Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-05-05
EA s T e r N.
PRESS DISPATCHES.


cuc.eo, May "A Rawlins specia
-u II is stated that the Shoshone'
- Bannock Indians at Wind rivel
.,.ney. lo0 miles north of here. broke
-. mon the departure Of the two com.
,.n;es of the Third Cavalry from Fort
v.shakte, which is the agency post
nn,v a few men were left to guard the
.cet While the two companies were sent
- 6cht the Apaches- There are about
sn1 Indians on this reservation. All
an splendid fighters, and we're excellent
.,outs under General Crook, in his cam
,s;cns of 1876 and 1877. against the
a;our and Cheyennes. There are several
eh~ories of the cause of their outbreak.
(,oe is that the killing Of Jack incensed
Them. Army officers, however, believed
tbey vere ready to fight, and simply
INK advantage of the absence of the
troous to take to war and leave the re-
.svstion. No confirmation or contra
d;ction is obtained yet. but the best in
formed are uneasy, and apprehend the
report is true.
Rallrsad Oalclals Interviewed.
CHICAGO, May Am Omaha special
correspondent asked the general agent
of the ULion Pacific, J. N. Morse, if he
had sen the special dispatches published
in the Chicago Tribune the past week or
20, and originating in Atchison, Kansas.
After perusing one, announcing the sale
Of the Kansas Pacific to the Chicago
and Alton; another that it is sold to the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, and
another saying the Denver and Rio
Grands was to DO the purchaser, Mr..
Morse replied that the Kansas Pacific
railroad is now SO thoroughly incorpo-
rated with our system that the line is
no more likely to be detached and sold
than il the main line from Ogden to
Omaha. The idea of selling that inn
portant and profitable line never ell
tered the brain of any stockhoIder or
official. To dispose of it is to relIn-
quiah our hold upon the Kansas busi-
nsas, and to shut ourselves ont Of Kan
sas City and the southwest. We are
putting that line in tho best possible
shape. We found it in poor condition,
and have steadily improved it from that
day to this. 1t is the principal compet-
itor Of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fs railroad for the Colorado business,
and Of the two southern lines for the
California and Pacific coast business.
We run three through passenger trains
on that line to Denver. and through
sleeping cars on the express train, and
IN smigrant train from Kansas City to
Ogden. Tho Omaha lines do not feel
the effect of competition from the south
eEn line, for the reason that most Of the
buainess naturally finds its way to Oma-
ha, and thence over the lines leading
vest from this city. This ia the
principal rival railroad between the
Kansas City lines, and we can't spare
eus road from that city without feeling
- loss. Then there have been no
ossEtarss from any line looking to tho
purchase Of the Kansas Pacific. OF
course, the managers Of these lines know
fall well We have no intention Of vacat-
ing the field held by tho Kansas Pacific.
"will the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy put on Chicago and Denver
train via Atchison and the Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fs?"
NE sir; am not authorized to speak
for either of these lines, but you can
80 it is nonsense to talk Of such a
scheme, when you stop 10 think Of the
situation. The Burlington has an indie
pendent line to Chicago, Denver con-
Meeting with it from Kansas City, and
the Atchison to Denver. Both these
lines are good ones, and both are shorter
than tho Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe. There could be nothing gained by
helping competitors to get the business
which it can claim for itself. Secretary
Teller was not the attorney Of the Union
Pacific, and the Pacific Railroads never
influenced his appointment with view
Of defrauding the Government out Of
its interest. Gould has only q few
shares Of Union Pacific now. HIS in
forests lie in the southwest, where he
has just completed the Texas Pacific,
which comes in direct competition with
our line from Omaha and Kansas City
70 San Francisco. No we'll informed
railroad man could devise such schemes
- this Atchison correspondent"
BlalP Examlned.
WASHINGTON, May 4.-The examinA-
lion Of Senator Blair was resumed this
morning, Chairman Williams conduct
inG It. Witness said that hs early be-
came interested in the subject of an
intsr-oceanic canal, and in that connec-
tion with the operations Of Do Lesssps.
ds thought that with . proper policy
towards Peru on the part Of this coun-
ny, her integrity Of territory might be
pesesrved, and an alliance with her
might be Of great valus 10 this country.