The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 28, 1897, Page 1

e o —~ - i} S { L» ol | { E g ch i i o i VOLUME LX CXH.ZNO. 89, SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY MOR PRICE FIVE CENTS AWAIT THE GOLD.LADEN PORTLAND Much Speculation as to the Amount of Treasure on Board. IT IS BELIEVED THE STEAMER WAS DETAINED. Meanwhile All Kinds of Stories Flow In Concerning the Fortunes Made on the Klondike-—-Riches of Copper River. LE,Wasg., Aug. t Sound count he people | ow noth- «bout the whereabouts of the r Portland to-dsy than they did week She may be odt in the P e be at St. Michael and | e on the bottom of the sea. i New i are on the lockout for e bout her coming are put ! 1 every few ho put to- so far away that no one o is inside the straits. For | bher coming aled | re has been so much talk of probable amount she will 1 that everybody is wishing she urn soon, just to settle the dis- the amount of the cargo. Cassel, president of the Juneau Commerce, who is in this st in c is anxious that only the shall be told, but asserts that hisia- mation, which he considers reliable, is to tae effcci that the Portland wiil have | wver three tons of gold. He claims that he had a long taik, just before leaving Ju- eaa, with Archie Scnelp, who came | riand from D.wson City. Schelp posi- | vaiy ‘el that the Portland would | have over three tons of gold aboard. | Echelp iscredited with the statement that it ook nim over two hours to get his sack | d from tlie big pile on the dock at | n City it measured one-fourth ofa e says that other letters which | he has received from Dawson City are to | 1 ame effect. The Juneau iner of An t 21 pnb- statement made by Scheip 10 the t the Portland has over three )ld aboard, at least he says it ver on the steamer which Wwas o connect w W. H. Skiliings is the architect who de- ned the Washington State building at World's Fa rom that point under date of | 1 19 say Day Dawson e mail-carrier, arrivei wih the regular mail. ade a quick trip. Day purchased a | claim beiore he left Dawson from s man who was compelled to leave the country on -account of sickness. He paid $4500 for | will make him independenily | The man was so sick he could t work it. Day says it seems funny » papers make so much jfuss over down below. Why, in Daw- son he was hard,y a factor. There were | many who nad much beiter claims and money. Day is goinz to take his wite in witn him tbe next trip. Day told me that from what he knew of peuple who had gone down States on the Portland the vessel would bring out not less than $3,000,000.” Nevertheless, passengers on theschooner Fred E.Sander, from Dawson City, say that these stories of great fortunes com- down on the Portland are not true. They say that she will have $1,600,000— probably not thet much. Al of the spare gold is being reinvested, they say, in the new mines, zand miners who are not doing that are bolding on to it, 50 that they will be able to pay good wages this winter to plenty of men. Then when spring comes they will be in fine condition for the clean- ing up. the river to come to the | the dock ready 10 be shipped down | b the Portland. | | He 1s now at Skaguay, | “f consumed two days in making the trip over White Pass and return. I went as far as Lake Bennet. The trail wasin good condition and I met ulenty of people who were going over it freely. They had horses, and seemed to be experiencing no great Gifficulties. There are some swampy places, whict could be tixed up, and the pass would then be much better. The | men { met on the trail werein good spirits and all told me that they expected to get over ali right. There was plenty of lum- ber along the trail, to be used in placing it in good condition. There are about fifteen miles of tents on boti sides of tne trail from Skagnay to the foot of summit. It is net hard to reach the summit. I wish (o advise the public not to bring boats north with them. Not a single boat has gone over either pass. Fhey are used in and about Dyea and Skaguay, but you cannot get them over the trails. boats on the lake can handle the crowd and the weather conunues to be fairly fine, | most all of those on Waite Pass will get over before winter. “The sawmill is refusing to se!l lumber, but will build you a boat for $110 which | will carry 2000 pounds of outfits and pro- visions. 