Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-17
HE HAS HACKERS
Yet Another Story Regarding ). )
Hill and His Sudden Visit
to Europe.
THIS TIME IT IS FROM BUTTE
If He Can't Secure What He Wants
He Will tie Content With
Something Else.

ST. PAUL, May l0.-A Butte special tc
the Dispatch says: 1t is stated here on
the best Of authority that j. j. iilll, III
his contemplated control OF the North
ern Pacific, will have as his associates
Marcus DAILY and j. b, ilagtn, who are
known to be deeply Interested il the
matter.
In commenting on the above the Dis
patch says: The intelligence contained
in the special telegram given above is
further evidence OF the fact that there
is more than passing rumor III the state
ment that President Hill Of the Great
Northern is after the Northern Pacific,
1t is not believed in this city that Presi-
dent Hill will succeed in securing the
property, however such control might
benefit him, because Of tue forces that
are so strongly arrayed against him.
With Henry Willard clamoring for Two
pounds of flesh and Morgan and Bel
mont interesting themselves in behalf Of
the stockholders, it is a hard fight that
confronts the Great Northern mHgnate
and he will have his hands full.
But, even ]supposing that the combi-
nation that aas been formed for the pur-
pose of defeating the Hill Adams plan of
Northern Pacific reorganization, ac-
complislss its object, President lIill
would sill be in a position to strengthen
himself at the expense Of the Northern
PacitiI. He had the latter alternative in
view, in fact, when he went abroad.
1t is well known that the Northern
Pacific has a number of valuable feeders
in the West-foeders that held under
eases, have contributed materially to
the earnings Of the Northern Pacific.
Today they are more valuable as CON
nectlons than ever before, because of the
growth aud cultivation of the sections in
which they originate, and the amount of
business that they are able to throw into
the main line. 1t is these that President
Hill hopes TO gain. if be does not succeed
in hia major object, and, as a matter of
fact, with them at his disposal, he would
be in a position to snap his fingers at the
Northern Pacific and tell Morgan and
Belmont to HE themselves to a climate
that Is warmer than this.
These feeders vary in Importance, but
IN the aggregate they are Of a character
such as would fit very nicely into Great
N,rtlnr- ;&o,,-+- M, 49, ~. r.-...
Harbor, Spokane * Palouse. Washington
Central. Cour d'.Alene, Pittsburg and
other lines, including some more to the
eastward, which are at present held by
the Northern Pacific under leases. It
would not &c at all difficult for President
Hill, under the receivership system, to
secure a cancellation of those leases
through the foreign bondholders, in
which he would take them by leases, to
the Great Northern, thus securing tho
business for himself and his own in
terests.
1t is understood, too, that this plan
was one OF the things President Hill had
10 view when he went abroad. 1t is
figured out, in brief, that President Hill
is preparing for one Of the greatest coups
of his career. Had it not been that his
plans were betrayed about seven or eight
years ago, he would have had the North
crn Pacific at that time-a time when
he needed it, as he had no tranacontin-
entail line; but at present. If be could
secure those feeders, he would have no
particular need at present for the North
ern Pacific end the cIippIing Of it by the
secession Of its feeders would give MIN
still further opportunities Of getting con.
troll Of the road under more advan-
tageous conditions.