Show Personal and General Bishop Sharp made a flying run to Ogden yesterday The Rome Watertpwn Ogdensburg railway company has issued an illustrated book entitled Routes and Rates for Summer Sum-mer Tours It contains a vast amount of nformation Henry Baharenburg an old time engineer en-gineer on the D It G Western was found dead in the round house at Pueblo last Saturday morning having been struck on the head by some unknown person and killed The Union Pacific passenger department has issued a little book with illustrations giving simple remedies in cases of poisoning poison-ing crowning and fainting and various accidents ac-cidents and emergencies Of course it is to be understood that none of these distressing dis-tressing things ever occur on the Union Pacific A prominent railway superintendent is quoted as predicting a reform in fast train service Instead of long and heavy trains which must be pulled at speeds well up to the limit of safety on down grades and levels lev-els to make up the time lost in climbing grades the fast trains will be made up with not more than four cars and with heavy locomotives able to keep up their speed without slacking on all but the steepest steep-est grades The Lake Shore and the Union Pacific railroad companies have each contracted with the Schenectady Locomotive works for twentyfive engines the same standard as the heavy passenger engines run on the Cincinnati Hamilton A Dayton the Big Four and the Bee roads President In galls was the first railroad official to introduce intro-duce the Schenectady cnginesas now built on the western lines and they are among the favorite engines in the west The Wabash statement for April shows receipts ro000 disbursements ST11000 cash on hand 180000 The Lake Shore statement for the quarter ending March 81 shows gross earnings 4222818 decrease ifSOGTO operating expenses 262112 increases in-creases 1534M5 net Income S4064U Tee following earnings for the second week in May are reported Toledo Ohio Central 323030 increase 83582 Cairo Vincennes Chicago l2460 decrease 885 New York Ontario Western S32S2C increase in-crease 51681 The Texas Pacific railroad in accordance accord-ance with a custom of issuing several crop I reports during the season is now compiling from reports from the various station agents a statement of the present crop condition con-dition and outlook on all the lines of the road from which it appears that the crops are from three weeks to a mon th in advance of what they were at the corresponding season last year and the indications ac that the yield will be from50 to 75 percent I greater than last year This holds goO practically all the way from New Orleans to El Paso though on a portion of the road in Louisiana it has been a trifle dry and on the extreme western cud where agri n xobcvuunuaw ua + v wHVD 1 rum 1N culture is yet in its infancy there is very I little to report on |