Show D 8 K G MEETING TOMORROW Directors to Meet in New York and d Elect Officers The meeting of the directors of the Denver Rio Grande will be held in T i New York tomorrow As a consequence v all sorts and conditions of rumors are rife on Railroad Row today The most persistent that will not down Is to the effect that E T Jeffery will bo reelected re-elected as president with A S Hughcs 1 as vice president and Col D C Dodge as trafllce manager j v Wool Sales The Idaho wool men have reached an agreement to the extent that sealed fblds for their clips will be accepted I The bales of wool stored at Caldwell and Mountainhome will be offered on salesdays and it Is expected that the same policy will extend to other wool centers of that state and Utah Every opportunityIs given the buyers to sample sam-ple the wool before entering a bid There Is I a large amount of woel stored at both places and the clans have Gathered for the llrst sale which took place at Co Id well this afternoon The I sale at Mountainhome takes place to morrov I Railroad Commissioners Arrive I San Francisco Cal June 5A special 1 train of seven Pullman cars carrying railroad commissioners from twenty three states of the Union has arrived InSan Francisco a day in advance of I thc schedule In the party are nearly vPlxty commissioners and their secretar o ies representatives of the InterState Commerce I commission two delegates I from the Association of American Rail j way accounting officers three delegates 1 from the Street Railway accountants I association of America the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania the attorney general of South Dakota the president of the order of Railway Conductors the president of the National Asso Natonal Ato A elation of Shipping Clerks and about ninety other persona including wives I and friends of members oC the party Today and tomorrow will be devoted to business sessions The assemblage 1 will be the thirteenth annual conven 1 ton of the National Association of Railway Commissioners which Is made up of the 89 state officials that regulate and control railroading In controlralroadlng most of the great commonwealths of this country Control of Evansville Trrc Ilautc New York June 5The chairman of the board qtdirctors of the Evans yule Terro Haute denies having any J j knowledge of negotiations for the sale of the Evanaville Terre Haute property prop-erty to the Chicago 8 Eastern Illinois Illi-nois He said that he knew nothing to Indicate 0 transfer of control Within Interests the near future Wall street in close touch with the directors of the Ghlcago Eastern Illinois assert that there can be no doubt that the control tir the Evansvllle Terre Haute has been acquired and some of them are In aCuired accord with the writers ofdispatches from the west who seem to think that action looking to tt merger of the two ucton lookng likely to be taken at the annual Jtel the Chicago Eastern East-ern Illinois today v i SPIn AND RAIL General Superintendent A E Welby of the Rio Grande Western has returned re-turned from Denver 1 L B Carrel agent of the Unioh Pacific Pa-cific and Colorado Southern atGree clc Colo Is spending L portion of his vacation in Salt Lake A special to the Los Angeles Times states that theClark syndlcaoii i lookIng look-Ing for an outlet on the Gulfof Cali Comm a well as on San Pedro Bay The United States > vlll supply1 electric elec-tric engines says n dispatch from Vienna to the London Dally JIailr for the Mountain RaU vai betyeen Zlnal and Zairnatt The conference of western railway preslden s which wos to havebecn held In thIs city early in June has been again postponed until September The unsettled condItion of control of some of tile railroads in the West is said to be the reason for the postponement postpone-ment 2 ment l S Los Angles Times Another Santa Fe Prescott and Phoenix man to go to the new Salt Lake road William Solomon Solo-mon agent of the former company at Wlckcnburg and formerly tlcik t agent bat Prescott He will be city ticket Angeles agent of the Salt Lake 0 line In Los C R Savage official photographer for the Oregon Short Line accompanied accom-panied by C A Moody leave for Uvada tonight Before returning they propose to take a number of photographs of the work which Is being done on the extension ex-tension to the coast which are to be reproduced In Sunset and the Los Ancreles Times at an early date The news of the contemplated lease of the Santa Fe by the Union Pacific throws some light on President Burls recent trip over the proposed route of the Oregon Short Line extension to Los Angeles At the time there was considerable con-siderable comment upon the slaternent of the Union Pacific president that the proposed road would tap the Santa Fe and presumably would not build right Into Los Angeles Wyoming Press The Burlington filed an additional map covering the fifth wentyfive mile section east from the Utah Slate line in Wyoming on the 4th They aso filed three preliminary leading from point the on naps < a cast line of Sweetwater county until Green river Is reached thence north crossing Green ilver Pfar Burns thence north vest te tin head of Iloback river on their survey to Idaho via Snake river canyon The title of Daniel Willard lately assistant Islant general manager ot the B O railroad under Mr Underwood will be assistant to the president of he Erie railway Ills appointment was announced an-nounced yesterday Mr Willard will be practically in charge o the Eries operations op-erations under Mr Underwood with whom he ha long been associated General Passenger Agent Duncan G Roberts of the ErIc announced his resignation < ignation yesterday DW Cbok assistant as-sistant passenger agent has been de I cldOd upon as his successor Reno Journal The Journal learns that seventynine miles of railroad extending from San Pedro harbor to Los Angeles and Pasadena will be laid with nInetypound steel jalls Instead of fiflysixpound rails that arc now Jn use The change will be made within the next six weeks This would indicate indi-cate that thopropoaed rond to lh < iJ3ast i of which this Is a part wlf berpysHed this summer regardless the litigation that now exists between Clark and the Oregon Short Line force Senator Sena-tor Clark Is expected to arrive in Salt Lake on the 10th Jnst His presence will probably be followed active construction con-struction of the road |