El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-03

" Suluuouuo. S6h ScaSScS'SSS -. -
now all signed and concluded.
"Construction work IL progressing In
Q satisfactory manner aud l certainly
expect TO sea a. least 500 miles of the
work completed within the nexttwelve
months, and the entire road In less
than three years"
E.O. Creel is vice. .presldent OF the
new line. Among the directors are
w. d. Baker of Chicago, vice presi-
dent Of the Postal Telegraph Company
Robert 81 Law, q wealthy capitalist OF
McNsu yht, both interested in the
Great Northern road.
Southern Pacific Presidency.
The latest gossip 10 Southern Pacific
circles. says . dispatch, 10 that James
Speyer, Charles a. Tweed and D. o
Mills, ss a special. committee o. the
directorate, have offered 81. E. Hun
tingto the presidency OF the com psny ,
but that he has declined on the ground
that his duties as first vice preside mt
looking after the large fortune left
him by his uncle. will more thau oc.
cupy his time.
The officials who were INDUCING In
talk OF shis character ASSERT that b E.
Huntington does not want an outsider
a. president
His particular candidate for the
place 10 Third Vice President j. O.
Stubbs. and be also wants, IL is said {,
Edwin Hslsy Of New York to succeed
G. p. Huntington as president of the
Pacific Mail
The Mystery Explained.
Last Saturday evening Floyd Payne
invited Judge Harper, Paul Hammett,
Bill Peabody, aud Frank Coles TO &C.
oomp any him to his ranch down the
valley on q little hunting trip. They
were to return Sunday evening and
when sheir friends went TO meet them
az the Texas and Pacific train Sunday
were all kinds of Wild rumors as to
what kept them but the most pl .usible
one was that told by the engineer OF
the incoming train.
He stated that Is he roun led the
curve near Mr.. Psyne's ranch there
vas . Gro I'D OF tough looking men try
ing TO flag the train and as he nesred
them they opened fire and he pulled
she throttle vide open, ss he was sure
they we're . gang Of train robbers.
Is transpires that the supposed band
Of ruffisps Was the boys trying to ges
homo. They came in yesterday on the
G train snd have been trying ever
since to square themselves with the
Texas and Pacific people for giving
their crew suoh . fright.
White Oaks-Rock Island Deal De-
ponds On The Election
There has been much speculation of
late ss to what will be the outcome
of the pending deal between the
White Oaks and the Rock Island rail-
roads.
J. A. Eddy, one of the prime or
gsnizers OF the White Oaks and until
general manager of the road,
said this morning that the result of
the coming election would govern and
even control the action of the swo
Hessys there is no agree
nent at present between the two COM
oanies, further than 70 survey the |
route that they may BE- ready |
10 act after the election. The result |
" the election he says. will settle it.
Il Mckinley is elected the roads will
connect their lines, and II bryan is
elected the scheme will be abandoned.
he explains this In the following:
Every transcontineptal road In the
country 10 preparing for the immense
riental trade that will follow the re.
sntion of the Philippines andj the
pen door in China. II Bryan 10
lected she expansion policy Of the
ountry will be defeated and the san
uinsry hopes of railroad promoters
I'LL be shattered. The building of
be line from Salt Lake to the lower
cast, the extension OF the Rock leland,
be completion of the Stillwell line
D Port StIllwell, and the westward
Movement of the Pecos Valley and
Their roads is the direct result Of the
xpausion policy and for no other
than to secure the oriental
-sde, which will be enormous to an
degree.
"I think 1 am In q position to know
hat 1 say" continued Mr.. Eddy,
and | know that this will be the
.suls."
Mr.. Eddy thinks there are q number
other enterprises now pending here
nd In this part OF the country that
I'll bs affected likewise. he calls
stentiou TO the purohsss OF property
q Franklin street, the new smelter,
lie street car propositions. and asks
10 is no: tie general opinion that
, announcement, definitely settliog
,e matter, will be made Immediately