The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-03-17
OREGON PACIFIC NEWS.
ANOTHER SHIP FOR YAQUINA RouTE-sEvERAL
IMPORTANT CHANGES.

IMPORTANT CHANGES.
A San Francisco dispatch of March 18th
says that the Oregon Development Company
has announced that its steamer, the William
stte Valley. runuins between San Francisco
nd Yaqnina bay, and connecting at the lat
er place with trains of the Oregon Pacific
railway company which would hereafter run
the steamer on its ocean division. W. B.
Webster, the representative of the Oregon
Development Company, who has been gen.
eral freight and passenger agent of the steam
ship service for several years, has turned
over his office to the new managers of the
steamer but will still remain agent of the
Development company. The new officers Of
the ocean division of the Oregon Pacific rail
way are: r. i. Mulcahy, general superin.
tendent; e. W. Hadley, receiver; d. r.
Vaughn, general agent; ?. W. johnson ,
freight and passenger agent, and A. J. Storrs
captain of the steamer Willamette Valley
Captain IL. Watson, the purchasing agent
of the steamship iiue, will still remain ckief
of the commissary department. Messrs.
Mulcahy and Hadley have been in San
Francisco for several days, and will remain
Until Tuesday, when the steamer will return
north. They say that the ocean service is
to be Increased by the addition OF 1000 ton
steamer, and that instead of trips every 10
schedule every five days. The time be-
tween San Francisco and Yaquina bay is 40
hours.
The following interview with Mr. c. Il.
Gest by al Oregonian reporter, makes fur.
ther explanation of Oregon Pacific affairs:
"We have had the sale of the Oregon Pa
ciic continued until June 25tl. The OBJ
ject of the continuance is to place the prop
erty Of the Company i'll the hands CT an i'm
par:ia. receiver, and also f.: the purpose OF
Jbt.is.in., sufficient time to- sena eIperta
cast of the mountains to determine the value
Of an extension of tie line to that section.
a2ce, required az condition that at least
$40. 900 shoaid be paid the employees upon
their claims for back pay. Through the ef.
forts OF the new receiver the sum of $50. 0Oy
vas obtained and placed in the hands Of
Blair & Co, of New York, for this purpose.
The necessary papers will be prepared and
sent east as soon as possible, and we hope
to be able to pay the men within two weeks.
The back pay due them aggregates Sl000GG
or over, and has been in arrears since ApIi
!, 1892. The road will undoubtedly lt
sold June 2Slh. The new receiver will Ia
able to meet monthly claims regularly. Mr.
Hadley is now in San Fcsncisco. In a dis
patch to me he states that new Office ii
our steamship liae has been established
there aud large reduction made 10 tho cx
pcnses."
New YORK, March l5-A certified copy
OF the order of Judge Fullerton, OF the cir
cult of Oregon. removing T Egenton Hogs
Of New York, as receiver of the Oregon Pa
cific and appointing in his place Everest w
Hadley, of Corvallis, Or, was received to
day by the bonlholders' committee. 1t was
served on Hogg at the office of the company
but he did not furnish the combinations t.
the ssfes to allow the committee to obtain
possession of the books which they contain
He cannot be punished in New York stats
for contempt of court for refusing to obey
an order of the court of Oregon. The mo
ton viii lie argued before Judge 1ngraham
in the supreme court chambers, Friday, for
confirmation hsre of Judge Fulierton's Or
| der.