1 came back by way of Lake| Lindermann and Chilcoot Pass. The tr1) is a very hard one, and it is marvelous to me how men can climb the rocks with anything on their backs. Nevertheless, a great number are getting over. No one need be worried; if the men up there have staying qualities, they will get over all right. ey tell me up there that the river and lakes do not freeze over before October 10. I will add that White Pass will be a good winter pass. A person can sleigh for eizhteen miles up the river. Then one encounters three miles of very high grade. Then you get over the sum- mit, and after that you have a chain of lakes and rivers to White Horse Rapids without a break between.” T. T. Albretch, a former well-known contractor of this city, writes from Junean that he believes hundreds of American | miners wilt not enter the Canadian terri- tory, but will work in Alaska goldfields, He says: I Liave organized a company; we will build our voais at Juneau, go down the coast for 200 miles 1o Yakatta River, then up the river as far as possibie, then tramp it the balance of the way to the South Fork of Copper River. There is gold in that river and plenty of it. Every letter which reaches here confirms tbat story. I bave talked with many, and aii say that Copper River will prove a fortune to every man who goes there.” et YET GOING NORTHWARD. But Many of the Fortune-Hunters Will Not R=ach the Goldfields This Winter. SEAT(LE, WasH., Aug. 27.—The rush to the north has not ceased. To-day the steamer City of Topeka left for Juneau. | Sne had aboard filty passengers, most of It remains for the steamer Portland | to decide the question which is just now | exciting the world. Hundreds of miners who went north to Skaguay snd Dyea were grubstaked, and the people back ot them are feeling much better to-day over the letters from the north. The miners seem to be getting over much more rap- idly ‘than was for a time predicted they wouid. Of course, hundreds still remain on this side of the mountains and will not get over until spring, but those who went 2 little earlier and who had money to pay packing rates seem to be making prog ress. A dozen different letters received to-day state that miners are fast getting | back of this scheme. One may hear both good | finished a person will go to Dawson from over Cnilcoot. - and bad reports concerning White Pass. whom are bound for the goldfields. But the rush for this year is abouc over. Seve- ral more steamers are booked to go and will have a number of passengers, but those who have the fever are pretty well convincea that to start now will probably mean that tbis side of the mountains will be their home until next spring. E. Cassell“of Juneau said to-day that thie proposed Alaska railroad will surely beu go. He said: “It will follow the Taku River route and the scheme will involve the building of ninety miles of railroad. All the bad places in the Yukon now encountered will be avoided on this route, as it follows a different arm of the river. The prelimi- nary surve~is now being made by civil engineers on the ground, and I under- stand that people who are interesied in the Pennsylvenia Raiirosd Gompany are When the road is | Juneau in five days and ride all the way. W. J. Henderson, formerly a merchant | But the road cannot be equipped in time of this city, who is now stationed at|to take czre of any part of nexi year's Juneau, writes lo this city of the condi- | traffic. He saye on of affairs at White Pass. that the passis all right, and that men | miles overlaud, which “The Dalton trail involves a pack of 300 ior the present are getting over it every day. He states: | shuts thay out of consideration. The per- WHEN WILL THE PORTLAND ARRIVE? PORT TOWNSEND, Wasii., Aug. 27.—The steamer Portland was not in sight off Cape Flattery at 5 o’clock this evening. The weather at the cape is clear and a ten- mile wind is blowing. Michael on account of t The belief is growing that the Poriland was delayed at St. he failure of the river boats to reach there. The opinion is cxpressed by many that the Portland will not reach Seattie before August 3L This opinion is based on the assumption that it will take her ten days to discharge at St. Michael and also that the river boats have been delayed. The Portland probably arrived at St. Michael about August 7, as she was at Dutch Harbor August 1i ten days were required to discharge her sail- from there north is about five days. 2, and the run ing date would probably be August 17, and allowing fourteen days for the passage she could not reack here before August 3L Johns Village. picture, a little to the rigiit of the center. tory of the Dominion of Censda. and more. Ocean. on the western slope of Mount St. Canadian survey havine his ears frozen in | his death. By the treatv between Great Britain and Russia—February, 1825 that the boundary line between their American possessions shouid follow the 141st de. gree of meridian from a point thirty miles from the sea on the south o the Arctic The southern end of this meridianal boundary was determined by Messrs, Turner and McGrattan in 1892 fcr the United States and Mr. Ogzilivie for Canada to be as, while Point Demarcation on the Arctic has been settled upon as its northern terminus. been any determination of pointson its course through the interior, the nature of the country making