The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-19
RocK IsL.AND NOTEs.
System is Now Divided Into New
Operating Districts.

The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
railway will hereafter be operated in
districts, as follows:
The lines hereafter comprising the
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern
railway viii be known as the northern
district.
The lines east Of the Missouri river
will be known as the eastern district
The lines west of the Missouri river
viii be known as the western district
The northern district will be divided
into operating divisions. as follows:
Robert Williams, who has been vice
president and general manager of the
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern,
viii general superintendent of the
Cedar Rapids division, and F. Walters
viii be superintendent, with headquar-
terS at Cedar Rapids. o. H. Mccarthy
becomes superintendent of the Iowa
Falls division, at Estherville, Iowa
T. H. Simmons, general freight agent
of the Cedar Rapids road IS made as
siStant general freight agent at Gear
Rapids; NJ. A. Patterson, general freight
and ticket agent Of the Rock Island and
Peoria, becomes assistant general
freight agent of the Rock Island and
Peoria, at Rock Island; and G. B. Al
bright, assistant general freight agent
of the Cedar Rapids road, is made di-
vision freight agent at Cedar Rapids.
Guthrie. Ok, June 19-Governor Fer
guson today was notified by the general
SOilClLOE Oh the ROCK lSlauQ, luaL luC
company will abandon that part Of the
Choctaw Northern track through the
hills between Geary and Salton, Ok, and
build q line from Salton to Hitchcock.
running both the ChoctaW and Rock IS
land trains over the same line from
Hitchcock through Watonga to Geary.
This became necessary on account of
dangerous trestles and a grade of 80
feet to the mile in the hills.
St Louis, June 19.-Circuit Judge
Wood ruled yesterday in a suit brought
by the city collector against the Wig
gins Ferry company for taxes, that the
company cannot be taxed under the
law relating to the taxation of rail-
roads.
The Virgins company set up this
contention in it's answer and ayerred
that all of its property was embraced
in the regular assessment of its assets.
The collector moved to have this portion
of the answer stricken out Judge
Wood overruled the motion
Santa Fe, N NJ, June 19.-Judge Nc
F'ie today granted a petition of the
Dawson Railway company for a temper
airy injunction to restrain the Red River
Valley company, which owns to Pablo
Montoya land grant from interfering
with the building of the Dawson railway
across the grant. The Dawson railway
IS a branch of the Rock Island & Ell
Paso company from Tucumcari, in
Guadalupe county, in Colfax, the coal
mining camp of Dawson, in Colfax
county. Some time ago a contract was
made by the litigants by which the de-
fendant company permitted the railway
company to enter upon the grant to
construct their road. but now. on ac-
count of a dispute between the two liti-
giants, the manager of the defendant
company has ordered the railway com
pany to cease to construct its road
across the grant and to remove the con-
structiOn camps therefrom. He threat
ems to prevent the further construction
of the road across the grant The hear
grant is the famous Bell ranch and ex-
tensive coal areas. The grant is s1tua-
ted in greater part San Miguel county.
but Chief w. J. Mills is disqualified
from acting in the case, owing to GER
tain interests he has, and Judge McF'ie
has taken the matter up.