The San Francisco call., 1909-06-12
Gossip of RaiIwaymen
I'D sharp, and give me rate on
n this" and James A. Keller hurled

weapon which resembIed a
small scythe and was sharper than a
razor on the desk of ". c. DonneIIy
For the lords sake, Jim.'' exclaimed
the startled Donnelly, what are you
trying to do?' And before Donneliy
could remove his hand another knife
was quivering in the board beside his
trembling fingers.
Il want a rate. that's ALL and down
went another hideous knife close to
Donnelly's wrist.
Have you any more like these"
said Donnelly in his most debonafr
manner. before he attempted to remove
his hand.
Il guess not" replied Keller as he
proceeded to examine his pockets. IT
merely did this to show you that the
hardwaremen OF this town are getting
desperate. What with the Spokane
, case and other troubles we are becom-
ing dangerous. and it would not sur
prise me at all IL my partner, Chap
man, came along and scalped some of
you rate men. He has consignment
of fine scythes on hand and he wants
! to try their temper"
There were more than $500 eastern
tickets validated up to Thursday night
by the joint agency OF the Transcon-
tinental passenger association In this
city. This is six times the number OF
persons that visited San Francisco dur.
ing the spring of last year. II must
be borne in mind that this is the COM
mencement of the season, and that the
tickets for the Seattle exposition were
IL NJ,
ratio is maintained we shall have the
biggest summer business in the history
of travel to San Francisco.
"A man has~to be extremely careful
in his manner of speech remarked
Jack" Stubbs to Charley Jones yes
terday.
business" was the reply, for there
are so many people anxious TO catch
us making slip that we have TO
weigh our words. Il tell you IL pays in
the long run to be careful"
Yes, l have found that out" sighed
the brilliant young freightman. Il
dropped into a poeticsl mood today
and told my bright ONCE boy to get
me some chicken feed, giving him q
quarter. What do you suppose he ala .
He came back with two bits worth of
cracked corn"
Considerable progress is being made
on the construction of the Grand
Trunks new transcontinental line
across Canada In q recent interview
c. NJ. Hays said: by September 1 we
shall have opened 1855 miles OF west
ern line reaching from Fort williams.
Ontario, to the end of the prairie sec
tion of Wolf creek, 12e miles west of
Edmonton, Alberta. We are operating
mixed train service from winniper.
700 miles west About October / we
expect to open 100 miles more from the
western end at Prince Rupert as far
east as the Copper river
gentleman signing himself as a
| lover of progress and an admirer of
Gould and his works." sent the fol-
lowing letter to the Offices OF the West
ern Pacific yesterday:
Esteemed Sir: Will I ask you and
your on new railroad, passenger train
| to the Salt Lake City. When crossing
to forward If be start now your train.
there, I hope to get ride way to Salt
Lake City, and how much cost free
money to s. l.. city, IL be discount how
rate do you, first when start passenger
train in there. Will you please you get
read this mail answer for me and
oblige."
r. R. Ritchie of the Chicago North
western is in Chicago on company
business.
w. II. Davenport and Malone Joyce
of the Colorado Midland have been
called to Denver to attend the meeting
of the general agents of that line.
t
A. N. Brown. general freight and
passenger agent of the FL Paso South
western, is expected in the city shortly.
d. c. McCready has been appointed
general freight and passenger agent
of the Ell Paso and Southwestern at
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