The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-02

II W.. rys. General Freight Agent OF the
IN. ianapcI sand st. Lou Road, has notified
shippers that they will not hereafter issue
ahippe-s' tn tickets. This Class OF tickets
have been L Isused, and most roads have de-
ci6sd that shippers should be satisfied with
t~housG1d-mila tickets at reduced rates.
A dispatch sent East from Columbus, O.,
TO the effect that the Hooking Valley Road
would pass lis January interest is
10 be without the slightest foundation. The
interest due IL January Is comparatively Ia
significant, only amounting to s2I,OOO. aud
ID money is lyingi in bank 20 meet II. The
report that the road will be a million short
Of its necergties is equally false. 1t has met
nj is obligations promptly, and will con-
sinue To do go. The employees have been as
promptly paid as they we're during It's most
prosperous period.
Pfeparrtions ere making By the Illinois
Central management 70 bring suit within q
lev DAYS fer the ajectment OF tue Baltimore
and Ohio from the use OF the formers track
as an entrance into Chicago. The case is a
difference o. opinion regarding the terms OF
the lease. The Baltimore and Ohio people
regard the contract IS perpetual. The IIli-
0ois Central people, On the other hard, IL
sist that the privileges under the lease ceased
after November :, 1881, and say tEat the
Baltimore and Ohio trains have since that
date been running over the Illinois Central
tracks By sufieTsnce. pending an i~nterpreta-
lion of ths lease By the courts
The Railway Age has more than once re-
feFrfd Ct sore length 10 the probability that
At 10 very distant day American capital
and enterprise would find grand oppOrtun-
j V for iDVeStment in railway building IN
China. This toliei vas bssed UPON the fact
ihat tho orogrecstve element in that country
has somewhat recently gained control, and
that this element is known to be iavorebly
inclined toward railway building erd to
ward the Introduction OF American ideas 10
n number OF important directions. We are
IN possession OF private information &c the
elect that prominent parties In this coun-
try viii soon have completed G plan
which, IL 1uccessfCl. will result Il the
early commencement Of rail wey con-
struction in the "FloEery Kingdom I"
and VII co. Up q new ard most
important field to eli manufacturers Of rail-
way appliances Il every kind. 1t is believed
that the Chinese Government will formally
yeqr sst the United States Government tn
send q commission OF, say three. prominent
Am 81 cana, to consult with the Chimes
Authorities with reference to the i%neugurs.
ton of an extensive system OF railway
building. Already plans, photographs,
stateronts and ell possible data desirable for
use IN te3 direction indicated are being col
Jected. at an early day We hope to be able
70 present TO orr readers the details of this
most important s~cheme.-Railway Age.
q great deal OF Curiosity 1S manifested Is
10 the motive OF Mr.. Henry T. Plant, Of New
YOJk, in bringing suit to declare illegal the
lease of the Wabash, st. Louis and Pacific
Railway Company 10 the Iron Mountain aud
Southern Railway Company. The lease was
abandoned by the Iron Mountain last
spripg, go hat t would seem that il the
Iron Mountain was to be hid responsible 1T
all in t1e mater il would lie for Il nueyg e.
pended daring ne time the Wabasl was OPP
sTased rcde- the lease. In this connection
il my 60 interesting to know that the gen
tiemnn Zho iled the petition is the Presi-
dent o. the solthern Express Company, and
his attorney, Clarence Seward, by whom the
petition was lied. was also his attorney N
the celebrated express fight OF three yesr3
sgO. IL my be remembered that the South.
erp Express Company endeavored to compel
the Iron Mountain Road to take Southern
Express matter ever iS lines. Tho Pacific
Exprsru Company then, as now, operated
over the Iron Mountain. The Souttern Ex-
press Company failed TO carry its case, how
ever, and has since vainly tried to make il
good. It IS now intiElatsd in some quarters
that r.. Plant has fled bis petition to de-
Glars tho lease Of the Wabash 20 the Iron
Mountain illegal, with The purpose Of max
ing the Directors of the iron Mountain Road
personally -~eoDcl9ihle for expenditures dur
ing the tine the locso vcs Il existence, aud
10 thereby put himself N a position to dc
tate terms 20 tAe Iron Mountain people and
&c bring about 4 compromise by which the
Southern Express Company will be sllo wed
tn send It's matter over the Iron Mountain
Road. This 1ppea-c 20 De sne most plausible
reason sor lie unexpected movement
Ct. Louiz G-obe-Ceoaocrat.