Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-14
OUTLET TO PACIFIC COAST
Milwaukee Said 70 Have Made Traffic
Alliance with Union Pacific.
SAME As Nos1HwEsTERws ARRANGEMENT
Latest story Indicates thai No Com
pact Milwaukee and
Missouri Pacific Has Been
ade as Reported.

The story from Chicago to Me effect that
the Union Pacific and the Chicago, Milwau-
kee a 81. Paul had entered into a trafic
alliance similar TO the one existing between
the Union Pacific and the Northwestern re-
calls a statement made In Omaha last
week by an ofhcial Of the Frisco, who in
discussing the alleged compact between the
Missouri Pacific and the Milwaukee, said:
THE Frisco has been seeking a trafic
alliance with the Milwaukee for a long time
and now 1t looks like we have failed. II this
deal between the Gould line and the Mil
waukee really has gone through It will be
a disappointment to our people, for they
have felt that they needed the Milwaukee
In the northwest very badly. There . no
other road left for US. The Great Western
would AFFORD us no advantage. for it has the
long route between Kansas City and Chi
cago as we'll as between Kansas City and
the Twin Cities and Il Is without any ex-
tension in the northwest such as would BEN
EFT US. The time has come when the
Frisco must do something in tie way Of
getting a northern outlet"
The story that the Union Pacific and the
Chicago, Milwaukee 4 st. Paul had formed
a traf1c alliance meets with moro than
usual credence IN Omaha Some Of the
most prominent railroad men in this city
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the best that any can do is to guess. II was
impossible to learn anything dehn'te upon
this subject at Union Pacific headquarters.
The details OF this new story are hat the
Hartman line and the Rockefeller road
have entered into a trafic agreement
whereby the latter is to get a Pacific coast
outlet from Omaha, the conditions OF this
agreement being similar to the one existing
between the Northwestern and the Union
Pacific. This is a legal contract which is
stronger and more binding than an ordinary
trafic alliance.
II the report OF this alliance is correct
IL Is said the alleged exclusive alliance
between the Missouri Pacific and the Mil
waukee will be blocked, but It is further
stated that some kind OF trafic agreement
may be made with the Missouri Pacific
that will give the Milwaukee an outlet
from Kansas City to southwestern and
gulf points.
A Chicago paper, discussing the prob
ability Of this latest deal. takes the posi-
tion that it's contamination would indicate
that Harriman's influences with the
Rockefellers was more potent than
Gould's, inasmuch as Gould's prope-
sition Of an alliance Of his Mis-
souri, PACING ana the Milwaukee hsd
been pushed aside by Rockefeller to give
AOVm " NhN hChA ~ Inv OhlOA
There is considerable local sentiment
which runs counter to this theory. how-
ever, for IL Is the general belief in Omaha
that II such a deal has been made between
the Union Pacific and the Milwaukee II
was brought about by the solicitation OF
the latter road and not b. the Un!on
Pacific. In support Of this view the argu-
ment Is made that Hartman has less to
gain by such an alliance than Rockefeller.
Following up it's theory the Chicago paper
says the relations between Hartman and
Gould have been strained for some time
whereas those between Hartman and the
BOOKSELLERS have been OF q cordial nature
p and have been growing this way during the
past year, as many moves on the checker
board Of railroad activity will indicate.
As between the story that the milwaukee,
had sought an alliance with the Missouri
Pacific and that it had proposed the com
pact with the Union Pacific in order to OBJ,
tain advantageous western connections, the
latter is given precedence in Omaha. By
joining with the Missouri Pacific the MIL
wAukee could not have reached the Pacific
coast. The best it could have done would
have been Salt Lake City. and then to ge
to the coast 1t would still have been de
pendent on the Southern Pacific. whereas
by connecting UP with the Hartman roads
the Union ana southern racine, tn
Milwaukee will have the same as it's owl
road directly to the coast. entering Califor
mia at Sacrament as we'll as Los Angeles.
scheme to Steal transportation.
Passenger department officials of tn,
Union Pacific have had called to their at
= tention something new in the line Of trans
po-tation thievery. A man known as W
A. Burns. q resident Of Tennessee. Is sal,
to be the originator and operator Of thi
novel method OF defrauding railroads out 0
transportation. He has had printed, 1t l
said, letterheads on which appear: West
ern Railway Of Habana, Ltd. (Ferrocarri
Del oeste)'' and bearing the name Of head
quarters Of General Manager Alfred p. Lave
sey, Christina station, Habana.
A detective agency which d~iscloses thi
information advises the Union Pacific tina
Burns has made one unsuccessful attemp
at procuring transportation by this mean
and that II IL understood he is still vigil
sntly pursuing his new calling in the ives
Burns scheme is to use this stationer
In making requests on different road
throughout the country for transportatio
and It is the theory that his scheme involve
the accumulation OF transportation whic
he will convert into cash by selling. tn
author Of this scheme was arrested in Blu