| Show RAILROADS IN BUTTE Party of Prominent Officials Meet In Conference Special to The Herald J Butte Mont June President F D Cornish W H Bancroft S W Eccles E E Calvin and F W Hills of the Oregon Ore-gon Short Line company arrived from bait Lake today on a special train to meet President C S Mellen Third Vice President X P dent G M Hanniford Auditor Martin and other Northern Pacific officials cials with whom a long and important conference was held Both parties came to Butte purposely for the meeting hit none of the gentlemen would state the object of the conference except that it had to do with traffic arrangements Both parties returned home tonight Tailed to Elect Chicago Juno 19An unsuccessful effort ef-fort was made tocljy by the western general gen-eral passenger agents to elect a new qhalrman of the Western Passenger association I asso-ciation in place of P B Caldwell who leaves on June l1 Nearly 10 names were nominated for tho position but no ono came anywhere near an election Before the voting commenced i was declared to be the sense of tho meeting that the salary of the new chairman should not be more than iO per annum Chairman Beco Caldwclls salary has been r hange In Train Service St Paul Minn June 19The Xorthern Pacific and Great Northern railroads have changed their train service so that hereafter here-after he Great Northern will have a morning train out for Seattle and northern north-ern oints and the Xorthern Pacific an evening train to the coast The double dally service to the coat on the Northern Pacific and Great Xorthern Is thus abandoned aban-doned and the roads by agreement have decided to try the plan of sending out their overland trains from St Paul twelve hours apart Railroad Notes F X Items bookkeeper in the Oregon Short Line auditors office and wife will return from tho east todnr Eugene Rust traffic manager of the Kansas City stockyards was seen around the railroad offices yesterday Eighty naal recruits pass through here this evening over the Rio Grande cern c-ern en route to San Francisco J M Dewar clerk In the auditors office Oregon Short Line has returned from his vacation In the east Xext Sunday the retail clerks go to Castllla I Springs over the Rio Grande Western for their annual excursion Tho Oregon Short Line is doing an cx traordlnarj wool business up In Idaho About 100 cars have been moved out al readv The Short Line is putting everythIng in I readiness for the grand opening at Garfield Gar-field on Thursday the 22d A largo crowd Is expected Twelvo cars of cattle came In from American Falls Ida yesterday and went on cast over the Denver Rio Grande They belonged to R Gilchrlst 1 L Beamer and Miss Essie Beamer both employees In the auditor office Oregon Short Line with their mother have cone west on their vacation The Old Reliable Conductors Insurance association excursion train consisting of seven cars will arrive this morning from the cat They remain here twentyfour hours Auditor His of the Oregon Short Line who went out with President Cornish on his tour of inspection Is expected back today Traffic Manager Eccles will return turn about Thursday On account of the conference of the Mormon church authorities in this city July 2 a rate of one fare for the roundtrip round-trip will be given over the railroads in the state The fourth annual meeting of the Central Cen-tral and Western Association of Car Service Officers H J Merrlck of Cleveland Cleve-land 0 president was held In Saratoga N Y yesterday C A Cairns assistant general passenger passen-ger and ticket agent and T S Rattle assistant general freight agent both of the Chicago Northwestern went east last Chicago night Northwestern over the Union Pacific and |
