Show MET ON AL SIDES East Road to Force the Issue With Northern Lines Local passenger men were advIse by wire yesterday thh a eastern lines have concluded to meet the colonist rate of the Great Northern Northern Pacific and Canadian Pacific in ever particular beginning April 1 Not only this but the dIspatch states tat the present rte to the northwest will remain re-main effective indefinjey which give the impression that the statement of Mr McNichol general passenger manager man-ager of the Canadian Pacific cannot be relied upon to any great extent A rebate plan has been adopted to pro teed intermediate territory from the scalper Hereafter when the Chicago passenger buys a ticket to Butte he receives a rebate coupon on the ter I mnal agent worth 750 the price pad for the ticket being 3650 making a net rate from Chicago to Butte of 29 The rte of 21 from the Missouri rive to north Pacific points will remain a itls for a tIme at least The passenger pas-senger officials of lines interested ar stm wrestling wIth the problem anu another meeting has been called for I Chicago 11 Burley of the Short Line left for that place last evening Railway Telegraphers Denver lIarc129 I was announced today at the headquarters of the Colorado Colo-rado Southern railwy that the three members of the grievance committee organization who of the telegraphers organizaton have been here for some time in conference I confer-ence reading their wage differences with the company have asked to be I put back to work and two ot tnem have already been given places This is regard d as virtual the ending of the threatened telegraphers strike It i is not known whether the inteuded meeting of the chiefs of the railway I employees organizations will be held i I or not in vie of this acton of the I telegraphers grievance committee Sat Fe Sttement New York March 29The February statement of the earnings and expenses of the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe railroad is accepted in railroad circles here as indicating the beginning of the execution of methods for reducing the roads percentage of operating expenses to a reasonable figure The proportion I of operating expenses lat month was i I 6810 per cent against 756 in February last ear The proportion for eight months of the fiscal year is still hIgh however standing at 70 per cent against 765 per cent for the same period a year ago Sale of Galveston Road Galveston Tex Mach 29In the federal court T J Smith completed the purchase of the Galveston La Porte Houston railway purchase at receivers receiv-ers sale some months ago by pang 375000 making a total of 425000 The presence of C P Huntington here gives rise to rumors that the Southern Pacific is the real purchaser Railroad Notes Mr W F McMian of the Burlington went east yesterday i General Agent E A Steife of the Southern Pacific is down from Helena I Mr Phi Daniels traveling freight and passenger agent for the Burlington at Butte is in the city The trainmen of the New England rairQad are jubilant over an advance in wages ranging from 10 to 50 cents nor day The Denver Rio Grande expects to have its road open and trans over thf broad gauge on time today The slide at Shoshone has bee cleared away The Central Pacific railroad readjust met managers in London announce that as over 87 per cent of the bondholders bond-holders have assented to the reorganization reorgani-zation plan it is declared in oDeraton The Ellis companys special train which arrives over the Short Line Saturday Sat-urday mornIng is made up of the sod cial car Melba four Pullman palace sleepers two tourist sleepers a diner a day coach and four baggage cars The Rio Grande Western will run an excursion to Ogden leaving at 650 this evening for the Goowsky concert The same road runs a special from Ogden for the Ellis concert Saturday evening The Short Line will probably do the same for the later attraction The San Francisco San oaauin Valley Railroad company has transferred trans-ferred to the Santa Fe company the terminal ter-minal site at Spear and Harrison streets and the property adjoining in San Francisco Taking the revenue stamps attached to the deed as a basis I for the price of the property 38000 was paid by the railway company for its terminus in that city The railroads have made a rate of one fare for the round trip plus 2 for the annual meeting of the National Educational Educa-tional association to be held in Los Angeles next July The 2 is the asso elation membership fee The number of people who will tae advantage of this rte is likely to be as gnat as was the ease two years ago when as the result of a somewhat similar offer on the part of the tanscontlnent lines lnes 35000 Christian Endeavorers sweDt across the country and overran Cal feral from end toend |