Show Railroad Notes L L Downing of the St Paul is up north Chief Surgeon OConnor of the Rio Grande is in town Frisco telegraphers have secured a 1C per cent Increase General Superintendent E E Calvin and Superintendent J H Young are at Cnllentes Two brlff t sessions of the Transcontinental Transcon-tinental Freight bureau were held in Portland yesterday E P Ripley denies that the Santa Fe wants the Mexican Central lie is in Santa Barbara for the winter Will McKcllar who for a long time was In tho Rio Grande accounting department de-partment hns accepted the position of contracting freight agent of the Lako ShOMiat San Francisco A lp Simmons of Simmons Mar ster of Boston New England passenger passen-ger agents of the Rutland and Lehlgh Valley roads has been in the city for a couple of days lie Is arranging for a series of Pacific coast e excursions and Salt Lake is to Included In the Itinerary These New EnglandCali fornia excursions have been very popular pop-ular and the RutlandLehIgh Valley combination ought to prove a great success R W Blair attorney for the Kansas division oc tho Union Pacific and Claim Adjuster J B McCracken of Ogden were in the city yesterday having just returned from Idaho There they were looking Into aolalm for damages against the road arising Kansas Mr Blair started for Kansas last night According Ac-cording Mr McCracken his road paya out something like 100000 every year for the settlement of damage claims and this is a very small percentage of the amount demanded by people who think they arc entitled to compensation from the company |