Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-03
THE wrRe war.
Jay asula,s Seizure Of western unior
TelegrAHhIs Liaes-A Missouri Court
Iuterferee.

- VI WCoS0Iu V0tVU
relegraIhis Liaes-A Missouri Court
Interferes.
New York. March 1.-O6acials of the
Western Unioa Telegraph company to-day
state that steps have been taken 10 regain
ts property lately seized 10 defiance Of laws.
Elk Secretary RFtslpW R0es Tomorrow to
Chicago In behalf of the Western Union to
ass,s. resident ooussel there. The officials
also state that the Atlantic and Pacific com.
pany built lines on the Baltimore and Ohio
road from BALTIMORE to Wheeling and had
. contract with the Baltimore and Ohio.
Also for business done by the latter's own
offices. The Baltimore aud Ohio had the
right to take the wires which the Atlantic
aud Pacific had. built on paytnE the expense
and giving wears notice.. This. It 10
l. claimed, has not been done. Az to the
Kansas Pacific liIes there may be- some
doubt regarding the exclusive control In
part Of the Western Union, but the compa.
ny certainly has the right 10 the property
they have erected ,hemse yes.
j. F. Dillon, council fer the American
Union, states. respecting the action of the
Kansas and Union Pacific roads in assum-
ing control of the telegraph lines, that the
railroad companies Y those lines. The
Kansas Pacific has q contract with the West
ern Union for twenty-five years and the
Union Pacific has given the Atlantic mt
Pacific a perpetual monopoly. The en-
ployes of the road have worked these lines
and therefore they were already in the pos
session of the companies and not seized.
The American Union has no exclusive
rights over other telegraph companies.
souri, Pacific railroad company, lately pur-
Ioh.oo6 l.. T>~ Goul1 ~sn pronapinU IN aoiZN
. the lines of the Western Union telegraph
company upon the line of that road running
j, from st. Louis to Kansas City and thence
onward to Atchison, Kansas.
:. The Western Union company in order to
> prevent any further seizure of Its lines filed
: it's petition this afternoon in the special Law
and equity court Of Jackson county, Mis-
souri,, against the railroad company, and in
open court Judge Cowan granted az in
: Junction epjoining the railroad company, it
servants, agents and employees from in any
wise interfering with the existing line o
q telegraph or any portion of the line Of rail
road.
This prompt action, it is thought BY the
telegraph company, prevented a repetition
of the proceedings which we're enacted il
Kansas last week by the party proposing I,
capture all the telegraph lines existing OF
. the so called Gould roads.
1t has already been announced that OF
the 9th ult. the lines of the Atlantic 40,
g Pacific telegraph company were seized b,
the Union Pacific railroad company unde
, orders from Mr.. Jay Gouad, %disconnecte'
: from the Office Of the telegraph company a
Omaha and transferred to the Office of tn
American Union telegraph company. i
order to regain possession of these lines th
: 4. s;1I :, and - Pa sa.;t tss'ess!:::1R1he company sanTg Y. f is;
dfst S's' 81 81 Nebraska. setting forth the recen
act of the Union Pacific railway compan,
q in detail, and this morning made application
at Keokuk, Iowa, to Judge McCrary, ,h
circuit judge of the United States FIR tha
= %circnit, late secretary Of war, for an i,junc
ton restraining the railway company fror
Interfering or meddling with the telegraph
lines and wires of the Atlantic and Pacit
S telegraph company. included in and devise
by the contracts existing between the ,ele
graph and railroad company, from %in,erfer
ing with or in any way preventing the Al
, lantic and Pacific company from reconnec,
: ing the said wires running in and out of it
Offices for commercial business in Omah;
D with ito line Of telegraph upon the ~railroa,
at: the points at which they we're disconnec,
ed, or such other points ~ may be conveu
lent to restore the said lines to their origina
condition.