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Show THEY DONTJYIIISTLE. Union Pacific Engineers Deny the Accusation Accu-sation That They Make flight Hideous, SH0ET FLASHES PB0M THE BAIL. Why Can't Trains Between Salt Lake and Ogden Enn on Sohedule Time A Little Boost for Bessegnie. The engineers on the Utah division of the Union Pacific are objecting loudly agninst the statement that an unearthly tooting of engine whistles make night hideous throughout the weary watches in the vicinity of the Union Pacific depot. de-pot. They claim that it . is all a mistake. mis-take. Some weeks ago an order was issued by General Manager Resseguie directing that from 7 p. m. to 7 a. m. no whistle be sounded Jinsido the city limits. This order, they claim, is strictly lived up to and no sound of Union Pacific whistles is ever heard in the city at night, except in caso of fire. Another engineor has been discharged on account of the oil question. He was one of the old men who had been trained on this division, and t is claimed claim-ed that he absolutely refused to assimilate assim-ilate the economio ideas of the management man-agement in regard to the oiling of his engine. An oil clerk has been added to the force of the Utah division at a salary of $70 per month, and it is claimed that the first month of his service he saved the company double his salary. ' Th Stoppage In the Booth, : There are some very funnny things eonnected with the stoppage of work on the Milford-Pioche extension. Until yesterday the company ' was making every effort to get men. . A day or two before they had sent an agent to Montana Mon-tana to get 100 men. All day yesterday yester-day they tried in vain to catch him by wire and failed and now they are expecting ex-pecting him in with the men at any hour. The men will all have to be sent back to Montana,, '.. ,: The occasion for the cession of work is said to be the car famine and tho lack of motive power. The withdrawal of the entire equipment used in hunting material from this end of the road to Milford and beyond will give the com- an unauthorized scandal on a worthy man. We cannot condemn too severely the men who circulated such damaging statements or tho newspapers which print them without the slightest foundation founda-tion of authority. We take pleasure in again slating, and most emphatically, too, that Mr. Kessegnie Is all right, and that ho will remain in tho Union Pacific service as long as he chooses to do so. i " The PaeiHo Short Mn. The Denver Times savs: "A party of engineers are at work .surveying a railroad rail-road line from a point near Lafayette up Coal creek to Boulder. As near as can be ascertained the survey Is a part of the Pacilio Short Line and is to connect con-nect with the Left Hand division throe miles beyond Boulder., It was learnod from, an official this morning that there are a number of now coal mines which have recently been opened between be-tween Leadvillo and Lafayette, and the owners havo been unable to get the Union Pacific or the Burlington aud Missouri to build switches to connect the mines with the main lines. In consequence, it is claimed, they have organized and are Burvoying a line to touch at these mines, and will secure the right of way, which will bo offered to the Pacilio Short Line. This company com-pany has negotiated for depot grounds at Boulder, said to bo tho old fair grounds, and furthermore, it is reported that several Boulder men are Interested in tho ni tutor and will lend financial assistance to tho scheme of getting a railway counection with the now coal mines. Hardly Get There. The Denver News says: The Rio Grande Southern road will hardly reach Rico this winter. The officials express confidence that the goal of thoir hupos will be reached before December, but in a short time the snow will till tho cuts to such an extent that it will be impossible to continue tl.e work o i tho road. If it had not ic?ri for the delay so frequently experienced of late in getting men and material the work would have been finished before this as far as Rico. As it is, they will have to content themselves withj reaching Tel-luride, Tel-luride, and they will nave to bestir themselves in order to do that,, Men have been scarce for a long time, but as winter approaches -it becomes be-comes doubly hard to got men to remain re-main on construction work.- Thoy do not liko the cold breath and mournful wail of the winter wind. The company has advertised in all the lauding cities, but the responses sri very few. When the line is linlshed to TolUiride, further progress will have to bo abandoned aban-doned until next spring. It is predicted the delay will result In Vanceburg bo-coming bo-coming the center of business, for the present time at least. pany the use of nearly 100 cars ana four or five additional engines. It 1 a Mystery. The following wail is voiced by the Ogden Standard: Tho Union Pacifio is a big institution and knows how to perform big things with a flourish commensurate with their magnitude. In the trivial matter of making good its promises, however, it is chiefly famous for its failures. We refer particularly' to the falsehoods given out every day to passengers between be-tween this city