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Show 1 CSNDERS , An engine and eight ears overturned, no one hurt ami trallie. delayed, was the result of running into an open switch Saturday on the Southern Pacific five miles east of Cob re, where the Nevada Northern branches off. It was an east-bound east-bound freight that made, the jump and it delayed No. 0 passenger nine hours. W. S. R'issiuger. assistant general passenger pas-senger agent, of Hie Union Pacific in Omaha, is in Rail. Lake. Two prominent Englishmen were, the guests of Kenneth Kerr of the local office of-fice of the Salt Lake I?outo Saturday. John Campbell Gardner, graduato of Cambridge. England, Whit worth exhibitioner exhib-itioner and a Carnegie research scholar and engineer, was one the gnosis, and the other was Achilla Dazire, an English Eng-lish capitalist, who is making his seventh sev-enth visit to America. At noon Saturday tho (racks of IJie Utah Light. & Railway company on State road between Fourteenth South and Sixteenth Six-teenth Sunt li streets worn turned over to the operating department as complete. com-plete. Tho track from Sixteenth South street to the crock at tho foot, of Murray Mur-ray hill will probably bo completed within another week, dust as soon as this stretch of tra'ck is in good shape tho line to Sandy will be. undertaken ami work will be "pushed throughout the winter. Colonel E. M". iTTcigho, a leading citizen cit-izen of Weiser. Ida., and vice-president and general manager of the Pacific, Idaho it Northern railroad, commonly known as the "Pin" road, arrived in Salt. Lake Saturday. The colonel says that 'JOO.OOD apple trees have been set out iu the Council vallej' that his road talis one of the very best fruit sections sec-tions of Tdaho, and from this ho figures fig-ures that his road will within five years have at least 2,000 cars of apples "to haul, to say nothing of other traffic, traf-fic, lie is slaying at the Knufsford. J. T. Dyer, stmcrintcndonl of telegraph tele-graph on Ihe Sail Lake Koute, has arrived ar-rived in Sail Lake and is staying at the Wilson hotel. Reports from Texas indicate that the International & Croat Northern has been running four special cotton trains daiby, averaging twenty cars lo- tho train, during October, and that approximately approxi-mately jJOOO bales a day have bnou hauled by this road to Galveston. Tho record day was S000 bales. Cotton raisers rais-ers am anxious 1o got their crops to market during the prevalenco of the high prices. Omaha's Union station is lo be enlarged en-larged and improved at a cost of $1UU,-0U0. $1UU,-0U0. the railroads interested having finally arrived at an agreement for lh.it miniime Owing lo the scarcity of labor in western Canada tho Grand Trunk Pacific Pa-cific track-laying machine has been lying ly-ing idle at ifolvillc for a month. Approximately :?2r,U0O,000 has been paid out by the Pennsylvania Railroad Employes' itelicf fund in tho past twen-ty-t,hreo years. For September, tho benefits amounted to $1J7,0H. The. Frankfort & Cincinnati has been transferred to -the Louisville & Nashville, Nash-ville, and $100,000 of bonded indebtedness indebted-ness assumed, despite objections of business busi-ness organizations that it was a merger merg-er of competing lines. Having determined 1)3 running a test train that supposititious objections lo all steel pasHonger car; aro without foundation. foun-dation. I ho St. Paul has decided lo adopt them, replacing all its passenger erpiipincut with that kind as fast aa il is worn out. On Ihe strength of favorable. Tcporfs from engineering experts tho Canadian Pacific, will electrify its branch into Phoenix, li. C. The Groat Northern shops at Everett and Hillyard, Wash., arc to bo enlarged and their eapacitv increased at a cost of $1,000,000 to make repairs with greater great-er facility. Harry W. Fuller, passenger traffic niaiia"er of fhu Chesapeake & Ohio, and J. If. Wood, passenger traffic manager man-ager of the Pennsylvania, aro now tho only survivors of those who were tho first members of the Trunk Lino passenger pas-senger committee. Mr. Wood is 00 years ojd and Mr. Fuller only a few years hio junior. Hot h men arc still active and as aggressive as ever in tho discharge dis-charge of their duties?. Tho Chicago. Milwaukee it Pugct Sound (St. Paul) Railroad company I has filed a petition with tho state railroad commission of Washington, asking it to require the Northern Pacific to continue to interchange cars and to maintain a physical connection .with it at Taooma. It states that: the Northern Pacific has given notice that no further intrrehungo under tho present pres-ent arrangement, will bo permitted, and that the Northern Pacific- is frying to compel the St. Paul to use the tracks of another company than tho Northern Pacific, supposedly the Tacoma Eastern. The SI. Paul has also filed a petition with the commission lo rotiuiro the Great- Northern to make physical connection con-nection and interchange cars with it in Seattle. Reports from tho western, end of the now transcontinental stalo thai; the Grand Trunk Pacific is now finished to tho Pembina river, about sixty miles west of Edmonton. Trains are now busy carrying in material for the construction construc-tion of tho big bridge over I his river. Tlio Uoseoo, Snyder it Pacific has been completed as far northwest as Fluvanna, Fluvan-na, which will bo its terminus for tho present. Under a now system effectivo November Novem-ber 1 on the Northern Pacific, no two trains on the entiro system will have tho name immoral. It provides for 1000 numborB, a certain series being assigned to each division. C. A. Morse, chief engineer of the bant Fe at. Topeka, has boon given jurisdiction jur-isdiction ovor the eufiro svstem, with headquarters in Chicago, in 'place, of W. E. Storey, promoted. Florian Cox. paymaster and purchasing purchas-ing agent of the Louisville, llesidorson & St. Lohis. has resigned, effective .January .Jan-uary 1, ainl will be suceoediMl by F. IV Ferry, agent of the company at Clov erport. It is understood that tho western rail-ways rail-ways plan a discontinuance of I ho .10 per cent reduction in rates on goods returned to manufacturers as imsnlabHu. |