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Show W. II. IIOLl'OMH'S VISIT. ! No riirliculur SIkiiIIU'Hiioo to he Attiiclu'ri to Hil Aniinul Tour of IiiHprtloli. The presence in this city at this time j of W. II. Holcomb, first vice-president i and general executive olicer of the j Ui.iun Pacific, has no particular signili- I ciinco whatever. Mr. Holcomb said to a Timks representative this morning that ho was here simply on his annual in- ! specting tour, and that if ho saw that i iniprovements wito uecesKury for tho ac- i coitimodalioQ of the traveling public j - - and for the welfare of his company, ? btops would bo taken looking toward i ' . such work being undot taken. The np- : polntnient of a tu 'cos-sor lo the po: ition f lilled by tho late Francis Cope was en- ;' tirely in the hands of C. S. Mellon, the Uuion Pacific's trallic manager, who was i now in San Francisco, and Mr. Holci nib f would not talto up the matter at all dur- r ing this visit. A meeting of thediiec- tors of the OrPfT'in Short Line waB being f- held today, but it would involve no other than routine business. r |