The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1867-11-07
TIE OfTUMWA COURIER.
\. D. MUssELMAN, \ Editors
wM. n. CALDWELL, and
Nm. G. HOLDEN. } Projectors
THURSDAY,
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Our Railroad and the Bur-
lington HaWk-E;yc,

from President Angle of the ST. Louis
4 Cedar Rapids Railroad Co., made
to its Directory, show ing most
promising condition of its affairs, also
NJ the same time a letter from Judge
Barton Bates, President North Mis-
souri, Railroad Co., to President An
glo re-iterating for the newly elected
Board, the flattering terms of endorse
ment and promises Of undivided sup
port and assistancethat the old Board
had heretofore pledged itself TO US
Bearing these facts in mind, and the
additional one, that the Haukeye has
for some reason best known to itself, |
always treated our north and south
road in an unfriendly and cool man
ner, and from time to time exhausted
itselfin footing for the Iowa Central
that pretends to rival our road; our
readers will then havo no difficulty
in understanding, and fully appreci
ate the animus that dictated the
following article which we take from
Tuesdays Haukeye::
"THE NORTH Missouri RAILROAD
AND ITS Iowa CoNNEcT1oNs.-Ad dele.
gation from the directors of this COM
pany were in ST. Louis last week and
had an interview with the new man
ngers ofthe. North Missouri Railroad.
This visit drew out letter from the
new president Of that company, III
which he says:
''The changes recently madein the
management of this company do not
alter its relations to yours, that the
resolutions passed by the Board of
Directors of this company in 1865,
remain unaltercd as the expressions
of the views of tho Board. Indeed
time has only made more apparent the
ualus to thts company Of a connection
j, lptth your road.
That this company has been disap-
pointed la it's expectation as to the
= time when its road should have been
completed to the Iowa line, you are
aware. and in view ofthis disappoint-
ment Lam unwilling now to state a
definite time at which it will be COM
plcted, butte assure you that there
will be no further delay for tho want
OF means to prosecute the work. and
that it will be prosecuted with as
much dispatch as is prudent.
may also state that it is the wish
Of this company to give TO yours such
aid as may be in ITS, power and con-
ducive to our mutual interests"
The above extract is copied word
for word from Judge Bates letter to
President Angle, which first became
public in our columns on last Sunday
morning, and has exclusive ,applica-
tion to ourroad, and to none of the
other contemplated north and south
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we submit to the Hasokeyc and to an
intelligent public, whether that. fact
can be ascertained from the dcccpt-
i've and perverted paragraph we have
quoted above. We imagine that the
uninformed reader Of the article,
would quito naturally como to the
conclusion that a delegation of Bur-
lingtonians had been to st. Louis and
had a pleasant and satisfactory inter.
view with the Directors Of the North
Missouri Railroad Co, and in conclu
sion Judge Bates had written them
a letter heartily endorsing their north
and south road, OF the Iowa Central
or anything else as likely as the Co
and the road to which the letter was
really directed.
Our readers will notice that they
have ,studiously avoided mentioning
our road in this connection, or ths
fact that Bates was writing to Angle
making special reference to it, ant
can with us come to no other conclu
sion than that this omission was made
with malice aforethought, and thai il
is too glaring to be charged to the
account of accidents or Typographical
blunders. We have no disp osition L
find fault with the stupendous an.
magnificent system Of toplottica
newspaper bloviating, whereby thu
iowa Central folks propose to bull,
their road, We are building ours after
the old way, but we oprotest against
that company or any. other, bodily
stealing our thunder, and applying it
to themselves, and doing this cues
tionable transaction through news
paper that from it's locality should
occupy q position Of neutrality, and
one largely circulated ID the Des
Moines Valley and on the line Of the
st. Louis & Cedar Rapids Railroad
GEN. CRocKER.-We direct atten.
ton TO the circular Of Adjutant Gen.
N. i. Bakorin another column. call.
for sabscriptionsto the Croker Mon
uIaent Fund.
It is especially directed to- the
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