The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-13
RAILROAD NEWS.

nenl Vi passenger agent Tor IeXaS OF the
Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad,
with headquarters at Dallas.
Willie Rookie, who for years past was in
charge OF the International ticket Office at
Palestine, Texas, has been superseded by
order of Superintendent Herin, and his
place filled by Samuel II. Schook, an old
time employe of the road.
AT the Creosoting Works of the Houston
II Texas Central, have been pre-
pared up to date about 100000 ties, neces-
stating the use of about 10000 barrels of
OIL
The Chairman of the House Committee on
Commerce has referred the Inter-Sta
Commerce bill to a subcommittee with
Reagan as chairman. The other members
are McLane, Herndon, Richardson, Town
send of Ohio, Ward of Pennsylvania, and
Horr.
Cry OF MEXICO, January GA conces-
sion, with subsidy of 49, 900 per kilometre
has been granted to Count Telefener, agent
of De Castro, for arailroad from Matamoras
to Tampico, on condition that De Castro
shall acquire the branch road from Mata-
moras to Victoria, belonging to the Gould
De Gress concession.
A young man living in Leadvlle shipped
to his little brother in st. Louis as Christ
mas present, a choice donkey of the dimin-
utive species known as the Mexican burro.
The agent in making out his manifest, con-
cluded that "burroh meant bureau" and
reported accordingly to his superior zone
bureau missing and one jackass over"
The Kansas Division of the st. Louis &
San Francisco Railroad has just been ex-
tended to Halsted, Hprvey County, Kansas,
twenty-five miles west of Wichita, Kansas,
the former terminus of the road. The new
stations are in order, Valley Center, Sedgc-
wick, and Harvey.
The San Antonio Express says We
were told last night that the Texas Mexican
locating party between here and Beeville
had been disbanded According to in
structions received by Taylor, right-ofway
agent from Laredo to San Antonio, the
teams will be forwarded to Corpus Christi
with the locating engineer, Edward Bar
rington. The other two locating parties
now in the field have also been disbanded.
Fuller has been changed from his positio n
of chief engineer of the Texas Mexican
to the position of general superintendent of
the Texas division of the running section of
the Texas-Mexican Railway, and chief en-
gineer Of this end of construction of the
same company Taylor's information is
that there will be n general cessation OF
work for the present at least, on the Mexi-
can hAllrOau construction.
The cause of all this is not known, so our
informant states, but is supposed to be due
from the fact of Jay Gould having secured
control of the Denver Road.
A manifesto recently issued by some
Western railways against the White Star,
lnman, North German Lloyd and other
prominent ocean steamship lines because
of their intrusting to the Erie and New
York Central Railways the forwarding Of
all their emigrants to the West, is noted by
the ocean steamship lines who say they
care nothing about the quarrels of the rail
roads themselves and that the steamship
companies simply stand by known friends
The st. Louis Republican of the 10Th,
says: Colonel Boudinot, an agent Of tn,
Chicago, Texas 4 Mexican Central Railroad,
left last night on business connected with
the road. That road is being built to con.
meet with the ST. Louis & San Francisco
Railroad at Paris, Tex, twenty miles south
of the Red river. The st. Louis & San
Francisco as soon rs II tunnels through the
Boston mountains will rush on through the
Choctaw Nation to Paris, where the conneo
ton will be formed with the above line q.
stated, so that the c., I. & NJ. c. will be
come in effect ST. Louis road.
Colonel Boudinot states that the road |.
already constructed southwest from Dallas
fifty miles, to Cleburne, and they are build
ing this way from Dallas toward Paris
about seventy-iive miles distant. Fiy,
miles of grading from Dallas toward Pari
is already completed, and the line us far a
Farmersyille, forty-two miles, is located
and cleared ready for the graders. Owe
100 men are employed on this part of tn,
road and the force working toward Gao
burne would be transferred to the north
east making 1900 men that will then b,
grading between Dallas and Paris. Track
laying will begin in February.
Tho papers transmitted on the 9th, b,
President Arthur to the Senate, concernin,
/ the act of the Choctaw Council granting
right.of.way to the st. Louis Il San Fran
cisco Railroad through the Choctaw Natioi
consist of copies of acts of the Chickasav
, Legislature, protesting against the action 9
the Choctaw Council, and sending delegate
, to Washington to urge the views of IN
Chickasaws on this and other subjects; als
\ an argument from Delegate h. i, 0yerto
in their behalf and an argument from
II. +. Smallwood, Isham Walker an
Joseph 7. Folsom, in the nj
ture of protest against the passas
o of the bill now pending in the Senate, whic
0 provides for ratiiying the action o! tn
e thoctaw Council. The points OF these VI
= rious papers have already been publishe,
y Sec rctary kirkwood, In transmitting thsi
to the President, makes no comment .
recommendation except that they be lai
before the Senate, in accordance with Il
10 request OF the parties interested.
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