Show Personal and General The merchants of Grand Junction Col are seriously considering a schen to ship in merchandise via D R G Western They can get very reasonable rates to the state line and can actually save money by freighting their goods from that point This is strange but true and the interstate commerce law flourishes like a green bay treeViccPrasident ViccPrasident Holconb cf the Union Pacific left Omaha in a hurry on Monday his destination being New York and Boston Bos-ton There are hints that several important import-ant matters called him the serious trouble between the Union Pacific and Northern Pacific in Montana and the severe rate wars imminent which will materially affect the Union Pacific being among them The Union Pacific has announced that all contracts dated after March 1 for sale of all agricultural lauds in Kansas west of range 30 west will be modified as follows All purchasers who within two years from date of purchase shall settle on the land and erect a habitable dwelling thereon shall bo entitled to a rebate of 20 per cent of the purchase price of eacH and every acre which shall be cultivated by sowin j or planting in a good farmlike manner within two yoars from date of purchase This rebate re-bate will be allowed upon the first and second sec-ond deferred payments of principal instead of the final payment as heretofore Mr E L Lomax whose promotion to the general passenger agency of the Union Pacific railway is recorded was formerly connected with the Chicago Burlington Quincy railroad having been made assist ont general passenger agent of that road on June 3 1884 Previous to this he was chief clerk of foreign passenger and ticket service ser-vice on the same road In August 1887 Mr Lomax accepted the office of assistant I general passenger agent of the Union pacific pa-cific railroad which was then in charge of the late T J Potter as vicepresident and general manager Mr Lomax has had along a-long and valuable experience in the passenger passen-ger businessand will be perfectly at homo in the duties of his new office |