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Show SALOON CONDITIONS DELAY SHIPMENTS U. P. Head Causes Wyoming Governor to Ask Mayors to Close Bars at 9 o'clock. Special to The Tribune. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov. 23. The plea of Vice PresideDt and General Manager V. M. Jeffers of the Union Pacific Eailroad company that saloon conditions at Laramie, Rawlins, G'een River and Evanston, freight division points on the Union Pacific in this state, are causing serious delays to shipments of freight, much of which freight is material needed by the United States government for its war programme, today caused Governor Frank L. Houx to" address to the mayors may-ors of the towns named a letter urging that hereafter the saloons be closed at 9 p. m. and kept closed until 7 a. ni. Inasmuch as the governor's letter is backed by the veiled suggestion from Union Pacific officials that unless the action suggested is taken at once the four towns indicated will be abandoned as division points results are expected to be forthcoming immediatelv. Vice President Jeffers calJeJ on Governor Gov-ernor Houx personally, having come from Omaha for that purpose, and represented rep-resented tnat liquor: conditions at Laramie, Lara-mie, Rawlins, Evanston and Green River were such that many of the employees em-ployees of the Union Pacific iu its train service frequentlv were unable to report for duty, and that, in consequence, freight "shipments were seriously, delayed. de-layed. Whole trains of freight, he stated, had been tied up in the yards of Wyoming division points becauso trainmen, when called for duty, were incapacitated by liquor from responding. respond-ing. Governor Houx 's letter to the mayors of the four towns named frankly admits that he is without authoritv to compel the saloons to close during tfie hours suggested sug-gested by Jeffers, but appeals to the mayors and town councils on moral, patriotic, pa-triotic, and municipal interest grounds to pass the ordinances necessary to curb the liquor evil. |