Show SALT LAKES PROTEST Remonstrance Against a Proposed Revocation Revo-cation of Rates The following telegram was sent April 10 to J A Munroe general traffic manager mana-ger of the Union Pacific S H Babcock of the Rio Grande Western and E Gray of the Southern Pacific Understand that at freight rate committee meeting tomorrow proposed to revoke rates given Utah merchants October last In behalf of all we emphatically protest Any change wU be regarded as dishonorable and in bad faith the consequences would be most serious Signed THOMAS G WEBBER Chairman W E HUBBARD President Chamber of Commerce Two messages were received in answer to the above yesterday as follows Telegram received Think you can rest assured no action will be taken as indicated Signed R GRAY Joint message of yourself and Hubbard jus received I propose to stand by the Octobsi agreement to the fnhest extent of the influence of our company and i any adverse action is attempted to be taken at the meeting It wU have to be accomplished acatnst our emphatic protest and I confidently rely upon the appreciation appre-ciation of our action by the business men of Utah Signed s > H BABCOCK The Promised Land The RIo Grand Western passenger department de-partment has placed an order with a Buffalo publishing house for 50000 copies of a publication called The Promised Land I is descriptive of Utahs resources re-sources scenery and climate handsomely printed and profusel illustrated with beautiful halftone engravings The entire en-tire edition will be distributed among Worlds fair visitors and as it is of pocket size it can be carried conveniently The I work was arranged and compiled by Assistant As-sistant Passenger Agent G Weiler Heintz Southern Pacific Innocents Slaughtered Twentyone innocents have been slaughtered on the Southern Pacific system sys-tem and that number of passenger conductors con-ductors are now looking for other soft snaps The Implied cause for the wholesale whole-sale discharge is robbery pure and simple sim-ple Officials of the road state that for along a-long time the company has been systematically system-atically robbed and that the trainmen have grown rich surprisingly fast Three Ogden conductors were laid off Kailvray Notes A new publication by the Rio Grande Western entitled What May be Seen in Crossing the Rockies contains a handsome halftone engraving of the Saltair Beach pavilion t A Raymond excursion party consisting lof i 130 New England people will arrive I from the west over the Rio Grande Western West-ern tomorrow morning They will remain re-main in the city from 5 am until 1 pm A traveling mans Union Pacific ticket was stolen from him yesterday and sold to a local broker The ticket was recovered re-covered through the efforts of the Union Pacific captured officials but the thief was not |