The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-24
cuTTING GRAND ARMY RATES.


KANSAS CITY, No, July 23.-The Chi
cago and Alton today announced a rate OF
el450 from Kansas City to Detroit and
return for the Grand Army encampment;
This is a cut of 1925 of the established
rate.
CHICAGO, July 23.-General Passenger
Agent Charlton. of the Chicago and Alton,
wrote today to Chairman Finley, OF the
Western Traffic association, saying that lt
had been found necessary to change the
Atoms position some what In regard TO
Grand Army rates. What we do for the
Veterans in Illinois," says Charlton, we
cannot consistently decline TO do for the
Feterans in Missouri. We shall therefore
Adopt the same limits and form OF ticket
bn all our lines in Illinois and Missouri.
We are unable to understand why your
association did not do this, and why you
are not more generous to the veterans
than is the Central Traffic association"
This action of the Alton will extend the
limit on Grand Army tickets to and IN
cluding August is.
After wrifing the above letter General
Passenger Agent Charlton learned that
the Wabash had cut the rate from st.
Louis to Detroit and return TO So AS the
Wabash has consented to accept the al
toms tickets, this enables the Alton TO
uuote a rate Of Sl4 50 from Kansas City to
Detroit and return by way of st. Louis
such a rate would be made. Mr.. Finley
has called meeting of the interested lines
FOR Saturday, to consider the situation as
affected by the attitude of the Alton and
the Wabash.
1t has been discovered that the Wabash
has filed with the interstate commerce
commission a tariff (ln connection with
the Missouri. Kansas and Texas quoting
the rate on coal from Toledo to Missouri
river 20 cents per ton lower than the es-
tablished rate by way Of Chicago. The
reduction has not been reported to the
chairman of the Western Traffic associa-
ton nor to the Western Freight associa-
tion, and apparently 1t is just such vlo-
lation of the agreement as the one by
which General Traffic Manager Leeds, of
the Missouri Pacific, lost his position.
INDIANAPOLIS July 23.-Judge Jenkins,
of Wisconsin, to whom was referred the
suit of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day
ton road against Riley Mckeen to recover
damages growing out OF the Ives pur-
chase of the Nandalia, this afternoon sub
mitted a decision, in which he holds that
the plaintiff has no grounds for the suit.
1t is a complete victory for McKeen.
TOPEKA, Kan, July 23.-The complaint
of the citienZs of Almeda, Kan, against the
Missouri Pacific Railroad company in re-
gard to station facilities has been decided
by the state board of railroad commits
sioners in favor of the complainants. The
petitioners alleged that the Denver, Mem
phis and Atlantic Railway company, to
which the Missouri Pacific is the legal sue
cessor, pending proposition for a con
tributiOn OF Sl20,0 600 of county bonds,
pledged TO the people at and around
Almeda a station upon the line Of its
road. After the railroad had changed
management the maintaining of station
facilities was not carried out by the COM
pany, aud the people in that locality were
compelled to go seven miles TO secure rail
way facilities. The company did OF deny
the promise made by its predecessor, it
having been shown that people in the To-
cality would not have voted for the bonds
had it not been with the understanding
that a station was TO be established.
The board therefore decided that the
interest Of the company and the rights of
the complainants alike demand the imme
diate construction of a depot and all sta
tion facilities. They ordered that the
same be built and ready for use On or be-
fore Sept J. 1891