The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-02

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other line which in it's circuitOus route
connects Chicago and Omaha by way
Of Kansas city. thus partially protect
ing the business of the old Kansas Pa
cific road. This mornings dispatches
deny the alliance with the Alton road,
but that dOes not exclude the likelihood
Of u telegram tomorrow to
that il mas really been made.
The question arises how the Union
Pacific itself is 10 derive benefit from
these compacts, which co1fessedly are
all well enough for the W other lines.
What will the four ar five other lines
do which cover AN immense stretch Of
country east Of the Missouri and
make Omaha the c~onverging point for
"a world of traffic? Certain il Is that
the Union Pacific cannot make special
traffic agreements with all of them, yet
such corporations as the Rock Island,
the Burlington. the Missouri Pacific
and the Milwaukee and ~. Paul have u
liberal share os the traffic from the East
tn the Missouri. and they are not likely
tn submit long tn any combination that
gives advantage to my rival line.
If with traffic arrangements adjusted
between the Northwestern the Alton
and itself, the Union Pacific proposes
tn end it's exploits i'm h way of COM
binations we may expect tn see the
other roads centering i'm oman make
"a push for "a new route tn the Pacidc
coast. and thus rival roads will be
competing for tr~anscontinental business
which the Union Pacific itself long
ago discovered not be of amount sufli-
cient to- keep "a single road from grow
ing steadily poorer. In other words,
the traffic arrangements now announced
look very mucnl like "a direct bid on the
part of the l'niOn Pacific for transcon-
tinental competition and for rivalry in
n field where one road has found more
than it could 10 to keep its financial
chin above water.
The Union Pacific road is pretty IA
nous for it's skill in making bad bar
gains. is cultured management in the
distant East has done little tn help the
road aud much tn harm it. \ rival
Dad has covered the country west Of
Ogden while, east of Cheyenne. II IL
winged by several roads that are cover
ing with ties and rails a country which
the Union Pacific ought long ago t.
have linked inseparably to itself. If
anything good ZONES for the Union
Pacific out of these latest combinations
il will lie a wonder. 1t the results
prove to be highly helpful to the two
lines with which the combine is made
and infinitely harmful ia the end to the
Union Pacific itself. we shall simply
have added evidence to show that the
line having Mr.. Charles Francis Adams
ut its head Is the most clever railroad
at laundering OH h continent.
George w. Cooley of Minneapolis
comes forward with q design for a
structure to be erected at the worlds
fair which will eclipse them all. lie
proposes to build apyramid of granite
1000 feet high, On Ne top Of which is
to Ike n Goddess of Liberty IN feet
high. Mr.. Cooley's suggestion cannOt
lay claim to absolute originality, but at
the same time his idea i'm a scnse may
he said to be new. For She last few
thousand years pyramid business has
been dull in spite of an abundance of
raw material. II il gratifying to learn
that the business shows signs of re-
turning life n activity. Mr.. Cooley
estimates the cost of his pyramid far
up in the millions, which, although
pretty high. is not nearly SO high. he
says, AZ h pyramid will be. The
project in M immense one every way.
hut we trust that all the worlds fair
committees will take things Cooley and
not get their ideas too high.
ONE POINT DISPOSED OF.
Judge De Wolfe put an end to a good
deal of nonsensical newspaper talk yes
terday morning by telling the lawyers
just how he in related to the case in
volving the % of the tunnel pre-
cinct vote. The Judge said that while
he absolutely knew he was not inter-
ested in the slightest degree i'm the
matter Of the counting of the vote OF
the tunnel precinct, yet he conceived it
to be "a matter of i~ndelicacy for a Judge
to order votes east for himself e be
counted. The elimination OF himself
from the cause he thought was com
plete when n votes east for him were
obliterated from the writ Of mandate.
He conceived that he had absolutely no
further personal interest in the matter
unless it might be urged that he was
Interested as a partisan. and that OBJ
lection would apply to every citizen
who is n voter.
AS unse on both sides of the case
accepted Judge DE Wolfe's remarks
without demurrer. il may Ice taken for
granted that any discussion of his per
sonal relations tn the count is altogether
idle. Yesterday morning. however AN