Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-03
CENTRAL PACIFIC.
Report That the Government Will Take
Proceedings Against the Railroad.
AGAINST BLOOMER COSTUMES
The Dress Worn by University Girls In an
Athletic Carnival Criticised,-An In
grain Carpet Trust-A Ten
Thousand Mile Race.

New YORK, March 1.-Word comes
from Washington that Attorney GEN
eral Griggs is preparing to bring an
action against the Central Pacific rail-
road in the near future to recover the
defaulted bonds which became due
January l., 1898. No doubt of the truth
of the report is expressed either in the
Office of the railroad company or
among financiers, who are acquainted
with the governments policy. Only
the necessity of getting the Cuban
complication settled one way or
another, it is said, has prevented suit
before this. 1t is understood that
George Hoadly, special counsel, will be
instructed by the attorney general to
appear before federal judge, possibly
Judge Sanborn, and ask that the road
be sold at foreclosure proceedings.
Objected To Their Boomers.
MADISON, Wis, March 1.-The CO.'S
tunes worn by the young women in
their part of the programme of the re-
cent athletic carnival held at the uni7
versity, have caused considerable criti-
cism here. About 100 young women of
the sophomore and freshmen classes
appeared in boomers reaching to the
knee and performed various Delsarte
movements. The costumes have been
declared by many persons to be i'm
proper for a public exhibition. The
question of the propriety of the cos
tunes for public exhibitions was in is
sue about year ago, when it was pro-
posed to admit the male students as
spectators to the basket ball games be-
tween the rival teams of young wom-
en-. At that time President Adams and
the directors of the woTen's gymna-
stun decided that only married people
and members of the faculty could be
admitted.
An Ingram Carpet Trust.
BOsToN, March l. The Boston Tran
script prints an interview with Arthur
4. Lyman, treasurer of the Lowell
Manufacturing company, concerning a
proposed commission of manufacturers
of ingram carpets in this country with
a view of controlling that market. Mr..
Lyman says: "Thomas Bromley, of
Philadelphia, is earnestly at work on
the combination and has enlisted va
rious Philadelphia manufacturers in
the matter. With the great advances
in wool, higher costs require higher
prices and it has been felt that there
was need of a strong combination to
regulate prices and to do away with
the cutting of prices, which is injuri-
GUS not only to the manufacturers,
but to all dealers 1t was proposed at
first to take in all the carpet mills, but
at present the combination relates
only to ingram carpets"
A Ten Thousand Mile Race.
TACOMA, Wash, March 1.-The
American clipper ship Tacoma, Capt
Gaffney, has arrived here completing
and winning one of the longest races
ever run. She sailed from Philadel-
phia October /, thus making the time
of her passage over 10000 mile course
in Isl days. The Tacoma and the
Yankee ship Indiana sailed from Phil
adelphia the same day. Arthur Sewall,
late candidate for vice president, owns
the Indiana. The Indiana is bound
for San Francisco and it was agreed
she should give the Tacoma
time and distance allowance, as the
Tacoma had to come 200 miles further
north.