Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-03-09
TEL E G R AP HIC.
A NEGRO MEMBER BALK-
ING LEGISLATION.
a PROMINENT MAN GRE
MATED.
THE BIG EARNINGS OF
THE L. =. r. r.
TRAIN ROBBERS AGAIN
BADLY LEFT
Doing Well.

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Ehw YORK, March The annual
meeting of the stock holders of the
Cuion Pacific Railroad was held to-day
The gross earnings for the year were
So, 500, SS4; operating expenses and
fares. $40, 727, O49; surplus earnings,
Si2, 096, S34; interest and dividends COL
lected on investment securities, s., 2ii, .
099: total surplus earnings, Sli 307, 934.
xpenditures-interest on bonds, 81, L.
997 ,623; discount, interest and ex-
change, Sl72, 30; sinking fund. ss,442.-
| 900: amount due the United States on
business of the year, S2.O97,-
lS9: premiums paid on bonds re-
deemed and loss on securities disposedof
slS9. 223; total, $!.707 .O39: balance.
| applicable to DIVIDENDS, Sc, 600, $50,
| stock dividends. four pr cent,
81. 260. 7SS; surplus for the year,
s.. $40, l67: total funded debt OF the
company. 500, 757,705; less amount
he'd by trustees OF consolida ED bonds,
IS, So, 300. leaving balance outstand-
luz Il TDi ,rir, .fUt. UNIV" ihS
bonds were returned and cancelled
| during the year Land grant bonds,
STA, 900: sinking fund mortgage bonds,
$l43, 600: Omaha bridge bonds. ST..
600; collateral trust bonds. Sl3l, 900;
bonds held by the trustees or the
Denver extension. bonds and mort
cages at Denver, SIS. 900: total. 81, 49,
600 The earnings were From trans
portatlon of passengers, 50, 1917 $50;
freight, Sl5. 402. lG7; mail, 1925, SIS; ex.
press. S74S, 932; miscellaneous earn.
ings, S72S, 53S; total. So, S23 SS4.
Operating expenses for 1882, including
taxes, $40. 727, 0{9 : operating expenses,
including taxes, in 1881. 80, 4S0, 32
decrease in 1892, 81. 753 293. The fol-
loaing were elected Directors for the
ensuing year Sidney Dillon. Elisha
Atkins, F. Gordon Dexter. Frederick
L. A,res. Ezra II. Baker, Jay Gould,
Russell Sage, Scion Humphrey, David
Bows. Greenville N. Dodge, Augustus
Sehe!l, s. Fl. H. Clarke, John Sharpe,
Charles Francis Adams Jr.. and Andrew
Il. Green. The Board of Directors
elected the following officers: Presi-
dent. Sidney Dillon; Vice President,
Elisha Atkins; Gener al Counsel. Sidney
Bartlett General Solicitor. john F.
Dillon; Secretary and Treasurer, Henry
McF arland Assistant Secretaries and
Treasurers, o. ". Mink aud James VI.
Cain.
The Directors this afternoon declared
a dividend Of J. per cent, payable
April ,.
Valuable Mig.
WAsHISGToN, March SIT has al
ready been stated that the attempt to
seat Lee Of South Carolina, the colored |
completely blocked the
Bonded Whisky bill, Shipping bill, and |
all other business in the House OF |
Representatives during the last day and |
night session. Ia this connection a |
story is published here to-day that the
agents OF the whisky men offered Lee
SIS, 600 to withdraw and allow the |
Bonded Whisky bill to Genre to q vote. |
It is also said that while the House was |
in a deadlock over the election case,
and nothing could be done without
unanimous consent, a good many RepuD-
iicans were willing 60 abandon the
negro contest for the sake OF obtaining
consideration for the business 10 which
they were most interested. Finally
Que OF them went over to Holman of
Indiana, who Is always on the alert for
Jobs and never hesitates to object to
any bill that looks suspicious, no mat
ter whether its patron be Republican
or Democrat, and said to him: "We
are ready to allow the resolution to
seat Lee to be laid ON the table. so that
We can go on with other business.
" Oh, YOU are, replied Holman. "Let
me tell you that shall not be dope.
The niger is worth bis weight in god
where he is now, and there shall he
stay until this Congress expires
A White Invasion.
WASHINGTON, March S.-Secretary
Joslyn, of the Interior Department, is
informed by telegraph that about 200
settlers recently invaded that part OF
the Sioux Indian reservation which lies
east Of the Missouri river, and put up
shanties there, and that thousands of
other settlers are preparing to follow.
No action has been taken by the depart.
ment but intruders will. OF course, be
ordered off the reservation. A delega-
tinn of Chippewa Indians from the Red
/ Ike agency, Minnesota, headed by the
Reverend Ignatius Tornasia, has just
come to Washington for the purpose of
m liking complaint to the Secretary of
the Interior in regard to the unauthor.
led cutting of timber by white men on
their reservation. They represent these
as becoming more and
more extensive and if not stopped will
Il tterly ruin that part of the reserva.
tinn which is still invaded. They also
wish to inform the Secretary that they
ire well satisfied with their present
and and do not wish to be moved.
DETROIT, March Samuel Ulum
,as been pardoned out OF the State
Prison, where he had been confined for
wenty-nine wears for the murder OF
nan named Z .stabrook, in st. Joseph
county, in 1853. There is now little
loubt that Uium was entirely innocent
I any connection with the murder.