The morning call., 1894-11-23
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

NJ. L. Gleason, an extensive landowner In
Montana and Dakota, was at the Palace yester-
day. He also has large cattle interests in the
irst-named section of country and says now
thatthe cattle sekon is about over dealers are
beginning to figure up just where they stand.
While prices obtained in Chicago were not mp
to the mark expected. the re urns will still
amount to large sum. Along The line of The
Montana Central Railroad near which his
lands are located, the shipments for the season
aggregated 873 cars of cattle, with an average
of twenty-five head to the car. making a
total of about 10000 head. Basing the
receipts ION a conservative estimate of
S35 per head In Chicago, the total
shipments by this line would reach over
$4,000. These estimates, of course, do not
include shipments by The Great Northern line.
These men also own 200 ears OF sheep sent to
market over the Montana Central. A recent
trip made by Mr.. Gleason through the northern
portion of OAK ota revealed deplorable condt.
ton OF affairs among many of the residents
there. That section was severely stricken by
drought, and the people there are, in cOnse-
quence, In destitute circumstances. Near the
town Of Osceola, especially TO the west. Mr..
Gleason says whole townships were left by the
sun and winds of the hot months as dry and
barren as a desert, and the stock raised by the
settlers was rendered worthless by the total
absence of adequate feed. II was told him
that several inst ances had come to light where
families had subsisted upon nOrs flesh, this be.
ing the only meat they could obtain.
c. Fl. Phillips The San Luis Obispo capitalist
and inventor, says that The recent publications
IN San Francisco papers regarding work on the
coast line OF the Southern Pacific and to the
effect that operations had been Presumed" on
the twenty-five miles of road south Of San Luis
Obispe, were misleading, as work has b9en
steadily in progress ever since the line was
completed from Santa Mdrgarltl TO that point.
He claims that 900 men and 800 teams were
steadily employed there. The twenty-1v
miles referred to, he says, which is about as
difficult as any on the line yet TO be done, will
be finished by February 1. The construction
work is OF the most solid character. and hen
this twenty-five miles Is completed the gap to
Elwood. III Santa Barbara County. will be about
eighty miles.
John E. Milholland the New York journalist
and Republican leader, who is at the California,
is one of the most popular men socially among
the newspaper fraternity of the metropolis, and
is on familiar terms with most OF the leading
spirits there. In speaking of the ups and
downs which some of his friends had expert
enced Mr.. Mllnolland mentioned some inter-
esting incidents in connection with the life OF
Theodore R. Davis the war artist OF Harper 8
weekly, WHO recently OleQ. Mr.. DAVIS, ne
said, illustrated most Of the great battles OF the
rebellion for that periodical, and his was the
first picture OF the sea fight between the MerrI-
mac and Monitor, which he was enabled to wit
ness through letter fr ON Commodore Wander
bilt, which he carried with him. The writing
was so unintellgible that Mr.. Davis utilized il
as pass and was thus enabled TO reach the
scene OF battle on an iron steamer.
DR. w w Willoughby who received the de-
gree of doctor of philosophy at the Johns Hop
Klns University In Baltimore, IN 1891 is ex-
pected in this city In few days, he having
been secured to deliver course Of lectures al
the Leland Stanford University on the Theory
of State"