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Show THE T1LU K AND TRAIN. Oontracton Tor The Portland and Seattle Clamor For Sattlment With U. P. Officials. THE EURLIKOTON CORN CROP. R. G. W. March Earnings Notai and Personals of Various Local and Foreign Lines Tersely 8tattiL Kilpairirh Brothers & Collins, ron-tractors ron-tractors for constructing tho Portland ami Seattle road are endeavoring to have at settlement with I'nioii Pacitio ollieials. J . II. .Smith sublet the work and he too is anxious to have some money. Until this matter is amicably-settled amicably-settled the work of constructing the ; l.uu will be at a standstill. '1 he matter was to have been settled I yesterday, but as th betllcment depends de-pends upon the agreement of tho L'uion I'acilie company to pay tho money duo Smith, nothing can be. done, till Sidney l'illou gives Ins consent. Instructions Me expected from him tomorrow. If j he agrees to furnish the mouey the final j M'ttlcmcnt will be made at once, and , the contract will be relet, it is under- stood that Smith will get tho contract ! and that the work will bo resumed at mice. Smith claims to have lost H10,-IMHI H10,-IMHI through the subcontractors, ami that about Ul'.."i.0t () is duo him from the company. The understanding is that Smith is to get no damuges for the suspension sus-pension of ilia work. .1. W. YoiintS N. M. V. 11. K. W. Derby Johnson, jr., writes the following from Deming, N'. M., to the IVseret News: I am here iu llcming as agent for John W. Young, looking alter the interests of the North Mexican Pacific Pa-cific railway which Brother Young is building from here into Mexico, i he length of tho line will be l'iO miles. Wo have already graded lifty miles and are Hill grading. We expect to have one hundred teams at work soon. The track laying will shortly commence. It would have been laid to Palomas, lifty miles soulh of here, beforo this, but we have been detained on account of having to change the line and wait forthe arrival of Brother J. Few son Smith of your city, who is our chief of construction. I am acting as general manager. This railroad will give us prestige in Mexico, as our people through Brother J. W. Young, will have entire control. So far all the work is being done by the saints and Mexicans. !-'orirJ L'nlon l'arlllc Tlrktts. Seven more of the forged tickets sold by I Vnver scalpers were taken up on the Union i'acilie train that reached llutte at (I o'clock Monday night, says the Miner. Tho tickets were sold through to Helena via the Montana Central. The passengers were carried as far as this city ou the tickets, which were then taken up. These ticket forgeries are working hardships both to the road and to tho passengers, and the Union Paeilic ollluials intend to ferret out and prosecute the forgers to the full extent of tho law. So far as known, the forgeries have heen confined to tickets sold over the Union I'acilie in Denver. Much DftpemU on the Corn Crop. Knowing railroad men say if the crops west of the Mississippi river are heavy and tho Burlington's receipts likewise, tho extension of the line to Boulder will be a certainty. .Surveys for the lino were made some years since and liled with the countv clerk. The time expired recently and the maps aud surveys were reliled. Itnilrojtd Hippies. On next Saturday tho Xew Westminster West-minster Southern will be completed. The customs ollicials of Canada will inspect the lino that day. Keport says the Wagon Wheel brauch of the 1). & K. (. regularly operated this year. It is expected trains will be running on the road by June. T. 1). Mayes, for twenty-five years paKenger agent of the Pennsylvania, is said lo be the only passenger agent ever placed on the retired list by a railroad rail-road con pany. The handsome work of art representing represent-ing the Kock Island train, iu the Union ticket olliee is admired by many. The engine is of inlaid pearl and was made by artists in the' company's shops. |