The Dickinson press., 1883-11-10

at Washburn. The following officers
were appointed: Register of deeds, E.
N. Grey; sheriff. John Satterlund; treas
urer, E. T. Winston; superintendent Of
public schools, j. M. Carnahan; Judge Of
probate, James Heath; county attorney,
E. L. McCune; coroner, E. Deliver; sur
veyor, George Robinson; assessor, T. A.
Seawall.
HAUPT'S RETIREMENT.
Mr.. Oake's Inter viewed-What Cen
Haupt says-Discharges, Etc.
From Pioneer Press, I'd.
Vice President Cakes was found by the re-
porter in the presidents room on the second
floor of the general Office building. He was
busily engaged and had his desk covered with
official papers, he having yesterday assumed
the duties of general manager. He said he in
tended to spend more time in St Paul attend
ing the duties he yesterday assumed. To the
reporters queries as to the changes made and
rumored, he answered as above stated. Tho
company. he said, was now making the reduc-
tons necessary upon the consolidation of the
two divisions of the road. and the usual dis
charging on account of the closing of the COM
pany's shops for the winter was also in prog
ress. Wednesday 459 men were let go At Bis
marck. Of these, 2O5 werei in the car shops.
221 in the machine shops, and thirty three
in the foundry. Other reductions will
services can be dispensed with without detri-
ment to the operation Of the road. In replies
to other questions. Mr.. Cakes said:
The hoor uovonapf in hu opipion -.o In tia
main, due to two causes: First to q desire on the
part Of speculative holders of the Willard stocks to
construction Of The main line Of the Northern n Pa
cihc railroad. the eliminating feature of MI.
Wizards three years labor: second. the discovery
wore not slow to profit BY. The success Of tho
bears was such that a general selling movement
Of a.! stock. on the list followed. when 80 disturbed
public confidence. Little or no resistance was
made until . panic became imminent whom the
heavy railroad capitalists took the matter in hand
there was any element Of personal hostility to Nj.
Willard in the movement.
In regard to the second mortgage bonds and
the probable. outcome of the suits now pend
ing against the company. he said the company
apprehend no difficulty in securing the necessary
three-fourths vote of the preferred Stockholders
fact, it is already secured. The suits now pending
against the company were instituted for stock spec
values. will not ln my opinion DO pressed to deci-
sion. Concerning the Transcontinenta association,
and the Northern Pacidc's position with reference
this was a question he preferred not to answer
at this time. The position Of the company will be
determined by the action Of the Transcontinental
points he was not at liberty to discuss. No con.
struction work. he added. had as yet been deter
mined upon for next year.
BIS REAL M
Ex- Manager Raupt was not as reticent to Q
gentleman who called on him later in the even
| inp and whi1a atofinn fhok hio ~ornoro1 uo1a
tons with the officials of the road were
Of the friendliest, evinced anything
but enthusiasm as to the road itself.
He said he had been hampered terribly by the
economic policy adopted recently, and could
not afford to stay with q road, as it's man
ager, when the results were sure to
be unsatisfactory it not disastrous.
The road had been turned over to the operat.
ing department by the construction depart
ment at the earliest possible moment, go
that the land grant could be
secured and the line, as a whole, was in very
bad shape. There wasn't any ditching doneto
speak of, side tracks were almost wholly want
ing, the curves were so short and the outs so
narrow as to be dangerous. The road In
almost all portions. MI. Haupt AYERS, is in such
generally bad shape that to run trains
any considerable rate of speed would not be
thought of. Stations are few and water tanks
far between. In reference to the discharge
Of the $50 men from the Brainerd
shops, MIR. Haupt says this will
have the fact of making that place a repair
station merely. That all work on new cars
aud engines there must be stopped and
rolling stock sent there for repairs
will accumulate, so that in the
spring a mass of useless cars and locomotives
will want repairs, and the outcome will be
more expensive than it would have been had
the full force been retained. Mr..
Haupt says he was advised from
Portland, that the construction account had
been closed, and any other repairs and con.
| strnotion must be pasd for out of the sur.
plus earnings of the road. which the
ex-manager says, do not exist. A number Of
Northern Pacific officials were seen last night
and shown the above statements of Mr.. Haupt,
but none Of them had anything to say in con-
nection with it
THE q AT BRA1NERD.
BRANERD, Special Telegram, Nov. There
is considerable excitement in town to-day over
the discharge by the Northern Pacific COM
pany of over 500 employees from their car
shops in this city. A large reduction was
made in the force some weeks since, and as
the work was more than the remaining force
could handle, it was generally supposed no
further reduction would be made; but the re-
naming force is now reduced more than so
per cent. 1t is generally believed, however,
that the reduction can only be q tempo rary
one, as the work has gotto be done, and no tioes
are posted about the shops by heads of de-
partments that the men may be wanted again
soon.
ONLY THE BEGINNING.
NEW YORK, Special Telegram, Nov. 1.-A
the Northern Pacific Office to-day it was stated
that the discharge of 400 employees of the
company's shops at Brainerd, which occurred
last night, was but the beginning of
a system of retrenchments which
would reduce the expenses of the road
10 per cent. This was Vice President Cakes
express GRAND at St Paul, and soon further
reductions in the working force at other points
would be announced. Very few men can be
spared, as business is excellent, but the shops
have too large a force, winter is at hand and
there will not be any great construction Of roll
ing stock until spring. This move in the in
terest of economy is with the idea that it will
Immediately benefit the stockholders
The Northern Pacific presbytery, at a
meeting held at Jamestown unanimous
ly voted to establish the new college at
that place. The city gives $40, 1000 and
some valuable lands,