St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-25
IT IS VERY STRANGE.
A Story Brought Out by the
Filing Of Articles Of In
corporation.
A New Railroad Company
Which Has a Decidedly
Peculiar Look.
Three Of the Alleged lneor-
porators Deny That They
Are Members.
Is the Minneapolis, St. Paul
& Southwestern But a
Paper Road ?


Articles incorporating the Minneapo-
lis. st. Paul e Southwestern Railway
company were filed with the register of
deeds yesterday by W. G. Ward.
Thomas Bohen, Fremont d. Woodbury.
and j. c. White, of Waseca; Paul Cour-
ian, of New York, and Charles c. Gar
land, Carman n. Smith and B. W. Tay-
Tor, of Minneapolis. The company has
a capital stock of $4,000, coo. and will
have its general offices in Minneapolis.
The gentlemen named constitute the
board of directors. And thereby hangs
a tale.
An evening paper last night contained
a telegram from Boone, To-, stating
that party of surveyors, said to
be acting on their own re-
sponsibil;ty, had been arrested
there Oh the charge of obtaining money
under false pretenses. The leader of
the party, so the telegram stated, was
c. H. Evans. The charge was that the
men were pretending to survey for a
road from Minneapolis to Kansas City,
and that they were getting donations
for the location of depots, freight
houses, etc. They arc said to have OBJ
tanned $3.50 at Boone and much more at
other places.
e. H. Evans is connected with the
party sent out to survey for the st.
Paul, Minneapolis & Southwestern rail
roads, the articles of incorporation of
which were filed at the court house here
just before 5 o'clock last night. B. w.
Taylor and G. c. Garland are two of the
Minneapolis men mentioned in the ar
ticleS of incorporation as incorporates
and directors. MessrS. Garland and
Taylor are partners as Garland Il lay
lor, pine land dealers. 600 Lumber EX
change, and both were seen last night.
When found they were together at Mr..
Garland's residence, Eighth street and
Sixth avenue south, and were discussing
the item iii the evening papers. Mr..
Garland and MIR. Taylor both expressed
astonishment when told that the articles
of incorporation had been filed, and eX
pressed some displeasure at finding
their names used in connection with it.
Their story of the affair is that last
fall Fremont d. Woodbury., civil en-
gineer of WaSeca, known to both Tay-
Tor and Garland, came here to work up
company to put through a railway
scheme which he had originated. His
idea was to build a road from Minneap-
oils to Kansas City via Waseca and DeS
Moines. He represented at that time
that it would not be parallel road, and
that there would be enough tributary
territory to make
THE VENTURE PROFITABLE.
He proposed to form a company, survey
the route and circulate a paper in towns
along the line to see what each town
would do to aid the scheme pecunarily.
He mentioned the name of w. G. Ward,
Thomas Bolen and J. G. White, of Wa
SEGA, as men who would go into the
scheme. and Mr.. Taylor. Mir. Garland
and Carman n. Smith became interested
and agreed to help organize the COM
pany to carry on the plan.
About two months ago the articles of
incorporation were drafted in triplicate,
one COPY to be filed in this state, one in
Iowa, and one in Missouri. AT the
time the name of Paul Courian, of New
York, appeared in the list of incOrpOr-
ators, and the Minneapolis members of
the
SYNDICATE BECAME DISSATISFIED,
as they did not know who Courian was
or whether or no he was responsible or
IlOI. AL lDdU IlilIt III Was illJGI}ucu "
file the articles of incorporation at once,
but soon after the disagreement about
Couran arose Taylor, Smith and Gar
land discovered other unsatisfactory
points in the management of the scheme
and also found out that the road would
be parallel road and that the plan was
not practicable. They therefore decided
to
WITHDRAW FROM THE COMPANY.
and all three Cancelled their names on
the original copy of the articles of in
corporation and notified the other mem
bers of the company of their withdrawal.
This occasiOned a delay in filing the
articles, and day before yesterday
Thomas Bohen called upon Mr.. Gar
land and requested him not to withdraw
now, as it would break up the whole
scheme, and asked him to retain his
connection with the company until the
organization was perfected. This Mr..
Garland agreed to do, with the under
standing that he was to resign imme-
diately after the matter was fully ar
ranged
Mr.. Taylor and Mr.. Smith were not
approached in this matter, and the use
Of Mr.. TaylOr's name in the articles as
filed seems 10 have been without any
authority.
Neither of these gentlemen under
stand the filing of the articles yester-
day. and both said there was something
they did not understand in the actions
of certain Waseca members Of the COM
binati1n. They did not think, however,
that Woodbury. had any intention of de-
frauding any one, and did not care to
say much about the matter until they
had further acquainted themselves with
the facts