Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-23

maintained, b cap viii be closed mp
By Angus oil September, at latest.
All the hands who can be- engaged are
crowded on the work, and the moving
city which advances 40 the tracS layere
move forward, is composed of 90 hard
q crowd Of citizens as one will soc out
of jail. The dispatches from
Wesksville, q new railroad town
In Montana, show that the Vigil
snce committee, which was established
recently, Is the only power that these
border desperadoes fear. The railroad
will not be completed In time to bring
out any Of the visitors to the triennial
conclsve of knights Templar, to be
held in this city in June, but the man.
ayers Of the road propose to do agood
tourist business from this end of the
line. They own the Pacific Coast
Steamship company, and they pro.
pose to run regular excursion steamers
from here to Alaska, and also many
points of interest on the Columbia
river and along Puget Sound. The
excursion from this city to Alaska
will take twenty-five days, aud
\the fare Is put at SIPS for
the round trip. One Of tho chief
drawbacks to northern travel on the
coast lie the terror of the ocean trip to
any one who Is not q good sailor.
People who have made the voyage to
England many lines without losing a
meal, are forced to render tribute to
Neptune on this short voyage Of three
days to Portland. The sea is chopoy,
aud the Pacific Is seldom at rest along
this rough and rocky coast Hence
the prospect Of ell rail correction
between here and Portland will be
hailed here with great satisfaction as O
means of deliverance from the un.
speakab!e woes Of sea sickness. Work
Ia bsipg done on both ends of the
California & Oregon railroad. Ia
Oregon 1t is built considerably beyond
Roseburg; in California the present
terminus is Redding, In Shasta coun-
ty. Tho distance to be covered is not
great, but the country Is badly broken
and several long tunnels will be no.
quired to get over the mouutains, The
Central Pacific will control tho Cali.
fornia road as far north rs the state
line; from this poiut it will bs opera.
ted by the Willard management.
LIBERAL VS.. MONOPOLY METHODS.
The Northern Pacific Ia very popu.
lar In Oregon and throughout ell the
northern tier of territories 1t has
adopted the correct plan If doing ev.
erythirg In its power to Develop the
country and help the merchants aud
the farmers. 1t has gained control q
sll the avenues Of %trafic, and coulG
readily fix on the far northwest O mo-
nopoly more calling than that of thu
Central aud Southern Pacific roads il
this safe. But thus far Their,
has been no evidence Of the tao
tics pracNiced by our rsilroad monop
olists. Freightsh have been graded nc
cording to the distance they were t.
be carried, and here has been nom
of the absurd and annoying discrimi
nations which have made the Contra
Pacif, hated by the farmers of Cali
%fcrnia. The long.contined tyrann.
I under which the grangers and mer
chants of this state have groaned
b eNing Its legitimate fruit. Tn
legislature is eng aged In passing bill
to prevent the consolidation Of tn
Southern Pacific with the Texas ant
P. cIfc, and to devise means for com
, polling all railroads to pay their jus
taxes to the counties through who
they ruo. Stanford and Huntingto
declare that this is blackmail on
/. great corporation, but any one VII
=. has seen the devices which the raj
. road adopts not only to bulldoz, a
shippers, but to control the politics {
the state, will sgree that no measur
that has been proposed Is too sever
to protect the public from q corpora
, ton that surpasses the Standard o
Company ia power to do mischief an
? to override private interests.