Show The Rock Island Annual Statement CHICAGO June 3At tho annual meeting ef the Chicago Rock Island Pacific road today the old directors were roelected except Sidney Dillon who is succeeded by Alexander Van Nest The question of tho future policy of tho board was discussed and it was the unanimous unani-mous opinion of the drectors that the earnings should go to the stockholders In view therefore of the fact that there was a deficit of about J per cent en the capital cap-ital stock after paying the usual per cent dividend the board decided that the August Au-gust dividend should beJ1 per cent Tho report for the year ending March 31 shows the gross earnings to be 17 73034 a decrease of 105427 Operating expenses and tuxes were reduced from 12iijOG7 in 1S90 to 12413794 in 1S91 leaving earnings earn-ings of 5059539 a decrease of 104154 from the previous year Cash receipts for lands sold and interest received from the I Chicago Kansas Nebraska railway brought tho net income up cO375152 from i which was paid in interest on tLo bonded debt rentals dividends etc an aggregate 1 0021533 showing a deficit for the year ot 240051 I The Denver Rio Grande railroad has two firstclass trains daily with superb Pullmans and elegant tourist sleepers and free chair cars to Glenwood Aspen Lead yule Pueblo Colorado Springs and Denver Den-ver Only one change of cars to Omaha Kansas City St Louis and Chicago and traverses the grandest scenery of tho Rocky mountains Travel overit nexttime you go east |