RAILROAD RACKETS S All About the World on Wheels The Delayed Trains Come this Morning THE FAST MAIL The diitance now covered by the new fast mail service Is from Boston to Ogden our Ogden which is 2575 miles and it is accomplished in eightysix hours including all stops which is an average of twenty nine and a quarter miles per hour The run from New York to Chicago is made in twentyseven hours Chicago Chi-cago to Council Bluffs in twelve hours and Council Bluffs to Ogden in fortytwo hours The fastest time is made on the Chicago Burlington Bur-lington v Quincy from Chicago to Omaha wtiich Is forty foar miles per hour Including stops The slowest time is made on the Union Pacific which is about twentyfour and a half miles per hour This train leaves New York at 850 pm Cleveland at 127 pm of the next day Chicago at 300 am Omaha at 800 pm and arrives In Ogden at 500 pm where the west bound mail at present remains until the next morning but it is understood that the Central Pacific will soon change the leaving time of their I west bound passenger train to make close connection with the fast mail train in the evening The following decision in relation to injury or death of animals will prove interesting to our local railroads I rail-roads Under the act in relation to fencing railroads where s horse gets on the track for want of such a fence as the Jaw requires the company com-pany to erect and maintain and while on the track is frightened either by the approaching train or the sound of the bell or whistle or all of them combined and in its flight Is injured either by Jumping a cattle guard or by coming in contact con-tact with a wire fence or both and no negligence or wilful misconduct K chargeable to the agents of the company in charge of the train at the time and where no injury is done to the horse by an actual collision col-lision or contact with the train tfee railroad company will not be liable to the owner of the horse for such injury Consequential damages rer suiting from fright to animals not caused by actual collision or any negligence or wilful misconduct on the part of the servants of the company com-pany are not embraced in the statute stat-ute The above was rendered by the supreme court of Illinois on November 19th 1883 in a case against the 1 W Rwy Co The convention on uniform train signals meets at Cincinnati on the 9th of next month In response to the circular issued at the last meeting meet-ing a great many valuable suggestions sug-gestions have been received and whether or not a uniform system of signals is agreed upon there is no doubt but that the convention will have accomplished much good in hat direction One hundred and sixty two circulars were issued and favorable responses endorsing the system proposed by the committee have been received from 142 roads and twelve others favor it condi tionally Whafcuaction our local roads will take inthe matters is not known Mr A Traynor general baggage agent of the Union Pacific has rendered his report for the past year which showarfiat 1475508 pieces of baggage were handled during the year and that the amount paid for Jot and damaged baggage was oiily 4605 which is an evidence that this department is managed With a good ejstem and much care Taking from thia the sum of 5424 75 which was realized real-ized from the sale of unclaimed oag gage brings the actual loss down to 3580 The amount collected for extra baggage was 11451989 Our old friend P Yining of the Western Txunk Line association is again in trouble and this time with Mr Ripley general freight agent of the Chicago Burlington Quincy who applied the name of the Cal t fornia Fast Freight Line to the C B Q only whereupon Commissioner Commis-sioner Ylning claimed it as belong ing to the Ass cifttion The matter thug far is matk unsettled condition It is compulsory on the Canada Southern road or conductors of each train to gee and speak to each other at all parsing points This is done in order that there can be no m stake s-take about the identity of all train = > as referred to in running orders The through passenger trains on the Michigan Central railroad are now running over the new cantilever canti-lever bridge at Niagara Fallswhich affords passengers a full view or the falls which they could not get from the old bridge The Illinois Central railroad pay seven par cent of its gross earnings to the State because of the conditions condi-tions of Its land grant from the United States which ttipulate that it shall do so in lieu of all taxes The entire mileage of the MIssouri Mis-souri PacIfic or Gould system is 9637 miles which Is all Sfpractically under the management of ColAA I Talmage I During the last three months th Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen Fire-men has increased from 7337 to 10500 members Owing to the Patti concert Conference I Con-ference ticket sales on the local roads should far erceed previous ales Trains on the Central Pacific and Denver Rio Grande are reported I on time The Utah Northern train du e Friday evening arrived in Ogtfen at 140 pm Saturday and came down on the Utah Central at 645 pm and the train due last evening did not reach Ogden until 1030 p m and wIll probably be dowMthiinuofning From the numerous inquirIes made of Superintendent Sharp by men desiring to accept work on the railroad In answer to Paul Tromm JItz Cos telegram it would seem that we are yet flooded with laborers labor-ers or are those inquiring anxious for transportation only I Tig an ill wind etc for while the Southern Pacific has been I struggling with its difficulties from washouts in Arizona its passenger and freight traffic has been diverted over the Denver Rio Grande and the Little Giant has been worked to its fullest capacity in every respect re-spect including the exprees bus ines Mail from San Francisco to I points in Arizona at cue time was carried via Salt Lake and the bullion shipments from Mexico to San Francisco were brought around via AlberquuquePueblo and Salt Lake thence over the Central Pacific The Union Pacific is just now experiencing ex-periencing more trouble from bad weather than at any time during the past winter no trains having arrived is Ogden since Friday morning The trouble is east of Cheyenne and has been of a most severe nature but it is supposed to be pretty well over now as four passenger trains will reach Ogden this morning as follows Friday evenings train will arrive at 230 am Saturday mornings train will arrive ar-rive at 630 a m Saturday evenings train will arrive ar-rive at 10 a m The train due this morning will arrive at 1130 a m The first two trains Till probably come down at 8 30 a m the third train at noon and the last by special later PERSONAL Mr William Hood has been appointed ap-pointed chief engineer of the Central Cen-tral Pacific vice S S Montague Mr J A Muir has been appointed ap-pointed superintendent of the Southern Pacific in place of Mr A A Bean Mr J C McCaddon Wells Fargo ci Cos agent in this city is expected to return heme from Denver Den-ver to morrow morning F Whiteside OConnor is the name of the baggage master on the Frisco end of the Utah Central who says we are not classical The many friends of Mr J V Hampton will be pleased to learn that he has sufficiently recovered from a severe attack of pneumonia to resume his labors aa operator at Juab Our assiduous friend Herr Ditt man is endeavoring to arrange for the Mapleson train being switched into the Temple block yard or on the street just outside daring the stay of the troupe in Salt L keA ke-A DIALOGUE Scene on Utah Central train upon arrival at Salt Lake Brakeman opening the car door yells Salt Lake English tourist bewildered What do you say me dear bhoy V Brakeman SaltLake sir this is Zion E TcOh ah yes but Wheres the depot Brakeman Hit me kindly sir hit me kindly Curtain It was rumored Saturday that the Central Pacific would change the leaving time of the westbound train today to connect with the Union Pacific evening train SOUTHERN PACIFIC OAMELS Before the completion of the Southern Pacific the cjmpany jim porieJ several hundred camels to be used in transporting freight from link to link through the waste places of Arizona When the line was finished these animals were turned loose a of no more value John Shirley wealthy mineowner of Australia rece tly purchased the entire lot numbering about four hundred for 10000 and will at once set about recapturing them in the tt ilds of the Sierras He will take them to Australia to carry goods between civilization and his mines which are located in the center of a vast desert