Show RAILROAD INFORMATION Accor According to reports from Little Rock II passenger rates In Iii Arkansas are to bo In Increased increased In- In creased created from 2 Z cents a mile to 3 cents Large increases Increase In freight rates were re recently re- re made Th These so changes chang s are the re result rc- rc suit sult of tho the enjoining the railroad I commission from Crom putting into effect carthin certain certain car car- tain thin rates Tho The new rates will v be In effect pending the final hearing of oC the case V to ThE Tho Alabama Tennessee Northern Is in tho the market for tor tons of ot pound 60 rails raUs S S S The transcontinental lines ha have decided de I to mak makA a round trip rate of 50 50 from St. St I Paul lInn Minn and Missouri rl river r points for tor forthe forthe the Alaska Alaska- Yukon Alaska Yukon exposition at nt Seattle next summer I S S 0 o The following railroads after pleading guilty were lined In tho the United States district court at Lea en Leavenworth orth Kan Han for tor violating the hour 28 live stock law Atchison Atchi- Atchi son son Topeka Santa Fe on three thre counts Chicago Rock Island fc Pacific 68 O on three fifty counts Northern Pa Pa- Pa eRic on four our counts and St S1 Louis Louts San Francisco 1100 on eleven en counts S S The Chicago Milwaukee St St. Paul Is Isto Isto isto to place contracts for Cor fifty prairie engines S S The Chicago Rock Island Pacific is I in tho the market for sixty locomotives o to The Chicago Northwestern has or ordered ordered or- or dered dared fifteen Atlantic locomotives from the American Locomotive and has also ordered twenty-five twenty wheel ten an and fifteen wheel six switch engines i 5 S S The Chicago Milwaukee St St. Paul Ppul has ordered the tho building of or box hox cars of forty tons capacity in Its Us Milwaukee shops The bolsters trucks truels and willbe will l be built by tho the Bettendorf Axle company The Chicago Alton will soon goon be in the market for tor twenty consolidation locomotives locomotives tives tires and later expects to buy ten addItional additional addi addI- locomotives live Il of oC the latter to bo be switch engines S S S Chicago Milwaukee St. St Paul Paul Paul- Newspaper reports sa say eay that engineers of ot the Port Angeles Railway Terminal company compan are surveying eastward from Port Angeles Wash Vash to toward ard Port Lud- Lud low about forty five miles The preliminary preliminary nar nary surveys CYS are aro said to bo about halt half finished I and It Is expected that tho the bention location ben loca tion surveys will bo be under wa way about tho the middle of or this month S S The Chicago Milwaukee St. St Paul is said to have o decided that vh when n its Pacific extension is completed the company will file llIe tariffs showing separately Its rail rai ami and steamship rates on oriental business s The Canadian Pacific It is Ial said Is about to todo todo todo I do tho the same S S S The Tho New eW York Tribune publishes a dispatch dispatch dis dis- patch from Pekin China which says sal's that 1 negotiations are under wa way for tor a loan ioan of b by the government so for a 11 redemption of tho the b bonds of thy tho Pc- Pc kin railroad Final decision has been reserved but a D. domestic loan Joan of has haa been author author- S S S Denver Colo The rho The Union Pacific the tho Burlington ton tho the Colorado Southern and the Desirer Denver Northwestern Pacific have o approved plans and tire asking bids for building the Twentieth street viaduct The Tho laduc ladue Is to be completed by JuI July 1 1309 03 an and w. w require tons of steel S S S Georgia Southwestern GlI Gulf Con Con Con Contracts Contracts I tracts It Is 18 said will be bo let by this compan company com corn pan pany during November or December for or I building part of its proposed line Tho The projected route Is IJ from Albany Alban t. t Ga southwest via and I Ga and Marlanna Marianna Fla Fin to St. St Andrews Andrewa bay on the Gulf of Mexico I about miles The necessary capital to finance the project project project pro pro- Is said to have been secured S 9 0 to The Harbor Land Lumber company Manitou Island Mich lIch has ordered OO 00 tons of heavy 1 rails raila from rom the Illinois Steel company for tor immediate delivery S S S Tho The Harriman lines have ha ordered from the Pullman company one seventy steel coaches tl seven seventy steel baggage gage cars ten ton steel chair cars eleven en steel pos postal t. I cars card nine steel postal storage cars thirty steel diners and twelve steel 11 combination passenger and mall mail cars S S The Illinois Central has haa ordered fifty ton ton all steel drop rop bottom gondola cars from tho the Cambria Steel company compan 0 0 5 I IThe The Illinois Steel company has orders from tho Illinois Central for 2000 lC kegs bs of ot I spikes from the Missouri Pacific for 2000 I kegs from the tho Sou Southern thorn Pacific for Cor 1 tons of or continuous rail raU joints S S S Idaho Northern Tho The completed line of I this company compan will be turned over o to tho the opera operating tins department about the middle of ot January Januar 1909 Tho line Une Is It being built from Ida to a point east enst of or Murray Murray Mur Mur- ra ray to furnish transportation facilities to the mining country In iii the Murray district of or the Coeur dAlene lAlene S S S International of New Brunswick Tho Tho Dominion government go has granted ranted a n. subsidy sub sub- sid sidy eldy contract to this company for building a line from Campbellton N. N n. n B. B to St St. Leonards s on the St. St John river r about ninety miles It Is 18 Intended to complete completo the tho grading on tho the extension this fall tall Tho The work ork Is being carried carrle on from both ends a considerable portion of oC tho the track having ha been laid lair |