Show A JOKE we ft ill not for the of the following story though it appeared in a reliable ain francisco paper the text w kiich beail to alie anecdote will be appreciated by all who lavo had to do with the traffic departments of the railroads the ways of the circumlocution office which dickens boado memorable in liis story never reached the intricacy which characterize charac teriza ci abe meth otla of the great railroad of course lie practical joke arpe erpe upon the manager will not tend to cure alie evil hut it can be enjoyed just the eimo by all who have suffered as the perpetrator did is inre tape and ty amont an ordinary frallic association than there is in a de ruit ment avail alia question can be ered or even the most rate quoted a vast and machinery has to be put in motion and the creaking ia heard at every railroad agency in abe country the lines composing the atah bradlo Association the and rio grande proper and western alie utah central and union are bound by the t kind 0 an agreement not een the president of any ol 01 the abovementioned above mentioned corpor ft alia sanol loii of alie chairman or chief mogul II 11 S kichi ft ho has liis boico at It enver theio was an old farmer living in the valley near salt IAO city who raised larea quantities orpo more in fact than he could digiose di of either to alio or gentiles ho waa very anxious to ship some to denver Cheye nuo orialis and other he called in one day at the freight of one of the lines and asked for a rate alio frei slit agent a wired him humbly that no one made aratea hut chairman ellioh whose factory was at benver lie went around to alio oilier offices everywhere receiving a similar ance lie called around a few days later or the baine purpose but was then informed that kith biad col pot to work yet it was two months after lie made tho application that tho perfected article was out of hie association properly branded dined si ned and beaded the potatoes in the meantime hail been sold for a bong in baroug impressive bernis the old inoke bis contempt of frallic generally and alio utah one in particular par titular concluding by an noun cinK hia intention of getting even on mr rich by ridiculing tho institution he presided over lie did BO ho wrote to Cli airman kich for a rate on jck in car loada and in due course of time the rate emereld from the roll I 1 and is now round every agency in the co antry ralstine countless count lers laughs at the of the utah traffic association cia tion it ia printed on the lineal kind of creamy drab paper and announces in larca and imposing type the and important tact that jack in carloads car loads own erb risk will bo carried from ogden to denver at the rate of 10 per pounds Ite neath are tho names of alio aifili officials of all the lines with their full ditlea that of 11 8 rich chairman up the rear the old farmer it is said has grown two years younger cioce lie biad bis re volpi it ia not safe however to ask mr kich about BATS mayor kicmol wag to get out of this city twenty years BRO anil ahat any mention of an expectation hat be hullit eer heroine mayar would havo awn as much as ills alfo was alien it Ss re member eil that a alio llio timo referrer refer to trana trains were running in here from both aej that an arnay of tra volera passed thron gli every day we think thin reflection upon alie courage la as incorrect as it is uncalled |