Show Personal and General I The idea that the Union Pacific intends to purchase or at least obtain control of the Fort I Worth lines Is still Insisted on by eastern exchanges ex-changes A Boston paper predicts that the Chicago PxetJ iW dhl abi Burlington S AurthVn will be gathered in by the Chicago Burlington Quincy Railroad company com-pany before Tinuary I and that VicePresident Harris v 111 be made president of tho co npany The Denver papers are using up considerable space at ma present time in aii cliuri to show that Denver is of more Importance to the Union I Pacific than Omaha Under the present and j prospective state of affairs Salt Lake is worth more to tho Union Pacific than both of them I combined The Northwestern delivered in Chicago recently re-cently a train load of fruit which was given a rj niarkable run across the continent the Northern North-ern Pacific and connections on the Pacific coast i took it from Sacramento to St Paul Jn less than I seven days and the Northwestern route took it I through from St Paul to Chicago In thirteen I hours ana fifteen minutes The entire distance I from Sacramento to Chicago was covered In less than one hundred and eight hours Chief Jlerk Patterson of the Union Pacific I freight ofllce at Denverhas exchanged positions with Mr James Van den Broeck chief clerk of the Union Pacific freight department at San FrancLsco Mr Van den Broeck has been sufferIng suffer-Ing with asthma and Mr Patterson Is afflicted with hay fever and the change is expected to benefit both Had both been as level headed railway men usually are Instead of taking tho stops above named they would have at once made tracks for Salt Lake Too Missouri Pacific general passenger de part ent ispreparing a handsome time card for the special train whcn will carry the conductors to the twenty ninth annual convention of the Old Reliable Conductors Insurance association at 5 in Francisco on the id inst This tram will run over the Missouri Pacific Union and Southern South-ern Pacific C C Whittaker of the Missouri Pacific Is president of the association A conduct con-duct lamp is neatly designed on the front of the card czj l The aw passed by the Ohio legislature last winter requiring each railroad to pay to tho railroad commissioner annual fee of II per mile for its trackage within the state Is to be tested The Pennsylvania system refuses to pay the fee which In Its case amounts to 81400 tho largest sum for any system in the state The Lako Shore comes second on the list at 1M39 f and the aggregate sum to be paid to the State will reach about eight thousand dollars per vear All the roads except the Pennsylvania have settled with the state railroad commis Loner The Indianapolis Journal says The demur f Is Oll rage question is now likely to come before the courts which will test the right of railroad companies com-panies to charge demurrage where a car is detained de-tained too long for unloading Some three months ago the Pennsylvania placed on a spur track at Kingan Cos a car loaded with coal for unloading After it had stood there a few days the company notified the consignees that unless it was unloaded demurrage would be charged The car stood here sixty days and during that time several notices It Is stated were sent to Kingan Co to the effect that demurrage de-murrage charges were accruing on tho car and asking that it be unloaded At the end of sixty days the company hauled the caraway and unloaded un-loaded tho coal on their own ground Kingan 6 Co now threaten to bnng suit for the amount the operators charred them for the coal I |