| Show MILITARY RATE QUESTION I i General Passenger Agents Still Considering Con-sidering Problem Chicago Sept 25 General passenger agents of the transcontinental railroads met here today and will meet again tomorrow to consider the proposed foundation of a Transcontinental Passenger Pas-senger association The military rate question proves a hard puzzle to solve and before this Is done no decisive action ac-tion looking to the formation of an association as-sociation can be taken The QrK of the last l two days has rrsuTteu In an agreement to refer the Hcclslonof military busing westbound west-bound from Chleago to Commissioner Mac cod of th t WesternPassengen s6clatl6n Who will r arbitrate all matters mat-ters Irt dispute and fx per cnoS st r i thosfvacious roads JUs decision ii be final J 1 I t Railroad Notes B F Ncvlns is In Idaho E V McCune went up to Ogden yesterday yes-terday H H Sheppard of the Alton arrived yesterday Through passenger travel continues to be heavy J L Yundt of the Rock Island returned re-turned yesterday Harvest freight traffic is very heavy on the local roads Ioals The dry spot in the lake can be plainly plain-ly seen from the trains A banquet It to be given Senator Cark when ho arrives In Salt Lake Hoyt Sherman of the Colorado Southern left for Denver SouthernJeC yesterday Chief Surgeon F J Bancroft of the Midland and Western is In the city Conference traffic both freight and passenger fall will be unusually heavy this fallJ J J Ford of the Michigan Central and Lake Shore at Denver Is In town on business The Illinois Central has bought tho St Louis Peoria Northern which it formerly leased General Traffic Manager Babcock and General Passenger Agent Heintz will be home tomorrow or Saturday The Great Northerns gross for the fiscal year showed an Increase of 53 S8S885 The final surplus was 50291GO Bishop Thomas Taylor of Cedar City returned from Los Angeles yesterday He Is enthuslaslic over the bright prospects for a road to Los Angeles J L Fore au1h has been appointed assistant superintendent of the northern north-ern division of the Great Northern succeeding suc-ceeding B F Egan promoted to superintendent t E II Dewey general manager of tho Boise Owyhee Nampa road says trains will be running between Emmctt 1 and Murphy 120 miles duly after Thanksgiving day I B L Winched Is going to the Kansas Kan-sas City FQrt Scott Memphis as Its president P J Flynn it is said will leave the Lackawanna and come to the Colorado 8 Southern as vicepresident News comes from abroad that II Collbran a former resident of Colorado Springs has been awarded the contract to dredge the proposed Russian harbor on the Pacific coast Not less than 7 OOOCOO Is Involved In this contract Mr Cal bran was formerly general manager of the Colorado Midland |
