Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-05
DoMEsTEC NEWS.
Union Pacific Railroad Repor;-GOYern-
Menf EAireelnrs.

Union Pacific Railroad RepOrt-GOVern-
ment Directors.
New YORK, January 4th.-The annual re- /
port of the Government Directors OF the |
Union Pacific Railroad states that the gross |
earnings Of the company for 1850 are estl-
mated. at S25 600 CO., of which the branch |
lines only earned about 50, 500, 600 The |
Union division probably earned sl5, 75O coo, |
and the Kansas division Sc, 750, 900, showing |
an increase over the previous year OF s.. 549,- |
600 for the former, and large proportionate
increase for the latter. This is accounted for
by the fact that consolidation stopped COM
petition, and allowed business to go into its
.tural channel Of transportation. The
operating expenses for 1880 are estimated at
Al per cent. on the Union division, and about
30 per cent. or the Kansas division, including
renewals and taxes. The Pullman sleeping
car contract viii expire next year, and unless
a new contract can be made on liberal basis,
in which the railroad company viii be largely
interested IN the revenue received for the use
Of cars before the expiration Of the contract,
the railway company will consider and deter
mine the question Of running its OWL sleeping
cars.
Respecting the completion of the Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, tins re-
port speaks as follows: This viii make a
competing inc Of railway through to Cali
fornia 400 miles logger than via the Union
Pacific and Central Pacific to San Francisc CO.
In passenger travel Is hours additional time
will be required to make the trip to San
Francisco, and SO hours additional time for
freight transportation. Hence, as a.quick
transit, particularly on long routes OF travel,
is very desirable and generally sought for, the
Union and Central Pacific Railway route
will, doubtless, remain the favorite route for
passenger travel and freight traffic. The
Government Directors are informed that
satisfactory business arrangements will be
made with this competing line of railway and
thus avoid undue competition for business.
The Government Directors believe that the
policy of building and aiding to build
branch lines Of railway by this company
that has been pursued the past year, and
is still being continued was wise both in
its conception and in its execution, as
the trunk line of railway has branch
and feeding lines of railway to support it,
independent of the through business, which
now amounts to but small proportion of its
traffic, viz: % per cent. They figure out the
average daily through California freight bust
ness over the Q nion Pacific, between Omaha
and Ogden, in August, September, October
and November, $780, at twenty-three cars
each way, against twenty eight cars during
the corresponding period in 1879. and add.
that in their opinion, any loss OF through bust
ness 10 1881, in consequence OF the division
with the AtchisoD, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad, viii be more than made up in the
increased business that will be derived from
the branch lines of the road and its local
business. They favor consolidation and pool
ing as tending towards economy, quick transit
and uniform rates, and In this connection
state that combination with the Central ard
Southern Pacific Railways has been uniformly
considered, relative to which no satisfactory
conclusion has yet been reached. They add,
that upon an equitable basis, both for the III
terest OF the Government and the respective
railways, it would be desirable.
The Chrisfiancy Case-Leiters 10 Giro
The Woman interviewed.
WASHINGTON, January 4th.-The local pa
pers this morning publish under New York
telegraph heading series of letters purport-
ing to have been written last spring and sum-
mer by Mrs Christiancy to Edel Berto Giro,
whose name is coupled with hers in the Chris
tiancy divorce proceedings. These letters are
of very loving character and contain nu-
merous appeals to Giro to come forward and
testify for her protection against the charges
made by Christiancy's counsel in regard to
their alleged improper intimacy. Accompa-
nying the letters are also several written to a
Mr.. Jackson, whom she implores as a friend
of Giro to exert his influence to induce Giro
to come forward and aid the woman he had
compromised from the consequences of what
she terms " a thoughtless but great impru-
dence."
This evenings Star publishes an interview
with Mrs ChTisLiancy, in which she gives
her explanation of these letters and the his
tory of her acquaintance with Giro. She
says, among other things, that she declined
many written requests of Giro to come to see
her at Washington, but finally went with
lady friend to meet him at the railroad depot
on his arrival from New York, on
the strength of an assertion on his
part that he was about to visit
PER-, ald7 that, "knowiag there was
much talk about her there, he wished
to hear her side of the story, to de-
fend her." She says she did not accompany
him to hotel, but subsequently she and her
lady friend dined with him at q restaurant
The next Monday, at her mothers house, he
urged her to obtain divorce and marry him,
but she declined. He came back late in the
afternoon, and told her there had been a
woman with him at a hotel that afternoon
that some had said it was she Mrs. Chris
tiancy); that Christiarcy and his friends
were presenting her, and she must
tiancy and his friends might drive her
to death, but they could not make
her marry him, as she never would
He then left, but returned in the evening and
threatened thatif she did not marry him he
would say she was the womanat the 81. James
and ruin her. Being again refused, he swore
vengeance upon her for having scorned him,
and finally became so violent that to pacify
him she said she would marry him Mrs.
Christiancy further informed the Star re-
porter that Giro then returned to New York
and she then wrote him, retracting her prom
isa; but he persisted in claiming its fulfill
ment, and sometime afterwards, when sic
learned that Chris.iancy and counsel intended
to institute divorce proceedings against
her upon the ground of improper intimacy
with Giro, she took the advice OF friends and
wrote him the series OF letters now published,
merely as means, by pretending to be in
love with him. to avert his carrying into ef-
feet the threats he had made in Washington,
and to induce him to give truthful testimony
for her protection.
Pharmaceutical Works in Flames.
New YORK. January 4th.-A fire occurred
this evening in the Phoenix Pharmaceutical
Works, Nos. 157. l59 and 16l EiQhty-eighth
street. The building was only tive stories
high, but covered large plat of ground. 1t
was erected about a year ago by the proprie-
tors of the works, Hennis & Finch, and was
filled with chemicals, medicines and toilet
preparations. The fire broke out in the base
ment, where there had been large quantities
OF non-expioslVe chemicals and essential oils
used in the manufacture of psrfumery. Ex-
plosive chemicals were on the upper floors,
aud the fremen strove hard to keep the
flames confined TO the basement They
flooded the basement to a depth of nearly
three feet, but the oils foated on the water
and continued to burn as fiercely as ever.
The firemen continued their efforts over three
hours before the flames were extinguished.
The loss is $40, 600; insured.
Northumberland Passengers.
OMAHA, January 4th.-The following
through passengers passed here on to-day's
train, leaving at l2:15 P. NJ, to arrive in
Sacramento January Sth: S. S. G. Parker,
Mrs. E A. Fargo, l.. l.. Loupe, San Fran
cisco; Mrs. L. II. Thompson, Worcester,
Mass; S. W. Criswell, wife and child, Auro-
ra, Ind; David Murray aud wife, Washing
ton Territory Charles H. Liss, New York
II. Fassett. Chicago.
Thirteen through emigrants left on last
nights emigrant train, to arrive in Sacra-
mento January 18th.
The Indiana senatorship.
INDIANAPOLIS, January 4th. = Regular
caucuses will be held tomorrow. General
Harrison's friends say he will be nominated
on the first ballot. William Cumback and
Godloye S. Orth are the other candidates.