Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-17
EMRLoYEs Nd sALARIEs.
SPIKE AND Rail.

The G. a. r. and W. II, c.. are at
Lagoon today
Western passenger traffic at present
Is most remarkable.
General Passenger Agent Burley Of
the Oregon Short Line Is in Idaho.
Cashier Cotton Of the Rio Grande
Western Is out OF town on vacation.
President A. w. Mcclure Of the Utah
& Pacific viii 90 down over the line to-
night
Firemen on the Rock Island complain
OF the heavy work which they are called
upon 20 perform on the new big engines.
Section men Of the Western at Manu
have Joined the strikers on the Sewer
branch They want an advance OF %
cents per day
General Passenger Agent Heintz %
the Western has returned from his tour
with the other general agents Of his
road
Oddfellows from all over the state are
out at Saltair today-and there are
hosts OF them The last train viii leave
the beach at HIS tonight.
one fare FOR the round trip has been
fixed by the railroads for next Sunday,
when the corner stone OF the new Cath
Ole cathedral here Is 20 BE- laid.
white and colored railroad passengers
In Virginia win henceforth occupy
separate cars. The law went into effect
on the first Of the present month.
W. II snedaker OF the Illinois Cen
trail left FOR San Francisco today after
a very satisfactory and pleasant visit
with Mr. Donald Rose, commercial
agent here for the big system.
For the second week Of July the gross
earnings OF the Rio Grande Western
were SS6200 an increase OF $4,000 For
the two weeks the gross reaches Sli9-
400 an increase Of SlS.10O.
The Burlington IS accused OF having
made a deal with "scalpors" for the
reason that Il has let to some Crow In
dians a contract for grading a portion
OF its new Wyoming line.
The Grand Encampment mining dis
trlct I'm Wyoming is attracting the at |
teutiou OF railroad officials President |
Burt and General Manager Dickinson Of |
the Union Pacific have recently been |
looking over that country.
]. w. Midgley recently returned 10 |
Chicago from Mexico filled with great |
hope FOR the new railroad which he Is |
going 20 build from Tehauntepec 10 /
The enterprise Is being |
financed in New York.
The fact that Il. b. Wicks yesterday |
purchased Cnlder's park IL being very /
freely commented upon by persons who /
are watching the railroad situation /
here because Of his well known connec- |
ton with the Burlington IN land anairs
Excursion Agent Mann Of the salt /
Lake a Los Angeles has booked an eN-
,ursion 10 Saltair from Wyoming under /
the auspices " the press association OF /
that state. Geo W. Perry. editor Ct /
The Rawlins Republican, conducted the
business for the scribes
r. +. Hayward Of the Burlington sta
toned at Omaha, says that While II
may not be accomplished as soon as
some people anticipate, the Burlington
win come 20 salt Lake without any /
ioubt II IL heading this way, and there
are CORPS OF surveyors az work looking
ip routes IN eastern Utah and IN wy
jming,
Judge Evans In the federal court al
Louisville. Ky. yesterday granted an
Injunction In the suit Of the Louisville
/, Nashville. Chesapeake & ohio, louis
,ilte Henderson q ST. Louis railways
,psfnst the Kentucky railroad commits
ion The Injunction Is 10 prevent The
,paration OF the McChord and anti-eN-
ortlon railroad bill passed March lVth
asst. and becoming operative on June
Eth.
Although President FELTON, OF the
!, lion mas denied the rumor that he was
am to no made chairman OF the board
f.tha consolidated Hartman systems,
he selection Of Knott as president OF |
ne Kansas City Southern would indi-
ate otherwise. The plan is said 20 be
d hiring the Kansas City Southern, the
Mon the Illinois Central and their
gestern connections under one manage
nept or board Of control, with head
uarters In New York
A nerson who drops anything from a
.,n,ing train ordinarily says good |
We" to IL but a noteworthy exception |
',s recently observed ON the Burling- |
an railroad. A pocketbQok containing !
i0a 25 gold ring four rubies and |
thor valuahles, was lost by passenger I
NJ the 81 Louis Portland express. just
rbere was not known, ana the train !
INC advancing fifty miles an hour.
'rop, The first stop the less was wired /
u superintendent phelan az Alliance, |
III, who Immediately sent out O
earchine party The poCkotbook ana
,v-,Is we're found near the track three /
81 from whitman. ln as good con-