Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-25
THE RAILROAD WAR.
A High Old Time at 1loorIaead-- -Hoso the
Northern Pacific Vas EAchred.
IMoorhead Advocate

A High Old Time at Moorhead--Hosc the
Northern Pacific Vas Eatchred.
Moorhead Advocate.
Towards the latter part of the past week
rumors of impending war between the
Northern Pacific and Moorhead 6 Barnes
vile railroads filled the air. Reports of
railroad officers fleeing in special trains
from impending injunctions, with the officers
of the law few minutes be-
hind in still other special trains
were received, and believed by some,
while others better posted give little Gre.
dence to the legends. Then came the st.
Paul and Minneapolis papers with the pro-
ceedings of the opening trial wherein Gen.
Man. Sergeant, of The N. P. r. b., testified
that the Moorhead & Barnesville railroad
company were about to cross the line OF
his road in Clay county, in the face of a
promise not to do 80, after being repeat
said road. All of which General Manager
Sergeant stated would result in great pecuni-
ary loss to the road he represented. Which
we do not doubt.-ED.l Then came the
arrival Saturday of Superintendent of Con
struction Stickney, Of the nj. & B. road and
Chief of Police Brackett. Both gentlemen
were pleasant to each other
and no arrests made. Sunday
afternoon vague rumors were cur.
rent in town that the N. P. forces were
actively engaged in tearing down the grade
of the M. & B. road at the place where the
proposed junction was to take place. These
Sabbath breakers were under the command
Of Asst. Supt. of Construction Bicknell
Conductor McCauley and Section Foreman
O'Connell, all of the N. p, and Harry
O'Neill, a contractor of Fargo. About
P. NJ, when some sixty feet had been lev.
eled, these gentlemen were unpleasantly
surprised by being arrested and locked up
in the Moorhead Jail, on the charge of mali
cious trespass. To account for this We
must halt to explain. The ground on
which the N. P. folks have been working
seems to be the idea entertained by them
that they owned the right OF way across the
Schrieber farm, whereon the junction is
situated. Now in this they were mistaken,
as the N. P. railroad has never received any
right of way across this particular piece OF
ground. The NJ. & B. people found this
out at 10 o'clock last Saturday evening
deed was recorded giving to the Moorhead
and Barnesyille railroad company the right
of way across this farm. Right here is
where they have the N. P. at their mercy.
This accounts for the charge of malicious
tresspass and the locking up of the tress-
passers. The four parties named were
accommodated at the county Jail until about
2 A. NJ. Mouday when their friends bailed
them out. The case came up before Judge
Partridge on Monday morning and was ad-
journed until Tuesday morning, when fur
ther postponment was taken until to- morrow
at 1OA. NJ, pending the result OF
the injunction case will be heard at
10 o'clock to-day at st. Paul. Popular SEN
timent seems to be with the III. & B. road
and the N. p. officials are being heartily
laughed at for being caught in their own
trap. The tug of war will come when the
N. P. rails are cut to effect the crossing.