Show railway news Toni tomorrow orrow the change in the utah central time card goes into effect and the park city express will leave this thia city twenty six minutes later heretofore the time in future will ue ie pm to park city people this means a stop over in ogden of but five minutes instead of hau hall an hour and gives additional time in salt lake A terrible accident occurred on the rio grande at sargent colorado about midnight tuesday night might by i which brakeman james A lost his lite life stood on 06 springboard of the first car of a freight train and was leaning down attempting to cut the air brake hose coupling between the car and the engine he slip slipped p 1 d and fell to the track and the tb wheels e 1 8 passed over him killing him instantly and mangling the body in a most horrible manner ois was a single mao man whose home was at parkersburg W va there to is talk about an extra session of the iowa legislature inca in case the railroads refuse to adopt the last schedule of rates promulgated by the state railroad commissioners commissio aers A politician having the ear of the governor says that it the roads persist in their course and delay the return of prosperity to iowa six months or a year a remedy is at hand an extra session the enactment of a schedule of rates and the illinois classification would be the work of but three weeks no legal questions on a schedule of rikes rates fixed by the legislature remain to be adjudicated that was all settled in the united states state supreme court in the granger cases many years ago baere would be so BO fight over such rates they would go into effect at once which do d tile the railroads prefer they can undoubtedly have either aney can bow to the decision of the commissioners commissi onera in the davenport burlington dubuque cases or they can ca have a legislative schedule and the illinois classification A prominent jobber said it is absolutely necessary that this railroad tariff question be settled very soon one way or another the question is too whether the jobbers rt burlington da dr buque keokuk no cedar dar rapids wa des moines sioux city and other points shall be permitted to continue their business or move into other states whether the increase of manufacturing in iowa shall be perm permitted bitted orbe or be forced into a relapse whether the nearness of th the farmers in iowa to the great cattle and grain maikels shall be of 0 any advantage to them or not whether the farmers of iowa shall continue to pay enormous rates for the transportation aaion n of grata grain that the farmers of rann sas nebraska and dakota may have chea cheap p rates these are the burning ques questions t tons of the hour in wit that state now that at t the he national election to is passed A railroad man of this elti city who has been in st louis the past week states that the utmost secrecy is being preserved with regard to the work being accomplished bythe by the meeting of railroad officials there it is generally understood that the whole situation which is considered to be in a badly demoralized condition is being dia discussed and a determined effort to is being made to bring about a solution of the various difficulties with which the dif different terent traffic associations have to contend each road represented to is bringing forward its complaints and of what should be done to alleviate the conditions complained of and an attempt to is being made to perfect some plan which all of the roads will be willing wll llna to live up to the great and only cause of the recent troubles is that certain roads have charged that othor lines were violating the pool agreements and claimed that this gave them the right to also break the ibe rules then followed a reduction redaction of freight or passenger pas senser rates and trouble at once ensued the great trouble with the pooling system is that few roads interpret tile the rulings alike and if one road appears to be getting a larger percentage of business than their competitors daei deem it entitled to there is a gustl hustling g around by the competing lines representatives and too frequently frequent y some inducements du cements are given to divert the traffic the inducements of course are strictly on the quiet but it is seldom that the wide awake freight or passenger rustler fails to get on to such a deal and when he be does theres a row how to tp such work is what the present meeting to is endeavoring too to solve the fact is that there is not a single railroad in the country today that can afford the expensive luxury of a rate war some of ef them talk brash and make plenty of threats but down deep in their inner selves the officials know that such a break would bo be ruinous consequently the prayers of the larger percentage of railroad men are today asking that the st louis meeting will devise some way to stand off the crash that many belleve believe inevitable until after the annual reports are published the fact that general agent crosby of the burlington was recalled to st louis yesterday after having proceeded as far akst joseph on dis bis way home would seem to indicate that fresh trouble is brewing the manitoba rock bock island and fort worth have all been admitted into the at al association and all the old schedules had to be revised and this work has consumed a great deal of time am duct provoked muth much discuss discussion fou denver news |