Show Tho wires Bay that Mr W H Hurl burt has resigned his oOIce as general L passenger agent of the Oregon Railway Navigation company It may be 1 duo to the management In New York that has obtained control of the road or It may have been on his owntpart In cither event It will take a most competent man to fill his place He has done mora In the last thrce or 1 fqur years to advertise the advantages i of life Oregon Ruliwjii J jvi j gallon company than he could ever get pecuniary pay for His notices have drawn many a person over that line that without them would have gone by the Southern Pacific or the Northern Pacific j Speaking of railroad Items a dispatch I dis-patch said yesterday that E Duches 4 nay superintendent of the Pacific division I J di-vision of the Canadian Pacific railway I has been appointed superintendent construction of the Cuba raHway It I Is well enough to keep an eye on that j Cuban railway It is to run the whole I length of Cuba and the President of I the Canadian Pacific la at the head of the enterprise He is backed by ample i funds In New York and London and when the railroad Is finished It will I I come nearer making a transformation In Cuba than armies and navies could We still think that the Government I has made a great mistake Innot havIng hav-ing pushed a railway the whole length of the Island of Luzon to give the people peo-ple there work and to open a way to market for theIr products There la I nothing that will subdue a whole people peo-ple so quickly cia to add lo their business busi-ness profits I |