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Show BURT GETS $100,000 FROM THE RUSSIAWS Horace G. Burt, late president of the Union Pacific, who recently resigned as bead of that road and went to the Orient' on an alleged pleasure trip. Is to receive $100,000 from the Russian Government for making an expert report on the needed Improvements for the trans-Siberian and Orenburg and Tashkend railway. The position was tendered Mr. Burt through Count Cassinl, the Russia Embassador. Em-bassador. The problem of building around Lake Baikal will be considered, as also the improvement of the alignment of the Siberian road, and a shortening of the Orenburg-Tashkend line. |