National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-01-18
RAILWAY NOTES.

George Stephen, president of the Canadian
Pacific railway, has been knighted by the
queen.
The fight between the farmers and the rail.
way companies in the Virginia legislature over
the bill for the appointment of state commits
sion Will begin this week.
=. A bill was introduced In the Virginia senate
;last Saturday to incorporate the Virginia Min.
oral Belt Road Company, whose line Is designed
TO run from Chesapeake bay, in Matthew
county, TO Columbia, Fluvanna county, north
of Richmond.
i. Swan, the deiaulting local treasurer of the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company, sentenced
last summer TO thirteen years In the peniten-
signed by two physicians to the effect that
Swan would not live IL month longer in prison,
and not many months at best out OF 1t.
BY resolution of the Virginia senate the
board OF sinking fund commissioners were
facts in. reference to the failure of the Rich
mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad
TO declare dividend ON the 100000 of stock
owned by the state: This stock would have
been sold last year II IL had been understood
that no dividend would be declared. II will
in all probability be sold us soon as practicable
now.
President Roberts, of the Pennsylvania road,
held q consultation with the leading legal OIL.
GERS OF tho company in regard to the South
Pennsylvania aud Beech Creek railroad de-
cisions. 1t was agreed that the cases should
be appealed to the supreme court OF the state.
The form in which the appeal shall be made
has not yet been determined upon, but action
will be taken promptly. II Is asserted by some
legal authorities that the nature of the suit
VIII admit OF Us appeal to the Supreme Court
of the United States, but this contingency Is
not discussed at present. by the legal advisers
of the company.
While II is n common thing for the coal COM
panies to disagree more or less at this season
Of the year about the percentages of output for
the coming twelve months, prominent men in
the trade say that the outlook for settlement
or the differences now existing Is less promis-
ing than they have seen II before In many
years past II Is stated officially that no effort
is now being made TO bring about n settle.
ment of existing differences and the belief on
the street is very general that certain coal
companies COM officials are working In harmony
decline In the prices of the coal stocks, before
combination Is formed for the current year
The passenger rate cut from Chicago to New
York does not extend rs rapidly as was threat.
ened. Thirteen dollars Is still required for a
ticket at the different brokers' offices over the
Baltimore and Ohio route, II Is plain that some
influence has interviewed to stop the demorali-
Zation that everybody predicted on Monday
dispatch, the general ticket agents will hold a
meeting, which will decide war or peace. There
were reports from New York in which, how.
ever, little credence was put, that the Erie
Lackawanna, and other lines will meet the cut
westbound thus forcing the Pennsylvania to
make settlement with the Baltimore and
Ohio.
Gov. Ross, of New Mexico in his annual re-.
port to the Secretary of the Interior says In re.
gard to railways In the territory There are
now In operation In the territory, l,lO9 miles of
railroad, constructed within the past five
and branches, 675 miles; Of the Atlantic and
Pacific, Ia miles; Denver and Rio Grandc, 80
miles, and OF the Southern Pacific. aud
extension of the Atlantic and Pacific from its
crossing of the Atchison, Topeka aud Santa Fe
at albuquerque eastward TO the Texas bound
airy, distance of 900 miles, is practically as.
sured during the coming year IL Is anticipated
that railroad construction within the territory
Will then become active, as q number of rail-
road enterprises are now quite matured, and
AL demanded by the increasing development
OF the country"
Associated Press dispatches from Chicago
show heavy shrlnkago in the freight moved
east last week by the trunk lines, There has
been since the re.establshment of rates a
steady falling of. Last week the movement
was about 6,O00 tons less than the preceding
week, Tho falling of from the same week
last year, over $4,000 tons, Is considered enough
TO show the Generalization in the branch line
business. The percentages carried by the dlf.
feront roads has, since the patchngup of the
trunk line pool, been watched with more than
ordinary interest. Week before last 1t was
thought that the percentage ofthe Chicago and
Atlantic and the Baltimore and Ohio indicated
that those roads were making cut. Last week
the percentage ofthe Chicago and Atlantic
shows no such state OF affairs
An important suit involving the title of some
valuable property in Duluth, MINI, has been
Instituted, and was taken up for trial at st.
Paul Saturday. II Is the suit OF Frederick
Prentice, Of Toledo; vs. the, st. Paul and Du'
luth and Northern Pacific railroads. The prop.
erty for which title Is asked is an undivided
one,half interest in $50 acres of land, including
Rice's Point and Minnesota Point, Duluth
which Mt, Prentice claims under the benefcl.
aries OF the Indian treaty of 1854 between the
Chippewa Indians and the United States 1t
takes the best part Of the terminal property Of
the two company defendants In Duluth, aud, II
Prentice succeeds In establishing his claim, II
one.half interest IN the principal water front
of Duluth, including the locality OF the pro
posed new slips at that point.