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Show 00 BUSINESS IS IMPROVING IN EAST Clyde Hogselt, traveling freight agent of tho Missouri Pacific, was in town today, having just returned from a trip through the east. Ho says business bus-iness Is improving and business men express the opinion that conditions during the coming ear will show a mnrked improvement A greater confidence seemB to exist overywhero and railroad men aro especially es-pecially sanguine In their predictions for a bannor year In 1912. Mr. HoKBott, In speaking of the recent re-cent Wabash receivership, Bald that tho consensus of opinion among railroad rail-road men Is that the receivership was caused by bad management and not by poor business. Plans for extensivo construction work in connection with now lines and tho Improvement of existing roads aro being mado by many eastern roads and groat activity Is expected in railroad circles in the spring. -on |