McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-22

the 18th for San Francisco. At Chicago b
was Joined by George Lee. Hanlan remain
In San Francisco ten days and then goes t
Australia.
| The general passenger and tickle
agents Of the roads in the Trans Continents
association have issued circular in accord
ance with the Topeka compact with con
Meeting lines, to withdraw from sale al
tickets via San Francisco to points in Ore
gon, Washington Territory and British
Columbia and all tickets to San francisco
via St. Paul, Duluth or Portland. This Il
understood to be directed especially against
the class of ticket brokers known as "scalp.
ers, " against whom a general war is now
being waged.
The general passenger agents OF
roads west from Chicago are in receipt OF
Information that Commissioner Pierson has
ordered the New York trunk lines to dis
continne selling through tickets from the
east to points west Of Chicago and st. Louis.
This is to overcome the alleged abuses grow
Ing out OF ticket scalping. The new regula-
ton will compel travellers to repurchase
tickets after reaching the two cities named,
and the action of the commissioner is stated
to have occasioned unusual wrath among the
officials OF western roads.
1t is reported the German govern
ment will ask the reichstag for grant to
build fifteen torpedo boats.
Oglethorpe barracks at Savannah,
Ga. were sold by the government at auc-
ton on the 18th for S67, 1881, to new hotel
company.
DR.. Frank B. Smith, of Detroit, has
begun $4,000 suit in the United States
district court against DR.. John II. Roach,
secretary of the Illinois board of health,
whose name he alleges was signed to the cir
lar revoking his ID. Smith's) license, for
unprofessional conduct.
A New York telegram reports that
officers of the Union Pacific railway state
that the decrease in gross earnings for Sep
TENDER and October will not be greater than
5000, 900 as compared with the same months
last year. At the same rate operating ex-
penses last year were Al per cent. This
would imply decrease probably of $685.
600 in the net earnings of the two months.
But it Is well understood that there has
been some cutting Of rates by competition
with the Denver & Rio Grande, and also
that the Union. Pacific has been building and
operating considerable new mileage, which |
may have increased the proportion of ope-
rating expenses to what they were in 1881. |
viz. 81 As per cent and If this was the case |
Turing two months the decrease of the gross
earnings and increase of operating expenses
ogether would make the approximate de-
,rease say $3.50, 900 in the net earnings of the
wo months.
On Lake Erie on the night of the 18th
he wind g velocity reached twenty six miles
N hour. Captain j. Harley, of the schoon-
r Leadville, and Captain P. Griffin, of the
chooner Blazing Star, arrived at Buffalo
rom Erie, accompanied by members of
heir crews. They report their vessels,
which went ashore on Long Point, were
ompletely wrecked. The Leadville was
wned by Cumming, of Oswego, and was
alued at SIS, 900; insured for $13, 900. The
'lazing Star was also owned by Cumming,
nd valued at SIC, 600; insured for S., 900.
The steamer S. H.. Parish was de-
troyed by fire on the 18th at Bullets
ayou, eight miles above Natchez. No lives
7ere lost. The Parish left Vicksburg on
ne 10th for New Orleans with 3,1OO bales of
otton, I, 800 sacks of oil-cake and 500 bar
els of oil. Loss over 5000, 200. The boat l
ost SEQ, 900 two years ago, and was insured
,r $1O,OO 6