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Show THE RAILROAD HEW Efforts to freeze Out the Haughty Chicago Chi-cago 4 Alton from the Western Passenger Association. SHOVIK THE QUEER OB U. P. The Montana Gretna 'Green Searching fci the LineNotes and Person-Is Person-Is of Various Itjac It is very likely thitt within a few days all of the members of tho Western I'liMMngcr association except Uih Chi-cnjro Chi-cnjro & Alton will withilrnw from ttml nrg:iui.atiuu on account of the attitude of that coinpauy In regard t the orders issued by Chairman Kiuley to advance rates from Kansas C.ly to St. Louis ami from St. Louis to Kansas City. Tlio Alton positively declines tp pay any attention to Chairman Kin ley or to I hfi association in this matter ami titurly ignore the fines, aggregating aggre-gating something like $l,0('U or il'j.iiuu, which have been imposed on it for refusing to uilvance rates. Under the clause section l, of article l;j of the Western Passenger association associa-tion agreement Chairman r'inley will, in ten days, draw on tho Alton for the amount of the tine, and cf course tho Alton will not pay. It is proposed that each lino shall then withdraw from tho association aud leave tho Alton out in the cold. All of the lines except the Alton, tho Chicago, St. 1'aul oi is ansas City and the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis are members ot the Western Trallic association, which bas a much stronger agreement than the Western Passenger .association. The mails which propose to withdraw will rely ou the Western Tr.llic association to occupy tlio niche now tilled by the Western l'asserurer association. Counterfeiters On the Colon Pavinc. A smooth game of shoving tho queer is being worked along tht; main line of .he Union l'acirio in Wyoming anil idaho. Tha principal actor happens io be a tall, slender, nice looking man, who approaches a passeuger or a bystander by-stander at the station, very hurriedly, just as the passenger train is about to pull out and asks for change for a ?'-'0 bill. He generally gets it ami jumps on t he moving train before his victim discovers dis-covers that the bill is counterfeit. This game has been tried at several places along the Union Pacific- antl efforts ef-forts have been made to capture tho man by telegraphing to thu next station, sta-tion, but he bas eluded capture. Cunnocta with I nton Pae flo. Beginning with Sunday a new train called the Keystone express will leave Chicago atllMoa. in. and arrive inNew York at 2 o'clock next afternoon. 'The traiu will run over the Pennsylvania lines via Fort Wayne & Pittsburg. Only tirst class passengers will be carried, but without additional fare. Pullman vestibules from end to end, combined baggage and smoking cars, dining and sleeping cars and run through solid lrom Chicago to New York. The Union Pacific will connect with this new traiu. Location tho M., W. At E. Line. Pease's party of locating engineers for the Montana, Wyoming & Eastern railroad are at present camped near Rocky Butte, ou Alkali creek, Mont. Eighteen men arc iu tho party and they have located a line for the proposed road from Castle down the Musselshell and Painted Robe creek, thence across the basin, and are now running lines between Alkali and the head of Five mile creek, seeking the best location. The route will either come into Billings via Five mile creek or Alkali creek, and cross the river below Billings, thence across to Sheridan, Wyo. N. P. Grotna tints, That portion of tho ('row reservation between Rig Timber and Grey Cliir through which tha Northern Pacific railroad is built seems to have been selected se-lected as the Gretna Green of Montana. A number of marriages hae been performed per-formed on the trains when passing along that strip recently, of parlies to whom licenses would not have been issued by the district clerk for various reasons. The latest coming to notice was the marriage of Eddie Preble antl a Miss (ireen of Livingston, both under age and married without license. Railroad RippW. The Dillon-Clark party will arrive in 5an Francisco tomorrow. George VV. I.awson, Butte City ticket agent for the Union Pacific, was married mar-ried tbe other day to Miss May Dakin of Deer Lodge. F. C. Doran, superintendent of the Union depot company at Omaha, has resigned. He will hereafter be general manager of the Chicago Belt line. C. T. Rhodes, chief clerk of the Union racilic ollice at Helena, is at Butte to- i day and will be stationed th Te until the return of G. W. Lamson. city ticket agent, who is going on a pleasure trip. Chairman Midgley, of the Western Freight association, is chasiDg down some charges that lumber rates to Uli- I iiois and Indiana have been quietly cut, anil proposes to put a stop to the manipulation. 'The only present danger of a collapse col-lapse in rates is on wool from I'tah common points to Chicago. The SI. r? tariff from L'tah common points via St. Louis, Memphis, Savannah ami oceau lo Boston it taking all the busine.-s. The lines leading to Chicago delivered deliv-ered , Toll, 0U0 bushels of corn there during dur-ing the lirst threo weeks of May, or 2 -iiio.OO'J bushels more than during the eatiie period in May, l.-'.io. Kei-eipts of wheat were up to 1M0, but oa.s showed u. decrease. On Sunday night l.'.'SO.OOn pounds of tea and tnerehand:ss from the. steamer leeame were sent to New York oier, t he I'niou pacific by passenger train, i Last night 10U.0!i0 pauuds of raw silk, j also from the Oceanic, was sent east by ' thu same route. ' The fourth annual picnic and eeiu-- j eion of the Nort'tern i'aeilie railroad ! employe" of the Kocky motuittiit) mid I Idaho divis'ons at Missoula, takes place on Saturday. June The party will j po over the Cocitr d'Aiona cut-oil as far j as St. Hegis. ' M. L. Sebree was yestordav aopoiut-ed aopoiut-ed train dii:iic!icr of the Chicago. , Kock Island .V J'acitic between Liinon and Denver and iXtuver to I'nehlo. with lioadtiarters at Dcuvei. vice i.o i Creer, who takes his (,',, i nn ;S passeo-f!r passeo-f!r 4-otiiltictor. It is rumored that an inve.ii-ration of purchasing department rci-.ir.u ,,f I'niou J'acitic is soon to lie i:ist:ti:te, ml that it will resttlt io tin- iiiusecu- '. rou of several liigh otbciais i tin-road, who are anppnseil to bari- iici-n inter ested with MeKibben in lh- :t:i."ji! cotnmissious ou suow piows aaU iu giuas. I |