, 1902-03-03
Denver last night for a visit with his

Denver last nieht Tor a WISH WIN ms
family.
Assistant Superintendent W. \.
Whitney vent to Rawlius this after,
noon.
C. A. Black of the land department
of the Union Pacific. vas at Salt Lake
Saturday.
A. Simons, foreman for the Western
Union company, is here today, on Com
pany business.
Frank b. Cramer, a dispatcher in the
Union Pacific Office here, has returned
from a western trip.
A train load of ties from Rawlius
was sent east today, to b" distributed
| along the Nebraska division.
w. II. Peterson, superintendent of
bridges and buildings for the Wyo-
ming division of the Union Pacific. was
in the city this morning
The derailing of II freight car at
Rawlins today caused some delay to
train No. 4. which did not arrive from
| the west until 2:3O this afternoon.
A lot of mining machinery for the
Abandon mine was received in the
freight yards late Saturday, evening,
and will be taken out to the mine in a
few days.
Two carloads of household goods
and stock belonging to MIR. Vance. the
purchaser of the Fleming ranch, reach
ed the city last night and will be tax
ell to the ranch at once.
A new table is being placed in the
telegraph office here. 1t is the latest
style standard telegraph table, with
places for typewriters and room for
four sets of instruments.
Alex. Fmgstrom, a brother Of COun-
Gilman John Bngstrom of this city, vas
over from Cheyenne this morning. on
a visit to his brothers family. He is
a clerk In the office of General Store
keeper Kingsford.
Daniel Densley is suing the Union
Pacific in the Salt Lake courts for
$7.176 damages alleged to be due as
the result of the road in delaying a
shipment Of sheep from Bitter Creek,
Wyo., to Omaha, where Densley lost
this amount.
Hon. Issac Van Horn, president of
the Laramie Plains line. is in the city,
and will remain until Wednesday. He
said he left Boston in q storm
and came through 4 rain storm as far
as Omaha, and found as pleasant
weather here in Wyoming as there is
in the country.
An effort to stimulate travel to Cal
ifornia during March and April by the
institution of %colonist rates. is making
Ivy several of the transcontinental
lines. chiefly the Southern Pacific and
Union Pacific. The lines named have
vigorously pressed the proposition as
demanded by existing conditions and
due to those looking for homes in the
west.
AS a result of a conference between
the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
and Order of Railway Conductors and
Erie railroad officials. the Erie has
granted an increase i'll pay over its en-
tire system from New York to Chicago,
and a mileage basis. known as stand
ard pay" went into effect March /.
For promotions the oldest qualified
employees will be selected.
Mr.. and Mrs. James G. Clark left to-
day for Omaha. Mr.. Clark was the
manager for the Pacific Hotel com
pany at the Thornburgh hotel until a
few days ago, when he was directed to
report to the company's headquarters
for assignment to other duties. Dur
ing their stay in the city Mr.. and Mrs.
Clark have made many friends here,
and they will hope that their lines may
be cast in pleasant places.
The concessions granted by the San
la Fe are an increase for freight con
ductors over the Ration mountains be-
tween La Junta and Ration and from
3h to 23 cents a mile. Conductors
are to be paid 4 cents a mile and brake
men 3 cents on local freights on trains
recently added to the New Mexico di-
vision. Conductors of crews on
branch lines are to be raised from $40
to 800 and brakemen from $50 to SOS,
Isaac Van Horn Of Boston, banker
and president of the Laramie, Hahn's
Peak & Pacific Railway company, was
a westbound passenger on the Union
Pacific yesterday afternoon, en- route
for Wyoming and California. Mr.. Van
Horn was met at the Union station by
NJ. J. Greevy, financial agent for the
bank and railroad company in this
section, who accompanied his chic
across the state Of Nebraska.-Omahs
Bee.
Officers of the Illinois Contra rail
way experimental Friday night with {
telephone designed to supplant thu
telegraph instrument in the transact
ing Of railway business. The test wa:
made between Chicago and Kankakee
/, ffty-six miles OF what is said to be thu
worst line along the road. The tele
phoning is done over an ordinary tele
} graph wire. and without interruptinI
, the telegrapkic messages. The test
|, lasted an hour and were declared sal