Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-04-14
BUSINESS MEN OF cHlLLlcoTHE,
RESENT CHANGING OF MIL
WAUkEE DIVISION.
Means Loos to That City Of 1870 Fam
ilies-Many Men Will Be Transferred
to ottumwa BY the change-Work
On New Yards.

hallway company, in changing the d.
VISION point from that city to LAREDO
and railway men state that at mass
meeting held there last night 1T was
decided to send formal protest to
tho company's officials. In the call
Tor the meeting every citizen was ask
ed to attend whether they thought
that a protest would do any good or
not. ~
1t is said that it will be represent
ed to the Milwaukee officials that they
will lose more in the way of freight
and passenger traffic than they can
save in salaries by changing the. d.
vision and that the business men will
not patti onize corporation which it
is said has broken faith with them.
Change of Division.
The meeting was the result of an
order recently issued which states
that the division will be changed from
Chillicothe to Laredo. The long lay
overs for the middle division crews
are to- be at Ottumwa and for the west
division crews at Coberg making it
almost imperative that the trainmen
reside at one of these two places. 1t
is estimated that Chillicothe will lose
about 40 families by reason of the
change and that probably eighty or
ninety men will be transferred to Of
trmWa.
Large Crew at Work.
A crew of fifty laborers under Fore
man Cunningham, of Blakesburg, be-
gan work this morning ballasting the
old tracks and laying new tracks in
the west yards at the Milwaukee
junction. 1t is said that it is the in
tention to lay two miles of new track.
The round house will be kept at it's
present location and the old yards will
also be used. ~ F.'
Engines for corea.
Burlington Hawk ye.-The seven
engines purchased from the G., B. &
O. by the Fitz Hugh company of Chi
cago, for the Japanese government
have been started on their long jour
ney, after receiving a general over
hauling and being securely boxed in
the local shops. These engines were
purchased for construction work at a
cost of $28, 90 each, delivered in Japan.
They made fifteen carloads and will be
.transported!t to San Francisco, where
they will be embarked FOR japan. The
engines, are to go into service, on. rail-
roads controlled by the Japanese in
Corea. "a,
For several weeks past the force at
the West Burlington shops has let ev-
erything wait in order to finish the
work on the consignment to the mika-
do.
New Railroad for Iowa.
Kansas City, Mo-, April -. - The
Times says: plans are now in prog
ress for the building of railroad sys-
TEN reaching from Kansas City to Du-
luth, with cross line from ST. Louis
to Sioux City, Iowa, by the way Of
Council Bluffs and Omaha and a con-
Meeting branch from .Marceline, Mo-,
through Des Moines, Iowa, to. connect
with the Duluth line at Coon Rapids,
Iowa The company is said to have
floated S80,000,000 with French capital
lists at so cents on the dollar. The COM
pany, which will have it's headquarters
in Kansas City,, has been formally in
corporated under the name of the In
ter-state Railway company and there
is an auxiliary construction company.
The various lines of the new system
have been surveyed and active con-
struction will begin at Line Creek,
Clay county, Mo-, next wees.
Fight for Burlington.
It is the belief in railway circles that
the fight now being waged between
Messrs. Hill and Hartman over the
distribution of the Northern Securities
Company's holdings of stocks is really
for control of the Burlington road,
rather than of Northern Pacific.
The Great Northern and Northern
Pacific Jointly own the Burlington, and
should the stock now held by the
Northern Securities be distributed as
Mr.. Hartman wishes the holdings Of
Union Pacific, together with recent
purchases, would give Hartman con-
troll Of Burlington through Northern
Pacific.