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Show SOME RAILROAD NEWS. Mlrablle dlctu! There Is always something new under the sun. Here we have been told by railway men for eyars that It is wrong for one man to sign another man's name to a railroad ticket, yet strango to relate Truth hay seen a ticket seller compel a person to do that same thing to validate a bit of transportation. A man called at a certain ticket office Monday last to buy a ticket for a friend. Of course tho friend wasn't present. When he had purchased the ticket tho agent insisted in-sisted that he sign It. "But It Is not for me," he protested, "It is for a friend of mine." "Sign his name tton," said the agent. "But It will not bo right," protested protest-ed tho purchaser. "And your conductor con-ductor has the right, or you claim he has, to compel every passenger to Identify himself by writing his name Suppose I sign my friend's name and this action is demanded by your conductor? con-ductor? He will readily see that the signature is not his, and may cause trouble." But in spite of these "cogent reasons that ticket agent compelled the purchaser pur-chaser to sign the other man's name. Now, if It Is forgery to write another man's name on a ticket bought from a broker, what is the matter with Its being forgery to write said name on an original ticket? Will some one answer, please? And if the man riding rid-ing on the ticket mentioned above was called upon to write his name and tho conductor wasn't satisfied and ejected him from the train, would the poor devil have any recourse at law, tho contract on the ticket statins f that the agent has no povertnT ih the conditions thereof? altet r ,w,n, fpme person other "than m I ? wicked ticket brokers in thi vlclmtv I please answer? "unity . a A report of the industrial ,u V ment of the Lackawanna or the f' 1 904 states that 3G5 new iiulusSeS M factories were located alone ti nl M during that time. These will g vl t 1 Ployment o 3 200 people besides to creasing the freight and imsTeiC I l traffic. All these factories haveZn provide with switches and Z facilities. Now that Is the o f o I work tho railroads running through ' Utah ought to engage in. It ls maif 1 facturing that builds up states Z B ! people who work are tho ones who B j spend the money. Let tho 0 S I B and the R. G. W. and the other line, H establish Industrial departments and B work them for all there is in it, H Tho Union Pacific, the Oregon Rail- B way & Navigation Co.. and the South- H em Pacific will establish 657 miles oi B block signal stations this year tw. H same being as follows, as pertains to B the Union Pacific: Gilmore to Val- H ley, 22.68 miles; Buford to Hermosa B 7.10 miles; Table Rock to Green H River, 70.87 miles; Castle Rock to Wa- B satch, 10 miles; Ogden to Echo 40 H miles. jB The statement ls made by a director B of the Union Pacific that In all prob- H ability when Union Pacific directors H consider the dividend question next H summer, they will vote to place the H common stock on a 6 per cent dlvl- H dend basis. This statement, which H has been made In a way to suggest (H that It reflects tho views of other dl- Hj fa "TTililes tho particular director t6r 11 r6C wns ft accounts in a great measure II roal?1?S "roneth in the stock recently t II t0TorTo "S editions made in high "5" 11 that Union Pacific common 11 qUMM sail at 150 before very long. II rt1 has been generally expected in rt" U ,r i. street that tho present year ar m Wal Bt0' dvancoin the dividend 1 S " heretofore, expectation has not ne B b anything above a 5 per cent I rUH Such a development would ,n- I t,wv be discounted by the preson; " I Sri?o o tho stock. The promise of r 0n I r ner cent rate, however, comes from ns I Jh nuarters, and is amply justified l I by tho earniiBB of tho systa par- h I ticu arly in view of tho fact that the T M Hern Pacific may he put on a alv M Send basis within the present year 0 I Siting in considerable "other in- L I S' for Union Pacific through its 3 ownership of $90,000,000 Southern Pa S rifle stock. H The extreme weather of tne pas few weeks has, of course. Interfered considerably with Union Pacific's ,.' operations, so that returns for Janu- H ary will not bo nearly as favorable as :l H they would have been under normal , conditions, but it is stated in official , nuarters that tho reports of the loss n of livestock have been seriously ox- , H aKKerated, at least so far as concerns in H Union Pacific territory. Reports havt been received from Wyoming, No braslta, Colorado and from over the H system generally, and these indicate H that tho loss of livestock has not been |