and Salt Lake as to when trains will leave and when they will reach their destination. Every one whose business has required him to travel much over the road will admit that we do not state the case too plainly. The mystery is why trains from Salt Lake cannot leave on time and reach this city as per advertised schedule. In a railway sense Salt Lake is only a way station on one of the branch lines of the branch lines of the great U.P. system, sys-tem, and there would seem to be no reason, except sheer neglect, why the trains from there cannot be made up and started out when their proper time comes. .There are no other roads or connections to wait npon; no transfers of passengers or baggage. Yet the 5 p.m. train rarely gets away t:ll 5:15, and even then, instead of. making up time, as an ambitious set of train oili-cials oili-cials would try to do, it manages to lose another fifteen or twenty miuute on the road. So chronio has become this state of thing that business men who have studiea promptness as one of the first elements leading to success, have ceased to think of trusting to the trains to enable them to fulfill appointmentsthey appoint-mentsthey start out a day earlier, and make twelve or even twenty -four hours allowance for delays. A little shaking up among some of the dry bones whose management tends to these complaints would be highly appreciated ap-preciated by those who now have to submit to the annoyance, and would prove profitable all arouud. Railroad In Southern Utah, The Beaver Utonian says: Schopman asserts that he has reliable Information that the Utah, Nevada & California railroad has been subscribed to by Wall street men to the tone -of $25,000,000. This is the railroad that Is surveyed up Fremont Pass and about which so much "blow" was made some time ago about its possibility ol coming through Boaver. A gentleman recently in from the end of the new extension in San Pete county of the liio Grande Western says that that rustling road Is being extended with all practicable rapidity in this direction, and that it will in all probability proba-bility be built right through this valley. "So mote it be." The railroad company is apparently undecided as to the rebuilding of the depot at Milford. Thus far nothing whatever is being done in the matter of re-erection, Railroad Note. George Arthur Rice is in from Grand Junction and soys the end of tho new road still halts seven utiles out. F. E. Abbott, recently telegraph op-e op-e a or in Maca iei'Kesaeiruie' ofllce, ha left the road's employ, and will go in to t u t n tss at Omaha In a iew day. Much of the grading on the B. &' M.'s Buffalo, Wyo., extfnJ.o3 1 brni finished and soma of the out Its are moving toth heavy winter work at thl brad of Donkey creek. i C. E. Chrisman hat resigned as Union Pacific aent at RawIM? utter vent-n je irs in the company's aarvloe. He wa batf-iiawnaiiter batf-iiawnaiiter aud express age:it In Laramie four yens. So great is the demand for motive i power on the Wyoming division of the I'd on I'a Title, that 110 to IIS eniflut1 are turned there dally at Oreen River, and they are averaging u 0) mile a month, or SX) miles a day. Orders have been issued by the Union Pac ific rail ay to take down the bridge at Wenuover, Wyo., but the p!r will remain. It :s quite probable that the county w.il con-stru't con-stru't a wagon bridge on the foundations. News from Omaha says that J. F. Foley, trainmaster, hns relcn d to accept a position a aatlstant superintendent of the Baltimore A Ohio. Foley ba been wltb the Union Pacific for fir ye.tr. firm a chief tralo dlpatrhcr and then ai tra:n master. His uc-cet,or uc-cet,or has not been uamed as yet. Daniel II. Brees and Tom McIIugh started for Plfjibuig Bunday to att?r.d thj conrecti'n of fceimotive en: heir. Mr. rlree goes as representative of Ho-ky Mountain Moun-tain dlrl:on No. 1U8 and Kawlln division No. 44, Mr. McHugh will repnseat Cheyenne division di-vision No. IIS. Laramie DJomeraug. . , A Good Word for Beiweirnle. Omaha Railway News Reporter: In the great west there is not today an abler railroad man than Charles F. Resseguie, Res-seguie, general manager of the tuoun tain division of the Union Pacific railway. rail-way. He came to the Union Pacific from the Burlington, which has always been one of the best training schools for railway officials in the country. His methods were indorsed by the late Thomas J. Potter, a fact which in itself is a recommendation of the highest order. or-der. Since be has been connected with the Union Pacific Mr. Resseguie has made many friends among the employes em-ployes by the manly and straightforward straightfor-ward course which he has pursued in all of his dealings directly and indirectly with them. He is firm in his convictions, convic-tions, and demands of all his men faithfulness faith-fulness to the duties assigned them. In this he is indorsed by all good men in the service, and it is asserted withont fear of contradiction that Mr. Resseguie wields more influence with the men than any other two managers in the service. The report which gained considerable circulation in this city several days ago that Mr. Resseguie was to be retired, is branded by Vice President Holcomb as |