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Show Rumor That President Palmer of the B. G. W. Will be Here Next Week to Look at a Vital Matter. NEW WELLS-FAR GO BUPT. The Alton Ticket Brokers Cause Consternation Conster-nation Notes and Personals of Various Liuef, Although sub rosa, it is understood that President l'alraer will bo in Salt Lake next week. The presence of General Mauager Dodge here this week is looked upon as forerunner of what is expected to happen. The Denver papers havo a string of stuff to the effect that theje two Rio (irando Western West-ern ollicials will go west from hereto look up the matter of an extension of the road to the coast. This matter tins been rumored frequently before. Will Kick Hack; Knowing railroad mon say the Chi-cat'o Chi-cat'o it Alton boycott may prove a serious boomerang to various lines. The Alton recently established agents in almost all the principal towns east of the Missouri to sell their tickets, and these agents generally are scalpers. The brokers have a grent many of the Alton tickets in stock. As the boycott is on the wane, tho western passenger association is fearful that a row may result. Young Mn at the Head. Elderly men at tho head of great railroad rail-road interests aro rapidly making room fur younger men. It is stated that IK) per cent uf the men now in railroad service ser-vice are under 40 years of ago. There are sixty three presidents of important railroad systems who are under 45 years of age. In the ranks of the locomotive engineers aro to bo found more old men than in any other department. Appointed Superintendent. Superintendent aud General Agent G. li. Simpson of the Wells l argo Express Ex-press company at Denver lias been appointed ap-pointed to succeed Superintendent E. L. Batch at Kansas City. E. J. Stubbs is Mr. Simpsou's successor, and Mr. Allen, another employe at the Denver ollice, is promoted to tho place formerly occupied by Mr. Stubbs. Completed by May 1,th. Tho event of the near future in railroad rail-road circles on the coast will be the completion of an all rail connection across the Canadian boundary. The Seattle, Lake Shore oi Eastern fine has been finished up to tho border line, and the Canadian I'acilic is now working down to it with the expectation of completing com-pleting the work by May 10th at the latest. . An Important Notler. The Union l'acilio has issued a circular circu-lar notifying lis agents that tho Iowa stato board of health has absolutely forbidden the transportation of odies of persons who have died of diphtheria either into or through the slate. Thu acceptance of such freight is therefore to be absolutely refused. ltellroait R pptee. A. M. Stephenson is the new general counsel of tho Rio Grande Junction railway. The Union l'acilio will receive a reprimand rep-rimand for an undercut on the joint wool tariff rate. 1). C. O'Reilly has been appointed traveling agent of the l.'niun i'acilic freight department, with headquarters at Denver. Edwanl Dickinson will on May 15th. occupy the desk of the assistant general manager of the Unien I'acilic iu place of Mr. lfrlcomb. The Missouri Pacific road has withdrawn with-drawn its notice of homeseekers' excursions excur-sions to the southwest from Kansas City, aud the other lines have done tho same. Professor Cummies, formerly connected connec-ted with the Union Pacific as assistant general manager, has been appointed to fill the chair of railroad law in an eastern university. Passenger men predict the largest travel from tho eastern states to tho Pacific coast this year in the history of the roads handling such business. The travel in that direectiun now is double that of last year ia April. Since January 1 the Rig Four lines, the Peoria division not included, have earned $;!, (51,107; increase over earnings earn-ings for the corresponding fourteen weeks of If.il), $i:i7,'.'Hl. The earnings of the Peoria division are kept separate. C. P. Huntington, president of the Southern Pacific, will soon leave San Fraucisjo for the east. He says that if he closes certain business matters there which are nearly settled, he will return to the coast permanently next September. Septem-ber. Mrs. C. L. Craig of Salt Lake and husband were among the passengers on an eastern Union Pacific train the other day. Mrs. Craig surprised everybody by giving birth to a fine boy, near Crested Butte. Tho child was christened christ-ened Wilson Craig iu honor of Dr. Wilson Wil-son who was on the train. |