The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-07
| NO CHANGES ANNOUNCED.
OFFICERS OF UNION PACIFIC AND
ALLIED ROADS AWAIT NEWS.
Nothing Ofiicfnl Received TO Justify
Omaha story of Proposed Trans
fers-yew Appointments VIII
He Made by Traffic Manager.

The absorption of Union Pacific and
Oregon Short Line Offices by the oregon
Railway Il Navigation Company in Port
land, and OF Union Pacific and oregon
Railway & Navigation by the Short Line
at Salt Lake and at other points where
separate Offices have been maintained by
the three roads is causing a great deal
of uneasiness TO the employees of each of
these offices. A great many false ru-
mors, as we'll as false dispatches of
changes contemplated and stated, have
been sent out, but so far nothing OF an
official character The special dispatch
from Omaha. published in yesterdays
Post-Intelligencer. evidently emanated
from some irresponsible source. The fact
OF the consolidation of the three roads
In interest, and that these roads will
take care of the men thrown out by
the changes, Is admitted and has been
already published as coming direct from
headquarters
Richard b. Miller now has the title Of
assistant general freight agent of the
Q. X. & N. and is doing the work of the
general freight agent There Is every
reason for believing that instead OF low
ering his rank he will be promoted to
general freight agent, and someone else
appointed to the position he now officially
holds- Who that one will be no one as
YET knows. 1t is not believed possible
POSITION
would be relegated to the position OF gem
eral agent.
Inc alleged appointment of T. RI. 10th
rop TO be assistant general freight agent
OF the o. r.. e. N. is likewise said TO be
a myth, and no official report to that
eHect has yet been issued or received.
Mr.; Lothrop is now general agent of ehe
1hlon Pacific at Portland, while w f.
Soman is general agent of the Short
line also In Portland. Both these men
N fa Traf a..
manager Campbell, of the O. r. & N.
upon his return TO Portland from his
present Eastern trip. This reporting to
Mr.. Campbell is understood to mean the
abolishing Of their respective Offices De-
eember ] or soon thereafter. This also
means the abolishlng of the force in each
o. these offices, namely, a travelling
freight man. travelling passenger man,
cry freight man. city passenger man.
a chief clerk and two subordinate clerks
IN other words, with the chief 1t means
eisht people in each office who are TO
be provided for in some other capacity
ests S
1t is said that the greatest absurdity
70 De put in charge of the Seattle joint
offce, and f. +. Ellis transferred TO
me PASSENGER department. 1t is not
thought likely that the controlling inter-
ests would send a stranger, unacqualnted
with people or territory, to fill the place
OF man well acquainted and in touch
Wild the country and Its interests.
The truth of the matter is that no one
VIII know just what changes are to he
made until after Mr. Campbell gets back
to Portland
As the O. r. & N. office in this city
mas always been a joint u. p and Short
Line office, the consolidation and changes
Will not AFFECT Seattle from a passenger
the freight business owing to the new
territory opened up by the Spokane gate
way.