The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-03-12
|TELEGRAPHIC!
I Another Easy Victory Added
to Slugeer Sullivan's
List.
Fast Mail Train to be Run Be-
tween New York and
!. Chicago.
The Postof6ce Appropriation
Bill and its Provisions
for Salary.
Wells, Fargo & Co.'S, Trouble
with Northern Pacific
Express Co.
An Important Bill Introduced
to Extend American
Trade.

81" AAAAPOA s0AAe OAAA AASAOOoSS0
to Extend American
Trade.
Urea, n. Y, March 3.-The fire dis
covered this morning in the shoe man
ufactory of H. J. Holbrooke & Co., Cath
aMne street, proved to be the most disas-
trous in the history of the city. The
Holbrooke building, M. B. Belongs furn-
iture house, and James A. Rockwell's
clothing house on Catharine street; NJ c.
4 E. D. Comstock's large store house on
the Erie canal; the Utica CITY National
Bank; Newell & Sons. paper and glass
dealers; the Observer building, Comstock
Bros wholesale house; C. H. Sayers'
hardware store, and Edward Martins gas
fitting and plumbing store, from lOs to
l23. inclusive, on Genesae street, were
totally destroyed together with most of
their contents. Assistance was rendered
by the fire departments from Little Falls,
Rome, and Whitestown. The total loss
is placed at S475,0OO; insurance, about
SS5,OOO.
The Utica Observer will find accom-
modation at the Office of the weekly
Globe. The safe of the City Bank con-
tains securities of a million in value and
a large cash balance. The business men
burned out have already found tempo
rary quarters.
The total losses aggregate $500, 900, and
the insurance $4,000.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 29.-The postoffice
appropriation bill, as prepared by the
committee. sppropriates for compensa-
ton to postmasters s10, ,500 900, and pro-
vides that
No salary of any postmaster shall ex-
ceed $4,000 per year. The postmaster
general is authorized and directed to
readjust compensation to be paid from
and after July LIST, 1884, for transporta-
ton of mails on railroad routes by reduc-
ing the compensation to all railroad COM
panies per cent. per annum below the
present rates, computed on the basis of
average weight. This provision and all
provisions of the law touching the rate
of compensation of railroad companies
for transporting mails, are made applica-
BILE to all companies whose railroads were
constructed. in whole or in part, by sub
sides in bonds and public lands granted
by the United States It is provided
that companies whose roads were con-
structed by land grants made by congress
on condition mails should be transported
at such price as congress should direct, or
on condition that such railroad should be
subject to such regulations as congress
might impose restricting the charges of
government transportation, shall receive
only so per cent. of the compensation
authorized by the act to other railroad
companies for corresponding service.
The use Of official envelopes is extended
to all officers of the United States govern
ment not including members of congress
and to all official mail matter OF the
Smithsonian institution. This feature
does not apply to pension agents or other
officers who receive fixed allowance as
compensation for their services, includ-
ing the expenses of postage.
The aggregate appropriation recon-
mended by the bill is 5,261 800. The
estimates for 1885 were S5OO62. 2.1S9.
Sr. PAUL, Mar. 1.-The publication of
the orders here from the Northern Paci-
fic to eject Well, Fargo & Co.'S. business
brings out the status of the relations of
the rival express outfits. The basis of
the demand of Wells. Fargo & Co. is an
old temporary contract that expired up
wards Of a year ago. They are now op-
Grating the western division Of the Nor
thern Pacific as far east as Missoula un-
der temporary injunction granted by
the courts Of Washington territory. The
Northern Pacific people contend that un-
til that is decided they have no right to
extend their business further east, since
the provisional arrangement terminated.
1t has not been renewed, according to
the statements of Col. Clough, counsel Of
the Northern Pacific. In order, as he
says, tina! Wells. Fargo & Co. may retain
their hold as far as possible in the terri
tory already occupied by them, they be-
gan q suit in the courts of Washington
territory against the Northern Pacific
railroad company and obtain an exparte
temporary injunction. restraining the lat
ter until inquiry could be made into the
merits Of the claim, from preventing
Well, Fargo & Co. from doing business
on this part of the road, namely from
Wallula Junction to Missoula, then being
occupied bv them. This litigation is
pending and as yet undetermined. The
recent demand for facilities by Wells.
Fargo & Co. is inferentially for the pur-
pose of laying the ground for further
suits against the railroad company else
where, although, Of course, no definite
information on this point is possessed by
the railroad company. The suit in
Washington territory was not based on
any collateral arrangement between
We Is. Fargo & Co. and the railroad COM
pany, but upon the claim of Wells, Fargo
4 Co. of the general right to carry on an
express business upon line Of railroad
in the country. They also claim the
right to compel the Northern Pacific rail-
road company to afford them facilities
for their business to carry their traffic at
the same old inadequate rates they en-
ioyed under the provisional arrangement.
A leading official of the NortheH Pacific
Express company being interviewed said
we do not anticipate that Wells, Fargo &
Co. will undertake to operate any further
east than they do now until the Washing
ton territory courts decide the pending
suit. No news has been received at the
headquarters here of the ejectment OF
any of Wells, Fargo matter from the
r.;na m the transcontinantal line