Show SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRAFFIC Reduction in Fares Greatly Increased I In-creased Business 1 San Francisco April 26The report of arrivals and departure by rail over the Southern Pacific line during March shows that the reduction in passenger fares during the rate war resulted in a greatly increased business During that month there was 14455 arrivals and 11637 departures total movement of 26092 The corresponding figures for 1893 were 15606 For January and February Feb-ruary this year the movement was respectively re-spectively 11679 and 12279 The increase in west bound traffic was notable The total western movement move-ment in March was 14455 against 8037 in February S85S in January 8441 in March 103 This shows that the low late brought about 6000 people in California Cali-fornia over the Soutuhern Pacific lines alone over and above the regular traffic traf-fic First class tickets numbered 23002 while there were only 3090 second class The Seligmans Fast Train San Diego Cal April 26The special train bearing Theodore Seligman and Henry Seligman sons of the late Jesse Seligman the New York banker who died at Coronado on Monday arrived from Chicago at 12 oclock last night having made the run in sixtytwo hours a day and a half faster than regular time This afternoon at 4 oclock the same train took the banker his sons and widow and daughter back to New York 4 The Oaken Investigation Milwaukee April 26 Judge Jenkins today appointed Alfred L gary master mas-ter to investigate the Rocky Fork Manitoba and Chicago and Northern Pacific transactions in order to determine deter-mine whether Receiver Cakes is guilty of mismanagement as charged by certain cer-tain stockholders He has forty days to take testimony and fifteen days additional ad-ditional to report |