| Show railroading IN AND OUT OF OGDEN y from tuesdays standard the los angeles san pedro salt lake railroad has decided to reduce the running time ot its through passenger trains between los angeles and salt lake to 26 hours which will cut the lunn lne time between this city and chicago to 68 hours the through limited train which will be put on by the salt lake union pacific northwestern routes to chicago will be known as the lon angeles limited and the name will appear on e ery coach of the train it Is announced the globe express company a gould enterprise chick was organized haa feigned contracts with the western pacific railroad whereby it will have the exclusive franchise to operate over that road the concern will also succeed the wells fargo company on the rio gragido western aa soon aa the franchise expires private car alva occupied by G W elkins a prominent mining man of st louis passed through ogden last evening en route east from tonopah To nevada W L formerly of ogden but now train dispatcher for the oregon short line at salt lake Is spending a few days in ogden information has been given out by railroad officials to the effect that the union is to extend its line two hundred miles from hushey neb up the north platte river and that the contract for the work has been given to a denver firm who will commence the work immediately robert craig the well known traveling freight agent for the oregon short line whose headquarters are salt lake was found dead in his bed shortly after 7 this morning his death was not cholly unexpected as he was a victim of the dread consumption and has tor the past four years been in a very weak condition bob as he is known in railroad circles was a very popular young man being only 38 years of age at the time of his death he had many warm friends in ogden among the business men and with tha railroads who leam with sorrow of his demise his territory extended over the entire oregon he has been in the employ of the union pacific and oregon short line tor the past 20 bews yews and has advanced in official positions very rapidly just who will be appointed in his vacancy is not definitely known but it is the general understanding that harry godwin now chief clerk ot the forab employed in the freight office ai salt lake will be named the freight business in and out of ogden is again exceedingly heavy and for the past two nights the railroad force has been increased two gangs making a total of four gangs on at night and four gangs employed during the day time heretofore it has never been found necessary 0 o maintain more than two gangs but owing to the crowded condition of the local freight house it vas considered necessary that two more gangs be employed but een with the increased force it is almost impossible to keep the freight moving there is a great shortage of freight cars 0 all classes in this section of the country at the present time stock cars arc abeln ordered for idaho points and cars are also needed for the mines the which are sent east have not been returned promptly aa they have been pressed into service on eastern lines which are badly in need of them for their grain shipments reports have been received at local headquarters to the effect that four train loads of race and coach forsea will pass through ogden the tore part of next month consigned to J B haggin a new york stock mari james A reber commercial agent of the wabash railroad at salt lake who died at st marks hospital in that city last evening of typhoid fever was well known to railroad men of ogden and in fact to all residents of this section and among the traffic getters had won an enviable name mr illness began sept and for some time he would not falve up his office duties but when aba seriousness of his sickness became known his wife who was visiting her parents in east st louis as noticed and came at once and was at the ioime of his death at her husbands bedside A few days ago it was plain to he seen hat the fever had pained a strong hold upon the once strong body but his mind and spirit bore up to the very end A wife and daughter two years of age are left |
