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Show Railroad Notes. An excursion from Park City will visit "Garfield July 20. The Norden Military company, the oldest iu Ltah, will picnic at Jyracuse July 22. An excursion of 300 will arrive in Salt Lake, Sunday, from Eureka en route for Garfield. The Ohio excursion to Garfield yesterday was attended by about 200 people, who thor-ouuhly thor-ouuhly enjoyed themselves. The First Ward Sunday school picnicked at Syracuse yesterday. About 250 of the little ones had a splendid time. The Germans go to Syracuse July 21, for an outing. A speciaf train bearing a dancing danc-ing party leaves at 7 p. m. the same evening. The Young Recruits band of Taylorville to the number of 300 and the Juvenile btind of Salt Lake, 200 in all, are at Garfield today. to-day. The Scandanavians of Ojrdcn and Salt Lake will celebrate Pioneer Day, at Syracuse July 25. Trains leave 10:30 a. m., 1:30, 3:30 snd 6:30 p. m. .... ; Arwof onoand one-fifth fare from all "points on the Union Pacific has been mode lor the A. O. U. W. Grand lodge raeeUnt: in Salt Lake July 13. : : - AVm. Menges of Japan, accompanied by his family, is en route for the Yellowstone Park. Yheu they have finished their trip they will' visit Salt Lake. The Union Pacific will, In the next two weeks, ship about 100 carloads of cattle from Utah, which will practically close the movement of cattle from southern Utah for some mouths to come. The ' movement of cattle in Idaho and Wyoming has been double that of last year and the shipment of beef cattle is just now beginning to boom and promises to increase steadily until Christmas. Major General Thomas Godfrey, city ticket agent of the Missouri Pacific, at Omaha, is in the city accompanied bv his family. They are en route for the coast,"but General Godfrey God-frey stopped off take his annual bath. Mrs. A. G. Scott, wife of World's Fair Commissioner Scott, of Nebraska, has been on a western trip and is now- in this city on her way home. She is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Evans of the Union Pacific passenger department depart-ment for a couple of days. A suit for $10,000 damages has b-en brought again.-t the Union Pacific railwav by relatives of Mrs. E. G. Morris of Utah, who was thrown from the platform of a train and killed at Rock Springs in August last. The suit was filed in Johnson county Wyoming. . I. H. Lewis of Salt Lake City, paymaster of the Kio Grande Western, arrived last evening accompanied by his bride, formerlv Miss Blanche Smith of Galcsburg, Ills. The bridla couple are tha guests of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Lewis, the parents of the groom. Durango Herald. Sixteen Burlington surveyors are working in the mountains near Fort McKinncy, joining, aearcning lor a crossing on the route to the national park. The Votfe says the road will go right through Johnson county, aud eloquently enumerates the resources re-sources of that section in connection with the movement. Ere this issue of The Times reaches its readers the .herculean frame of Dan B. Honin, editor of the Omaha liailvwj Xeint JJrjwter, will be at large on the streets of Salt Lake. This item is published in order that citizens hearing his ringing voice on the corners may have no cause for alarm, knowing whence the sound emenates. The famous old locomotive, "Lord of the Isle," will be exhibited at the World's fair at Chicago by the Great Western Railway company of England. It was made at Sw iuton in 1S51, and was a notable exhibit at the exhibition in London in 1851. From that time till July, 1SSI. it was continually in service, and ran during that period a distance dis-tance of 7S.!,30O miles without being fitted with a new boiler. W. H. H. Clark, the general manager of the Lnion Pacific, who has been accused of visiting the coast with the intention of considering con-sidering the feasibility of building a line from Ogden or Boise City to this city, stopped at Castle Crags yesterday and will reach here this morning. The Union Pacific does not contemplate any building at present pres-ent and has not built a mile of main track since Jay Gould obtained control of the road. Mr. Clark is accompanied by his family, is an enthusiastic angler and is visiting the coast on a holiday trip. San Traucisco Chronicle. I - - |