Show LINK IN THE HOFFAT ROAD Denver End of the Now Lino Provided Pro-vided For Denver Dcc 2ZThc Denver Northwestern railway today filed a cer Iflcatc of full paidup stock with the Secretary of State The certlflatc ntates hat the stock Is i placed at 6000000 of COOO shares at a par value of 100 S M Perry Is given as president and the directors as S M Perry Charles J fuijhcs Jr Gerald Hughes F A perry Cldye Turnbull Albert Smith AV G Smith Carnabcc S Stuart and John G Perry The certificate shows that nine shares very paid for In cash and 59001 shares b30 30000 shares of the common stock of the Denver Tramway company This finishes the Ilnnncing of the steam and electric road extending from Arvada to Le don which forms the entrance into Denver of the new Moffat road Feeder for tho Rio Grande Denver Dec 22The general offices of the Denver t Rio Grande railway were notified today of the completion of the North Fork branch It Is a narrow gauge road and runs from Delta north nst to Somerset a distance of 423 miles through a rich farming and fruit country coun-try Increase in Freight Rates New York Dec 22The Journal of Commerce today says For some time past reports have been current that beginning be-ginning with the first of the year railroad rail-road freight rates will be Increased on general merchandise shipments the advance ad-vance to be made not In the class rate themselves but by shifting various goods from a low to a higher class rating which ylll practically result In increased rates on merchandise It Is now stated definitely however that there will be no general Increase In rates on the 1st of the year on goods shipped at class raten Have Also Been Asked SL Paul Dec 22 Contrary to first reports the Gicat Northern and Northern North-ern Pacific railroads are among the roads that have been asked to grant increase wages to their trainmen the demands of the men having been served upon the officials of the companlca last Saturday It Is 1 understood that the roads that have been asked to make increase In-crease will act jointly upon the request nnd tint their answers will be Identical A meeting of the officials of the roads in this territory will be held In St Paul some time this week to consider local conditions The sentiment amor the managers of the roads Is that 10000 trainmen employed on lines tributary to SU Paul probably will receive the increase In-crease asked for An Interesting Woman An interestIng woman passed through on the Rio Grande the other day In the l rson of Mrs Julia Ludlow en route from Yokahama Japan to LondonEng land She IB the wife of the English Consul In Japan and Is a much traveled and talented woman 3 Thin Is her seventeenth seven-teenth trip across the oceans and the American continent her first trip to Japan beIng In 18C9 on the seventh train operated through by the Union and Central Pacific roads the lines being connected In May ISC S W Ecclcs ComingS Coming-S Traffic Manager S W Ecclca of the American Smelting and TIellnlns company com-pany Is In Denver and Is expected herein here-in a day or to Parks on Rio Grande The Rb Grande eystcm Is going to rark Its stations In Utah and Colorado CatAlpa and other trees have been contracted con-tracted for Provo and Sprlngvllle will bo the first Utah stations beautified Carpenter Changes Chicago Drc 2 Myron Jay Carpenter who has been president of the Chicago Eastern Jlllnol railroad for the last ten t yearn has resigned to accept the position posi-tion of vIccproflMcnt and general manager mana-ger of the Pere Manjuetto system Railroad Notes C O Ulckey who was formerly car accountant for the Oregon Short Line In this city but who for some years past hps been transportation agent for the Wyoming division of the Union Pacific Pa-cific IB In Salt Lake visiting old friend At the Union Pacific ticket office In this city It was reported yesterday that the train were getting In only two hours late and that the now blockade was practically off Pa scngcr traffic was reported to be In much bolter ron diLlon than It had ben for Borne days previous A large number of delayed trains got In yesterday n LJ4 rn I U l 1 I1 JI d |