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Show I CAR, CAB AND CABOOSE. Tha Capital Krail? "' ' h" I.., II. l . Kailway. The projectors f the proposed Salt Lake, llailey & l'uget Sound railway are in excellent spirits over the prospects pros-pects of beginuing work on the line soon. They have capital ready with which to construct th first 200 miles of the road. It is said the proposed 1'no will fetch Salt Lake City and Doise eighty-live miles nearer thau by the Oregon Short Line. The construction of tho new road will be an important tiling for this city, natural resources lying along tho proposed pro-posed route will ba handled and conveyed con-veyed to Salt Lake, and thus add to the prosperity of the community. Look I uk lor a St -w ITWlellt. In some well iufortued circles it is believed the position of president of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas will be offered Y'ice-l'resideiit Cross, who is at present active iu tho management of the stockholders' meetiusr, which takes place 011 May 20, ami a directors' meeting, meet-ing, at which a new presideut will be elected, will be held shortly afterward. Steps are now being formally taken by the company for the discharge of the receiver. Hallroail Hipilf. Another eastern excursion arrived over the R. (r. VV. this morning. I'eter S. Peterson, who was ejected from a Southern 1'acilio train because ho was traveling on a scalpers' ticket, was defeated in a suit for 2.nnu damages dam-ages against the company at Chicago a few days ago. . .5, A little bi.y and his sister, aged 7 and 5 years respectively, arrived at lilonru-ington, lilonru-ington, 111., April 2", having traveled alono from Londonderry, Ireland. A tag with the name and destination was attached to each. The (iulf. Colorado & Santa Fe claim to run the faste.'tfreiglit train in Texas, and that it has few equals in speed in the United States. The train referred to runs between Houston and Galveston, Galves-ton, and makes iho distance of fifty-four fifty-four miles and live stops iu ouo hour and forty-live minutes. |