The herald., 1898-02-10
A SEVEN MILLION WARRANT 7
TO TAKE UP LIENS ON KANSAS
PACIFIC
A Motion for Postponement Will BE
Made-Railroad Cases Decided.
Apache Indians Appeased
Associated Press Special Wire

tary of the Treasury today issued a
warrant in favor of the Treasurer of the
United States for s7,515, 255.15, to be used
for the payment of the first mortgages
on the eastern and western divisions of
the Kansas Pacific Railroad. This ac-
ton has been taken in accordance with
the directions of the President and in
anticipation OF the favorable decision of
Judge Sanborn, of St. Louis, on the gov
ernment's motion to be filed and argued
next Saturday, for authority to redeem
the first mortgage and also for post
ponement of the sale fixed for February
10th.
Attorney General Griggs, in reply to
an inquiry, has informed the represen-
tatives of the reorganization committee
that under no circumstances will the
| government accept less than the full
amount of the principal of the debt and
that if the committee wishes to make
this offer it may be done to Governor
Hoadley, of st. Louis, at the time the
motion for authority to pay off the first
| lien is made to the court. Judge Hoad-
ley will leave for st. Louis tomorrow
with full authority to either accept an
offer from the committee to pay the full
amount should it be made, or to pro-
ceed with his motion.
Judge Hoadley will carry with him a
Treasury warrant for $7,515,255, the
amount of the first mortgage.
| WILL ASK DELAY
| OMAHA, Neb., Feb. 9.-John c. Gown,
a special counsel for the government in
the Pacific roads matter, will go to St.
Louis tomorrow for the purpose of pre-
settling to Judge Sanborn of the circuit
court a motion on behalf of the govern
ment asking for an indefinite postpone
ment of the foreclosure sale of the Kan
sas Pacific railroad.
| The second motion will be for the ap-
pointment of receivers to manage the
road during the pendency of settlements
A WAREHOUSE CASE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-The inter-
state commerce commission today, in
an opinion by Commissioner Yeamans,
announced it's decision in the case
brought by the American Warehouse
mems association against the Illinois
Central Railroad company and fifty-two
other carriers known as the free stor-
age case.
no general duty to act as a warehouse
man for indefinite periods, in connec-
ton with its primary obligations as a
common carrier cannot assume to pro-
vide shippers with valuable warehouse
facilities which are not essential to its
business as a carrier, without furnish
ing them for all shippers at all times and
upon the same terms and notifying the
90, MI x,-in h..
quired to plainly indicate upon the
schedules published and filed with the
commission with the storage in stations,
warehouses or cars will be permitted,
and ali terms and conditions upon which
the same has been granted.
The order takes effect April 1, 1898, and
| from that date all carriers must cease
granting storage which is not necessary
and an ordinary part of receiving and
delivering freight unless the same is
specified in the schedule.
APACHES CONSENT
SAN CARLOS, Ariz., Feb. 9.-Fully
| 1900 Apaches assembled at this agency
| have given their consent to the Gila
Valley, Globe and Northern Railway
building it's line through the San Carlos
reservation from Geronimo, its present
terminus, to Globe, the center of one of
the richest copper districts in the South
west The law passed by Congress
granting the right of way across the
reservation required the railroad COM
pany to obtain the consent of the In
dianS.
The Indians gave their unanimous
consent for the railroad to build through
their possessions, distance of fifty
miles. The terms agreed upon this morn
ing by the Indians their agent, Lieut.
Rice, and the railroad people. We're as
follows: The Indians to receive $4,000 as
tribe for right of way, the railroad
company to pay, in addition to this
amount, for all cultivated land taken
and pay for all damages done to build
ings, fences, bitches and roads, the In
dians to ride free over the railroad for
period of thirty years.
a CONDUCTORS CASE
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Feb. "A de-
cision of Importance to the order of Rail
way Conductors has been handed down
by Judge Seaman in the United States
Court. Mary Dixon sued the order for
the recovery of $4,000 upon a certificate
issued to her husband, who was a mem
Der. He had Joined the order in 1885 and
died in 1888, after the order had been dis
solved and became simple association
Payment of the claim was refused, and
the suit has been in the court for years
From State courts the conductors had
it removed to the United States Court.
The conductors pleaded that the disso-
luton of the organization had vitiated
the claim, but Judge Seaman has decid-
ed that this is not the case, and that the
action of the order in dissolving the cor
poration in 1888 and becoming a simple
association did not abate the liabilities
that had accrued before the reorganiza-
ton.
A SCALPING CASE
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Feb. Am i'm
portant feature of the fight between the
railroad companies of the country and
the ticket brokers, which is now on be-
fore Congress, has been brought before
the Supreme Court of Illinois. The rail
road companies laid stress before the
Congressional committees on the eX-
istence of the Illinois statute prohibiting
ticket brokers, and especially on the
opinion of the Illinois Supreme Court in
1894, that the statute was valid and con-
stitutional.
The railroad companies caused all tho