Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-10-18
SPIKE AND RAIL


A. r Smith OF Omaha has succeeded
a. H. Bell as manager OF the Union
Pacific hotel at Ogden
w r. Braner, trainmaster on con-
structlon ON the Salt Lake Route, Is
up from the front today
" S. Pete, let Chicago this morning
with 10 families and household goods
bound FOR ranches In Bear River valley
II looks as though someone Is buying
Southern paclfcs these days. lncIden-
tally Standard on has held a big bunch
Of stock for some time
Seventeenth street Denver, is respon-
slbe FOR the rumor that General Supt
Conughlln Of the Denver q Rio Grand
Is to resign at an early date,
with the advent OF colder weather
little gangs Of prospootors are leaving
for Good Springs and other mining dis
tricts along the Salt Lake Route
The Western Passenger association
has granted a rate OF one cent a mile
for the Grand Army encampment TO De
held In Denver next summer
Supt Hendersons Office is somewhat
domoralzed today owing TO the fact
that a girl arrived at the home OF
Chief Clerk JOS LevIlle last night
General Freight and Passenger Agent
Gilett Of the salt Lake Route Is in
Old Point Comfort Va, today attend
Ing the annual meeting Of the general
,.....as.tsfF.W 49,
George Gould IN company with Vice
President Schlacks Of the RIO Grande
and other officials, have left st. Louis,
and are coming west on an inspection
trip over the Gould lines.
The annual meeting OF the stockhold-
ers Of the Rock Island company. which
owns the Rock Island railroad system,
was held In Jersey city yesterday.
George S, Brewster Of New York and
Robert Mather, two retiring directors,
were reelected
Westbound business on the Union Pa
cnc and Rio Grande has been Excess
svelv heavy during the past 10 days,
The extra business growing out OF the
washouts on the Santa Fe. together
with the big colonst travel, have had
the effect Of somewhat demorallzing the
schedule.
The Southern Pacific railway has de-
clded to commence Immediately the
construction Of a massive steel and
concrete bridge across Carqulne2
straits, thus doing away with the ferry
service between Port Costa and Benz,
ella. The bridge which will cost 1900 O0I
win be pushed to completion without
loss OF time.
A Chicago paper prints Il as a queer
fact that a widow OF that city was
married a second time while waiting fol
a train. on some Of our Utah branch
roads a couple could get married, 80 t.
housekeeping and obtain a fair star
toward raising family before the ar.
rival OF a belated train, Emery County
Progress.
General Agent G. A. Walker OF the c,
& n. w. has returned from a trip 10
Chicago and brings with him the sad
| intelligence Of the death OF Mrs. II. w
Beyers wife Of the general agent al
| Chicago who was run down by tralr
on a grade crossing while coming down
town to take lunch with her husband
and Mr.. Walker on Friday.
A. +, Kennedy, formerly assistant To-
cal treasurer for the oregon Short Line
is IN the city on a short visit from Mex
leo. Mr. Kennedy who Is manager fol
the Wood -Hagenbath cattle interests II
Mexico, is as brown as the pro
verbal berry and much horseback rid
Ing has got him down to fghtinl
weight so that his old friends have {
look at him twice before they can rec
ognIze him,