Show I SOUTHERN PACIFIC All the Old Ofiicers Reelected by Unanimous Vote San Francisco April 8The directors of the Southern Pacific today reelected I the officers of the company by unanimous I unani-mous vote a follows PresidentC P Huntington I First VicePresident F Crocker Second VicePresident Thomas H I Hubbard Third VicePresident C Stubbs Assistant to the President Henry E I Huntington Acting VicePresident and Assistant Secretary E Gates of New York Second Assistant to the President I and Controller William Mahl of New York j Secretary and Assistant Controller I E C Wricht Assistant Secretary C F Krebs of New York Chief Engineer William Hood Treasurer N T Smith Assistant Treasurer F H Davis Annual Elections I Electons Parsons Kan April 8The stockholders stock-holders of the Missouri Kansas Texas I Tex-as and also the Kansas City Pacific Pa-cific railway companies held their annual cifc riwaj compnies I nual meeting in this city today The old boards of directors of each company com-pany were reelected Mason Herrick was elected a director of the Missouri Kansas Texas company to succeed William Band deceased No ether matters mat-ters of interest were transacted Back From Denver General Passenger Agent Frank Wadleigh of the Western returned from Denver yesterday morning with nothing to relate about Western matters mat-ters Trade With the Orient te Washington April SJames J Hill president of the Great Northern railroad rail-road and also interested largely in tiansportation to the Orient has written writ-ten a letter to a western senator in which he points out the possibilities of trade in China and Japan and suggests sug-gests that the tariff duties be so ad justed as not to prevent trade with the countries across the Pacific President Hill reviews the growth of trade in wheat with Japan and China in the past three years which he says resulted in 15 to 18 cents increase in the price to the farmers of tHe west He says there are many millions of people in the Orient who never tasted wheaten bread but might become customers cus-tomers if the price was low enough and reciprocal trade relations recirocl trde relatons main taine taineRiway Railway Presidents Meet New York April SA meeting of railroad presidents was held at the headquarters of the joint traffic association asso-ciation here today The meeting adjourned ad-journed shortly before 3 oclock when Mr Blanchard gave out he following typewritten statement The meetingof today was a conference I confer-ence of presidents of the trunk lines with the presidents of east bound railways rail-ways from Chicago and the board of managers to consider the east bound lake and rail rates as compared with all rail rates from Lake Michigan to Lake Superior ports Other questions were only corisidered incidentally and incIdentaly I no action was taken beyond a recommendation I recom-mendation of the gentlemen present I that a meeting of the board of control con-trol be held in New York on Tuesday next the 13th inst to consider all subjects sub-jects which might then be called up in connection with rates the right of the association under the decision of the supreme court etc The Christian Endeavorers New York April 8The board of managers of the Joint Traffic association associa-tion ordered today that the fare to be charged to the Christian Endeavor meeting in San Francisco July 7 to 12 shall be one fare for the round trip to Chicago or St Louis plus the basing fares of 51 from Chicago and 4750 from St Louis to San Francisco New Government Director Washington April 8The president has appointed John T Bressler of Nebraska Ne-braska a government director of the Union Pacific railway He succeeds R succes R Nelson whose term has expired |