, 1882-03-24
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TrLrG rArm To DATE

S2,Sl0,000 The company has completed
laying of steel rails on the Union division
with the exception of 10 miles. The
total expenses to complete the track with
steel rails for 1882, including the Kansas
division, will be about half n million
dollars. This will materially reduce the
cost of operating the road in the future.
A Washington special says; The Chi
nese minister is watching the debate on
the anti-immigration bill very closely
and informs his government daily OF the
progress made. In an interview on the
9th he admitted the right of the United
States under the treaty to restrict imml-
grafton, but did not think 1t exactly fair
or just to prohibit Chineses coming here
for so long period as twenty years. The
Chinese government he said, had no OBJ
lection to ten year limitation, and he
was surprised that the amendment of
Senator ingalls,, backed as it was by the
eloquence of Senator Edmunds, did not
meet with the approval of the senate.
The U. S. marshal has received dis
patch dated March 3D.. from his deputy,
John Healy, that he is prisoner among
halfbreeds and Indians in their camp on
Milk river. The country is full of snug
glers and illicit traders and he had ar
rested six of the leading men and cap
tured $4,000 worth of robes, when the
Indians captured him and his outfit He
asked aid from Fort Assiniboine, as there
are not troops enough at Poplar river,
and the Sausac Indians are ready for
war. Marshal Bolkin has directed aid
to be sent. Later information is that Gen.
Rucker, commandant at Fort Assinibolne,
has sent seven companies of infantry and
two of cavalry, numbering 400 men, un.
der Capt. Norwood. to the scene of
trouble, with instructions to rescue
Healy and drive the halfbreeds aud Crees
back into British territory, whence they
came. 1t is feared Healy and his com
panions may be butchered before the
troops arrive.
The first trip over the eastern divisisn
of the New York, Chicago & ST. Louis
Railroad has been made and an inspec-
tion made by small party of gentlemen
interested in the road. Tue syndicate of
which this road is part now controls
total of 1850 miles of railroad and owns
200,0 900 acres of the richest lands in the
country. At Chicago, connection will
be made with the Milwaukee & st. Paul
for the northwest. A close alliance has
also been made with the Northern Pacific.
At Buffalo connection will be made with
the Delaware, Lackawana & Western ex-
tension now nearly completed, and with
the Erie and the New York, West Shore
& Buffalo. These lines so joined will
form a continuous line across the conti-
nent connecting New York with Portland,
Or. By order of the syndicate, the Pull.
man company is now building at Chi
cago special outfit OF palace, hotel and
sleeping cars, which are to be run over
this transcontinental line from New York
to Portland. They are to be of special
style and distinguished from other cars
now in use.
The Tribune announces the purchase
by Ex-Governor Stanford of California of
the celebrated trotting stallion Piedmont,
record 2:l7A, owned by S. j. Morgan of
Chicago. Mr.. Stanford saw Piedmont
last Tuesday for the first time, and after
short ride behind him closed the trade,
paying $50 900 for the animal Pied
mont is by Almont, and 10 1875 won a
four year old stake, getting record of
2:30H He didn't trot again until 1879,
when he was defeated in two races. The
following spring he was handled by
Peter and Johnson, and since then has
trotted seventeen races winning fourteen,
taking second money in two and third in
one. In 1880 he won stake for $50
stations here, time 2:21 4 and last year
captured the free-for-all stallion race,
trotting the fourth heat in 2:174. Santa
Claus is the only stallion that ever beat
Piedmont in race, and Piedmont beat
him there last July. The governor has
purchased from Mr.. Morgan the six year
old mare Happy Dream, by Happy Me-
dium, and will breed her to EIectioneer.
The star route cases came up in erimi-
nal court at Washington on the 9th for
the purpose of giving defendants an op.
portunity to give bail. Bliss called the
case of I. j. Brady, ex-assistant postmas-
ter general, indicted for conspiracy, and
said the history of the cases is well
known. Brady had been an officer of the
government, and the indictment against
him was on charges as an officer by
which the government had lost about
half a million dollars. The punishment
was two years Imprisonment and fine
of $1,000, and he submitted that the bail
should be $4,000. Wilson. counsel for
Brady, said they had examined the in
dictment and he would state that there
was no charge in it which could not be
successfully met. He thought $1,000
bail was sufficient. Judge Wylie said
the gravity Of the charge was grately I'M.
derrated by the defense. Here was q
party holding position Of trust and IS
charged with violating that trust
Whether the charges could be sustained
was a question, but for the present he