, 1875-01-26
THE GREAT WESTERN,

Allegations OF some Of tho Stock.
holders.
yYle stockholders Of tho Great Western Toc-
graph Company will hold tlor annual meeting
In this city to-day. 4 circular relative To tho
condition OF tho Company, and purporting to
expose tho alleged corruptions in iss manage
ment, las been issued, bearing the names Of
hIcsBrs. J. Ii. W. Jones, Z. T. NexBeh, Daniel
Y. McSIullen, Thomas J. Sutherland, Edward
Mcdonald. and A. A. Lathrop.
The document at the outset aliudes plant.
ively to
A SCHEME
on tho part of certnin Designing, malicious. and
evil minded persons, to secretly thrust lobt
Of a5O.G40 upon the Company, which can DO
paid only by AL additional aHsossmcnt upon the
stockholders. After q brief outline OF this in
Bidious plot, tho circular announces that it Is
highly important that all OF the stockholders
should bo informed Of the condition Of tho Com
pany. md Of the intended tricks Of tho scllcmug
speculators. The object of tue crcular wna to
PROTECT ITa hIuNE4s
and induce other stockholders to joln In an at
tempt to proyont future speculation. The
present oilicets, it says. had been Bn.ity OF tue
arossest lnisnanaBvnlent OF tAs Comrany'B
al!alrs. They had lnauagea to keep themselves
i'll office a,,d in control Of tho property and Luai
neHs OF tho Company until llspMcad by the ar
polnt,nert Of q Receiver, who took control Of
matters during the arst week in October. lb7i.
THE HILL IN CjASCElY,
upon which tue l1aceiver had Icon appointed.
was filed by two Of tho preBent Directors, wlu
had becomo dirgustel with o management which
appeared to them nothing lesa than Wholesale
rutbery, Aitldayts showing an alarming state
OF affairs Lad en- filed in Court. They showed
TINT tue Company waB running beliind from
800 to 81, ao1 a month, aud that tho property
waB going sadly into decay. Tie blll nnd ahl-
and tl,e Secretary. D, ., Dou,l, and SupcEintoud-
cut, A. Hiss tho officers OF tho Company, had
.slgnnlized their lcunibe,.cy into otlics by tho
n.at garlng iucapacity aud uufaitlful conduct"
rIIo ctrcuIar kays also that
TIlK ATro1tSEiH,
Harding, Mccoy & Pratt. wlu claimed to retre-
sent lis Company woro in lcagua with tho otii-
cors for tbe t,lri,oso Of getting the nfopcrty
I'M tho stockloldrrs,
Il rad also nn1,nurod In tho bill and a11f,uyits
that TIC ollccrs bud Issued the Cu,npany's louas
tor aa5.U0O aud Hou,ired them by a trust
deed on ali lilo lines mad ollor proporty
To i. i. Alien. This decd, instead ct beiue
rccnr,lcd Mt chicago was nat pIaced on record 1T
Mllwaukco, where It would bc tho least 1;able to
innucctinn. These boudb woro divided Dotweol,
nn! I;tark Tiiss, aud iond. i,ut iurt,lnatoly tho
stneki woro On tIlo trail tl!oy snfre tho
impending dauger tloy discovered tho millo
that hal been 10 aaroitly laid. aud a llecerer
liar, and hrnpaF,f Mnfn
~ ~ ' nnt;.. 49,. a pxo4t -opo
aloasls: naf1uha, McCoy, aud tfa.s we're
MaEed
rEAsELEas AND uNRucCEBsF.1Jt, LITIGATION,
nnl whose fees amounte,l tn k.jf Dn{) Tho
Snrretary. RonI Wal ncouana ~ a haartloaa al.
s",',,t ~ n-a,,a,t t,a atte,sf.,na ~ ~, ,,an,"
~ NV III :. ;, t""ni"s;ra w lila ,,rauans
VI any out ttuh stuc"notunih' 4!o P1pec''
ssf to sps ss s'ass5 Is i e q s lie M
lAny long enough to ellabla them to increase
tho debt 10 ~ large M amount AZ thor rapacity
nnIlara iii uat ti, ,nro ~ ft1.air ~w,, riuh,a