Show Railroad Notes VicePresident Bancroft arrived In New York yesterday Messrs E E Calvin J F Dunn and I I O Rhoades are In Idaho V C Roecler a former railroad man Is In the city from Pocatello January opened well with 60000 In gross for the Western an Increase of 17800 for the first week The three new diners now being bulll at Pullman for the Oregon Short Line will bo put In service on the Butte run W S handler was appointed receiver re-ceiver of the Coos Bay Eastern railroad rail-road and the Beaver Hill Coal company com-pany Instead of J B Hassett who was mentioned last nights dispatches from Portland Work of roofing the new freight platforms plat-forms at tho north end of the Oregon Short Line freight yards will be completed com-pleted in a few days The Improvements Improve-ments will be appreciated by employees and shippers alike The Interslate Commerce commission has designated March IGth as the date for the beginning of the hearing to beheld be-held in San Francisco In the suit brought by the St Louis jobbers against the transcontinental railroads It is said the railroads have conceded the most essential points asked for by the shippers in the controversy over the routing of cars of oranges from southern California to Eastern points About thirty carloads of oranges are going each day Tho Omaha WorldHeralds story about a supposed meeting of allied Union Pacific officials in New York may bo taken with a grain of salt as It Includes Chief Engineer J B Berry and General Traffic Manager S W Ec den as being In attendance Mr Berry was seen yesterday in company wllli City Engineer Kolscy examlng the flow of water In the North Temple street channel where it goes under the Short Line tracks and Mr Eccles has been at his desk almost constantly for two I weeks |