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Show THE lillllAl) RECORD A Number of the Big Roads Combining for the Purpose of Wrecking the Scalping Business. FLASHES FROM ALONG THE RAIIB. Jay Could and Clark at Denver-Nuw Mia for the Santa Fe-Notes and Pergonals. A number of tho big roads iu various parts ol tho United States propose to endeavor to wreck the scalper business. Withiu tho next two years, it is said, efforts will lie made to have a law passed in every state forbidding the sale of tickets by brokers within tho commonwealth. A conservative estimate esti-mate places the yearly loss to railroads on account of the scalping business at '.'5,t)tm,iKK). The I). II. (i. nail CI. er Creek, Tho Denver Air Uio Grando management manage-ment is reported as ipiietly imuiring among the Clear Creek county people if they will issue $100. Duo in bonds lo assist the road iu constructing a new road in that region of Colorado. Together To-gether with the proposition is an offer that rates will bo made It T per cent cheaper to the Clear Creekers than at (resent. Outside railroad men think this looks like double dig at the I'uiun l'acilio rates. Bay It la Not Nettled. It is by tio means settled, says the Denver News, that Frank Adams, local freight agent of the Burlington in that city, will go to Salt Lake to become general agent in place of (!eo. W. Yallory, He w ould have a more high-sounding high-sounding title and a little better salary, but Mr. Adams thinks he is pretty comfortably com-fortably lixed in Denver, and after all l. .... ... i uuuiaj mil mj imui uiuiiumu. (otiltt Uolng to Dcnr.r, H. J. Duncan, general superintendent of the I'ninn l'acilio, returned from his tourof inspection on the Fort Worth line. He says that General Manager Clark will regulate the rates on the Colorado Central in order to make them lighter on the people of Clear Creek and Gilpin counties. Tho genera! gen-era! manager and .lay Gould will be in Denver in a few days. Man fur tiifi Santa Fe. John J. Slavin lias been appointed traveling passenger agent of the Santa Fe, for Colorado, to succeed Otto Faas, who recently resigned to go to Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. Mr. Slavin has been with the Santa Fe for a long time in the oflico of the general passenger agent at Topeka, and iie is well and favorably known in Colorado. IUIIroail 10iiili, Vt'. H. MeDoel, who has been appointed ap-pointed general manager of tho Monon, entered upon his duties yesterday. The Alton is not alarmed by the boycott. boy-cott. Tho management is coolheaded and awaiting linal results. Tho road will come out cat bird, see if it doesn't. M. M, Stern of the Canadian Pacilie, was officially notified yesterday of the extension of his passenger busiuess for that company s as to include the State of Nevada.' Malono Joyce, formerly a n outside man for the Kock Island, has been appointed ap-pointed traveling agent for the Union Paeilie, with headquarters at Los Angeles, An-geles, vice John Clark, resigned. General Manager Colbrau aud General Gen-eral Freight Agent Waterman, of the Midland, are expected to arrive in Denver Den-ver today from an extended trip. They have been laying some big schemes of which more will be known later on. The Santa Fe and Fort Worth roads are already becinninir to corral all their stock cars and sending them to New Mexico, Arizona and the Indian territory terri-tory to remove the great herds of cattle to tho north. The tirst shipment will be made next week. The Santa Fe is considering the matter mat-ter of constructing a little branch line from lleach Springs, Arizona, to tho Grand canyon of tho Colorado. The distance is twenty-eight mileH and the road would be a big thing with tourists to delight in fine scenery. |