Show NO TRUTH IN RUMOR i Union Pacific Not Negotiating for Purchase of the San Pedro TRIBUNE SPECIAL New York Sept 3Unlon Pacific representatives are noncommittal regarding re-garding the rumor that Chairman Harriman Har-riman and his associates have negotiated nego-tiated or are negotiating for the purchase I pur-chase of the new San Pedro Los Angeles An-geles Salt Liike railroad which was organized by Senator W A Clark of jMontana In conjunction with other capitalist New York friends of Senator Clark j cay there Is no truth In the rumor Investigating the Strike Topeka Kan Sept 21 Lee Johnson State Labor Commissioner for Kansas Is Interesting himself In the Union Pacific Pa-cific strike of the boilermakers machinists ma-chinists nnd helpers and with J R Conlon first vicepresident of the International In-ternational Association of Machinists and other officials oT the union Is I trying try-Ing to bring about a i settlement of the t strike Conlons headquarters arc In Cleveland but he was sent west to represent rep-resent the grand lodge of the machinists machin-ists In the Union Pacific trouble Hailroad Notes Trains arc very late T M Schumacher is back R F Neslen has gone north Attorney C O Whlttcmore of the San Pedro Is In Plochc The N C O Is going Into Oregon surely this coming spring Over the route via Thistle the Rio i I Grande will save exactly 381 I miles on the Salina cutoff Fred C Neesly formerly with the Rio Grande has succeeded E L Flynn on the Missouri Pacific at Portland Or Broadgauge trains will not run to and from Terminus for conference as tracklaylng has been delayed by the graders The Saltalr executive committee Is having surveys made by Doremus Kelsey to determine Improvements to bo made In the retort Colorado Is I taking UP tho scheme of Salt Lake carried out years ago when a Utah car made the tour of the East The Colorado people will send out a whole train everything grown In Lolo rado from the locomotive to the roar platform A paragraph Is going the rounds of the technical press that a new car Is in tho sL Charles shops for the use of Ir Gould The car was finished a i month ago and was used by Mr Gould on his recent lour of his lines In the I West It la I the Atalanta I |