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Show BANCROFT IS TO BOARD SHIP - HEAD OF OREGON SHORT LINE WILL SAIL SATURDAY. Unannounced Departure Is a Source of Much Speculation Calvin to Accompany Ac-company the Utah Man. i Information received at local railroad rail-road headquarters this morning Is to the effect that General Manager W. H. Bancroft of the Oregon Short Line, who is hU'h up In the councils of tho Har-r'iman Har-r'iman roads, arrived at San Francisco last night and, with General Manager E. E. Calvin of tho Southern Pacific, will Mil for Honolulu. Saturday, on the PftdOc Mall steamship "Siberia. It Is not known how Jong these two general managers will bo absent, or tho nature of the business which calls them half wav across the Pacific, but inasmuch as the trip was kept a profound pro-found secret until announced in Thursday's Standard It is thought matters mat-ters of more than ordinary Importance must have influenced the two dominant domi-nant officials to make the long journey. jour-ney. Mr. Bancroft's private car will be brought back from the coast and sent to the Pocatello shops for a general overhauling during the general manager's man-ager's absence Mrs. Bancroft will remain In Southern South-ern California while her husband Is on the long trip. During General Manager Bancrofts absence, General Superintendent J. M. Davis will bo at the helm on the Short Line system. |