The herald., 1898-02-20
EVIDENCE OF COMBINE
THE LOCAL RAILROAD TRUST
BEING LOOKED UP
OFFICIALS DENY THE STORY
Valley Road to Reach Bakersfield in
Three Days-The Bond Syndicate
and Cash It Is Putting UP

the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific Is
likely to be productive of some good A
Herald reporter yesterday met railway
man who is making it his business to coi-
lect all possible evidence of such trust"
with the idea of bringing the matter TO
the attention of the proper parties. Others
are known to be at work on the same mat
ter, and 1t is believed that Mr.. Marchand,
the representative of the interstate COM
merce commission. who is now supposed to
be here or on his way to this city, will give
the charge full attention.
The railway man alluded to, who. for OBJ
vious reasons. wishes to keep his identity
secret for time. said: II know absolutely
that such u combination exists. cannot
prove II. for there are only two men prob
ably who have possession of any docu-
ments by which it could be absolutely
proved; but I think that before 1 ge;
through with my work will have evidence
enough to convince any sane man of the
correctness of the allegations"
Yesterday officials of both lines made
strenuous denials of the trust" and prob
ably were homes: in so doing, for 1t is by no
means certain that more than one or two
OF the local men know anything about the
understanding. At any rate, the case is
rapidly reaching such point that the lines
| absolutely d.sprove the possibility of such
a combination or defy public opinion and
the law and go ahead with their agree
ment. irrespective of what Is thought or
done
An instance of how the thing works came
| to the notice Of gentleman who was in a
railway office in this city recently talking
to friend. One of the freight men of the
line-it was the Southern Pacific-spolle
10 the Official in charge and said that ne
mad secured big shipment, but that the
shipper insisted that ii be made in Rlrs
weighing minimum amount, which was
stated. This was refused and the freight
man replied that he was afraid he would
Jose the contract, as the shipper had said
that IL the Southern Pacific would not give
him the cars he wished he would go to the
Santa Fe. The official told the solicitor to
refuse the cars. and promised him that the
Santa Fe would not furnish them, as sit
could not. according to the agreement ex-
istng."
THE VALLEY ROAD
The Valley line Is rapidly making its
way south and is within three days time Of
entering the town of Bakersfield. 1t has
plenty of rails and ties on hand in order to
reach that terminus In the time mentioned
Banker L. w. Hellman on Thursday in
san francisco paid over to the company
S25oC0O. the fourth monthly installment of
the S6o90.00o which IA syndicate headed by
MN agreed to pay for the company's issue
Oh bonds, of which million has been paid
The syndicate is not selling any of the
bonds, though there is a good demand for
them by investors
NOTES OF TRACK AND TIE
The Santa Fe is having some trouhle
about its depo; lands al Flagstaff. Manv
years ago the Atlantic and Pacific railway
which the Santa Fe Pacific has since ac-
CURED. was given ample land for station"
purposes at Flagstaff and other places in
Arizona. These, however. it did not use,
as they were not required Now the Santa
Fe wishes to use some of this land Int
iinds that 1t is occupied by persons who
look possession of 1t years ago in good
ialth' and who are. of course averse to
giving IT up now. There promises TO be
protracted contest over the matter.
Mr. Luce the new assistant general pas
sehger and freight agent Of the Southern
racine company in this city, was formerly
mere as the agent for the. Texas Pacific
ROAD. lie Will be here on the 1stt,
The Minneapolitans left for the north
Yesterday morning in their special train
or Wagner cars. Some of them Will come
oach 10 stay. as result of having seen
what was In Southern California
J. w. Adams OF the Nickel Plate road ar
rived In the city yesterday and will remain
for some days on business for his line.
A Rock Island excursion of thirty people
arrived here last night from the east, via
Ogden.
on the Santa Fe limited, which arrived
yesterday evening, there were seventy-six
passengers. This is about the story of all
the west-bound trains now.
Harold Fisher. who has been with the
Burlington road for some time, Is now In
the city department of the Chicago and
Northwes tern.
T. H. DuZan has the record of being the
OF the oldest railway men in the city. that
Is not In years of age, but in years of
service here, for he is very young man.
He has been the Burlington representative
in this city ever since that line has had an
agent here. He has decided to resign his
position on March 10th. He will probably
take better place in the service of some
other line. He has few equals In the rail-
way business.
Hugh B. Rice, general agent of Cooks
Tour company has been in this part of the
state for some time, and has gotten to-
gether party for Hawaii, which will leave
here on the 23d in charge of Mr. Kayser.
Chief Clerk Walker of the general SUI
perintendent's office of the Santa Fe is i'll.
He has a touch of pneumonia, but expects
to be at his desk again on Monday.
General Passenger Agent Byrne of the
Santa Fe is the happy possessor of three
y
wound in that interval 1t Is really wound
every six minutes by a combination of the
forces of gravity and very small electric
battery, which is inside the case The ar
rangement comes about as near being per-
petual motion as probably will ever be at
tanned.
The Southern Pacific has just equipped
thousand carloads of stone from the brown
stone quarries of Captain Cross, near Ojai
in Ventura county. 1t will be used for rip
rapping the track of the line.
The Southern Pacifihc has just equipped
its overland trains from San Francisco to
this city and the east with new frst-class
passenger coaches, with Pintsch gas, high
backed seats and in all respects up to the
standard of the best coaches used in the
east The gas receivers are loaded up to
twelve atmospheres and carry enough to
last the round trip.
Mrs j. II. Thompson, wife of the assist
ant division superintendent of the South
ern Pacific at Oakland, is visiting friends
in this city. Mr.. Thompson will probably
be appointed to fill the vacancy caused by
the recent death of Superintendent Wilder.
Master Car Builder Donatin of the
Southern Pacific company has finished the
repairs to the special car Campania of
the sugar trust nabob, who was ditched on
the Coronado railway in San Diego re-
Gently -H.
The new mail cars being built for the
government have to have electric lights.
The general storekeeper for the Santa
Fe road. A. F. Hilton, IS on his way to this
city. His headquarters are at Topeka.
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