Show Personal and General The Michigan Central has been pushing the work of doubletracking its system during the past summer with great rapid ity The company put down over one hun dred miles of double cown at an average cost of over 1000000 The estimated gross earnings of the entire en-tire system of the Chicago Rock Island Pacific railroad both east and west of the Missouri river for tho month of December i 5 1S90 are 1353133 a decrease as comparep with the same period in 18S9 of 30409 H J Newton whose office as traveling passenger agent of the Bee line was abolished abol-ished when that road was consolidated with the Big Four was reappointed New Years day to represent tho consolidated lines at Denver again having for his territory ter-ritory Colorado Utah Wyoming New Mexico Eastern Kansas and Nebraska The United States Government has1 brought suit in the federal circuit court against the New York Central Hudson River railroad company to recover 5500 damages for obstructing the free navigation naviga-tion of waters of the United States caused by the illegal character of a bridge over Murderers Creek near the town of Cornwall Corn-wall Md Several engineering parties are survey ing in the northwestern part of Washington Washing-ton from Anacortes and other points on Puget Sound easterly along the Skagit River valley for a branch of the Northern Pacific across the state from the Columbia river One party is surveying the line I mountains from Hamilton easterly to the Cascade |