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Show A Three-Oornered Tight on tho E. 0. W. Causes General Passenger Agent Bennett to Hurry Home. 8TARTLING CHANGES OCCUR. P, J. Ilynn of Denver Named hs ths New General Passenger Agent 01 toe . u, w, General Passenger and Freight Agent J. H. Bennett of the Kio Grande Western West-ern will return to Salt Lake Saturday and repair his fences. Tho other day he leit here for Denver where he was joined by General Manager Dodge and together they journeyed to a railway business meeting at Kansas Citv. Ihe gentlemen had intended remaining remain-ing away a fortnight but the existing condition of affairs caused Mr. Bennett to return sooner thsn expected. It may bo news to the public to learn that a three cornered fight between olli- cials of the Ii. (. W. has been on for some time. Tho principals are General 1 assengo Agent J. H. Bennett, Superintendent Super-intendent A. K. Welbv and Auditor T. Goddes. Within a day or so Mr. Welby has been issuing the passes and naturally nat-urally enough the public is expecting something will drop. Rumor nays that P. J. Flvnn has been teiidered the general passenger agent s position of the It. . W. That he will accept it there is not a bit of doubt and he is expected to be in tho saddlo in a short time. Mr. Flvnn is a practical railroad man and Ihe other day was appointed ap-pointed agent of the I'tah association, associa-tion, consisting of the D. & K. G., C. M., It. G. W. and U. P. His headquarters are at Denver but he can attend to the duties of the association in his ollice at the board of trade building in Salt Lake without inconvenience. Mr. Bennett has held his position with the K. G. W. since October, 1H8U. Intend to Fight. The American ticket brokers' association assoc-iation will hold its next annual meeting in Kansas City, on May L!tn. At that meeting a committee of two will be appointed, ap-pointed, to be paid good salaries, whose I only business will be te tight any hostile legislation against them and the passenger associations which are endeavoring en-deavoring to crush them out. Kallroail Ripples. Billy Clay, representing the Union Pacific at Nephi, was among the visitors visit-ors to the city during the week. Will Ellington, a I). & It. G. civil engineer, en-gineer, died at Denver a div or so ago of clotting of blood on tho "brain. His relatives reside at Pueblo. u me nouinern 1'acitic luiilUs north of the Gila river in Arizona, it is likely to go far enough north to tap the mining min-ing regions of central Arizona. A. Harper, from Butte, .Mont., for- merly in the employ of the Montana j Central, is in Sun Marcial, and will I enter the train service on the lower : division. I Mr. Lambert of the I). & It. G. has i succeeded C. J. Millis as the Kio ; Grande Western agent at Green River. Jh flatter had been with the company several years. Members of the Utah and Colorado lodges of the Order of Railway Conductors Conduc-tors mot at Pueblo tho other day. They prepared a plan of instructions to the grand lodge delegates. Conductor H. M. Hadley than whom there is no more vigilant and popular in the Union Pacific's corps, is punching punch-ing tickets again to the gratification of the traveler lietween Zion and Ogden. Among those who were in attendance at the recent gathering of the K. P. boys in this city was Fred Eaton, the dude conductor of the Oregon Short Line who met with quite an ovation from tho delegation at the end of the line. Of all the Union Pacific corps at this point on the Union Pacific none are j scoring a more enviable record than j General Yardmaster C. A. Wolfe whose j iiuilorm courtesy and affable manner i has made him most popular with the patrons of the great system. A syndicate of eastern capitalists is to build and operate a cable road be-; be-; 'weeu Philipshurg and Granite. Mont. It is estimated that, it will cost $2'0,000 i to build and equip the road, and tho ! projectors epect to have it in opera- j lion by the latter part of August. I la addition to holding a good berth i with the D. & It. G., 11. H. Ingersoll, I one of the oldest employees of the line, I has a half interest in a mica mine near j Grand Junction. The mineral is of such quality and quantity that it will, if properly handled, cause its owners' j bank account to swell. |