Show IN RAILWAY CIRCLES 1 News of Track and Train from Far and Neal The Fnnoral of the Unfortunate Birks Will Be Held at Farintngton This Afternoon After-noon An Accident at lehi Samuel Robins of Lehi met with an accident ac-cident at Lehi yesterday that may cost him his life As he was trying to cross the Rio Grande Western track the engine I struck his team and he was caught on the I pilot of the engine He received severe injuries but will recover I Railroad Notes iOn i-On the new railroad just opened which I extends from Jaffa to Jerusalem all of tha engines are or American manufacture I The Union Pacific people are anxious to apply winter excursion rates throughout I the Tran Missouri association territory I The rumor now comes that the Philadelphia I Phil-adelphia Reading Railroad company will I soon assume control over the Baltimore I Ohio H H Beers traveling freight and passenger pas-senger agent of the C N W Ry severed sev-ered his connection with that company last evening I The funeral of Birks the Union Pacific brakeman who was killed at Provo oti 1 Friday will occur at Farmington at 2 oclock this afternoon east A general manager of an important ern road says the reason that the lines are not able to make an agreement on traffic all of them are that will stand is because al such liars The Pennsylvania management is repeated re-peated to be making a schedule for their express train between Now York and Philadelphia a distance of ninety miles the time to be in ninety minutes A statement from the Northwest comes that the Great Northern will complete the Portland Sc Puget Sound branch commenced com-menced by the Union Pacific over a year ago but upon which all work ceased It will then be used jointly by tho two companies com-panies Several of the Chicago lines havo informed in-formed their connections that they will ao cept tickets sold over their line at 1 cent per mile for the Worlds fair I this cheap rate extends to Salt Lake we will be able to take along the entire family next year One of the issues in the reoent election in California was whether or not the state harbor commipston should issue bonds to the amount of 5600000 to build a railway station in San Francisco to take the place of the miserable affair which stands at the foot of Market street The report just received b the New York railroad commissioners shows that for twelve months the railroad in that state killed 900 and injured 8052 persons The damages for personal injuries and deaths against the lines amounted to around a-round million and a half of dollars George B Roberts president of the Pennsylvania railroad i out in a lengthy article advocating the stamping of the price of railroad tickets on their face and the unused portion be redeomed at its face value instead of being placed in the hands of scalpers as the plan now in vogue The Wabash system offer annual premiums pre-miums to their track men for the highest general average on each division and section sec-tion The points to be determined aro line and surface points drainage policing which Includes repairs to fences condition of sidings and last but not least expense of labor The Milwaukee and Burlington roads are ordered by the Iowa Railway commission commis-sion to erect now depots In Council Bluffs the former to be commenced within sixty days It Is doubtful i these two roads will comply with the boards mandate still the way that the Iowa board did reduce re-duce freight rates should convince them that what the board says it means Railway labor organizations are agitating agitat-ing a scheme to have a cooperative or profit sharing on the railroads Each member in the order to nay an annual assessment of one dollar and this to be used in the purchase of railway stock thus giving the organizations a voice in the operation of the lines and with such a plan inaugurated it would not take them long to become the owners and then strikes of employes would be a thing of the past Without doubt the present stockholders of a great many of the Incompetently managed man-aged lines would willingly give way to tho bone and sinew crowd |