Show ADVANCE IN RATES Southern Pacific Will Pat Up the Tariff on Freight East SAN FRANCISCO Jan 15The Southern Pacific Railway company and other overland railroads intend on the 24th inst to advance rates on borax canned goods and wine from California points to the east from 50 cents per hundred to 75 cents The action in this matter is due to the fact that the PanAmerican railroad has made an agreement with the Pacific Pa-cific Mail whereby its fight against the Pacific off Mail and Southern Pacific is Suit Against VHlard NEW YORK Jan Complaint was filed In the United States circuit court in the suit brought by the Northern Pacific Pa-cific and Manitoba railroad company against Henry Villard for an accounting The complaint alleges that the plaintiff company entered into an agreement with Henry Villard for the sale of first mortgage mort-gage and Winnepeg terminal bonds The defendant who was president of the Oregon Or-egon Transcontinental Railroad company com-pany caused the delivery of 1075000 worth of mortgage bonds to the Oregon Transcontinental company and the remaining re-maining first mortgage and Winnipeg terminal bonds were delivery to himself The total value of all bonds delivered Is given as J4G75700 which I Is alleged the defendant has sold and received payment for Of this sum ho has accounted for 4130316 and it is charged the defendant defend-ant has realized from the sale of the bonds J545433 over and above all just charges and disbursements For this and other sums the plaintiffs ask that Mr Villard be required to make an accounting account-ing Question of Cartages NEW YORK Jan 15At todays meeting of the board of managers of the Joint Traffic association final action was taken upon the question of cartages at various points in the territory of the joint traffic association As n result all allowances of this nature will be substantially sub-stantially discontinued after February 1 The board divided itself into two committees com-mittees east bound and westbound the committee in charge of all eastbound questions to be composed Qf Messrs Mur 7 ray Gray Knight and Cochran and westbound committee composed of Managers Man-agers Smith Hegeman Burton and Garrett Gar-rett with H E Hayden chairman ex officio The balance of the session was o supled with reports of commissioners and considering routine business Railway Notes D J Plynn of the Rock Island with headquarters at Denver is in the city Superintendent Bancroft of the Union Pacific has gone to the coast in a pleas u trip General Agent Sherman of the Gulf ha cial moved block his office to No 6 Common Erwin Sears traveling passenger agent of the New York Central with headquarters I head-quarters at Denver is in town Reports from the esxcurslonlats who went out on the Western to take In the ice palace at Leadville state that they are having a fine time General Manager Dickinson and the other Union Pacific officials returned from Mercur yesterday al Ideeply impressed im-pressed with the importance of the great gold camp They will go to Butte today |