Show n f Ew G i ACCOUNTANT F F Clayton Goes to the r Salt Lake Road Ii i r KIMERER IS ADVANCED t > L Short Line Chief Clerk Gets i Good Office 1 Announcement Yesterday That He Would Havo the Place and Kim I I I orer Would Succeed Him I F F Clayton has been named car accountant of the San Pedro Los Angeles An-geles Salt Lake He will assume his duties on July 1st when the Salt Lake road takes over the Short Line Mr Clayton is al present the chief clerk In the ounce of Car Accountant Brewer of I the Short Line and has made an enviable envi-able reputation In thal branch of the operating department He wan In tho Union Pacific car service ofllce before coming to Salt Lake In 1S07 and for n short time ho was chief clerk In tho ofllcc of J II Young when the latter I was superintendent of the Utah division i di-vision His successor as chief clerk In lur I Brewers ofllce will be C L KImerer who Is at present In the ofllce as one of the clerks and who Is well versed In all the Intricacies of cartracing and I kindred work The changes will give general J satisfaction to all concerned and the friends of the two youimmen will be Glad to know of their advancement advance-ment Northern Securities Case j SL Paul June 11M D Munn special spe-cial attorney for the Stole continued his argument today in the suit against the Northern Securities company arguing argu-ing that the acts of a corporation cannot he disassociated l from those of Its stockholders by way of showing that the corporations of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific have virtually agreed to a merging of their control The socalled merger ssns described de-scribed as being practically a voting I trust In which the president of the Great Northern and tho vicepresident of the Northern Pacific arc the dominating dom-inating characters Coal Roads Hearing New York June HThe Interstate Commerce commission resumed Its hearing on the complaint against the + coalcarrying roads today W A Marshall Mar-shall of the firm of Righter Marshall coal dealers In this city Boston and Philadelphia was called and said it I was usual when the price of coal was I low at tidewater for the ralhoad company I com-pany to make a monthly adjustment ot I the freight rates so that the agent might make a profit on the transaction Since March 1 1001 there had been no > deviation from the schedule rate at 155 I 1 per ton free on board i i i Hill Is Pleased New York June 11 James J Hill j president of the Great Northern rall rood and Northern Securities company I who has Just returned from an Inspection J Inspec-tion tour In the far West ways according accord-Ing to the Herald that he never has y found fundamental business conditions 1 more promising I I cannot say that I have ever seen = the crops of the Northwest In a more flourishing condition at this season 1 not for twenty years at any rate he r j said All tho railroads have come to satisfactory understandings with their 11 employees and I look for no more trou trou m Railroad Notes r Over eleven miles on the Malad line at The Leamington cutoff is nearing y completion II The Salt Lake road Is making things hum Just as it was promised long ago I that It would A man who does not believe i be-lieve In the road nowadays Is very hard to find ti |