St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-09-18
CHILDS COMPLAINS
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL GETS
INTO THE LEGAL RING TO
DO BATTLE.
WOULD STOP HILLS GAME
BY HAVING TEMPORARY IN
JUNCTION ISSUED IN RAM
SEY COUNTY.
JUDGE sANBORN,s DECISION
As Not Believed to BE Good Law
Tor Minnesota to Be Governed
BY in This Case,

AS announced in yesterdays
G b e would be done, Attorney
General Childs yesterday gave into
Sheriff Chapels hands, to be served
on the officials of the Great Northern
road, a copy of a complaint in an
injunction suit to restrain them from
carrying out the proposed deal for
the control of the Northern Pacific.
The state is made relator in the ac-
ton, and the ground on which it is
based is that if the proposed scheme
is allowed to go through, all COM
petition between the two roads will
cease, and that it is this competition
that has been the means of keeping
rates down to a reasonable basis
heretofore, the fact being pointed out
that rates are higher to non-com-
petition between the two roads will
such competition exists between the
two companies. The complaint will
be filed in the district court today.
The document follows in full:
THE COMPLAINT.
Now comes the state of Minnesota
by n. w. Childs, the attorney general
thereof, who sues in its behalf and al
leges:
l. That the Great Northern Railway
company is corporation organized
and existing under the laws of the
state or Minnesota; that the corporate
name or said company was, until the
Ioth Gay OF September, A. D. 1889, the
Minneapolis & st. Cloud Railway COM
pany; that on said last named date.
lts name was duly changed to the
Great Northern Railway COMPANY.
winch said last name it has ever since
borne and now bears.
That heretofore and prior to Jan. I.
1851, 1t constructed or caused to be con-
structed line of road extending from
ot. Paul to Hinckley, in said state,
Whlcn line was Immediately sold and
conveyed to the st. PauI, Minneapolis
eS Manitoba Railway company, a cor
poratlon hereinafter referred to, by
Wnlch said last named company the
SAID line was thereafter owned and
operated until the lease thereof by
olner roads to defendant. as herein
aIler alleged and set forth; that prior
10 SAID time the defendant had never
operated the same or any other road
Whatever; and having the line con-
structed as aforesaid the defendant
never owned a line of railroad and
does not now own, possess or have any
interest in any railroad whatever save
In the manner and to the extent here
matter alleged.
z. That the st. Paul, Minneapolis &
Manitoba Railway company is a cor
porauon duly organized and existing
under the laws of said state, and had
prior to Feb. l, 1890, built and put in
operation divers lines of railway with
In the present states of Minnesota.
North Dakota, Montana, Idaho and
washington, having an aggregate
length of over three thoss sand miles.
which said railways are hereafter
more particularly described. That on
the date last named, the said st. Paul.
Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway com
pany entered into an agreement with
the defendant whereby it assumed to
lease at a fixed rental unto the de-
fendant for a period of nine hundred
and ninety-n:ne years from said date.
all OF the said several lines of rail-
way which it had heretofore built
and then owned, or which it might at
any time thereafter
BUILD OR ACQUIRE.
Ihat immediate upon the execution
OF the said lease, the defendant went
lilCo possession of the said leased lines
VI railway and their appurtenances,
ana mas ever since continued to and
does now operate and maintain the
same. since the execution of the said
lease, the said st. Paul, Minneapolis
& Manitoba Railway company has
constructed and made ready for opera
lloIi, many miles of additional rail-
ROAD IN the said several states, all of
which upon completion were taken pos
session OF by the defendant and in pur-
suance or the terms of the said lease.
ana nave ever since, and are now,
maintained and operated by the de-
PENDANT in pursuance thereof.
). That the several lines of railway
hereinbefore referred to, now owned
by the said st. Paul, Minneapolis &
Manitoba Railway company, and Ieas-
ed ana operated as aforesaid by the de-
1endant herein, are as follows. to-wit.
line Of railway extending from ST
Paul via Minneapolis, Elk River. St
Cloud, Sank Center, Fergus Falls
Glyndon and Crookston, to the north
ern boundary line of the state Of Min
nesota at st. Vincent; another line of
railroad extending from Minneapolis
along the westerly bank Of the Miss
lsslppi river to st. Cloud; another line
OF railroad extending from st. Cloud
easterly to Hinckley; another line of
railroad extending from Elk River
northWard to Milaca on the line of the
st. Cloud and Hinckley branch, so call
ed; another line of railroad extending
from East Minneapolis to Brecken-
ridge; another line of railroad extend
Ing from Sauk Center to Park Rapids.
another line of railroad extending from
East ST. Cloud to Sauk Rapids; another
line of railroad extending from Hutch
fnson Junction to Hutchinson; another
line of railroad extending from Benson.
Minnesota, to Watertown, in South Da-
kota; another line of railroad extend
ing from Evansville, in Minnesota, to
Ellendale, in North Dakota; another
line of railroad extending from Wahpe-
ton, North Dakota. to Moorhead, in
Minnesota; another line of railroad
extending from Barnesville to Moor
head; another line of railroad extend
ing from Carman to Fosston; another
line of railroad extending from Crook
ston to Red Lake Falls and Thief River
Falls; all the foregoing lines being sit
uated In the state of Minnesota, ex-
cept as hereinbefore otherwise express
ly stated; another line of railroad ex-
tending from Crookston, Minnesota,
westward to the west line of the state
OF minnesota, thence across the state
of North Dakota to the weetern bound
airy thereof, and thence to Great Falls
in the state of Montana; another line of
railroad extending from Fargo in