the work one of great aifficulty and naraships, Mr. Oglivie of the (From a photograph by Mr. Ogilvie, the Dominion Land Surveyor.) along Forty Mile and other piaces cut by or near the boundarv made its accurate determination and marking in those places a matter of necessity, so as to settle the The view is from a high hill on the south bank of the river, nearly opposite Chief The direction of the line is indicated by the white line through the I¢ cuts the little steamer on the river be- | \ween the piioi-house and the bow, and crosses the hemispherical hill some distance beyond, just at the apex. To the left is Alaska, and to the right the Northwest Terri- Thea little stern-whee! steamer on the river, bound from St. Mickael, near the mouth, to Dawson, has completed 1560 miles of her jour- ney, and has eigbty-six vet to make. The Yukon at this point is rather narrow, being about 1280 feet wide in winter and 1400 in spring. Just below it widens to 2000 feet it was agreed Not until very lately, however, hus there 1896 while at work near the point shown | in the picture, and John H. Turner of the American survey, some time before, under- If- the . went such exposure while going over the course of the line to the north as resulted in The growing importance of the mining interests and the increase of population question of zovernmental jurisdiction. VIEW OF THE YUKON RIVER Where It Is Crossed by the International Boundary Line. The whole length of the line from Mount St. Elias to the Arctic Ocean is about 660 miles. The point shown in the picture 335 miles from the southern end and 325 from the nothern. is nearly half way between the two, being The point where it crosses the Porcupine River—185 miles north of this place and near the Rampart house—has neen lately determined. Thoe main work, however, of the surveyors on both sites has been to determine the course of the Yukon south. Independent observations differ but litile—a rew rods—as to where it crosses the river and from there south to where it crosses Sixty- mile Creek. For five miles north of the river and seven miles to the south a broad way has been cleared along the line and its course it readily known. marked by cairns and posts, so as to make The cairns and posts are continued on south across the hills and valleys until tne streams tributarv to Forty-mile River are reached, when the way is again cut out and distinctly marked. Forty-mile River is crossed twentv-five miles south of the Yukon crossing and twenty-three miles abuve its mouth. From there the marking is continued on to Sixty-mile Creek, and in time will be pushea on south across the White River to Mount St. Elias. This marking out was done by Mr. Oxzil- vie for the Canadian Government, the negotiations for u joint survey having failed. The American surveys differ but little, as said before, irom Mr. Ogilvie’s, and his line, well marked so far as run, is generally accepted by the miners as the right bounda: y. manent improvement on White Pass can- not begin until the snow leaves next spring. When it is finished it will be too late to catch the crowd involved in the spring rush, so it remains that of the thousands who will seek the goldfields in the spring a great majority will go by the | way of Chilcoot.” DRAWS A DARK PICTURE. Banker Wasson Writes of the DIffi- culty of Going Overland to the Kiondike. PORT TOWNSEND, Wasn., Aug. ¢ Banker and ex-Coilector of Customs An- drew Wasson, who left here with a party of seven for the Klondike, via Skaguay, writes back to his wife from Skaguay as follows: “There are about 3000 men and 1500 | horses here, making up the most forlorn | 1ot that you ever saw. About half of them have given up and the other half either curse or cry. Taking it all together, I never saw such a condition of affairs. At Dyea there are nearly as many as here, and I am told they are in the same con- dition. God only knows what will be- come of those headed this way, for none but those with horses will get through. “I do not believe that one in a hundred will get through. Many have started out, but just as many have returned footsore and disheartened. Outfits can be bought here for a song. Flour in any quantity is Bennet it sells for $20 per hundred, from which you may judge the costof trans- portation.. Forty cents per pound is the Ireight rate from here, and they are charg- ing 50 cents at Chilcoot. Reports come that the trail can be crossed, but that esch train is liable to lose many horses. Pack animals are selling for from $150 to $200 each. There is a constant stream of peo- ple between here and Dyea, each crowd believing the other place is the best. I firmly believe that freight will advance to §$1 per pound before this crowd is haif started. The authorities should stop the tide of immigration that is coming.this way. ‘It 18 suicidal to a prospector to come at this time, for the blockade here will be followed by one on the trail. Iam firmly convinced that even after the trail is opened to traflic the crush of horses will be even greater on the mountain than the crush ot men here. It is discouraging to see the pitiful condition of thousands here. One here without horses is as help- less as a child. ‘I never saw so many men weaken.” < e tgel i NARROW-GAUGE ROAD. Rail Communication to Be Estab- lished to the Head of Lake Teslin. SEATTLE, Wasu, Aug. 27.