Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-11
SPIKE AND RAIL

The Union Pacific Is stll dlscharging
men from the shops along the line
The first ear out Of uyada last night
Of the new Pullman service received by
the Oregon Short Line was the Che
noa."
Union Pacific trains from the East
are delayed today owing 10 a smashup
nj T.awt0n. two miles east Of Cheyenne,
yesterday
8 NJ. shattuc OF the Baltimore 50
Ohio. with headquarters at Denver, Is
numbered among the visiting railroad
men in town today.
The body Of oswald short the young
q. s. l.. fireman who lost his life by
falling from his engine into Bear river
AT the pegram bridge three weeks ago,
has been recovered mile below the
scene Of the accident.
The gross earnings Of the Rio Grande
Western for the last week In May were
1852. 100. an Increase OF S2l 400. The TO-
tal for the month shows the flatterlng
returns of $3.50, 400, or an increase OF
E2lO0
The delegates TO the fourteenth annu-
al convention Of the Train Dlspatchers
association 1f America have arrived In
San Francisco and the sessions 81 the
convention viii begin today and con-
tlnue two days.
The local Elks viii charter a special
train over the Western, d. & II. G.. and
Burlington on July 10, bound for Mill
waukee Aside from the herd Of Elks
In the Pullmans there will be live one
in the baggage car.
The man who jumped from the Dem
yer & Rio Grande train yesterday near
Salda is thought to have been G. N.
Perkins a brother TO Harry u. Perkins,
one Of the employees In the auditing de-
partment Of the Oregon Short Line.
The Montreal star yesterday said that
James Wilson, president of the Railway
Trackmen OF America, has ordered q
strike Of Maine Central trackmen for
O'Clock today The men demand an
increase in pay. From 600 to ZOO men
will 70 out,
f. p, Jayne, who resigned his position
In the general passenger agents office
Of the Rio Grande Western on the first
OF the month TO accept a billet with Mr.
Markell Of the Union Pacific hotel SER
vice. Is once more back at the Rio
Grande Western general offices, this
time In the train dlspatcher's depart
ment Mr. Jayne only worked for Mr.,
Markell for one day and then concluded
that he did not want the billet.
There Is no question" said a Union
Pacific official TO the Omaha Bee, "but
that the oregon Short Line proposes to
build south from Salt Lake to Los
Angeles, and II has been virtually de-
termlned that the engineering will be
performed by the engineering depart
ment Of the Union Pacific. Surveyors
are now In the field and several routes
are In contemplation. None has as yet
been decided upon, and until this II
done no contracts will be let Within
go days time | think. the route will
have been selected, and then contracts
for the work will be let The proposed
new line win be built without encoun-
terlng any problem In an engineering
way whatever 30 that the contracts will
be for ordinary grading work"
In speaking Of the wreck Of the flyer
last week In Wyoming the Laramie
Boomerang says; Railroad men are
disposed TO regard the tank OF the 1924
as a hoodoo, there being no apparent
cause for its derallment. This IL the
third time this tank has cut the same
caper, on one occasion when the 1924
was the head engine Of a double head
err hauling No over the sixth district,
her tank was derailed near Ridge sta
ton and Engineer Hangar either threw
himself or was thrown through the
window Of his cab to the ground and
was Instantly killed. Local officials ~
the Union Pacific proudly assert that
with the equipment Of which the Over
land limited trains are made up, which
Is the best known IN the world, the
cars might be rooted up half dozen
times without injury to anyone on
board"