Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17
The Santa Fe Abs0rbs the Denver, Enid
& Gulf but not The Denver, Kan
Sas & Gulf. Road to be Built.
The Great Bend & Gulf
Not In cluded in the Deal and There
is Hope of its Building also.

The unexpected has again hap
Pc ned. The mails of Tuesday
evening Of last week brought the
unwelCome news to Barber county
that The Denver, Enid & Gulf
Railway Company, through its vice
president and general manager, Ed
l.. Peckham, had closed a deal with
the Santa Fe in St. Louis whereby
the Santa Fe became the owner of
the D.E.&G.lnOklahoma. A report
little different in character became
current on Tuesday morning and
just before the Index locked it's
forms on the press, the publishers
called on Attorney Brown of the
d. K. & G.. at headquarters in this
city and asked him if there was any
foundation to the report and he re-
piled very emphatically in the neg
ative. We were considerably re-
lieved and did not think it neces-
sary to honor the rumor with the
slightest mention, but when the
mail arrived our surprise can be
better imagined than expressed.
Mr.. Brown himself seemed to be
completely upset. He stated that
he knew nothing of it until he saw
the report Ct The sale in the papers;
that he had telegram from Mr..
Peckham to meet him in Enid the
following day and would know
nothing until he met Mr.. Peckham.
J. B. Gano was also notified to
come to Enid and he and Mr.. Brown
left on Tuesday night. On Thurs
day Mr.. Gano telephoned from Enid
that the sale had taken place as re-
ported but that it did not include
the Great Bend and Gulf which was
recently absorbed by the Peckham
crowd, nor the Dever, Kansas 6,
Gulf, and that the managers
of the D. K. & G., of which Mr..
Peckham still remains president
and general manager, will build
through Barber county as original
ly planned, from Kiowa to the
county line west and north of Sun
City.
The following version of the
transaction from the Enid Daily
Eagle may shed some light on the
proposition. 1t is presumed that
this statement was authorized by
Mr.. Peckham:
Since the return of General Man
ager Peckham of the d. +. and G..
from st. Louis, he has been in re-
ceipt of many kilograms and tele-
phone calls from Medicine Lodge,
and other points in Barber County,
Kansas, anxiously inquiring as to
the proposed eXtention of that line
from Kiowa, northwest. So anx-
ious are the people of that part OF
the state to know the real condition
that delegation of the citizens
arrived in Enid last evening for the
purpose of ascertaining personally
what would be done.
To all of these inquiries, Mr.
Peckham has replied that the Den
yer, Kansas and Gulf Railroad
Company, is separate corporation
from the Denver, Enid and Gulf R
K. Co., and that the sale of the lat
ter road, in no way, has affected the
former. In other words, it is moi
believed that the sale of the D. E
g G. will affect the building of the
Kansas line. Assurance has beer
given that the d. K. G. G. will be
constructed, but at this time, it i:
impossible to say just when the
construction work will be pushed
Considerable feeling seems tc
have been engendered among ths
citizens of Barber county over tn,
sale of the d. E. 81 G., for the rea
son that Barber county people hav,
regarded the Santa Fe as their nat
ural enemy. For this reason, they