Show FROM TUE THE capiral mr odell explains the losan logan railway war from our regular correspondent SALT LAKE CITY february 21 1891 the express wagon and omnibus came in contact with ona one another r about noon to dav on main street et a just opposite tho the walker bouse house th the a driver drive of the omnibus was thrown to the ground but received no In injuries jarles except a few bruises and scratches the was more seriously hurt but managed to proceed on his way along the thoroughfare accidents of this kind are not of rare occurrence the action of the union pacific railway company in compelling the operative cooperative co wagon machine company of this city to haul freight by from ogden to logon logan on account coun t of the excessive rate charged the latter company compan has been commented upon very freely during the past week by a number of utah papers A reporter interviewed mr odell the manager of the company t today oday to o day with a view of ascertaining ta if it possible full particulars of the difficulty in answer to numerous inquiries mr fjell said that the lie railway people had more than doubled the rates for the purpose as he lie was informed of getting even with competing betins lines to this territory that have brought rought in some of their freight although expensive to our company yet we gained many friends an and d accomplished what we started out to do viz not to be imposed upon on the other hand I 1 cannot see that the railway people have accomplished anything except to cause us a little inconvenience and to lose for themselves the revenue on 3 pounds of merchandise it depends da now upon our logan manager whether we haul any more freight by team or not although I 1 understand the railway people have restored the rates we have an offer of less than 30 cents per iba the to move all our logan freight from cars at ogden to ware houses in logan and this is really a lower rate than we have ever had from tho the railway and a saving from its tariff because drayage is unnecessary at either end wo put about 75 car loads into logan annually 1 tha the home dramatic club return from idaho to morrow where they have been perform performing inz before the legislature in boise b by y a special indita tion lion from that body and many prominent cit citizens izena I 1 |