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Show o ! JOTS BY THE WAY. Railroad circles wero deeply interested inter-ested during the week in tho resigna- ! tlon of Orvln Morris as chief clerk of the Oregon Short Line freight department, depart-ment, after a faithful servlcof twenty twen-ty years. The chief feature of tho announcement was the statement by Mr. Morris himself that he had absolutely abso-lutely no feeling of bitterness toward any of tho local officials, but. that an entirely alien man had been transplanted trans-planted to the Short Line as district freight and passenger agent at Boise, I in the person of Donald Stubbs, who I Is a son of Traffic Director J. C. Stubbs, tho ex-Southern Pacific off!- clal who was placed in charge of traf- f flc on nil Harriman lines. This is not I tho first time that Mr. Stubbs has 1 placed his relatives In good berths on 1 the lines over the heads of far moro competent employees and railroad men aro wondering where It will all end. Sympathy was very naturally all with Mr. Morris, who Is a young Salt ( Laker, who has every reason to feel f$ proud of his past record, and it was , a matter of congratulation that ho 7 should at once bo selected as traffic 1 manager for tho now Manufacturers and Merchants' association. Of Mr. Stubbs nothing can bo said other than that It Is but ono moro blunder on the part of this high salaried but sadly sad-ly overestimated official. Among tho changes which havo occurred oc-curred in tl)0 local railroad ofllces tho past ton days is tho promotion of Ru-fus Ru-fus Cobb from tho position of chief clerk to traveling freight agent for tho Southern Pacific. The promotion Is well deserved and Mr. Cobb's friends oxtend congratulations. |
