The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-05-26

crashing IHtO tosiuOs s"S@''y NV ~
deep. A short time after freight trair
on the Hannibal & St. 10 road wen
through bridge which adjoined the Rock
Island and which had been weakened by
the first wreck. Two engineers, a fire
man and two tramps we're killed.
A woman probably 80 years of age
was picked up dead near the Union Pa
cific railroad track close to Squaw creek
three miles from Pocatello, Idaho, Mon
day. She had been en- route from Kansas
City to Oregon, where she was going to
visit her son. She had said that her son
sent for her to come to Portland, where
her nephew could not abuse her. She
was missed from the train and telegram
led to the discovery Of her body. Her
death was probably purely accidental.
A convention of delegates from many
Of the state and local bar associations of
the country, having for its object the
formation of national bar association,
met in Washington Monday. The call for
the convention was issued one month ago
by the Bar association of the District of
Columbia. Among the state associations
represented were those of Vermont, New
York, Ohio, Illinois, West Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennes-
gee, Georgia, Alabama, Montana and CAL
ifornia. Col. j. H. Broadhead of ST..
Louis was elected chairman.
Railroad Items.
T. e, ckc&ol <l~cA Hn,,r, Willard 20 tn ),o
elected president Of the Oregon Transcon-
tinental company.
The Mlssoulian says: Track laying was
resumed on the Missoula & Bitter Root
Valley road yesterday. There are only
some ten miles of iron to put down and
the advent of the iron horse into Grants
dale is u matter of the near future. The
second crossing Of the Bitter Root was
completed some time ago, and there is
now no obstacle in the way of the speedy
completion of the road to the upper valley
metropolis. ....
Vice President and General Manager
Oakes has notified the railroad commls
sion of Minnesota that passenger rates over
the main line, leased roads and branches
of the Northern Pacific will he reduced
to three cents mile in that state. This
will make the fare from St. Paul to Fargo
$7.25, a reduction of $2.15. Through
rates from St. Paul to all Dakota and
Montana points will be reduced by the
same amount as the Fargo rate.
A decision has been filed by the inter-
state commerce commission in the case Of
Martin & Co. of Denver against the South
ern Pacific company and the Union Pa
cific company. The chief question in
volved is that of the greater charge for
the shorter haul from San Francisco to
Denver than for the longer haul to Kan
sas City over the same lne. The conclu-
sion of the commission is that no adequate
ground now exists upon which the greater
charge for the shorter haul to Denver than
for that to Kansas City Can he justified.
A report is in circulation that the Nor
thcrn Pacific is to follow the example of
the Northwestern and put on vcstibule
trains from St. Paul to Tacoma as soon as
the Cascade tunnel is in thorough work
ing order. 1t is understood that the con-
tract with Pullman for full complement
Of new sleepcrs has been SO ampliticd as
to include the application of the vestibule
principle. The Northwestern has made
a ten strike by the new innovation and
the Northern Pacific people are deter
mined not to be behind any of It's con-
Meeting lines in the matter of improve
ments. Only one or two of the new Pull
mans have as yet been put on, and it will
not require much time or expense to re-
construct them ON the vestibule basis.
Milwaukee special: The report that
Willard is soon to he in control of the
Northern Pacific railway and Oregon
company arouses good
deal of interest here, owing to the fact
that the Wisconsin Central railway is also
controlled by Willard and his friends.
When the money market was tight and
the company had difficulty to meet the
demands upon it, Willard came forward
and on few days notice furnished the
Oregon Transcontinental company with
s., ,00O, 900, which relieved it of all en-
barrassment. He also found purchasers
for the Oregon Railway and Navigation
bonds. This year Willard took large
part of the Northern Pacific third mort |
gage bonds. Wizards friends in Ger
many have not only been willing to fur
nish large sums of money for these, but |
are ready to continue to do SO, so far as
may be required, and they have pur-
chased large amount of the Oregon
company's stock with
the expectation that Willard will hereaf- |
ter be prominent in the management of
the company.
CASTLE CULLINGS