Show Railway Notes Traveling Agent Warren of the Santa Fe wa north yesterday on business E J Fisher claim agent of the Union Pacific at Pocatello Is in the city Farmer D E Burley of the Union Pacific will arrive fron Denver today S W Eccles returned Sunday from Denver where he attended the meeting of the association General Freight Agent Halm of the Rio Grande Western has gone to Denver Den-ver for a short stay General Superintendent Bancroft I went south yesterday in his private I car and will return this evening L F Moore has been appointed freight claim agent of the Chicago Burlington Quincy at Chicago W H Reed commercial agent of the Wabash at Kansas City Mo has retired re-tired and the office has been discontinued tnue From reliable sources it is learned that on the first of the month the Santa Fe offices will be moved back to the Dooly block A D Hudnal western representative representa-tive of the SiegelSaunders company at Kansas City is fitting up an office in the Dooly block Miss Marshall who vas so long operator for the Rio Grande Western in this city is now night operator at Green River station R B Luther has been appointed traveling freight agent of the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe with headquarters at Kansas City Mo Traffic Manager Babcock of the Rio Grande Western is not expected home until the first of the month as he has been called to Chcago again O J Watrous has been appointed raveling freight and passenger agent of the Fort Worth Denver City with headquarters at Henrietta Tex Jules Weatberly the live stock man has returned after several weeks stay in and about Kansas City He brought back > with him a car load of blooded bulls W H S Wright purchasing agent of the Chicago St Paul Minneapolis Omaha has been nominated for mayor of St Paul Minn on he Democratic Demo-cratic ticket The Wabash is receiving 3000 tons of 80pound new steel rails this week from the Carnegie mills These will be placed on the main line both east and west of the river at once Western roads have agreed upon a rate of one fare for the round trip for the annual convention of the Society I of Christian Endeavor which is to beheld I be-held at Washington in July i Mr F A Allen has been appointed acting general freight and passenger agent of the Seattle Lake Shore Eastern with headquarters at Seattle Wash in place pf Mr A D Scroggy resigned The Central Passenger association last week appointed a special committee com-mittee to meet dn April 23 arid con 4 I W sider the long discussed question of ssuing 5600mile ihterchangeabl tickets The Western association roads are now considering a proposi tlpn to place the Issue of all mileage tickets in the hands of the chairman in order to prevent manipulation On June 21 and 22 the Western will run a excursion from all Colorado points to Provo Salt Lake and Ogden makinga rate of 20 for the round trip A second excursion w ll be run in the middle of July i The Wabash earnings for the second week in April amounted to 227716 an I increase of7140 over the corresponding correspond-ing week of 1895 The Canadian Pacific Pa-cific earnings were 363000 as compared com-pared with 286000 last year an increase in-crease of 77000 The Colorado and Utah Passenger association was organized at Denver last week and its rules become effect ive on May 1 P J Flynn is chairman and the members of the association are the Colorado Midland Denver Rio Grands Rio Grande Western and Union Pacific The Missouri division of the league of American Wheelmen through its attorneys has insituted mandamus proceedings in the circuit court against the Missouri Pacific railroad with a view to testing the baggage law in this state and compelling the railroads ticket to carry bicycles free on a firstclass The Railway Age says The season of California pleasure travel having ended the Santa Fe road has decided to reduce its fast limited train service between Chicago and Los Angeles to one train a week in addition to the regular daily through train The I Southern Pacific has already discon tinued Its semiweekly limited trains between New Orleans and San Francisco I Fran-cisco I is understood that Chicago Northwestern and Union Pacific will continue their fast Chicago San Francisco Fran-cisco service |