The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-03-09
O.-W. TRAIN SERVICE
WALLACE AND SPOKANE
SEVERELY CON MINED AT
MEETING OF BOARD OF TRADE
MISSION FLAT ROAD.

High officials of the O.-W. r. Il n.
company came in for severe criticism
at the meeting of the board of trade
yesterday. when they were virtually
charged with acting in bad faith with
the people of the Occur d'Alene dis
trict in the matter of train service be
tween this city and Spokane The sub
ject was introduced rather unexpect-
eddy by Judge Ailshie of Occur d'Alene,
who was a guest at the luncheon and
who was called upon to speak In the
course of his remarks he referred to
the beastly train service between Wal
lace and Spokane evidently not real
izing that he was tipping the lid of a
simmering caldron that threatened to
overflow with the least provOcation.
This reference was Immediately en-
larged upon by Walter j. Sullivan.
manager of the Ryan Fruit company
former president of the board of trade.
who recently returned from a visit to
his old home in Canada. Being called
upon for a speech, Mr.. Sullivan said
that in reaching his old home town he
Travelled over a branch railroad that
he at once recognized as a duplicate
of the O.-W r. & n. train service in
this district He then took up the
service between this city and Spokane
by way of Tekoa and the failure of the
company to close the deal with the
Milwaukee for service by way of
Plummer He said he had recently
discussed the matter with a Milwaukee
official in Spokane from whom ne
learned that the Milwaukee had agreed
to the use of its line by the O.-W. for
nominal figure based upon the usual
charge for detour in case Of a wash
out or other obstruction From the
information thus obtained Mr.. Sullivan
said that he was convinced that Gen
eral Manager O'Brien of the O.-W. was
misleading the people here regarding
the Plummer service. and that he was
also misleading the local agent of the
company II. J. Arnett, who was pres
ent at the meeting, as well as w r.
f0ktNs hlSAilNl ltloNtilEti anu - NiHA
agent Of the company. both of whom he
said are held in the highest regard bv
the people of the district. Mr. Sullivan
said that the only way to get relief
from the intolerable service imposed
upon the district by the O.-W. was to
touch the company's pocket book by
Withdrawing business. and he appealed
to the large shippers to adopt that
course That would bring the COM
pany to terms and result in getting the
service to which the people of the dis
trict are entitled
Other Business.
a letter was read from the people of |
Calder on the st. Joe, calling atten-
ton to the petition that has been filed |
with the commissioners for the crea-
ton of an Independent highway dis
trict along the St Joe from Benewah |
county line to Avery. and asking the
support of the board of trade. 1t was
pointed out that one of the chief ad
yantages of the proposed highway
would be connection with the Slate
creek road. giving direct connection
with Wallace, the county seat The
etter was referred to the traffic and
industry committee.
John +. Ferguson stated that tenta-
i've plans had been worked out for a
baseball team. and said that the work
equired an addition of two members
o the baseball committee. Acting up
n this suggestion, President Callahan
ppo; ated L. f. Hanley and Walter J.
sullivan.
The "city beautiful" plan of the
Wallace Study club was called to the
ttention of the board by President
allahan and the welfare committee 4;
as requested to cooperate. =,
4 letter was read from the forestry n
'fice at Missoula acknowledging re-
,ipt of the resolution favoring the
ission flat road. The letter stated !
lat this enterprise had been included O.
the recommendations from the Mis-
ula office and awaited the approval ~
the secretary of agriculture =,