The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-09-09
The Attorney General of Texas
Wants NJ, X. st. Charters
Forfeited.
He Files q Suit to That Effect
Another Missouri Paci-
flc Line.


district court of Travis county, Texas,
against the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
railway company, for forfeiture Of
charters.
Among the grounds is the allegation
by the attorney general that in 1880
the company began a wilful violation
Of the laws of Texas by exceeding It's
charter powers in every particular pos.
sible to fraudulent management; is
sued bonds fic itiously for its indebt-
edness; executed mortgages to the
amount of s37, 900 per mile in Texas
and demanded high rates of freight
to pay interest on said debt.
The attorney general also alleges
that the NJ, K. & L has absorbed
and controls all the property and
franchises Of the following roads, in
violation of the state constitution, viz:
Trinity & Sabine, the Dallas &
Wichit4, the Gainesville, Henrietta
d Western, the Dallas & Greenville,
the Taylor, Bastrop Il Hous' on. the
Deuison & Southern and the East
Line & Red River.
The attorney general charges that
the NJ, K. & T. has fictitiously bond
ed itself for s37, 900 per mile and
stock to the amount of S35, 900 per
mile. He charges that the NJ, <. 81
I. has consolidated the roads men
toned and on the property of each
has placed mortgages 10 secure con-
solidated bonds issued by it and other
Indebtedness to the amount of $50 ,264-
OH, payable in New York and other
cities outside the state, and that the
companies mentioned have been strip
ped by the NJ, K. & I. and de.
prived of all their property by that
corporation. For this and other rea-
sons the state, by the attorney general,
prays forfeiture of the charter of the
NJ, X. & T. r. r.
ANOTHER NEW LINE.
A Kansas City dispatch of the
9th inst. says: "The Missouri Pa
cifc to-day put corps of engineers
in the field to locate a line from
Carthage, Mo-, to Batesville, Ark.
The preliminary surveys were made
some time agJ, and the engineers who
have just taken the field are to make
the location. When complete, this
road will connect with a Gould line
running between Batesvi!le and New
Orleans, and with it will form the
shortest line between Kansas City and
New Orleans. That is, it WI be the
shortest line if the Memphis does not
carry out a project which probably
had some thing to do with the placing
Of surveyors 10 the fi=ld by the Mis-
souri, Pacific. The Memphis route
has for s.ms time had engineers sur
veying a line from Springfield to Lit
ne Rock, where connection will be
made with the road being built be-
tween lhas city and Natchez aud New
Orleans. Two preliminary lines have
been rum"
RAILS AND TIES.
james Hagerman, general attor-
ney for the NJ, K. Il T., left for
Kansas City yesterday afternoon.
j. III. Baker. of the telegraph de-
partment of The Missouri Pacific, came
in from the vest at noon yesterday.
Jake j. Kelley, who Was called
to Albany, N. Y, by the death OF
his father, will return home this week.
Col. j. NJ. Ames, the contractor,
came in from Schell City yes elday
and passed on TO his home at Otter
vile.
Conductor A. Rosenhan, of the
Versailles branch, returned to his run
yesterday, after few hours visit
here.
Receiver II. c. Cross returned
from New York yesterday afternoon.
Traffic Manager Waldo will return
some time this week.
John j. Kinney, chief of the
secret service department of the M,
K. q T., returned from Kansas City
at noon yesterday.
j. r. Huff, master car builder
for the Iron Mountain road, with
headquarters at DeSoto, was in town
yesterday, en- route home from the
sOuth.
Mr.. G. V. Lewis, freight claim
agent of the Big -Four, leaves for Gin
cinnati at noon, accompanied by his
daughter, who will spend some three
weeks in the east.
-Depotmaster Carnes laid of yes
terday to attend a meeting of the
county democratic central committee,
and his duties were looked after by
Jim Robb.
The remains of Engineer Dowd
,orad from the NJ z q, n,