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Show Railroad Notes. There is talk of testing tho right of a State to Require railroads to issue' return re-turn passes for live-stock shippers, railroads entering Chicago having declined de-clined to Issue such parses in the face of obligatory State laws. R. S. Carey, route agent for the Chicago Chi-cago & Grent Western, has returned to Salt Lake from a trip in the Sanpete valley. Railroad men on the street Saturday afternoon were busy congratulating Paul Nolan, the popular secretary to Assistant General Freight Agent Der-rah, Der-rah, on his engagement. It is expected ex-pected that his marriage to Miss Lillle Pitt, eldest daughter of the late William Arthur Pitt of this city, will tuke place shortly after her return from southern California, where she has bc-en spending the winter. Consternation prevails among ticket scalpers in St Louis on account of decision de-cision of court that sale of non-transferable tickets to a, second party by scalpers or others is in violation of law, and railroads cannot bu compelled to cairy any ouo upon non-transferable tlckot except original purchaser. ScalperH declare, they will have no business during St Louin World's fair. Appointment or H. J. Horn as general gen-eral manager of the Northern Pacific is received with great favor throughout the system. Mr. Horn Is experienced In every branch of railroading. He. Is said to beiso boyish in uppcarance tlifc. not long since he was eyed susplclousiy by a conductor when Horn handed out his annual, but the conductor said nothing, noth-ing, Arriving at next station, conductor con-ductor wired General Passenger Agent Fee: "Horn's son is riding on old man's pass. What shall I do about it?" The reply came back promptly: "Pass him and say nothing about It." K. O. Keyeo, traveling freight agent for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, has returned from Idaho. H, P. Potter, Denver agent for the Erie Dispatch, arrives In Salt Lake today to-day to look after the wool traffic from Utah. He will remain here during the summer months. H. F. Curtis, general agent of the Nickel Plate road, from Omaha, Neb., Is expected to arrive here today. . Joseph Geoghegan, general sales agent of the Utah Sugar company, leaves for New York on Monday for the purpose of attending the meeting of the Western West-ern Trunk Lino association. It Js un derstood that the association Invited the f'tnh Pugar company to ?end a representative repre-sentative to the meeting. The meeting is for the purpose of discussing sugar rates. A serious problem confronts the Denver, Den-ver, Northwestern & Pacific (Moffat road) to Salt Lake City. The question Is whether to bore a four-mile tunnel through the continental divide or construct con-struct & permanent track to get over the big obstruction. A tunnel will cost a million dollars a mile, obstinate granite gran-ite being in the way. A tunnel would require three years of work, while a track over the divide could be constructed con-structed within the present year. Every argument and consideration appears to favor the tunnol, in spite of the cost. It would greatly shorten running time and save expenses of operation. E. O. McCormlck, general passenger traffic manager of the Southern Pacific railroad at San Francisco, who Is to remove to Chicago during the next few days to assume a higher position with the Harrlman syndicate, writes a friend in Salt Lake City: "While I am called from the coast, I assure you my friendship friend-ship for the West will be eternal, and trust my new field . will give me advantages ad-vantages by which I can more than ever serve the great West and the excellent ex-cellent people for whom I havo formed such an attachment."' Railroad men say that Mr. McCormlck, In the position posi-tion ho Is just vacating, has added additional ad-ditional laurels to a record of unbroken success in railroad management |