The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-02-15

uncertain.
MILWAUKEE, ROAD
HAS GRAFT CHARGE
AGAINST OFFICERS
Chicago, Feb. 12.--No suit has been
fled against the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul railway company by minor
fly stockholders of the company. At
the same time the rumors both in New
York and Chicago that suit would be
started soon, charging excessive x
penditures in the construction of the
road Pacific coast extension, the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound.
have become more definite.
It developed, through admission OF
the roads officials, that the Beaver
Dam Malleable Iron company had re-
ceived the contracts for most of the
tie plates used in the construction of
the new road, n all except a few spe-
cialties in the q castings supplies.
The vice president of the Beaver Dam
company is Lawrence Fitch, soninlaw
Of A. j. Earring, president Of the st.
Paul. E. W. McKenna, vice president
in charge of operations. in an inter
view. Immediately after the publicity
accorded the construction of the Puget
Sound, declared no relative Of q st.
Paul official was an officer of a railway
equipment house which had supplied
the road. Mr.. Earring said that neither
Of the companies with which his sonin-
lew was connected manufactures rail-
way supplies.
Furnished Supplies to Road.
Yesterday in a new interview 1t was
admitted that the Beaver Dan COM
ppnv had c1Inrlia7 tho road with on
enormous proportion of its supplies.
Mr.. Earring was asked with what COM
pany his soninlaw was associated. He
replied that he did not know. He later
recalled tina it was the Beaver Dam
company, n this statement was am
plifed by Mr.. McKenna's admission re-
garding the purchase of supplies from
that concern. How much these con-
tracts has reached neither could say.
1t was reported also that Mr.. Fitch
was in Chicago, but he could not be
found at the company's office at 606
Commercial National Bank building.
On that door is this inscription:
j. U. Cowling & Co.
Beaver Dam Malieabie Iron Co.
Detroit Steel Casting Co.
(! Zug Iron and Steel Co.
w. A. Rome, boiler plate and boiler
tubes.
Fitch is Vice President.
Mr.. Rome said the three companies
were all one II that Cowling was
their agent. Mr.. Cowling stated that
while he was agent for the Beaver
Dam he had to do only with the other
two, and that he simply took neces-
sary telephone messages. He professed
ignorance Of the Beaver Dams oper-
atoms. or whether it had secured Puget
Sound contracts. He knew little aside
from the fac that d. P. Lamoreaux
was president and Mr.. Fitch vice presi-
dent. That information he acquired
by consulting a company letterhead.
Mr.. Earring urged that Mr.. Fitch's
name be kept out of the story, saying
there was no reason for the connection.
+. Later he repeated that the materials
for the extension had been procured
in open market, adding that where pos
stble the company had bought from
plants situated along the lines Of the
railway. That is in accordance with
policy, he added, pointing out that the
Beaver Dam plant was at Beaver Dam,
Wis.
1--WE buy Of Marshall Field & Co.,
of which Stanley Field Is head" he
said, and Of Armour & Co., of which
j.. Ogden is head. Both are directors
In our company. Is there any criticism
Of that?"
Land Holdings "cIean."
AT the interview with newspaper men
Mr.. McKenna, Burton Hanson, general
COUNSEL, ana IL. u. SeWa1l, assistant TO
the president, were in the room with
MIR. Earring. They took turns in dis
GUESSING at some length reports regard
ing the acquisition Of and holdings
along the ST. Paul lines.
It was explained that almost ell the
adjoining land is owned by the Mil
waukee Land company, an Iowa corpo-
ration founded in 1879, all Of whose
stock Is held by the ST. Paul under
Wisconsin amendments. This was te
disrrove the rumor that officials and
their friends had gobbled large tracts
some time before the rout Of the sys-
tenn was publicly announced.
LAS a matter Of fact" said Mr.. Nc.
Kenna, lit was easy for n one. with.
out engineering training, to figure out
high ranges. There was only one route
and it had been surveyed II years ago
long before he route was actually set.
tied upon. Any one could buy"
Blame Rumors on Stock Jobbers.
The officials continued to scott al
the idea Of a suit being started and t.
attribute the rumors to stock jobbers
They professed ignorance Of the iden
tity of the men said to be back of tn,
proceedings. A New York telegram t,
stock exchange houses carried rumor,
that eastern financial interests wer,
back OF the investigation which hat
been going on for months, and on tn,
strength of confidence that severa
millions had been lifted from the ST
Paul treasury, We're contemplating sui
within a short time.
Meanwhile the directors Intervene,
are standing by Mr.. Earring. j. Ogdel
ArInour expressed complete confdenc
in the president and in the constructio,
of the road which has been his baby
He said that the story was ridiculou
n any comment on it worthless. TIL
stock is unaffected.
COLD IN MICHIGAN,
Detroit, Mich. Feb. 1.-THE coldes
u-aothnr ~ thn uiptar mn. rx,o.1.