Show TO ATTEND BANQUET Oregon Short Line Officials Off Off- dais cals Will Wil Be Mr Harriman's Harriman's Harriman's Har- Har riman's Guests Vice-President Vice Bancroft Acting Traffic Manager Schumacher and General General General Gen Gen- eral Attorney Williams of the Oregon Short Line will wi leave for San San Francisc Francisco Francis Francis- co c tonight to attend a banquet which President E. E H. H Harriman will wl gi give e to the officials of the Southern Souther Pacific Union Pacific Oregon Short Line and Oregon Railway N Navigation com corn pany The banquet will wi be given Thursday night and a general a-general conference of all al the Harriman line Une officials will wl be held while they tire are in San Francisco Mr lr Bancroft said this afternoon that he was in lit il Ignorance as to what special subjects would be taken up but but it It-is It Is ds understood that improvements and extensions extensions ex ex- tensions of the Oregon Short Line will wi receive careful attention RAILI RAILROAD AD NOTES NOTE F. F A. A Starkweather Is the local loca general general gen sen- eral agent of the Maple Leaf succeeding succeeding succeeding suc suc- W W. H. H It Lownsberry who has been promoted to a position In Denver Denyer Two new Baldwin compound locomotives locomotives locomotives loco loco- motives for the Short Line have arrived ar- ar rived in Pocatello and will vili wi at on once e be put into service on the Idaho dl division islon The passenger department department- of the Short Line has issued a beautiful and complete folder descriptive of of the Thunder Mountain E. E P P. Turner general freight agent of the International and Great Northern North North- em ern er made a brief brie stop in town yesterday yester yester- day daz afternoon General Passenger Agent John Sebastan Sebastian Sebastian Se Se Se- bastian bastan of the Rock Island will pass through Salt Sal Lake Lak this evening on his way from the coast coat to Chicago The City Council Counci will wl tonight take up the question queston of granting a franchise to the Salt Sal Lake and Brigham City Elec- Elec Electric Electric trie railway x company If I granted the franchise i will provide e for the completion comple tion f of the e line e within ft l eighteen t months r t Pians Plans for the new shops of the G Great Geat eat Northern at St. St Paul have been filed The plans contemplate five immense buildings constructed of steel and con con- crete When fully equipped the estimated estimated esti etti- mated cOt cost Wen of the plant is Evidence of the effect of the Federal courts court's courts Injunction against the railroads railroads rail rail- ri- ri roads is found in the fact fat that since since- the he writs were issued nearly notices no no- flo- flo tices of changes in freight rates have been filed with the Western Tester Freight association The American Railway Engineering association has Jias as at last after fer long consideration consideration con con- adopted a standard length for rails rals the railway experts haying decided that a rail rai thirty thre feet four Inches in length Is the longest that can be used and this will wi be the standard in the future Since the Union Pacific railroad made madea a rule rulea a a few weeks ago that no than man man who frequented saloons while either on or off of duty could remain in Its service service service ser ser- vice a sudden decline in saloon patr patronage patron patron- nage n- n age is reported all al along along the Union Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- cic lines and at Cheyenne Wyo a center of railroad labor five twenty twenty drinking places s are re said to have have- gone out of business |