IN AND OUT prom wednesday s Scan daid at garland nor jans are engaged in loading aud harvesting sugar beets it ia expected that within the next few daya the harvest mill be over at time the cars engaged in this service will be placed in the coal and ho supply of coal will be sufficient to meet all demands at the present all coal cam are tied up in tho beet business but owing to the end being so close it was decided by the railroad officials not to disturb tho cars until the work had been completed which will bo not later than the fifth ot the present month ane work on the cul off across the sand of the oregon short line railroad la progressing all teama which have been engaged in abla work hae bern taken off or account of having completed as of the grading as could be done without the aid of the steam shovel the utah con company has a steam shovel and three construction engines at work but there Is a tremendous cut through which tho shovel hai yot to go and it la safe to say that it will be a least three montha more before work or laying the abeel can be commenced A track is now being laid through the yarda ot the construction company to a point just south of twenty seventh street and after the dirt has been hauled to make a roadbed the rails will be shifted as the main line of tho oregon short line will be placed along tho present coni truc tion track engineer W B murphy in railroad i circles doo murphy 1 reported on the sick hat fireman S T of the south ern is laying oft on account of sickness the number of bad anle cais beins repaired at the local car shops has been reduced to the normal number of sixty which fa about the i number of care taken in and turned I 1 out each day the cars of the emery wreck now lu the shops are being repaired and out a fast as possible the railroad offic lali aade the section men engaged in unloading the coal from the can and loading it on the engines today la done in order to prevent a delay to trains ho laborers have yet been secured to perform this work george Cunningha ui he popular general accompanied by his wife and little daughter leave athla evening on union train no 4 tor two weeks visit with relatives in tha baat and south during mr absence his duties will be attended to by chief clerk clarence heath and assistant yardmaster will scott effective today the employed emp loyes of the i union pacific and oregon shoreline Short Line hlll report to doctor R S joyce instead of dr C W perking as in tha the employed emp loyes at ogden will be for iha present cared for at the ogden general hospital but in the near future a building such as was de ascribed scribed in these columns a short time ago will be erected for the care of the tick and injured A new clause has been added to the union pacific hospital fund agreement which ig indeed a very good one in that 11 provides for the allowance of a benefit in case of death to any employed while being treated at hospital A um not to exceed 50 is forthcoming to aid the burial of ald employed emp loye the fund also calls for benefits to employed emp loyes afflicted with diseases such as smallpox yellow fever or any other contagious or infectious subject to federal state county or municipal quarantine but will give residence treatment in contagious or infectious diseases not coming under this head free vaccination will be given ivea will be given treatment outside of the hospitals but will not admitted ther to insanity cases win not be cared for injure il on the com banys lines will be given treatment by burgeons and filial treat cant by dl vinion and district burgeons will be continued until otherwise in by the chief surgeon in order that the expense be borne by the company before entering the hospital an order mut be given signed by the official under whom the person is employed no with impaired health will be employed by thi th i company tu any ot tta branches within the next few days tua thip meat of oranges from california to eastern markets will begin in earneest at the time a few cars are passing through but the actual eca son will not commence tor a or two it is not thought by local railroad officials that the salt laface route will play macch of a part IE th phlp menta mrs E K killby and son lati oa southern pacific no 5 for california where they will be joined by mr MU by who hafl bean transferred to oakland as a train agent B C dla who Is to fill the vacancy by the transfer Is expected to arrive today and mr ellby will leave as soon as the rush of colonists Is over which will be about saturday mrs 3 mackey of denver a bister of miss laura lobo the popular telephone operator in the information booth of the bell telephone company at the union depot parsed through this morning en to california y F W best of sayer pennsylvania a brother of fred T bast a cm phinist at the shops has arrived and is mending a few days visiting with mr and mrs beat at lhoir home on grant avenue C D kiem a brother of I 1 C luem as Stant master mechanic for the southern pacific at sparks nevada has entered the shops at ogden as a he came from california to osden harry dovel for several months pat a machinist at tha pacific shops has resigned and wll leave a few days for other part last evening a agag part was given in union labor hall by the tn association of machinists and was acry largely attended the was ai ehg expunge of two ui three of the members who have re antly become benedicts and as n re an assessment was levied upon them which was promptly paid ohp evening was in a general goob time 1 smoker with the usual bavei ages on the aide was the order ot business A program of song was given in which tho ant splitters or machinists quartette a very important part M J hickey gave n vor good imitation ot a buck and wing dance which was received with much applause the work ot E C west upon the piano was also appreciated T J jones was elected toastmaster and presided in that capacity throughout tho evening this party was one ot purely social and although E A Bartell fl and dr E 11 conroy spoke along political lines it was not intended that the meeting ba political while switching on the main line in the yards of the ilio grande western at price a freight train was run into by an extra freight train from th west and the caboose and a car loaded with gold and dilver ore corn plemely demolished the engine of the rear train was considerably damaged fireman murphy and tha hed brake man of the rear train saved their alvea by jumping when they aw thai ft collision wa inevitable tho brala lasin was riding in the cab on the fire mans aide the engineer remained with his engine alg idea as he afterwards stated bring that the caboose and the car in front would telescope the ore car waa crushed while tho caboose may be utilized tor kindling wood regular trains are running around the wreck on a switch