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Show Railroad Notes. C. S. Fee is no doubt surprised to hear of his transfer to tho Santa Fe. Passenger Traffic Manager Fee of th Southern Pacific has returned to San Francisco from Chicago. S. D. Wine, assistant local freight agent at Chicago for the St. Paul syn-tom. syn-tom. 1b In tho city. Ho Is on his way to California for a year's vacation, but is waiting here for his wlfo. who had to return re-turn to Chicago, owing to the Illness of her fathor. C. E. Johnson of the Nlclcol Plate Is in from Denvor. E. Tears of the Vanderbllt lines Is over from Denver on business- Amonc tho railroad men In the city Is C. M. Van Law, who Is city paosenger ncent of the Missouri Pacific at Denvor. He is accompanied by his wife, and their visit is a sad one, as their son is lying at St. Mark's hospital very 111 from appendicitis. appen-dicitis. Frank Groesbeck Is welcomed home by his many friends. While away ho heard of his fathor's death In Peru, and naturally natur-ally his trip was saddened and cut short. The Southwestern Limited of tho St. Paul road Is tho bost train out of Chicago Chi-cago these duys. It Is tho now train over the cut-off to Kansas City. The Santa Fe still holds tho proud position po-sition of the lonpest railroad In tho United Unit-ed States under one distinct management. Local officials stato they havo heard nothing of any strike on tho Southorn Pacltlc. The Now York Commercial has Just found out that the Salt Lake Routo and Santa Fe havo a trackage agreement. It was rnado a year apo and covers ninety-six ninety-six miles from Daggett to Colton. A slx-mlle slx-mlle stretch of tho Southern Pacific will also bo used. Treasurer Ferd K. Rulo of tho Salt Lake Routo papscd through yesterday en routo to California. Sparks, Reno. Tonopah, Callente, four Nevada towns on the boom. Charles Parsons, once president of the R W. fc O., Is dead In New York. R. J. Laws, superintendent of the Sacramento Sac-ramento division. Southern Pacltlc, chopped dend In his car yesterday after lu-arlui: of the bad wreck on tho road. He suffered from heart disease and excitement ex-citement was tho came of his death. Tho Lucln cut-off It. paying for itsolf these days. Never as there been such a rush of traffic and via the old route tho road would have been swamped. The camp at the Vegas ranch Is becoming becom-ing pretty lively. All work on the Salt Lake Route from this end of tho line will be completed on time. , - Tho Rio Grande had a heavy westward movement yesterday. |