Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-22

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Under the consolidation of the telegraph com
panies, the American Telegraph and Gable |
Company cooperating with the new organl-
cation, will at once proceed not only to IN
crease their existing cable facilities between
this country and Europe, and to extend
southwark the cable which now connects this
country with Cuba and the West Indies, so
as to secure for the great coffee trade OF the
United States direct Geographic communica-
ton with Brazil, but also to lay cables under
the Pacific from San Francisco to Honolulu.
From Honolulu one cable will be laid under
the north Pacific to Japan, connecting there
with the cable from Itaki to Shanghai In
China and another under the south Pacific
by way of Ellices Island and the Friendly
Isles to New Caledonia, and thence to Bris-
bane in Australia, where it will connect
with the Australian and New Zealand
cable system in one direction, and with
the Australian and Straits system in another
direction. 1t is not the intention of the CON-
pany TO adopt the idea of Evarts of asking
for Government guarantee on these PACING
lines, as it is well ascertained that if these
cables are constructed on sound principles,
and managed with Judgment and economy,
they cannot fail to be remunerative. Should
the Government desire it, however, connec
ton may be made from Vancouver Island. by
way of Alaska, with PetropaulovsN, and
thence with the north of Japan; and for such
connection it would seem to be proper and
| fair that the Governments Of Russia and ia
pan, as well az the United States, should as
sumo reasonable pecuniary responsibility,
since, excepting in connection with the whal
| ing interest, which now suffers greatly from
remoteness and the inaccessibility of the seas
| in which it is SO largely prosecuted, no very
profitable business is likely to be developed
on that part of this worldwide cable for
some years, certainly, to come. Under new
arrangements our telegraphic communication
with the west coast of Mexico, with Central
| America and with South America can and
viii be pushed forward with great rapidity."
Injunction Against the Managers Of the
Three Telegraph Companies.
NEW YORK, January 2lst.-The Times
saws Plaintiff Hatch is the owner OF 100
shares of the American Union Company's
stock, and au injunction Is brought IN behalf
of himself and all other stockholders or the
American Union Company who may come in
and claim the benefit to be sought to be pro-
cured by this means-that is, the prevention
OF the consolidation of the three telegraph
companies. Mr.. Hatch says in his complaint
that the American Union Telegraph Com
pany was started to overcome monopoly
which was created when the Western Union
Telegraph Company obtained control of the
Atlantic and Pacific Company, and to bring
about healthy competition. which inures to
the benefit of the commercial public. He says
that when he became stockholder In the
| American Union Company he expected 1t to
make large profits from the patronage which
the public generally would give it as an
advocate of cheap telegraphing, and that the
| American Union Company has now, by an
expenditure of about SIC, 000, 000 procured as
complete a system of telegraph lines and
equipments as that which Is possessed by the
Western Union Company, whose capital
stock of SAC, 000, 900 repres 3nts the value of
its lines and equipments. With its capital of
10000 600. Mr.. Hatch says the American
Union Company can earn as much as the
Western Union Company with its $40. O00,-
600 capital. He alleges that the combination
or conspiracy has been entered into between
the Directors of his company and other COM
panies for the purpose of their own gain, and
not for the benefit of stockholders-to con-
! solidate all lines and companies AMI to re-
erect monopoly in the telegraph business.
For that purpose those Directors propose to
issue an additional capital of 81. 000, 900, to be
added to the existing capital OF SAC, DOC, 600 OF
the Western Union Company which 81, 600 600
additional capital is to be distributed in shares
without any cash being paid in return for
such shares. The additional capital of
81, 900 600, he says, is to represent the mate
rails that cost only $4,000 600. Mr..
|
terests of trade and commerce, and is against
the policy of law, and that the Board of
Directors OF the American Union Company
have no power to sell cut that company. He
asks the Court, upon these grounds. to inter-
vene and prevent by injunction the threat
ened irreparable damage to him and other
stockholders The affidavit made by Hatch
in support of his application for temporary
injunction, which he has obtained, is volumi-
nous, and recites more in detail the circum-
stances related in the complaint. In the in
junction is a provision directing the defend
ants to show cause in the Supreme Court
Chambers, Monday next, why the injunction
should not be continued until the determine
ton of the suit.
The POnca Commission Investigation.
CHICAGO, January 21st.-The Tribunes
Washington special says: The members of
the Ponca Commission have passed resolu-
ton declaring secrecy as to their proceedings,
and are preparing their report, which they
now expect to submit to the President in
about week. No official information is OBJ
tanned from them as to the result of their
visit or their report. 1t is alleged, however,
that there will be two reports-a majority
and minority. The majority report will sup.
port Tibbles andsBright Eyes, and generally
take the Boston side of the case, and will be
signed by the two military members of the
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by a civilian from Boston walter Allen. The
minority report, which will certainly sustain
the Interior Department, will be signed by
Stickney OF Washington, the other civilian
member of the Commission, who has at diff
ferent periods had some connection with the
Interior Department Stickney is under
stood to have been the member OF the Com
mission who telegraphed from the Indian
Territory to the President that the Commits
| of to rett tn
kota. 1t was this dispatch which the Com
mission recently reported was unauthorized
1t is very evident that unless all reports are
untrue the story told by the Indian chiefs
here was either not their whole case or else a
, majority of the Ponca Commission has been
deceived.
Death of Mrs. General Suffer.
LANCASTER pa, January 21st. = Mrs.
Suffer, widow of the late General Suffer,
} died Wednesday evening at Litiz.
"LOrd Dundreary" Dead.
PHILADELPHIA, January 21st.-A cable.
gram from London announces the death of
E. A. Sothern, the actor.
Railroad Acknowledgement Persons Fa-
tally Injured.
CHICAGO, January 21st-Three passenger
cars of an express train on the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific Railway which left Coun-
Gil Bluffs yesterday morning tor chicago,
were thrown from the track by broken rail
near Pond Creek, ILL.,, early this morning
Two passengers were fatally injured and four
so seriously hurt that they were obliged to
remain at the hotel at Tiskilwa, ILL.,, under
dactor's care. Mrs. kerley, of Nevada, o.,
was so badly burned that she died in few
hours after the accident occurred. The con.
ductor of the train was badly burned about
the hands and face in his efforts to extin-
guish the flames in which Mrs. Kerley was
enveloped. Matt Phelps of Grinnell, Ia,
received such internal injuries that it is
thought that he cannot recover.
Two Murders fin Texas.
CHICAGO, January 21st.-Noah Rawlings,
during a drunken spree yesterday at Della
ware Bend, on Red river, Texas, assaulted
George Barnett with a pistol, and was shot
and killed by Barnett.
A soldier of Company T, Sixteenth In
fantry, was shot and killed in cold blood in
San Ongelo, Texas, near Fort Concho, night
before last, by gambler named K. G.. Wat
son, who, after the murder, was furnished
with fleet horse by friends, and escaped.
sal0on.keeper Killed.
COLUMBUS 70 J, January 21st.-A special
to the Daily Dispatch says: Last night
saloon-keeper near here, named Lafferty, put
two men named Altman and Jones out of his
saloon for raising disturbance. The men
broke open the door of the place, re-entered
and killed Lsfferty with a chunk of iron.
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