The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-11-10
A Greet Scheme Which CenterS
at San Diego
4 TWIN. SCREW STEAMERS
Bigger and Finer Than Anything Now
Afl0at
Too Fine, in Fact, to Exist Except In
Dreams-Litigation Among the
Santa Fe Stockholders.


SAN FRAN C'lSCO, NOV. 5-oHe VI
the great projected enterprises depend
ent in part on the election of Mckinley
is once more attracting attention here,
at San Diego and in Chicago, New York
and Philadelphia. 1t is the heavily
backed proposition of a number of
American capitalists to establish on the
Pacific magnificent line with such rail-
way arrangements in the United States
and such connection with the new trans
Siberian line as will make it vital and
effective part of great round-the-
world system of communication. This
new proposition which has long since
passed the stage of preliminary discus
sion. bids fair to be in full operation be-
fore any Pacific port has welcomed the
first of the much talked of Japanese
liners. The project had its inception in
Chicago and among Its most enthusiast
tic supporters are Marshall Field, the
millionaire dry goods man, and other
Chicago millionaires. The New York
end of the enterprise is being cared for
by L. c. Potter & Co. In Philadelphia
the concern has the interest and support
of William Cramp & Sons. the ship
builders. 1t is the intention Of these cap
italists to establish a new trans-Pacific
line superior to anything afloat Their
plan calls for the construction of num-
her of steamers of not less than 5000 tons
burden and of 20 knots speed, which will
make them eligible to the benefits of the
United States mail subsidy of "a per
travelled mile. The distance from the
California coast to Hong Kong is 1000
miles and thus each steamer would be
entitled to bonus of $4,000 for single
trip. 1t is proposed to begin the enter
prise with four twin-screw steamers,
capable of carrying $500 tons of freight
200 first class passengers and 1900 steer
age passengers.
AS originally proposed, the line was to
run from San Diego to the ports of Chi
ma and Japan, but since then an agent of
the company has come to the coast and
has opened negotiations to make San
Francisco the terminus on this coast.
SANTA FEE TROUBLES.
Topeka, Kas., Nov. 9.-Attorneys and
officials of the .Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad company took de-
cisive action today in the receivership
proceedings begun last Thursday in the
state district court. At very early
hour this morning they appeared at Os-
kaloosa, where the receivership proceed
ings were instituted before Judge Myer
After filing the usual papers with the
clerk of the district court and taking
transcript of the receivership case they
returned to Topeka and filed the docu-
ments with the United States circuit
court together with a motion to trans
fer the case to the federal court. Charles
Johnson, the receiver appointed by
Judge Myer, was due to qualify today,
but the company's lawyers got into
court first, and it is stated that his bond
cannot be accepted without the consent
of the federal judge.
At later hour today Charles Blood
Smith, an interested bondholder ap
peared before United States Judge Fos-
ter at Fort Scott and secured a Temporal
ry injunction against the receiver ap-
pointed in the state court Mr.. Smith,
in his application for injunction, main
tails that the alien land law of Kansas
does not apply to railroads. Judge Fos-
ter enjoins Mr. johnson from interfering
in any manner with the Santa Fee prop
erty pending a hearing at Topeka on
November 30.
In the motion to transfer filed at Os-
kaloosa this morning the Santa Fe law
yers maintain that the appointing of a
receiver by the state circuit court would
be an interference with interstate COM
merce and that the enforcement of the
, order dividing the company's lands into
160-acre tracts and selling them would
destroy the railway and so be unconsti-
tutional, in that it would impair the OBJ
| legations of a contract between the cor
poration and the statutes embodied in
the company's charter.
A CANADIAN SCHEME
OTTAWA, Nov. 9.-Deputy Minister
of Railways and Canals Schneider has
gone to British Columbia to make a
report upon the ACCESSIBILITY of build
! ing railroad from Lethbridge, on the
| Canadian Pacific, through the Crows =
Nest pass, in the Rockies, and into the
kootenai mining region. The construc-
ton of this road would take a great
! deal of traffic which now finds its way
| to market by the American roads.
A CRUISER SUNK.