The herald., 1898-04-30
NEWS OF The RAILWAYS
REORGANIZATION OF PACIFIC
COAST R. ANDS. co
San Diego at Peace With the Santa Fe
Pacific-Engineers Not Allowed
to Be Spiritualists

The affairs of the Pacific Coast Railway
company and the Pacific Coast Steamship
company seem to have been definitely
Strengthened out by number of deeds filed
on Wednesday at Santa Barbara. They
cover the sale of the railway company re-
ferred to, under foreclosure, the Farm
ers' Loan and Trust company of New
York VS.. the Oregon Improvement CON-
pany. BY the series of conveyances, the
whole property Of both the railway and
steamship companies Is so transferred as
to finally bring 1t all back again, clear OF
cloud, into the ownership of the steamship
corporation. The railway extends from
Los Olivos in Santa Barbara county to
Port Hanford In San Luis Obispo county,
the transfer comprising all of the rolling
stock and property of whatever kind OF
the former railway concern. The deeds
also cover the ownership of the steamers
Umatilla, Wala Walla, Willamette, Co
roma, City of Mexico, City of Pueblo, Po-
mona and City of Topeka. The various
alleged considerations range from S4OO, ,0OO
to 81 900 900, but the whole transaction is
said to be only q fnanciering necessity,
which alters in little or no particular the
former standing of all the property con-
cerned.
The Griefers and the Santa Fe
The San Diego Union, which a short
time ago commenced very bitter war
against the Santa Fe company in general
and General Manager Nevin in particular,
has flung the white flag of peace to the
wind and announces that 1t has ccom-
plished what 1t went after. which seems to
be the allowing of passengers to San Fran
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gage through without having to recheck,
as heretofore. in this city; more season.
able hours for the arrival and departure
of trains, and car to take people to the
Place of Lamentations by way of Orange,
| without giving them a chance to be tempt
ed to stop here by being given a sight of
| the beauties of Los Angeles
The Union declares that President Rip
ley is a friend of that city, and that MIR.
Nevin has promised to be a good boy and
play fair, but adds that this is matter
in which the average citizen prefers to sus-
pend judgment, to see whether events
shall tend to dispel very natural skepti-
cism on that subject. However. it is only
fair to give him the benefit of the doubt and
see whether his actions will justify this
remarkable confidence" All of this must
| Dc NClJ SoHiol tii6 " tAC NCis SciA-Soi-
tanned general manager, and he will prob
ably sleep all the better O. nights hence
| forth.
Spiritualism and Engineers
| The Santa F'e has put taboo on engin-
eers who are followers of Spiritualism
Some time ago-in fact, during the latter
part of last year. according to the To-
| peka Journal, which speaks BY the card
large proportion of the engineers on the
system got into the habit Of patronizing
mediums, and most of them soon became
| Spiritualists. They soon received all sorts
| of demoralizing messages from their
spook friends, such as to refuse to take
| their engines out on certain days and to
run slowly over this or that portion of the
line. The men began to see ghostly warn
ing lights at night on their machines, and
| in tunnels and cuts, and the officials came
| to the conclusion that spook messages
were given more attention than train or
| ders, and the thing became a nuisance and
a menace. There was no way of driving
| the mediums out of business, and they
were reaping too rich a harvest to be
bluffed. Finally it was decided to make an
issue out Of the matter, and the men were
| told by Master Mechanic George Smith
| that they must either drop mediums, spirit
| messages and the like or else give up their
| places. They elected to abandon their
ghostly counselors, and since then not
word of Spiritualism has been heard along
| the entire line.
Notes and Personals
When the transfer OF the Ojai railway
| is made on Monday to the Southern Pacific
company Superintendent Lake of the lit
| tie line will be superseded by Mr.. Shillngs-
| burg, the present Southern Pacific agent
at Ventura.
| II. X. Gregory, assistant general pas
senger agent of the Santa Fe-Pacifc, has
returned from a trip through the towns of
| Orange county.
| General Passenger Agent j. j. Byrne of
| the Santa Fe-Pacitic will return from San
| Francisco today, where he has been nego-
| iating for the transportation Of the Sew
enth regiment of this city, when it is or
dered to the east.
A. B. Laird of Silver City, N. M, is
| about to bring heavy damage suit against
the Santa Fe company, because he was
elected from a Santa Fe-Pacific train at
| Isleta Junction because he had only
mileage ticket calling for transportation
on the Santa Fe proper. AS the ticket read
| good to New Mexican stations, Mr.. Laird
| thinks he was illegally treated.
| AS a result of Judge Morrow's decision
against the Southern Pacific company in
| its injunction case against the railway
commissioners, e. p. Huntington will like
| ly pass several disagreeable quarters of
hours at the next session of the commits
| sion, when he is to appear as witness
| and be questioned. According to an inter-
view published with Attorney General
| Fitzgerald, the commission can now ques-
ton Huntington on the moneys he has ex-
pended for influence with national and
state officials. 1t is held that members of
the state legislature who willingly come
forward and testify about being paid mon
ey by the company can do so without fear
of prosecution.
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