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Show RAILROAD NOTES. Tha Kll'ect of liatrenolimi at Felt Along tha I'tilon PhciUo. The office of assistant general purchasing pur-chasing agent of the Union l'acitic, with headquarters at I'ortland, has becu abolished, and E. (1. Wheeler, who drew the pay attached to the position, has been thrown out on the cold world. This ollice was created during the Adams administration. The I'nion l'acific's new policy of retrenchment re-trenchment causes much dissatisfaction among the subordinate ollicers nnd employes em-ployes along the line. They claim that as the road is doing a business M per t ent greater than during any former year in its history, and there is more need than ever for help in handling the trallic, the reduction of the list of railroad rail-road employes, as well as their salaries, salar-ies, is n great hardship. The. company is paying over J10.OO0 a day less to employes em-ployes than last year, while there are iiOOO less men on its payrolls. |