The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-09-26
MOTION DENIED.
Judge Field viii Not Modify the
PrttiS Courts Order.
GENERAL OFFICES MIST NOT GO
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail-
road Temporarily Compelled
to Keep Faith With
Sedllia.


Sedalia.
Readers of the INTELLIGENCER will re-
call an item printed under the railroad"
head of last weeks issue, to the effect that
the president of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas railroad had decided to move the
general Offices of the company from Soda
lila to Parsons, in compliance with a law
of Kansas compelling all corporations
organized under the laws of that state to
maintain its general offices within her
borders. The order was made, and men
were actually engaged in loading the
books, papers and furniture OF the offices
into cars for transportation tn Parsons,
when the county court oil Pettis county,
acting under Instructions OF Attorney
General Wood, of Missouri, and Prosecu-
ting Attorney Longan, OF Pettis county,
issued an order restraining the company
from removing any of the offices, or any
books, papers or furniture pertaining
thereto, from the state until the matter
could be settled in the courts.
This order was served upon certain Gil
ficers of the company late Thursday even
ing, and had the effect of stopping the
further removal from Sedalia, and the
cars We're ~unloaded, the clerks who were
to have gone to Parsons remaining as they
were.
The railroad company was mad. The
president, II. c. Cross, a citizen and lead
ing banker OF Emporia, Kansas, was in
Texas at the time the order was issued,
but he returned to Sedalia as quickly as n
special train could make the trip. 1t was
openly asserted by the people of Sedalia
that Cross's urgent desire to obey the laws
of Kansas was helped along largely by the
fact that some OF the officers of the COM
pany were interested in Parsons real es-
tate, and that Cross, by the removal OF the
offices, hoped to push them along with
their boom. In fact, IN employee of the
railroad company did not hesitate to tell
an INTELLIGENCER reporter that IL real
estate boom had Il stronger pull on the
offices than the encouragement of Kan
sas, whose threat to begin proceedings
looking to the forfeiture of the charter
franchises of the road was taken in such
seemingly dead earnest by Cross and the
lot boomers.
Well, the Encouragement of Kansas
gave them until the Goth to "git thar"
md but for the i~nterposition of Attorney
General Wood and Prosecuting Attorney
Longan, they would nave been out of Mis-
our and into Kansas on the 18th or 18th.
But they didn't go. And they don't go
just yet.
When the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
road was taken from the Missouri Pacific
system and placed in the hands of the re-
c~eivers, the people of Sedalia presented
the receivers with S25, 900 in cold cash as n
bonus to secure the location of the general
offices there. Before the receivership
ended, Cross, one of the receivers, promis-
ed the Parsons people that as soon as he
could he would move the Offices. In July
the United States circuit cOur returned
the road to its n and Cross was made
its president and general manager. He
set about delivering the purchase price.
But be was stopped.
The case was transferred to Lexington
/ one motion by the defendant company,
hasking Judge Field, in chambers, to set
3aslae cor modify the restraining order.
The motion was presented by George p.
b. Jackson and John Montgomery, gem
eral attorneys for the railroad in Mis-
souri,. The opposition presented was in
the form OF an objection to the j%urisdic-
ton of Judge Field in vacation of the
Pettis county circuit court. Henry Lamm,
G.. w. Barnett, George Longan, John IL.
Boutwell, and G. Il. Yeater represented
the plaintiff, the state of Missouri. The
motion was not sustained, the judge hold
ing that the matter could only come before
hin in the term time of the Pettis circuit
court.
Judge Fields court being in session, he
could only grant the visiting attorneys n
night session, which was held Monday
night, the attorneys closing their argu-
ments about IL 80.
SEDALIA'S LUMINARIES HERE.
It's not often that one small city has as
many legal luminaries and railroad mag
mates as visitors at one time as fell to the
lot of Lexington Monday night. Why,
the very street lamps were dim, and the
moon did not dare show its face until way
in the night. The list of notables reads
like the guest-list of some state dinner.
There was President II. c.. Cross, of the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas, Il Kansas
man, and who seeks to make n Kansas
road OF the "Katy;" Thomas Sedgwick,
also n Kansas man, and the roads general
attorney; George p. b. Jackson, whose
wife is n daughter OF Senate Vest; John
Montgomery, president Of the Young
Mems Christian Association; Jake Frey,
the general superintendent of the NJ, X.
& T.; Homer Boutwell,, ex-member of the
Legislature; Henry Lamm, representing
attorney; G. f.. Yeater, j. West Goodwin,
actually with n nearly new straw hat and
y cigar fresh some time that day; J. c.
Thompson, cashier of the First National
bank and one of the directors OF the Texas
road; G. w. Barnett, Mayor Ed. Stevens
A. l.. Burr, secretary of the State FaiI
association; George Longan, prosecuting
attorney of Pettis county; j. l.. Thornton
travelling correspondent of the Sedalia
Gazette; Il. II. Quisenberry, official stem.
ographer of the Pettis circuit court; ii
G. Clark, superintendent of the Missouri
Pacific, and Jack Gibbs, not last in the
list because he il least in Importance, but
because he came last. The party was her,
in the matter OF the removal OF the genera
offices oil the Missouri, Kansas and Texa,
from Sedalia to Parsons, KANSAS.
JURY DISAGREED.
In the case of Powell against Lehman
on trial i'm Judpa Fields cuurt whom in,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. forms We're closed las