Show RAILROAD NOTES The Tho city cit ticket office of the Oregon Short Line is bein being kept busy selling tickets for the tho excursion to San Francisco Fran Fran- cisco The tickets are all dated May 2 and are arc good going until the It was the original intention to sell tickets only onh- on tho the day they were dated but fearing earin a beM heavy rush it was decided to put the tho tickets on sale salo several sev sev- eral oral days J JHarry in ad advance nc It Harry Cushi Gushing n g traveling g passenger a agent ent for tho the Rio Grande Western left last night for Colorado Springs where ho will mIl meet a party part of six nurses n who are on their way war to San Francisco service the tho where they will ill do tIe during visit of oC the tho fleet ery E Every part of the So Southern thern Pacific shops at t Sparks l c will resume operations next Monday after a partial shut down of several weeks About men will be affected C S C CFred Fred Knickerbocker private ate te secretary secre tary to William H. H Bancroft left last ni night ht for or Los An Angeles eles ho will join his hiR family who have havo avo been visiting in 10 southern California for about lt three months mouths Mr Knickerbocker will return to Salt Lake Cit City with his family via San Francisco in time to take in the visit of the tho Atlantic fleet feet at the bay city C C J. J F. F Doolittle general agent for the Rock Hock Island left for Denver this morning mornin on business C C C The local offices of the tile Colorado Midland and tho the Burlington are now located in in tho the Railroad Exchange e build build build- ing If C C General Superintendent E. E Stenger of the Rio Bio Grand Grande Western re returned UrnEl last night from a business trip to Denver Den If Waldo T. T McDonald whose hose funeral l was as held yesterday afternoon was for over two years an employee of the thc Rio Eio Grande Western having joined the local freight office force in 1905 going to the tho Rio Grande from the Rock Island system tn Mr Ir McDonald was one of the organizers of local No 79 of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks and was held in hi high h esteem bj bj- the tho order Last November he was compelled to resign his position on account of ill health Ho He went to Arizona where ho remained until two t weeks ago o. when he be returned to this city I in iu a 3 dying yin condition Mr Ir McDonald is is survived sUl by his hia wife I I whom he married in this city less than thana a a. year ago a mother two brothers and three sisters Roads running cast east from Chicago seem to bo ho all at sea re regarding arding the policy to be bo adopted on the testing of tho the tho constitutionality of tho the cent 2 m max maximum x passenger rate laws s passed by many of the tho states tates The matter was as taken out of tho the hands of the tho passenger gem ger er officials by the executive officers some sonie time ago II The Thc passenger er men claim that tho the experience of the last six months has demonstrated clearly that no difficulty would be experienced in defeating the tho laws were the matter to be presented properly to the federal courts Revenues derived from pas enger en- en ger gem sources wore not sufficient to pay the tho expenses thereof and a leave e a reasonable rea rca return to the tho investors in railroad rail road properties The Tho passenger la m men mn n claim that it is not their figures that they ther rely upon to make this showing but those collected and disseminated by the rn railroad commissions of the states slates Why Wh- the executive officers he hesitate the passenger men mon declare they ther do not understand It may bo be they are afraid to arouse further hOlit hostility which might be expected through h further urther lc leg legislation rc regarding frei freight ht rates It is generally understood that all the class rates in iii freight ht will be he advanced 03 by the eastern lines before Jul July 1 Notices have havo been sent lent out dut bv by the tho state board of railway and warehouse commissioners cominis ion rs of Missouri I to all railroad rail road companies doing business in state that any attempt to put in switching switching switch switch- in ing charges charles without giving in i the twenty days days' notice re required by law by po posting posting post post- t. t ing same sarno in depots and filing lin with the board will be promptly proceeded against by the board and ana all tho the penalties penalties penal penal- ties tICS of tho the law will rill be invoked to punish punish pun punY ish them This notice grows out of tho the late order order or or- der of the board abolishing the car rental charges All of the companies notified the board of their acc tanco of the abolishment of th the car rental but today there was a complaint filed tiled from Kansas City the burden of which was that several se roads there have put in in an increased switching charge e effective effective ef eft ef- ef ve last l Friday that more than recoups re ro coups them for the car rental charS charge The Thc notices sent out yesterday will reach tho the roads on Monday Monlay and ana those who bo ignore ore it will be promptly proceeded pro pro- ceede a against n It Some Somo of tho the eastern roads are said to tobe tobe tobe be working out a system whereby the National Educational association not only will be given iven a rate of 1 cents a mile milo for the tho round trip for the tho annual convention which is to 10 be held this year at Cleveland but will continue to rece receive c the 2 2 membership f fee e which the roads in past years collected for br it without comin coming in conflict with the ruling rule rul in ing of the the- interstate commerce commission com corn mission that it is me illegal 31 for lor th tb the roads to collect this fee in connection with the uso use of tickets and then thou turn over oyer tho the amount mount thus collected in in a gross grose sum to the association C The executive committee of th the Western West cm ern Pa Passenger sen er association has rc recommended m mended tho the abolition of the double contract contract con can tract form of tickets now ll used d in in connection con can connection with excursion business It also al also so has recommended the abolition t of ot the office ollice of joint agent at all except t a afew afew i few of the Jar larger Jarger er cities citie such as Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- ca cago o St. St Louis Loui Kansas City Omaha and St. St Paul hould Should the recommendations be adopt adopted cd excursion tickets no nolon lon longer er will vill require validation at any point there is no joint 3 agent ent The interstate commerce commission ioD in the CK eases es of Glenn W. W Traer re receiver receiver reo re- of the Illinois Collieries crie earn corn pany 3 against the Alton the Peoria ia fis St. St Louis Railway Company of Illinois and the thelmo same complainant a against t the tho e Illinois Central has bas decided that fuel tuel is JS necessary and essential to the operation opera operation tion of a railroad au aud auti the fI right bt of ot a J I carrier to contract for or II the purchase orits or ot its fuel tuel supply with one mine or witha with a number of mines must be conceded but if it a n carrier and a amino mine mino owner make a contract for the fuel supply of ot tho the carrier which does violence to the act to re regulate commerce or to the decisions de decisions of the tho court or is ii opposed to 0 public policy they are re in in no better position po position I I than the parties to any r contract which violates the tho lc legal l principles pun prin relating thereto A earner came cannot can un cannot not inject illegality in in such contract 0 ol oz and and- have bayo it upheld on the ground comp compelling necessity t f In these cases tho the commission is 25 O 0 oi the oJ opinion that as to the privately y rule laid down owned or leased cars care the b by tho the commission in the railroad com commission commission cor I mission of Ohio ease case should app apply f I Defendants I the and that cars used by upon their own lines for tor transportation of their own necessary fuel supplY pis pa bo ho given in any numbers numbers to the ho mine or VT ormine I mines mine from Which supply is receive received but if such mine mino or mines also any the IP t. t I bt 1 plied ma maor or mines minei Ad S |