The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-05-05
!. Dl|LEY'S CAREER.
- LONG RECORD or FINANCIAL.
nYrrCULTIEs BEHIND HIN.
- Connected with . Great Many
naiIPoad Schemes PY1oR - HIS
Lest ventsre In Tseena, Dst II
Dees Not Appear With sseeesu.

npecal Dispatch to the Post-TnfelIi~eneey
TACOMA, May A--Invessigations made
10y reveal that this IL not the flrst time
Nuliam Bailey. president, Of the Tacoma
4 Columbia River railway. has haA ilnan-
al trouble. II reports be true th.re az.
t6gmenis outstanding against Bailey n
INV Fork city to the amount OF ~ AxI1
1hy were secured between 1850 ana 1sse
= consequence OF unpaid bills for board
1nets. shoes, dry goods. attorneyw fees
s Npsested notes. etc. Four board bills ar
heiuded in the list. The society for the
9ulief OF the destitute blind Of New York
Z ~ claim Of 1885 against Bailey on ac-
eat Of q dcfauIted bond In which he
IS interested One Judgment for u.1A
- obtained by Joseph r.. MAndeibaum.
80 New York money lender These facts
~ shown by certified copies OF the tude
Aoents named made by the county clerk
~ the city OF New York and now in COS
Son Of Tacoma attorneys. One OF these
lSlgments Is said To have been settled
der these circumstances: Mr.. Bailey
sWed Mrs. Cheriff. Of New York. for
besrd. 10 secure which she kept his xife's
frank and seaixkin sack. Her bill was
liter paid by certified check that Bailey
aisht present the recovered seaiskin 10 his
W31& - - A~istE&LAt&3 HEeSfut.,
H. Louis was the scene OF some Of
nailsys most extensive operations. He
uN In early days an officer of the ma
tOnAl guard there and for a short time
wiring the civil war was provost marshal
-. Louis. Judgments amounting to q. 100
afs aid to bs standing against him In
ne b. Louis courts. Nearly all Of these
Nsee secured on his notes. Bailey deny
liability when they were presented for
veyment.
KAriy in the sos Bailey Organized the
n. Louis e. Western railroad. Its char
" authorized the issuance OF stocks and
osads TO the amount OF @s.00.0do These
U1fe duly ia9ued and sold. Polk county
4loouri. purchased and paid for sss COZ
q the bonds In anticipation OF material
AeAeass. The road became !nsoiveni In
IN and judgments amounting to tiS5N0o
were occurred against Bailey and the road
n Alexander Il. Wilson. Wilson repre-
oesicd those who had put up money for
socks and bonds In this saait Polk coun-
q was made co-<Iefendant
Ex-Gov. Blair. OF Missouri. II said 10
have been yictimixed by some OF these
operations. Ell Gov. Fletcher was one OF
tie attorneys employed In the suits against
Bailey.
Despite his claimed connection with
tventy-three different railroads, It II said
~ men who have made a careful inves-
ugation Of his affairs since boyhood. that
Haley has actually built very few miles
n road. He was connected with other
n1roac schemeu at Mobile. Nashville and
jacksonville.
Col. and Mrs Bailey resided for months
here at the fashionable Rochester hotel.
when their board bill had reached $350, its
proprietor seized their trunks and wear
inf apparel. From that time Bailey was
required to pay their board bill each morn
ine Ia advance. Mrs Bailey is a hand
bane woman. and was the subject OF
ahpathy here because OF her husbands
maneial troubles.
Sailsys son IL a clerk in the city comp
eFlers department Of New York city.
IN fa1 Bailey frequently exhibited New
III kilograms promising money at once
means OF delaying proceedings
Npnght TO put the Columbia River rail-
I'D In a receivers hands, Young Bailey
Mterward told an associate as 70 Wall
Nrses that his fatheY gave him a series
|. numbered kilograms to he put on the
wire as the senior Bailey directed. One
eay. the story runs the latter wired to
have telegram number three sent him at
Trnna. Young Bailey by mistake wired
telegram number four. causing trouble at
tkh end His father wired him OF the
mistake. which greatly amused Bailey jr.
Bailey Is quoted having written last
mp 10 New York friend that the TIA
ssma railroad protec. was his last throw"
- he WAS too old 10 start another scheme
this one failed 20 go through.
Il II believed by well informed men
that the present rece!vership will end the
sssempt To extend the Lake Park suburb
IN line To the Nisausliy coal fields. the
Assheil copper regicn and the great tim
Hkf heff fvfpU al n. n. hna ~ Nnssns
Fainter, This leads to the Irresistible con-
ci's&on that when a railroad is built To
NE regions named and the new Mount
Rainier National Park. II will be bailt by
tae Northern Pacific railway
Tae Northern Pacific has In operation
she orting h Southeastern railroad TO Lake
klralwin, thirteen miles south OF Orflng
Anh nearly thirty miles nearer 20 Mount
Hainser than Tacoma, and twenty miles
nearer than Lake Park An extension Of
TEN or twelve mics will carry the orting
suslroaa into the Ntsaually coal fields. ana
there is little doub. that this extension
VII be built as soon as the demand for
timber and coal. or the development. Of
enrper. gold and silver claims in that dis
tftet. shah warrant. The ortins road has
Lumber Company under an arrangement
Whereby the railroad pays for the same
~ hauling the lumber ccrfanyR logs.
The Northern Pacific carefully fnvesu
gated the attempts of Col. Bailey. the
hsg'is Rsrna pe Courtier. and others TO
bald railroads into this section. Had
they rhown sufficient backing % build n,
X t. believed the Nns,hern Pacific would
have oht.~csei since Mount Rainier and
Hs tributary timber ard mineral districts
sse essentially Within tina. railroads 'ield