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Show STENGER SLATED FOR WESTERN PACIFIC JOB Declares It's All News to Him, and That He Has No Plans for Future. Denver, Jan. 27. It Is stated in railroad rail-road circles that Ernest Stenger, geu-oral geu-oral superintendent of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad at Salt Lake Citv, and in charge of traffic in Utah, who resigned on January 6, Is to. beconv? either general manager in charge of traffic or general superintendent of the Western Pacific, Gould's new road, now being built between Salt Lake City and San Francisco, Mr. Stenger, when asked" Wednesday Wednes-day evening, which of the two positions posi-tions he was slated for, laughingly replied re-plied that he -was not aware of the lact that he was Bcheduled to fill either, eith-er, lie stated as his belief that thero was nothing to tho dispatch from Den-ver, Den-ver, asuexting that he had absolutely no plan3 for the future. He added that if either position was to be offered offer-ed to him It was the greatest bit ot news ho had heard In many a day, but he could place no belief in it. "If I have been selc-cted for eithf-r position," said Mr. Steugter, "thosft who havo tho appointing have gone ahead without consulting me. It may be all perfectly true, but I don't be-Hove be-Hove a word of it. Those who have the selecting of the people to fill these positions are not In the habit of going ahead without consulting whomsoever they have in mind. I have absolutely no plans for tho future." |