The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-25
DONALD DOUBTS NOT
THAT TIE SIOUX oITY,AED WEST
ERH WILL BE BUILT.
onss Deek to Sioux City With the hight
Of Way From the Big Muddy to the Big
Briny In HIS Rockst-Work WIN Begin
In June eimultaneously ut Ogden. O'Neill
and Salt Lxke-C Colonel Tow mend Regis.
tiers . Kick Ia St LoQis' Behalf-The
NIcarsguan Canal Promoter. Busy With
Congress Again.

Sioux City, Iowa. April M.-Donald
McLean, the builder of the Pacific Shor.
Line and the protector Of the Sioux
City and Western railway. has returned
70 Sioux City after an absence OF four
months in Salt Lake, Ogden and Sap
Francisco. He said:
Tine Sioux City and Western will De
built. There is no longer any doubt
about 1t. A. no time was there in my
contamination of my scheme. To get
this right Of way clear through has been
long and tedious work but that work has
been accomplished. The several COM
panies whose alliance was necessary 70
the cer1entjEx OF the system. have been
organized and almost ali the right OF
Way mas been secured. That part which
is taking time is the strips through gov
eminent possessions which only need re-
plating. TEE right Of way through the
Beckwith Pass is mine. The work OF
construction will be commenced in June
and will be started simultaneously from
O'Neill, Ogden and Salt Lake
PREMIUM ON OK TEAMS.
st. Louis, April 24-Colonel H. c.
Townsend. general passenger agent Of
the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain.
has sent a telegram 10 the general pas
senger agents Of the Pennsylvania. New
York Central and Big Four lines Of
which the following is a copy:
II understand that the question Of the
reversal Of the recent ruling Of the board
Of managers in the matter OF fares based
on speed is now being considered. This
measure is direct blow to 81. Louis rs
a gateway for through business, AMI
should be Internationally reversed. 1t
is ali outrage, multiplying everything ac-
complished in improved service and
equipment In the last quarter Of ascen-
fury, and effectively silencing any ef-
forts In this direction in future. by
placing a premium on slow and inferior
service"
THE NICARAGUA CANAL.
Washington, April 2i.-Ex-Senator
Warner Miller of New York is in the
city urging a definite stand by the adj
ministration or the subject Of the Mica
raguan canal There has been consid-
cradle gossip here about The proba bility
Of the negotiation in the near future of
a new canal treaty with Nicaragua and
Guatemala along the hires of the Ere
linghuysen-SSvilla treaty which was
withdrawn from the Senate in March,
1885, Immediately after Cleveland's first
accession to the presidency. Senior Rcd
riguez, the minister Of the Greater Re-
public OF Central America, is here ready
TO enter upon negotiations should Secre-
;ary Sherman indicate a desire for a
new treaty. Mr.. Miller saw both Secre-
tary Sherman and the president today.
The Nicaragua Canal company, he says,
desires action. 1t is indifferent, he says.
whether the government enters upon the
canal project through a treaty arrange
merit which will make the United States
practically the owner of the canal, or
through legislation on the line of the
Morgan bill, by which the government
would guarantee the bonds of the COM
pany and control three-fourths OF the
stock and the directorate. Mr.. Miller
found tina. the pressure OF other busi-
ness had left the administrat ton no time
to consider the canal question but he
hopes for decision in the early future