—Duncan McKinnen, the leading merchant of Fort Wrangel, arrived in Seattle to-day, hav- ing come down from Alaska on the steamer City of Topeka, accomvanied by bis family, who stopped to visit in Vic- toria. Mr. McKinnon is an active participant in the excitement of the north and a firm believer in the eventual popularity of the Stickeen River route to the interior. His belief is confirmed by the activity which the Canadian Government and Canadian individuals are taking in the opening of the trail. The last Dominion Parliament appropriated $1,500,000 for a preliminary opening of the trail, and the money was placed in the hands of Captain Calbraith, with instructions to proceed with thne work. Captain Calbraith reported the fund in- sufficient, and Premier Laurier advanced $1,500,000 more, relying upon Parliament to reimbnrse him. The trail was opened Continued on Second Page. offered at’50 cents: a sack, while at Lake | TAVE SIENED THE TREATY And Now the Alliance Between Nicholas and Faure Is On. Germans Surprised and Cha- grined by the New Arrangement. Dec'ared a Tandem Bicycle All- ance In Which Russia Steers In the Pathway of Peace. LONDON, Exé., Aug. 27.—The Times’ | Paris correspondent declares that a defi- 1 nite treaty has been signed on the deck of | the French cruiser Pothuau. itis stated that the toasts proposed at | the banquet on the cruiser were drawn up at Wednesday’s conferences, thus euabling M. Hanotaux, the French Foreign Min- ister, to renounce his intention of remain- ing in Russia for a few days after Fresi- dent Faure’s departure. The Czar presented M. Faure with two masterpieces of Russian‘art—a green agate Byzantine vase and a red agate desk, or- namented. both mountedir gold. The Czarowitz, the Grand Duchess Xenia and the Grand Dukes Nicholas and Alexander wired their compliments to President Faure from ‘Abbustummen. PARIS, France, Aug. 27.—Nothing is known as to when the termsof the alli- ance between France and Russia will pe announced. but it is rumored that they will not be published yet. The German press illy conceals its sur- prise and chagrin at the conclusion of the freaty undér an assumed nonchalance and with th. .ssertion that it makes no difference, a 11,2 Czar will not sanction any scheme French revenge upon Germany. The Austrian press likewise endeavors to minimize the importance of the treaty. The Pester Liovd declares that it is a “Tandem bicycle alliance, in which Rus- sia steers in the pathway of peace.” The Opinione of Rome refuses to believe that any change has taken place in the European status quo unless the terms of the alliance are pubiisuned proving the change. ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Aug. 27. — It was semi-cfficialiy announced to-day that conferences between the French and Russian Ministers of Foreign Affairs were held first in the presence of the Czar and afterward in the presence of President Faure. It is added that results are most satisfactory for the interests of France and Rassia and for the peace of the world. PRINCE AND PHKINCESS WED, Another Tie Baiween Norway, and Denmark. COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, Aug. 27.— Princess Ingelioger Charlotte Frederica, second daughter of Crown Prince Ct uan of Denmark, was married at 2 o’clock to-day in the palace chapel here to Prince Charles, Duke of Westgoterland, third son of King Oscar II of Norway and Sweden, in the presence of a brilliant assemblage of members of the Danish and Swedish royal families, the Dowager Empress of Sweden Russia and the Princess of Wales. The ey was profusely decorated in honorof the voung couple and the people accorded them an enthusiastic reception. The Princess was born in 1878 and the Prince was bora in 1861. BERING SEA CGMMISSION. The Case Is Cpened by Hon. F. Peter- son on Behalf of the Eritish Government at Halifax. HALIFAX, Nova Scoria, Aug. 27.