Show ANOTHER CUTOFF Union Pacific to Build Line and Bridge at Fort Steele Laramla Wyo Aug 5It Is announced an-nounced here that the Union Pacific is about to commence work on another cutoff on the Wyoming division rho reconstruction will he In the vicinity of Fort Steele and the new line vlll be about five miles long Tho work Mlll necessitate the building of a new bridge across the Platte river at Fort Steele and the building of a new icpot as the new line will pass through the town on the opposllo side from its presont line The exact details arc not obtainable but It Is said the new line Mill do away Mllh some heavy grades and will also shorten the distance Canadian Pacific Strike Winnipeg Manitoba Aug 6The stilkers met today and passed resolu tons asking citizens not to patronize the Canadian Pacific trains excursions etc A committee was also appointed to walt on Caterers whose annual excursion ex-cursion to Rat Portage requiring five trains Is l to be hell Thursday next asking hat 1 It be canceled Other railway rail-way orders exercise strrng feeling In favor of the strikers and all have recently re-cently held secret meetings The ccnty mcetngs company com-pany has Issued a circular stating Its side of the case This was sent to provincial pro-vincial points and will not be made public silent until tomorrow Officials are Kinneys Alaska Road The plans for the new Chilkool railway rail-way arc beginning to assume definite and tangible form us Is evidenced by the aggrosshc steps now being taken by I the Lynn Canal Shore line which will connect the terminal of the Chil kool I road with Skaguay A trip was made yesterday by the directors of this now road on the steamer Mabel for the purpose of inspecting the survey o the proposed line L D Kinney formerly for-merly of Salt Lake Is I named as the promoter of the on lerprlse Skaguay Alaska Budget O R C Outing The Order of Railway Conductors and Its womens auxiliary wIH give a great excursion to the Salt Palace on Monday August 13lh They wIll be at the resort all day and evening and arc preparing a rare programme of sports and amusements I Is expected to have the popular O II C boys from Uvnda to PocatcIIo come down and Join the fun and n big time is 1 expected ex-pected Railroad Notes L G Cannon left for Denver on No 1 last night The Union Paclfio has ordered 300 furniture cars H W Sheridan has been made trainmaster train-master of the Union Pacific at Green River The Oregon Short Line has an excursion > I excur-sion from Butlc on Thursday Which will i ahummer I I Traffic Manager S II Babcock of tho Rio Grande Western has returned from j n business trip east I Dupuy seems to be shaking up Joe I I Islandss bOle The latest resignation Is i that of Chief I Engineer Smith who Is succeeded by H E Fcrnstonne of th 1Si Maple Leaf The Colorado Midland will soon cs Uiblloh t general and traveling agents atm at-m t of the great commercial centers George H Lavldge chief clurk In the office of F B Southard auditor of passenger pas-senger accounts Union Pacific IB In the city on a short vacation trip On Tuesday next a party of Boston newspaper men part of the Great Eastern East-ern Press association will arrive over the Western for n brief stay here IOn I-On August 8th the Rio Grando Western West-ern operates an excursion to Castillo special leaving here at 815 a m and returning to leave Costllla at 1030 p nV On the same date the locomotive engineers come from Ogden to go to Saltalr I Tho anticigarette movement which the Rock Island may lake the credit for Inaugurating Is spreading On Union Pacific and Lake Erie Western some officials have Issued orders making ma-king cigarette smoking n positive bar to employment Chief Clerk G K Smith of the vice presidents ofilce Oregon Short Line returned yesterday from Montreal where he vas called by the death of his mother Irs David Smith She was 7 years of ago and died on July 20th Mr Smith has the sympathy of all his fellow clerks and officials YlcePresldent Bancroft General Superintendent Su-perintendent Calvin and General Traffic Manager Eccles have returned from a business trip In Montana As they came down they stopped over Sun ant a-nt the new log house Mr Ecclcs has recently had built nt Island Park and the officials were delighted with tho country That section o Idaho Is ono of the prettiest places in the whole Slate The Railway Age has taken up the matter of the longest road which was discussed with figures In this column some lime ago Tho VanderbIlt lines are given ns one system while the Gould system is not In the Ages table The Southwest system of connecting roads of which Gould Is the head represents rep-resents 7707 and If the Central Includes the Big Four and the Boston Albany It Is unfair to relegate the Missouri Pacific to twelfth place when the Gould lines should have ninth place |