Show A STOCKMANS CLAIM STOCOLiSL1UI A Nebraska Man MsCkcK i Clear to the Burlington Attorney There is a stockman in western Nebraska Ne-braska Who is evidently much exercised over whether the Burlington will pay him damages for one Of its trains brushing up against oneiof his bovines or not That roads attorney has received re-ceived from him the following communication commu-nication which is intended to fully explain his troubles Dear Sur II About the l5teenth of this munth the trane struck my bool which was in my pastyur sit 39 mile post lies cutt up so bad i think he will surly dy i have done evry think i cood to save him darJt thing i can hardly wunof I Ills hawns is brok and he is cutt in a site to see hit tuk auf a peas of hyde about wun fut squair ins feard i see no chance fur him to get well i tell you is no better than dod and i wish you wood repot him as dod yours trooly W T HILLER P Dcant S fale to repot him shure and repot ihim ded Circular on Land Grant Suits I The Burlington road will follow the example of the Union Pacifiand issue a general circular giving all needed information on the subject of land grants suits brought against it by the government should the attempt to have the cases dismissed prove unsuccessful un-successful I they should not be the Burlington is prepared to defend those who have purchased properties from i S Death of I Railroader KANSAS CITY March 29 Augustin J Dolphin a passenger conductor on the Santa Fe road running between Kansas City and Dodge City Kan was found dead in his bed at the Midland Mid-land hotel this morning Heart dis under ease was the cause Though fOrty years of age Mr Dolphin had been a conductor on the Santa Fe system sys-tem for fifteen years They arc After Pullman Information from Washington is that Congressman John P Corliss has radically radi-cally amended his sleeping and parlor car bill The original bill provided not only for placing sleeping car companies under the interstate commerce commission com-mission but for a scale of specific rates based on distance traveled a penalty for porters receiving tips and for making mak-ing up the upper berth when only the lower is sold The amended bill still provides for commerce commission control con-trol of the companies but all the other sections are eliminated except that an added section provides for a difference of 25 per cent in upper and lower berth rates The opponents of the measure will be given a final hearing April 1 and officers of thp Pullman company today represented to-day stated that their company will be S Lake and Rail Lines When navigation opens the rate on first class lake and rail freight will ba 54 cents per 100 pounds from the seaboard sea-board to Chicago 70 cents to Duluth and S4 cents to St Paul Eastbound the rates between the points iamed will be the same Rates on grain by lake and rail will be From St Paul to < New York 25 cents per 100 pounds from Duluth 20 cents from Chicago 201 cents These are the rates agreed upon at the recent conference of the lake line managers and representatives of the roads interested When wool commences to move eastward east-ward it is assumed by the knowing ones that the water lines east from Chicago will make a scramble for the business and if so tariff rates on the cess rail lines will undergo the shading < pro l Railway Notes General Superintendent Bancroft is J i A billed to return from the north tomorrow tomor-row morning General PassengerAgent Winchell of the Gulf road is now in Kansas City visiting relatives Sydney J Van Duzen city ticket agent of the Rock Island at Denver has resigned and will return to his old home Pittsburg Pa to accept a position po-sition with the Pennsylvania railroad C H Phillips assistant agent at Wichita Wich-ita Kan has been appointed to succeed suc-ceed him H C Burnett > now general freight and passenger i agent of the Jersey Central railroad with headquarters at Philadelphia writes a cheery letter to The Herald man in which he closes by saying See that The Daily Herald is sent to this office and give my regards re-gards to the railroad gang General Agent Kooser of the Missouri Mis-souri Pacific was yesterday wearing abroad a-broad gauge smile and the same was caused by receiving a number of telegrams tele-grams announcing that last Saturday his announcng Kooser was elected to congress from the Sommert county district Pennsylvania plstrict |