Show I I I RAILROAD NOTES I Geor George o T. T Boss Hoss who for tho the past two and a a. half years years cars has bas been een superintendent superintend superintend- ent cut of the Missouri lines linea of of tho the Bur Bur Bur- jn ton route has tendered his us resignation a. a tion lion to take effect April 1 1 lie lIo will b bp 10 succeeded by P. P II H. U Ustick tC superintendent superintendent of the Aurora division of the Burlington Mr r. r Ross was wae was formerly connected with th tb tho Great Northern aud and later ater with tho Missouri Pacific PacIfico 4 c ft w The Pennsylvania an a line lino has d discharger discharged char men mn at Pa This makes 1000 men amen that have be n laid ol off a at that point b by tho the railroad company compa since t the e 1 or ot the year Lack of business IB is given cn a as the cause 0 United States District Attorney C. C C. C Hoult of St. St Paul has 1 filed ed nino corn com plaints containing two twenty counts 3 the Great Northern for al alleged eted violation of the federal law prOVI providing that cattle in transit shall not be a al- al lo d to go o lon longer cr than thirty six hours hour without food water and r rest st st. Each Earb count is hi punish punishable b by a a. fine ne of GOO upon conviction at Plans are aro under tinder consideration by bt the officials and emploY employees of the thc Chicago o St. St Paul Minneapolis Omaha for tho the creation of a pension and death ath benefit Fund to be bc maintained by joint contributions contributions con con- of the employees and tho the company Tho Vermont ci Central has been fineda fined a 9 by Judge Holt of or the United States district court for rebating The company entered a n plea of guilty to the char charge J of having given ien a rebate on coffeo shipped from froni Boston to the T west CSt a w. w Tho rho Great Groat rC Northern system occupies an au cn enviable position in in in- rc regard ard to its arnin earnings s shown It has reported a substantial sub sub- increase of gross revenue ro forever for ever every month of this year v ar in the face of the tho most discouraging nJ general conditions condi condi- railroads have hac had bad to contend with in a decade e. e For February tho Great Northern earned which is an increase of over o the tho same month in H 1907 1007 O Tho result is of course due as much to the extremely bad bat conditions condi condi- lions met with in the tho winter inter of 1907 as ns I it is to tho the increasing business in the northwest Another gratifying ing feature it is ie that in ri the eight mOl months hs ending March farch 1 tIme the Great Northern earned ti 12 an aim increase of 6 gross ros over the tho corresponding period the previous year C Tho claim of till tho Southern Pacific company for for expenditures in ill damming and controlling tho the Colorado r river cr in th the Salton sea sink sinic overflow in southern California has been referred to a sub committee of congress re s with instructions to confer with th tho secretary of the he int in in- t tenor 4 M. M r. r E. E In Ingalls chairman of tho the board of of directors of time tho Di Big Four Tour lines ar am- I rived in Salt Lake City this morning accompanied by bj his hie family faintly traveling I in a private car Thc They will t leave leava toni to to- eIa ni night ht for the tho ca east cast t. t The party attend attend- ed a or organ an recital at th the taber- taber nudo nack at 1030 o'clock this morning 4 C The Tho stale state corporation commission of Oklahoma has jas issued an au order instructing instruct instruct- iD ing the Santa Fc Fe to restore its former passenger train service over o the East East East- err Oklahoma division of two tuio trains train each ach teh way 0 daily Jail in accordance with tho the petition filed with uc the commission by the citizens of an and Pawnee O I O a OThe The Time New York You Central has just placed an order for and 21 ton tons of ot steel rails The order for lo Jo- Jo t ill is the tho larget harget which has been Leen td received by time tIle builders since e tho the n 1 i unsettled unsettled un un- settled bu business conditions began be a 5 k M. M C IThe K JM Time The largest ar st engine ellino Sno in the tio world will shortly bo be o erected created at tho the Sharon works I of of if f f the time tho Carno Carnegie ic Steel Steel- company compan Two castings weighed US tons each utter after machining and and special flat cars cara er ere built for their transportation The Tho engine horsepower n Ue which b has bus K a capacity of 25 weighs w when H n set lIet up tons without foundation plates or fly fly fly- wheel It a horizontal twin tan tandem em mill engine with j 12 inch yn ders ers 14 u b by 50 stroke designed tu operate at 15 pounds steam pressure pressure al and d a n speed of to OO revolutions a minute I |