Show effectW WILL RETURN TODAY Bancroft and Eccles Will Come Home This Morning General Manager Bancroft and General Gen-eral Traffic Manager Eccles of the Short Line will return from their Butte trip this morning The Butte papers quote Mr Ban croft as talking quite freely while in that city Now at home the general I manager while genial and quite talkative I I talk-ative on matters incident to war with I I Spain Is diffident and reticent when I It mo mention of railroad workings I work-ings But In Butte he is reported as having said I We are now handling from 100 to 150 I Alaskan passengers a day They are delivered to us by the Union Pacific i and Rio Grande Western and are all j headed for the Klondikqv though it is doubtful more than onethird of thm i will ever get Into the gold fields When j I was in the east I few months ago all of the roads were talking about j I Klopdlke travel and estimated the number I num-ber of passengers at from 6000Q to j I 100000 which were ridiculous guesses j I I the travel had come up to their ex j I pectations there would not have been I j sufficient passenger equipment in the I west to handle i I the total number num-ber of Klondikers ache oreu than 30000 r will be greatly surprised 1 Mr Bancroft is quoted as saying that a new traffic arrangement will probably be made with the Northern i I Pacific by which the Short Line will I I run its freight trains Into Butte over the Montana Union it does its I ontan3 n it passenger pas-senger trains The freight trains paI i now handled by the Montana Union crews from Silver Bow to Butte Other I traffic matters would be left at trafc mater as pres entMr Mr Bancroft reiterated what has already al-ready been in The Herald viz that there was nothing In the Silver Bow I gateway story I |