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Show TIIEI-.I'.'IWIIIIATE. Lornax. Eccles and Hurlbut Take Counsel Coun-sel Together mid Something May Drop, A RAID ON THE TICKET SCALPERS. The Pacific Short Line Mystery Explained Great Northern Line to San Francisco Notes. (ieneral Passenger Agent Lomax, of tho Union Paeilic, Passenger Agent llurlburt, Union Paeilic representative at San Francisco and Passenger Agent Kcclcs, of thn mountain division of the Union Paeilic. were this morning found in consultation at theollice of the latter gentleman. It looks very much as though something some-thing were up. The three gentlemen, however, said not so. Still the meeting of tho triumvirate seems a little suspicious. sus-picious. Mr. Loinax'shead'iuartersarc at Omaha. Mr. llurlburt is tit San Francisco. Salt Lake is about half way betweeu a convenient meeting place. Mr Lomax said that ho was just taking a short vacation and had dropped into Salt Lake for the purpose of pickling pick-ling himself in the brine at (iarlield lieiich. Mr. llurlburt hud wandered in for tho same purpose. The meeting was by chance only. These may be the facts in the ease. There is a patent fact, however, that looks as though it might have some connection with this chance meeting. The scalping business lias recently grown to enormous proportions. Most of it seems to be done on Union Paeilic tickets. TI10 scalpers are doing an immense business. One linn in particular boldly advertises brand new tickets over the Union Paeilic Pa-eilic to Denver for $12. This makes it look as though these, general brokers had found some loop-hole by which they could sell lliosn tickets cheaper than they can bo sold at the. ollice of tho company. What this is is not known, but tho meeting of tho three passenger agents could liud no more convenient place than Salt Lake at which to meet, ferret out this leak and stop it up. It is evident that the leak is somewhere in through tickets, and as such would ro-ipiiro ro-ipiiro the presence of the three gentlemen, gentle-men, who this morning were taking council together in Mr, Kcclcs' office. |