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Show WHEELS AND RAILS. The Burlington and Missouri is Looking Longingly on Franchises at Donver May Eventually Purchaser IT MAY COME TO SALT LAKE C1TT Happenings of a Day Among the Local Lines General Superintendent Ban-i Ban-i croft to be Here Tomorrow. It is currently rumored in railroad circles that the Burlington & Missouri might, in a fovv days, become the own-erg own-erg of tlio valuable franchises, west of and outside of Denver, now possessed by tho Denver, Lakewood & Golden road. It was stated that, for some reasons, rea-sons, the Turlington is very anxious to own tho franchises. If they should secure se-cure possession of them, however, the company would not desire to operate an electric line, but would wish to convert con-vert it into a steam railway. They are said to believe that the road would be a very valuable suburban branch, and, beside, it would furnish a start for a lino to tho west, which could easily be extended whenever funds would permit per-mit it. The Denver, Lakewood & Golden, however, is graded for an electric lino and therefore could not be constructed for steam locomotives without a considerable con-siderable outlay. The Turlington makes no secret of the fact that they havo no money for building, this year at least, and, by securing possession of thn suburban line, could do nothing more than protect the franchise, it is said. For this reason, the .reports say, they havo not offered to buy them out aud out. In addition to this the Denver, Den-ver, Lakewood & Golden does not want to sell. A Practical Jok. W. R. Peck, acting traveling passenger passen-ger agent of the Rio Grnuile, played a practical joke on his associates recently that he will probably never repeat. Ho started east recently, leaving all to suppose sup-pose that ho had gone on one of his regular trips over tho line. Nobody else knew that Mr. Peck's heart was palpitating at several times its usual speed that is, nobody but Miss Mary J. Daneohower of New Portage, Ohio, and he told no one. Ho arrived there on the 17th, and a few hours later Mr. ami Mrs. Peck started for Denver. When the facts of Mr. Peck's long absence ab-sence from the city became known, it required several bcAes of lino llavanas to square matters. Kaltrokd Notre. Colonel C. 1). Dodge, general manager mana-ger of the R. (i. W. is expected iu the city this evening. i'he emigrant shipping done by the Uuion Pacific to the northwest these days is something extensive. The K. of P. of Salt Lake will tomorrow to-morrow leave here over the R. G. W. at 11:15 to attend the funeral of a grand otlice.r in Ogdun. E. J. Keyes, chief clerk of the R. G. W. passenger department, left Inst night for Kansas City. Ho is accompanied accom-panied by Mrs. Key es. Will Cunningham, U. P. stenographer to S. W. Kccles, accompanied by his sister, left the cily this afternoon." for Denver, to visit friends. General Superintendent W. H. Ban croft has returned from a tour of inspection in-spection on the Idaho division. Ho is expected iu Salt Lake tomorrow. A bill designed to put a stop to the business of railroad ticket scalping has been prepared, and will soon be introduced intro-duced in the slate legislature of Illinois. W. P. P. St. Clair of Unite who has been appointed freight agent at tho U. P. depot iu Salt Lake, was formerly agent at Ogden under the Clark administration. ad-ministration. Articles of incorporation have been filed in Illinois to organize the Chicago, lorest it Eastern Illinois railroad company, com-pany, whirh proposes to construct a line from Chicago to a point in Indiana. The capital stock is 12,000,000. Seventy-two blooded horses, tho property'of J. T. llaggin of California, in nine palaeo stock cars, passed through Salt Lake today on the Rio Grande Western. The stock is eastward east-ward bound and the Rio Grande is shipping it on special time. Chairman Finley has issued r call for (he regular meetiug of the Western Passenger Association to be held next Tuenday. Among the more important subjects to be considered are tho abolition aboli-tion of commissions on seaboard business, busi-ness, and a revised and protective form of excursion rates. The Grant locomotive works, which havo supplied the Denver it Rio Grande railway with most of iis propelling force, is now thoughtfully engaged in the project of establishing works in Chicago, with an annual capacity of 2o0 locomotives. The shops will be built on economic principles with a view to rapid production. - |