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Show RAILWAY RUMBLINGS- . The Union Taclflc Declines to Have Its Tune Beaten by the Atlantic Pacific The Union Pacific bas put into effect a changed time table which will shorten the time between San Francisco and eastern points, chiefly effecting second class travel. From now on it will only take three and one-third days to make the trip from San Francisco, to Chicago, and five days to New York. Heretofore it has been the custom when the mail train, to which tourist sleepers were attached, reached Green River for a special engine to take the mail cars alone and rush them through, arriving in Chicago nine hours ahead of the express ex-press train. Under the new time table the second class sleepers will make the same time to Chicago as the mail cars. The object in making this change is to outdo the Atlantic & Pacific people Three Presents tcTHanerofr. Ex-Superintendent Bancroft of the Ilio Grande Western was last evening given tangible evidence of the esteem in which he was held by the Rio Grande Western employees. There was a little gathering at the Walker house, and three presentations followed. Mr. Richard Keys on behalf of the shopmen presented Mr. Bancroft with a rosewood gold-mounted cane. Mr. Dickerman on behalf of the engineers en-gineers presented him with a fine gold watch and charm. Chief Clerk Snow iu behalf of the other employees of the road presented him with a certified check for $000. Mr. Bancroft was so moved by these tokens of esteem that he broke down utterly. At last he found his voice and made a touching speech. He told the men present that he did not know where he was going or what he would do, but in tho future, wherever he might be, his latchstring would be out to them, and the gentlest kind of a pull would cause both the doors of his house and heart to open to them. The Cause or the Trouble. In denying the sale of the Pacific Short Line to the Milwaukee, President McLean says: "The trouble originated with some dissatisfied stockholders who objected to tho traflio arrangement being made with the Milwaukee for eastern business, as they desired the Short Line to be tied up with the Sioux City & Northern, which operates in conjunction with the Great Northern. Tho road is not sold, although these stockholders offered $3,000,000 for the Hue from Sioux City to O'Neill. I have telegraphed Schullen & Co. to come at onco to Sioux City and go to O'Neill to commence work. Matters have been arranged now and the work can be pushed forward to Ogden." Hutte City, National Park & Southwestern. The incorporators of the Butte City, National Park & Southwestern railway met yesterday and elected Lee Mantle, president; 1L L. Frank, vice-president; Charles Warren, treasurer; W. McC. White secretary, and N. (!. Roy, chief engineer. The same gentlemen were chosen as directors for the first year. The preliminary survey was approved, and the chief engineer instructed to proceed at once with the final location of the road. It is generally understood here that this road is to be a portion of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy system, sys-tem, which has long been seeking an entranco to western Montana. |