Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-06-11
Track and Train

been elected president of the Evans
vile and Indianapolis.
A. C. Hone has resigned as general
manager of the Louisville and Allan
tic railroad company, effective June IS.
The White Star, Dominion and Allan
lines have decided to cut storage
rates from Liverpool and Glasgow to
American and Canadian ports to SIS
commencing June IL. The cut will be
met by the Canadian Pacific railroad
line.
The directors of the Pittsburg |
Cleveland, Cincinnati and st. Louis
railroad company, the Panhandle sys-I
TEN, declared a semi-annual dividend
of TWO per cent on the preferred stock
and a %semi-annual dividend on one and
a half per cent on the common stock.
important changes in the running
time of trains of the Union Pacific sys-
ten will 60 into effect about the end
of this month. These will include a
cut of three hours in the running
time of the Overland limited between
Omaha and the Pacific coast. The
time Of other fast trains Is also to be
reduced.
The Mississippi railroad commission
has granted the petition of the Mis-.
sisstppi and Louisiana lumbermen's'
association and the Mississippi whole,
sale dealers association for delayagei
charges against the railroad. The lines
are to be taxed with delayage charges
Of the same terms as merchants and
others are now taxed with demur.
rage.
The accounting department of the
Burlington lines in Missouri will be re-
moved from st. Joseph to Chicago July
/. Two hundred men are employed in
the department. The offices of the
auditor, auditor Of freight and ticket
Fnuntants and assistant treasurer
of the Missouri lines will be abolished
in the furtherance of the Burlington's
r~etrenchment and Capitalization
scheme.
Judge Munger of the United States
circuit court has remanded to the
supreme court of Nebraska the case of
the Farmers Grain and Elevator Com
pany, Of Virginia, Neb., against the
Kansas City and Northwestern fMis.
Souri, Pacific railroad company. The
suit was to compel the railroad com.
pany to permit the plaintiffs to build
elevator On its right Of way or to
build a siding.
Southwestern railroads have iecid- {
ed to permit the flour rates to re. S
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main where they are. An effort was /
made to secure an adjustment Of the t
which would overcome the diff. d
f%erential which the lines 10 the south q
Atlantic ports are at present enjoying
The latter, however, insisted that the a
gulf lines should induce the steamship ,
lines to meer the steamship competi. d
lion ont Of south Atlantic ports. d
A rate war among the railroads COM q
the central passenger associa. !
Jon is declared TO be imminent MS the !,
,utgrowtb of the scramble for Grand !,
Army business 10 Boston. The sub. :
ect of differentials. the extension OF Y
which to cover excursion rates Is adyo. :,
by the Erie, the Grand Trunk
md the Wabash, and bitterly oppos
n by the other roads. Is said 70 have
'recipitated q hot discussion in tho u
ate meeting Of the association. IN
a general strike Of the marine fire
men has been declared. and all fire ),
nen employed on steamships In Boston :,
Iarbor who belong to the union are tx. 7,
TO quit work within the next Il,
hree days. a telegram from New :,
,ork was received this afternoon by =
he business agent OF the Boston or. \.
stating that a strike of MAJ. d,
firemen on all lines had been de. =
ided upon by the genera executive =
gard In that city. The strike was or 4
cred in sympathy with the New York :,
eight handlers. T.,
Several hundred boiler makers EN- N,
Dyed by the Illinois Central railroad ).
ere ordered to strike 10 enforce n
minimum wage scale OF forty.two and
half cents an hour. At the Illinois
entral offices here it was stated that
IS than fifty per cent Of the employees