The Leavenworth weekly times., 1875-08-12
WAGING WAR.
No Signs Yet of a Cessation Of
H0stilifies.
The st. Louis, Kansas City and
Northern will Fight it Out
on this Line,
Ifit SaOuld Take Them All Sum.
mer and a Part OF the Fall.

time ago, seems TO be no nearer q conclu-
sion than il was when the first cutting down
OF rates commenced. Each and every road
involved in this struggle for the supremacy,
seems to be determined TO fight it through to
the bitter end, after which the contestants
will survey the field and bury the dead. A,
the present time rates are being slaughtered
at fearful rate, and the mortality prom
ises to be in excess OF the greatest estimates
that have yet been made. The conflict,
however disastrous it may be to the roads
involved, is enjoyed immensely by the peo-
pie, who look on with the most supreme in.
difference, and are willing that
the different routes NAV cut
their own throats if they 50 see fit. The
travelling public, especially, are highly
elated over the fact that they can now
travel over the St. Louis, Kansas City and
Northern for something less than one cent
y,er mile, and over the Hannibal & St. joe,
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and Chicago,
Rock island d Pacific roads for one cent
per mile.
WHETHER THESE RATES
,,s ,t all r.rm,nent l. q ouas.ion Which
;s row .ait,,;pg the ,uhI;c ,,;,5 .rJ
WHICH seem. IN be a cans. nf eYtrene sol;c;-
,ude 10 ,be majority Tn. low frcigbt
rates also claim the attention OF the mer-
chants OF this city and vicinity, and they
are taking advantage OF the cut in order to
lay In large iail sIock- lhe rush OF pas
sengers to St. LOUIS and chicago the past
two or three days, has been simply i'm
mense, and the number ls increasing daily.
Every available omnibus IN the stables OF
the kansas transfer company Is being
brought INTO reqnisition to convey the peo-
pie across the river TO meet the East
ern bound trains. About forty tickets
lor II. Louis were sold by Mr. Geo. w.
Neiles yesterday, and the indications are
this number VIII be doubled to-day. Judge
Aller oil The kock Island road Is also kept
busy satisfying the inquiries, Impertinent
and otherwl-e, oil the numberiess people
who inquire daily at his oihce for transpor-
tatlon rates Mr.. l.: st. John, the General
Passenger agent OF that rou.e, Is stlll IN
The CITY, ana VIII see The thing out II he
has to take UP his permanent residence
here.
Last evening Mr.. Z. IL. Lord and n. c.
Bird, oil the II. Louis, Kansas City and
Northern, called at lHE LINES oihce last
night, and IN response to inquiries made rs
to how long the present low rates on their
road would last, replied that IN all proha-
biiiiy II would he
THREE MONTHS
at the least. and it might possibIv be LONG,
er. They say that they are determined to
make the Missouri PacIhc show Its hand,
or they Will lorce that road 10 the wall,
and make 1t bankrupt or bankrupt them
selves 1t seems that the ST. Louis Il
Northern road thinks they have not been
treated exactly y right by Ialmage, Of the
Missouri Pacific road and this
Is the reason of II: At the
time that the sleeping car arrangements be-
tween the Kansas Pacific and ~. Louis,
and Northern road was broken up, the
Missouri facliIc road sent an agent TO Den
Yer, and made arrangements with the mer.
chants oi that city TO ship all OF their st.
Louis and Eastern freight by their line, Of
lerInS as an indacement, greatly decreased
r Pa, ''o" =. 10 nav 'eii
- - IL Ill i' ~ fiI
~ ci,bor o. H. fra;cI.
Iopo,s ,,r ro,,T,.o rLor al, IL ~:
fre;ght bou.es bn, ,hov r.taI;.,aJ - -
nanner tnow, tn. frsirI,t IT -, a.
I,tter r,,J sine. ,bc ,ra- r.s ;na,,o,na,aS
has heen ;mrncrSa .na hoa,;i, iaaSei
ior the past vel Eut va, ,b;s raJuc,;an
seems to have no apparent effect upon the |