Show I MUST PAT PARE Stock Shipper No Longer Ride I S Home Free The Western Traffic Passenger association I as-sociation has adopted the following action F F I ac-tion for the roads within its jurisdic I 1 tion for the purpose of correcting I i abuses in the pass system I I i Beginning Jan 1 the practice of returning re-turning free parties accompanying the i I shipments of live stock including horses be discontinued i and on and after such date regular passenger rates i F be required of all such parties I I I In case of free transportation of persons per-sons traveling with live stock the following I fol-lowing rules shall obtain I I No person other than the owner or I n man actually engaged by the ownet I I shall be entitled to free or reduced I transportation when accompanying livestock live-stock shipments Men in charge of live stock will be required re-quired to ride in the caboose car attached at-tached to the train in which the stock is being transported and in no case will they be permitted to ride in passenger pas-senger cars except upon payment of regular fare Notes and Personals Tom Kearns has gone east over the Rio Grande Western Senator Lee Mantle of Montana was a passenger over the Western yesterday yester-day being en route for Washington H B Cole who has represented the St Louis San Francisco in this city for some time has resigned to go into business for himself He has purchased the interest of Mr Bender in the B O Transfer company and will engage in that and the coal trade Excursions to Salt Lake Chicago Dec 6The Chicago Rock Island Pacific Railway company has arranged for through tourist car personally per-sonally conducted excursions to run weekly begirming Jan 6 from Boston via Chicago Omaha Denver Salt Lake and over the Oregon Short Line and Oregon Railway Navigation com i I panys lines to Portland Ore This Is the only personally conducted excursion ever established between North Pacific F coast points and New England The j F I service is established primarily on account ac-count of the larger business to the i Klondike region and will be aregular S fature of the Rock Islands business in the future Eailv ay rote The Union Pacific has agreed to stop I the payment of excessive commissions Ji all territory except that covered by i the Carulian Pacific on northwestern I coast poirts The latter road will mae no agreement on this point I may i > e gratifying to shippers to I learn that the Kansas City Stockyards Stock-yards company has voluntarily reduced the price for feeding to very near the I i amount fixed by the state law Corn F F has been cut from 1 to 60 cents per buahel and hay from Sl to 80 cents per hundred pounds The celebrated Finnegan letter has 8 rival which is going the rounds of the railway press The following telegram tele-gram is said to have been received at the Topeka office of the Santa Fe On No2 Have busted flue What shall I rto rtoODOICAHUE ODOICAHUE Specifications are being prepared by the Denver Rio Grande for the construction con-struction of two new locomotives which will weigh about 150000 pounds each The management has also decided de-cided to replace with new cars the I coaches and baggage cars destroyed in the Newcastle disaster Twentyfive new narrow guage 30foot 40000pound box have been ordered at cars havl the I Burnham shops which must be ready by Dec 20 |