The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-12
President YaOkum Outlines Frisco
 Systems Belt Line Policy
CONTEST MAY BE SETTLED
Injunction Suits Will Perhaps Be Pushed to Settle Rights of Each Claimant Without Resort to
 Supreme Court.

It may be that the contest between the Seaboard Air Line and the Birmins- ham Belt road under the new ownership of the Belt on the part of the St, Louis and San Francisco system will be con- tinued, or it may be that an amicaoie adjustment will be reached within the next week.
 The Age-Herald sent a telegram to President Yoakum of the Frisco sys- tenn yesterday and received reply to the same last night. The telegraphic correspondence explains itself and is as follows:
 B. F. Yoakum, President Frisco Sys- tenn, St. Louis, Mo.
 Please wire us tonight what your policy in regard to operation of Belt Railroad will be- and if you will continue contest to keep Seaboard out, or if you will CO., operate to bring Seaboard in, operating tracks on Thirty-second street ana Tenth avenue jointly. We would ap- preciate full statement from you as to your policy and cooperation with the seaboard E. w. BARRETT,
 Editor Age-Herald.
 St. Louis, Mo-, June Il. E. w. Barrett, Editor Age-Herald.
 In reply to your telegram, statement furnished Mir Walter Moore by our vice president, MT. winchell, dated June 10, outlines our policy and it is our inten- ton, and shall be our aim to aocommo- date all lines now or hereafter entering Birmingham. We feel that the more we can facilitate the building up or BIT mingham the more we are adding 10 the value of our property, as the Frisco interests and Birmingham's are mutual in every respect Our relations with all our connections are friendly without preference to any. B. F. YOAKUM.
 Mir. WincheIls Statement.
 The statement of MT. B. L. Winchell vice president and general manager of the St. Louis and San Francisco Rail- road, referred to in MT. Yoakums tele- gram above which was given to MT. Walter Moore in St. Louis Tuesday and given to the Age-Herald upon MT. Moore's arrival here yesterday afternoon is as follows:
 St. Louis Mo. June TO- 1902.
 "In connection with the fact that the Frisco system (K. C., M. & B. R. R. Co) has purchased the BlrmlnBndfn Belt INdil- road, MT Yoakum our president author izes me to say most definitely that the interview with MT. Atkinson, published on the 4th inst, outlining the purposes and intentions of the Belt company along broad and liberal lines, is fully approved by him and does not overstate the posi- ton of the Frisco Company in that re- spect
 we hope to shortly demonstrate to the citizens of Birmingham our earnest inten- tion to make this already valuable prop erty a still more indispensable adjunct to that community, and our desire to CO., operate in all proper ways with every commercial institution now located there, or which can possibly by our efforts or our continued endeavor to build up and encourage development, rather than to adopt a policy of restriction and repres- sion. B. l.. W1NCHELL.
 Injunction Suit Hearing.
 The injunction suit of the Seaboard Air Line and the Birmingham Belt Railway will be heard before Chancellor Car michael Friday.
 Since the filing of this case the Frisco system has purchased of MT. H. M. At kinson and associates, the Birmingham Belt Line. It is known that the Frisco and the Seaboard are on friendly terms and it is believed that matters over which