to that
] business. A cent-a-mile rate was hNeu
by the Central Passenger association, Dut
/ the dlderentlals 90 be applied by the
Erie, the Grand Trunk the Baltimore
/ a. Ohio. the Nickel Plate, the wabash
and the Panhandle VIII reduce that rate
from the towns 90 which the dineren-
tials may be made To- apply princlpally
! Pittsburg. Cleveland, Columbus ana
| Buffalo. The Michigan Central known
as a standard line, is SAID TO nave de-
termined TO meet these rates
The Southern railway has taken a
contract 10 transport 1000 soldiers from
| Washington. ID. c.. 10 San Francisco for
/ S1465 per man. That means a breach
that will not be mended until IL Is too
late 10 do any good u has been mat
ter OF concern with railway officials
that military rates have been cut e
away below the profit point and theil
present efforts to adjust them TO rea'
I sonable figure will receive a serious set
back In this action Of the Southern
especially IN view ~ the fact that tho
normal military rate from Washington
to San Francisco is $40. The troops
viii be routed over the southern ant
lbs connections 20 st. Louis, from 81
Louis 10 Pueblo over the Missouri Pa
ciRc from Pueblo TO ogden over th'
Denver & Rio Grande and Rio Grand'
Western and over the Southern Pacih'
from ogden 20 san Francisco
Whenever Of late railroad hai
transported troops the figure obtained
from the government as compensation
therefor has been so low that no prof
accrued. The passenger Interests o.
western roads are now working upoT
"a plan by which the government pat
ronage may be divided among them anc
such prices obtained that some revenue
may be had from the business, TIT
trouble i'm China it IS promised, vii
necessitate the transportation or man!
troops 20 the orient and san Francisco
Will Of course be the port Of embarka
ton. These troops must be carried
overland from different places and II Il
this business that the railroads arr
seeking 10 so adjust as 90 do away will
the ruinous competition which hal
hitherto obtained. The normal military
tariff Is S2S.73 per capita, Chicago Il
San Francisco but the men have beer
carried that distance for Sl0.52, O.
which figure the business has actual!
eutailed a loss 10 the carrier Durlul
the war with Spain there was an agree
ment that had for it's object a regula
ton OF such business. but that was rem
dered valueless by the Withdrawal
therefrom Of the Santa Fe