Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-05-18
RAILROAD NOTES.

General supt Kerr OF the sanpete
Valley is uD from Manti.
Pocatello IS 10 have a railroad Y. NJ.
c. a building to cost $4,000,
Twenty carloads Of Salt were shipped
from saltair to Idaho yesterday.
Pilgrims from Salt Lake to the east
arrived IN Chicago yesterday. All well.
The Utah people who wen; OF the
coast arrived in san Francisco yester-
day morning.
John McManis, years ago Of Ogden,
Is conductor in the Oregon Short Line
passenger service In Idaho.
The Oorgon short Line will run its
first Montana excursion Of the season,
Butte to Salt Lake, on June 9th.
c. r. Woodall WIN. on May %. open
the Idanha hotel az Soda Springs. The
hotel VIII thereafter remain open for
the season for the accommodation Of
tourists,
The "jolts" are being taken out Of the
rails Of the salt Lake and Ogden rail-
way. The number OF electric lights at
Lagoon are also being increased and
the light plant improved 20 guard
against accident 20 the works.
Charles oliver. chief railroad commits
sloner IN New South Wales. Australia,
passed through Salt Lake on his way 20
attend the international railroad con-
gress which meets In Paris in Septem-
Der.
Pocatello Tribune As partial COM
pensaton 20 Boise for being so ruth
lessly deprived Of the prominence at
tendant upon being on the main line,
Il Is rumored that the management
proposes 20 establish headquarters Of
section ~ az that point IN this import
ant change takes place there will be a
handcar and pushcar lay over al the
capital every night.
w. L. Rynder Of Payette. formerly
division superintendent az Pocstello,
spent yesterday In that city shaking
hands with old acquaintance. says the
Pocatello Tribune Mr. Rynder had
been 20 Salt LAX City on a visit He
LEFT for Kommerer this morning 10 look
after some business before returning to
Payette
General Manager Underwood OF the
Baltimore and Ohio. who report says.
VIII Identify himself with the Denver
g. Rio Grande, has had a long career
Of raiIroading having served IN these
capacities: Clerk brakeman baggage
man. elevator foreman conductor on
trains, yardmaster assistant division
superintendent superintendent. general
superintendent general manager
Suits have been filed In the United
States Circuit court at Topeka. Kansas
% foreclose the mortgages on the Solo
mon Valley railroad and the SaiIua &
Southwestern railroad. and applications
were made 90 have receivers appointed
for them These roads are both branch
es Of the Union Pacific. but are owned
by separate corporations They are the
last OF the Union Pacific lines 90 be
forecosed Both are short lines, being
respectively ffty-seyen and thirty
three miles long.
II Is reported In the Wyoming Trlb-
une that soon the Union Pacific VIII abb
sorh the Cheyenne and Northern. The
direct cause 81 the change is 10 put
the Union Pacific IN competition with
the Burlington for the trade OF the
Black HIS. necessitated by the con-
structiou of the Burlington's extension
from Alliance 20 Brush In Nebraska.
This gives the Burlington n through
route from Denver 10 the Black HIS
slightly shorter than the one through
Cheyenne. Grin Junction and over the
Northwestern. With the consolidation
OF the Cheyenne & Northern with the
Union Pacific that system would like
wise have a through route from Denver
as Ear as Grin Junction. whore traffic
could be carried on 10 the Black Hills
over the Union Pacific's great ally, the
Northwestern.
A mass meeting at the West End
coliseum, 81. Louis. last nlght was at
tended by 1900 Of the striking em-
ployes Of the Transit company The
differences between the company and
men narrowed down 90 O clause which
called for the complete reinstatement
of all the ola men. The railroad 0fi-
clals faty stated that under no circum-
stances would the men employed by
them 30 supercede the strikers DE dis
placed. This was submitted 20 the
men. and after a vigorous discussion
of the railway company's proposition,
Il was rejected by an overwhelming
vote. Resolutions were then adopted
stating. IN effect. that the eight now on
between the Transit company and It's
employees Is one for the existence OF
organized labor I'm ST. Louis and call
ing upon AN trades unions and sympa-
thlzers with trades unionism 10 sus-
pend labor after the coming Saturday.