The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-12-22
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.
Receivers Review Reviewed
General News Items
; Comments.

In another column we print statement
, from Mr. Hadley, receiver, handed ms at q
late hour, and its length and detail prevent
anything like careful examination of il
this week, hence we notice only one or two
points. The men and the public are not 20
much Interested in knowing how Mr.. Had
ley has distributed the money he SAYS he
has paid out for labor and materials during
his term OF office ut nine months as they are
In few sums in simple arithmetic. His re-.
port states that he has expended for labor
$69, s59: ~ and for materials $4l ,677 20, to.
gether $ll ,537. ID; but his accounts filed in
the court show that from March to Sep
tember, inclusive, he received Sl3l. $50.
Suppose we charge him with no more than
200 for the months of October and No
vember (for which he has filed no accounts
whatever) his receipts, then, were $l5S, 583,
at least. What has he done with the S47.-
O46 difference? His unpaid labor appears
to be not less than $50, 900, for material
only. His attorney, Mr.. Gest, told the court
on Nov %, that he owed $50, 1852 to Oct.
81. Why were these bills not paids He
now admits the July labor was not paid I'M.
til September, the August labor not until
November.
| These stories about the road beings ssphys-
| ical wreck" when he took hold of it NAV
go In the east, but not here. The phenom-
email reduction OF expenses in the general
offices will not gain much credit in this city,
where everyone knows the names and posi-
tions of the Office employees under both
arrangements. The reflections by the
present receiver on the old one are nothing
more than an attempt to divert public at.
tention from the real issues of the day. Mr.
Hadley doubtless feels badly at the failure
OF all his efforts to put the Blair faction into
possession of the road. Fortunately for the
| employees and the people along the line of
the road the Blair faction have shown their
hands too soon and failed of their grasp at
the throats of the people. 1t does not fol-
low that the o. P. railway will be broken
up for old iron and the boats sunk at their
docks or sent to the bone-yard.
1t is rumored that Supt. Mulcahy will re-
| sign. .
Who will be the next receiver? is uues-
ton that agitates the minds Of many. Sew
eral probabilities are suggested.
| Nearly all the employees of the O. P. will
be here on Tuesday to attend court and look
after their interests.
Mr. Wallis Nash attended the meeting Of
| employees at Albany Tuesday evening and
is reported as having made short address
that was thoroughly interesting to his hear
| ers.
The steamer Willamette Valley is tied up
| IN San Francisco on an attachment OF $13,-
| 600 issued by the court of California, in the
| U: 5. court for $11 900, with another to prob
ably follow for $4,000.
Rumor has it that Messrs. Hughes and
proposition to the court that they will pay off
the labor and material claims. If this report
proves true much joy will ensue.
The present management have inaugur-
ated great system of retrenchment of ex-
penses, amounting to about $4,000 per
month, Large numbers of employees dis
charged, but they have been authori to
pay no attention to their notices of disfIfs sal
until after court convenes on the 26th by
Judge Fullerton.
Mr.: Hadley, says he has put in $4,000 ties
in eight months. If we remember rightly
Mr.. Hoag used to say he had put in so, 900
during the last year of his time. That looks
like. pretty rapid repairing for "busted"
road. We have heard something lately Of
these repairs sometimes going on the wrong
bridges. This may be only rumor; Of
| course.
| Who was superintendent of the O. P.
during Col. Hogg's receivership? Did not
Mr.. Hadley fill that chair most of the timer
how came he to allow SO much physical
wreck' Of the ties and bridges under his
charge? Did he ever represent the danger
| Jus NCOLuItOH VI W Ills SupGTlOTSI
| We always used to hear the road was in fine
fix: The trains certainly ran faster and
easier than they do now.
We notice Mr.. Vaughn on the streets the
last day or two. Mr.. Y. is the late agent of
Receiver Hadley in San Francisco. His
stories of the goings on there seem to attract
considerable attention. Perhaps he might
woodpile." The o. P. appears to have cut s.
pretty wide swath in the transportion busi-
! ness there. What is this bout bringing the
Southern Pacific TO terms aud crushing the
! Union Pacific.
Captain 4. j. Y Young, of the o. ?. river
steamer Hoag, received the following note
from headquarters on Wednesday afternoon,
which explains itself:
Capt. R. J. Young.
| City
DEAR SIR: As there is nothing further in sight
for the boat to do find necessary to lay up the
steamer after today this will take yourself and
out of service for the present
| R. E. Mulcahy, Gen supt.
| Mr.. Young, the captain, informed the
writer that the United States courts alone
have jurisdiction in the matter and that until
the river employees receive their salaries they
| will continue in possession and to draw their
salaries.
The bidders for the O. P, Messrs. Hughes
and Clark, came to Corvallis by the freight
train this morning. The air was rife with
rumors that they had come to pay up the in
debtedness to the men for labor and ma
terials, or that they were to give the judge
bonds to that effect. We are told, however.
on good authority that those gentlemen say
that they do not feel themselves authorized
to increase their bid. We are informed that
they intimated that they had started from
New York under the idea that the 5000, 600
would pay the labor and material claims
which had a preference over all others, but
that they had found out that they were mis-
taken in that idea. and that the 5000, 600 was
all that they controlled at this time. They
appeared desrous of creating the impression
that if their bid failed to be confirmed by the
judge the combination that they represented
would fall to pieces.
Concerning the dispatch from Albany in
the Oregonian Yesterday morning, which
claims that the efforts of the Oregon Pa
ciic employees to secure q new receiver is
an attempt to injure the present manage
ment and is in the interest of Col. T.. e.
Hogg, and that G. G.. Hogue is the dark
horse" for receiver, E. 8. Barnes, chair
| man Of the employees meeting, auth orizes
| the following statement:
| There is not word of truth in the dispatch and
the men believe it must have been sent by some close