Show continental FRUIT CARS SOUTHERN PACIFIC SAID TO HAVE OBTAINED ALL THE PROPERTY the continental fruit express company met with rough handling under the interstate inter state commerce commission i and many railroad officials in ogden have freely predicted that the coming season would witness a change in the mode of fruit traffic and the gradual extinction of the fruit express company and similar companies private dispatches from san francisco received chere this afternoon said 11 was reported in railroad circles that the southern pacific company had bought all the cars of the continental fruit express over 1500 la number the consideration being in the neighborhood of A reporter called at the office of the continental fruit Exis ress in los angeles and inquired lor ahe resident resl dent E T earl he was told that both earl and his brother attorney for the company were out of town and nobody could say where they were the rumor was called to the attention of the secretary of the company who said he could not say anything about it either in affirmation or derial this report comes under the head ct important if true it the southern pacific has the cars it is one ot the biggest business deals consummated here tor a long time A leading railroad man in san francisco says he knows the report Is truo and that the sale was affected on account of the decision of the interstate inter state commence ce commission that otter this season railroads must carry fruit in their own ars |