| Show BURT FOR PHES DENT Popular Union Pacific Official for the Short Line ALSO TO HEAD 0 R N Gossipy Rumor in Omaha that llr Burt Jurisdiction Will be Extended tended Over Tvro Western Lines Judge Cornish to be VicePresident and Secretary of Three Chairman Harriman Coming West Again for Tour Over LincsC J McWitt is r Made Chief Clerk Ballroad Notes I ITPII3UNE SPECIAL I Omaha Neb May 5 President l Horace Hor-ace G Burt of the Union Pacific is soon to receive L promotion I is staled on good authority here that Mr Burts jurisdiction is i soon to be extended over thO Oregon Short Line and the O R N companies which are to be merged with the parent line As president Mr Burt will have control of the whole system In a few days the directors headed by h Chairman Harriman wi make a tour of the entire system as Mr Burt Is now doing At the conclusion of this tour It Is said the olllclal ordir making Mr Burt president of the entire line I between Omaha and Portland ivlll be promulgated Judge W D Cornish vicepresident of the Short Line will be made vicepresident and secretary I I of the reorganized Union Pacific while A L Mohler will be given a desirable place I l MNITT APPOINTED I Made Chief Clerk in Short Line Accounting Ac-counting Department Auditor F W Hills of the Short Line who has returned from the East has appointed C J McNItt chief clerk of the accounting department In place of J T Andrus resigned Mr McNIlts jurisdiction extends over all branches except that of passengpr accounts J Crulckshank being named chief clerk in that Mike P P ttaiff is made assistant chief I clerk with jurisdiction over freight accounts 1 ac-counts All the men are great favorites favor-ites and will receive congratulations oral or-al Railroad Notes The Pennsylvania has gotten the Long Island railroad The Northern Pacific takes absolute control of the Sl Paul Duluthtomor row |
