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Show eittfT BUG AFTER MI'S SCALP War to the Knife, the Knife to the Hilt, in Illinois Central Circles. CHICAGO, April 24. As a part of its desperate fight to prevent cxposuro, It was said yesterday the graft ring that has looted the Illinois Central railroad of millions of dollars is conducting a, cross-tiro investigation In thc hopo of involving in-volving and ousting President llarahan and the officials who aro running down the ring's peculations. This was tho explanation given yesterday yes-terday of tho delay In tho promised arrests ar-rests and also of thc mysterious investigation investi-gation being conducted by the McOulro & White detective ngency. Tho inquiry directed by President ITnr-ahan ITnr-ahan Is being carried on by tho Burns and Sheridan agencies. Tlie McGulro & White Inquiry is aimed directly at President ITarahan, and, according ac-cording to an executive, this investigation is being made on behalf of a faction of thc board of directors of the Illinois Ccu-tral. Ccu-tral. which is declared to be unfriendly to tho Harahan administration. Its purposo pur-poso hns been to search for facts which, f proved rrue, might place Mr. llarahan in an embarrassing position beforo the board. A special Inquiry has been made to ascertain if Mr. Harahan Is financially Interested in any of thc concerns which make heavy sales of supplies to the 11U-nois 11U-nois Central, Vick Roy Is a President. Another student and graduuto of thc Utah school of railroading Is A. F. Vick Roy. superintendent of the Colorado division, di-vision, Union Pacific, and formerly well known In this city, Ogden and Pocatello. He Is now president of tho Union Depot and Railway company of Denver. As one local railroader remarked Sunday; "You will find the old Salt Lake crowd from New York to San Francisco. They aro building tho Grand Trunk Pacific and working out linos in Peru and Mexico." Derrah Off to Denver. S. V. Derrah. aislstant general froight agent of tho Rio Drandc and the local traffic head of the Western Pacific. icri tor ionver on o. z aunaay, oeing called there for a conference with general gen-eral traffic officials. At the station prior to ills departuro Mr. Derrah stated that ho had nothing to communicate In the way of news. Worsley Back to Eio Grande. F. J I. Worsley, recently reslgnod from the Salt Lake & Ogden, will, this morning, morn-ing, accept a position in the general traffic department of tho Gould lines under Chief Clerk Dewey in the traffic headquarters In tho Judge building. Mr. WorHley has many friends who will be glad to welcome him back to the Rio Grande. Eallro&d Kotos. Sunday was Ideal and the first outings of the year were enjoyed, both lines handling an unusually large traffic The National Copper bank was responsible re-sponsible for much interest to passers-by passers-by on West Second South Sunday. A car containing tho immense top of thc new steel vault had been received on the Oregon Short Lino tracks and It look a lmlf dozen men and two teams to get It off tho car and on a truck lo be hauled to the Newhousc building. The Rio Grande employees publish at Pueblo tlie Scenic Monthly. It Is a very newsy magazine and filled with gosslpy paragraphs about tho boys on all divisions. divi-sions. The last number has a picture and description of tho new Salt JLake station which Is tho finest on tho whole system. It is estimated that the railroad payrolls pay-rolls each month of the Utah lines amounts to more than a million. A class for firemen to bo examined for promotion has been conducted on thc Rio Grande. J. M. Morris, known as "Genial Jim." and the second oldest conductor of the Rio Grande In Utah, has been on a sixty-day sixty-day leave through tho Southern states. Tho Tintio branch Is being steadiiv improved. Tho train is arriving on time at Eureka nightly. President Mohler gets off a good one In denying the foolish story that the shops wero to be moved from Cheyenne to Denver. He says: "It has never been considered by the Union Pacific. It has been entirely literary so far." This ought to hold Denver for a Uttlo while. Tlie Oregon Short Line announces excursion ex-cursion round trips May 2S lo June S to San Francisco, ?30; to Portland. 531.50; lo Seattle, ?42. |