The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-05
KNEW Of
RAIL WAY
DEAF.
Honolulu Witness
In Huntington
Case.
WATCHED STEAL
OF BIG FOUR
A Man Who May be Heard From
in the Coming Great
Case.

There is man in Honolulu who has
at his fingers ends most of the details
connected with the organization and
Railroad, and the manner in which the
big Four'-Huntingto Hopkins and
the two Crockers and Stanford poured
into their own pockets the $30,000,000
by the United States gov
eminent to assist in establishing rail-
road communication between the East
and the Pacific Slope.
M. G. King, civil engineer now re-
siding in this city, was one of the first
appointees of Theodore D. Judah, the
first chief engineer of the Central Pa
cific, to the draughting department.
and in this office he became intimately
acquainted with the plans which III
timately placed the power ami money
in the hands of the big Four" MIR.
Kings close personal relations with
Judah gave him a thorough insight
into the financial methods of the big
Four" which he characterizes as glar-
ingly Illegal.
Newspaper reports by the last steam
err stated that Walter Morsehead, rep
resenting the minority stockholders of
the Central Pacific Railroad, has filed
suit against the estate of Coils P.
Huntington to recover more than
500, 000, 900 of which he and his associ-
ates declare they were defrauded b. The
Vaccinations of Coils P. Huntington,
Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford and
Charles Crocker.
Mr.. King, in an interview with the
Advertiser yesterday, gave minute de-
tails of the organization by the Big
Four" of a contracting company to
which they gave all contracts issued
by the railroad company for building
the railroad. thus obtaining control OF
the governments s30,O00,0O0 subsidy.
In 1856 King went to California and
in 1859 returned to the states, but was
back again in California in 1862, una
BILE to resist the attractions of the gold
fields and splendid opportunities Of
+; Ono
day an acquaintance told him that
Theodore Judah had a vacancy in his
draughting department. He called up
on him, only to find that the vacancy
had already been filled. Judah, how
ever. offered him position as
draughtsman, but at much lower sal
airy than King had expected. He took
the position and soon showed that he
was qualified to become the chief OF
the department, Mr. Judah recommend
ing him as such to the directors, to-
getber with a large increase of salary
Hopkins opposed the increase in sal
ary. but King at that time did not
know of what had happened. Survey
or-General Houghton offered him po-
sition as topographer at handsome
salary to accompany state boundary
expedition. Judah was loath to lose
his services, but told him when he was
again disengaged to seek him and il
there was an opening he would surely
get il. When King next applied to
to Judah, the latter said he was not in
a position to make any offers, although
a vacancy was afterwards filled by
King, as he was just then endeayoring
to ascertain how ne stood with the
railroad company The affairs of the
organization were complex, and evil
IDENTIFY Judah and his associates were
not pulling together.
81 then found out from Judah just
what the trouble was" said Mr. King
Charley Croker, after the first con-
tract for construction was let to con-
tractors Bates & Wales, saw that there
was an immense pile Of money to be
made out of the railroad contracting
business. The prices which contract
ors were charging were way up. owing
70 the difficulty of bringing out mate
rial from the East. Everything was