Show railroad racket the of railroad officials who resign these days is quite surprising sapt baxter of the wyoming division of the union pacific has now sent in hie resignation the omaha bee comments as follows on the question it appears that the general manager wants baxters position vacated but has been at a loss to know how to accomplish com it without making trouble baxter is remarkably solid with the employees on the wyoming division and if he was ruthlessly fired it would undoubtedly arsate a nice little ansa to abert anything of this kind bes seebie wrote a letter to baxter conveying the information that president adams and vice president holcomb were after hia scalp and advising him to send in his resignation to take effect september ast 1st rea leguie also kindly advised him that this was better than being discharged and thought that it would be a nice thing for him to give it out that he resigned for the purpose of accepting a position under E D dickson on the baltimore ohio baxter however see it in that way and wrote back to mr Res segnie that he had no intention cf going into the wholesale ly ing business he positively declined to resign and stated moreover thatis they wanted to discharge him they knew how to do it this lis the story told byone of baxters most intimate friends and it is substantiated by a letter from baxter himself it is not stated who isi being groomed for baxters berth nor bow baxter incurred the displeasure b the powers that be ji A telegram from san francisco says it has been learned from official sources that the santa fe road has acquired a large tract of the cita and that it will soon erect an entrance against the great influence of the southern pacific road which controls the city exclusively it is not known which route the road will take the rio grande western is offering round trip tickets to san francisco for 53 good for six months the U P is about to lay a lot of new track in and salt lake the provo street railroad company has ordered two new motors |