The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-22
CASES CARRIED ON
SOME THE SUPREME COURT WILL
CONSIDER IN January.
Central and Southern Pacific Cases, To-
Law. are Advanced on the List-Iowa
Land Grant Case Decided for the Gov
eminent and the People - Nebraska
State Board of Transportation Stirs Up
the Question of Proper Depot Facilities
In Omaha-Raiiway News.

IN Omana-hauWay news.
Washington, Oct. 21-In the United
States supreme court today opinions
were rendered in a number of cases ar
gued at the last term of court. Justice
Harlan read the courts opinion in the
suits over lands embraced in the grant
to the Sioux City and st. Paul Railway
company. in OBrien and Dickinson
counties, Iowa, to which the Sioux City
road. the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul road, the United States and the
settlers on the lands were parties 1t
Was claimed by the government and the
settlers that the Sioux City road had
failed to earn about q 900 acres of these
lands, and the decision of the court to-
day sustained this contention. The
court failed to take cognizance of the
claim of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul road, that it was entitled to the
lands at the intersection of the two lines
which the Sioux City road had failed to
earn.
The cases of the Central Pacific and
Southern Pacific companies VS.. the peo-
pie of California were advanced and set
for the first Monday in January, as
were the cases involving the constitu-
tlonaIty of the California IRRIGATION
laws.
DEPOT FOR OMAHA.
Omaha, Oct. 2l.-The Nebraska state
board OF transportation has decided to
take hand in the depot question in
Omaha Under the laws of the state
the board has authority to compel the
railroads doing business in the state to
g rnt \
Facilities at any and all stations. Some
time ago the board was presented with
petition signed by thirty business men
and property owners in Omaha, ask
Ing that action be taken to compel the
railways centering in Omaha to con-
struct and provide proper passenger
depots in this city. The board has act
ed on the petition and has served notice
upon the Union Pacific, Burlington and
other roads with terminals in this city,
TO show cause why they should not pro-
coed at once to make the depot provis-
ions asked by the petitioners.
No date has been fixed for the hear
ing before the state board Of transpor-
tation, but 1t is understood that the
hearing will be before November 5. 1t
is quite probable that the hearing of
the case will come up about the same
time that the hearing will be had by the
different roads before Master in Chan
Gerry Cornish of the Union Pacific on
the depot question. This will be some
time early in November. There seems
to be little doubt in the minds Of the
railroad men who are familiar with the
situation but that the court will order
the receivers of the Union Pacific to en-
ter into an agreement for the construc-
ton of a depot at the foot of Farnam
street.
THROUGH COAST RATES.
President and Managing Receiver
Clark of the Union Pacific, when asked
about the report of the government di-
rectorS for the through line to the coast
said that he preferred not to talk on the
report, but added that he saw nothing
inconsistent in the scheme, and that he
saw no reason why the government
could not pay off the first mortgage and
secure control of the Central Pacific and
connect it with the Union Pacific for a
through line from the Missouri river to
the Pacific coast. Clark added that he
believed that it would be a great bene-
fit to Omaha.
FREIGHT RATE CASE.
San Francisco, Oct. 21.-The hearing
Of the temporary injunction granted the
Southern Pacific railroad restraining
the state board of railroad commission
ers from carrying into effect its recent
~ adopted tariff reducing rates on grain
per cent and from putting into force
further proposed reductions of the
charges on other commodities, came up
in the United States circuit court this
morning and was continued to Novem-
Der 4, the attorney general not being
ready to proceed.