— The Bering Sea Commission resumed its session to-day. The argument was opened by Hon. F. Peterson on behalf of the British Government. The ground taken by Mr. Peterson was that the United Siates did not seize the property of the sealers for its inirinsic value, but to pre- vent the carrying on of the sealing b! ness by such vessels. This, it was claimed, was done in the face of promises given by the United States Government that a re- currence of the seizures of 1886 would not be repeated. This promise had not been observed. He further claimed on behalf of his Government reimbursement for all damages arising Irom loss by prospective caiches. Tuis latter contention is stronely dis- puted by the United States representa- tives. Both sides have cited many cases on this point, and the latter part of Mr. Peterson’s address was wholly taken upin establishing this point. —_— Promottons in the British Army. LONDON, ExG., Aug. 27.—The Queen has approved cf the appointment of Gen- eral Sir Evelyn Wood, quartermaster-gen- eral, to succeed General Sir Redvers Buller as adjutant-general, the appointment to go into effect 1n October. General Sir George Stewart Wnite will succeed Gen- eral Wood as quarcermaster-general, —_—— Surrendered to th- Grrmans. ZANZIBAR, Aug. 27.—King Mwangab left Ugandas City July 6 fo organize a rising at Budda against the Government. The King’s forces were defeated July 20 by the D-puty Commissioner, Major Tar- nay. The King escaped to German terri- tory and surrendered to the Germans, who are detaining him. Ravages of the Plagwe. BOMBAY, Ixpra, Aug. 27. — Advices from Poonah staie that t. e ravages of the bubonic plague are increasing seriously and the Kivkee bazaar nas been closad entirely. Professer Haffkine is inoculat- ing the people at Kirkee with the pre- ventive virus, The segregation hospital is full. g ke To Honor Bismarck. BERLIN, GERMANY, Aug. 27.—A new first-ciass cruiser, which is to be launched next month, is to be christened the Bis- murck. This is interpreted as being an indication that better relations exist be- tween the ex-Chancellor and Emperor Wilham. et S A A Wreath on Fmperor Frederick’s Tomb, POTSDAM, GERMANY, Aug. 27.—The King of Siam, who arrived here yester- day evening and who was received with every mark of nonor by Emperor Wil- liam, placed a wreath of flowers this morn- ing upon the tomb of the late Emperor Frederick of Germany. —_— Sounding Greece av to Her Resources. LONDON, E~G., Aug. 27.—The powers have asked Greece the amount she is able to pay as the first installment of the Turkish indemnity and to mention the reverues she can assign to guarantee the whole amount. Cretans Fire on Dj vad Pasha CANEA, Crere, Aug. 27.—The relations between the Turks and the insurgents are greatly strained. Djevad Pasha, the Turk- ish commande; fired on to-day while going to visit the insurgent camp and w forced to return. ASSAILED BY THE AFRIDIS Village of Lan Captured { and Burned by the Tribesmen. After Sharp Fighting the Forces of General Biggs Rout the Enemy. Now tha Indlan Government Will Send an Expedition Against the Natives. LONDON, ExG., Aug. 27.—A specisl from Siinla says 1bat the Daulatzai tribe of Afridis, near Kohal, descended from the hills in strong force during Thursday nightand attacked and captured the vil- lage of Liun, setting ftire to the buildings, nearly all of whi h were destroyed. Gen- eral Rigzs, commanding the force at Kohat, having heerd of the Afridis’ plans, had prepared a force on Friday morning and attacked the enemy. Aiter sharp fighting the Afridis were driven back to the hills with heavy losses. The British loss consisted ¢f one Sepoy killed and a native officer and two Sepoys wounded. A special dispatch from Bombay says that the mad Moliah of Haddah command- ed the Afridis who have just captured the British forts in the Khyber Pass, which, the dispatch adds, the natives will now keep sealed up. SIMLA, Inpia, - Aug. 27.—The upper Swat tribes on the right bank of the river have paid a fine of 20,000 rupees for revoit- ing against the Government. General Blood’s column returned to Thana yesterday. All is quiet at Shabk- dar. ¥ X Itis believed at Simla that the Orkazaris are not sufficiently in earnest to attack British posts on the Samania range. The Government has decided to send an expedition in large force against the Alfridis. Dynamiters Heading for Constantinople. CONSTANTINOPLE, Turgey, Aug. 27. The Turkish Embassador at Vienna, Mahmoud Nedim Bey, telegraphs that a number of persons are proceeding to Con- stantinople tocsuse bomb explosions. It ‘is annou:o:d that tbere will be eleven Armeninns implicated in recent ‘bomo outrages here. Of this number one bas committed suicide and eight have been arrested. Nicaraguans Coming. MANAGUA, ‘NICARAGUA, Aug. 27.— Lewis Corn, secretary of the legation of the Greater Republic of Central America, and Rudoiph W eser, agett of the Nica- raguan Canal Company, have started for Washington. J. D. Rodriguez, the Min- ister of the Grenter Republic of Central America, will foliow tuem to Washington in a few days. - Big French Loan to Be Floated. LONDON, ENGLAXND,® Au: 27. — The Financial News says the French Cabinet is considering the floating of a loan of £60,000,000 in 2}4 per cent bonds, partly for the redemption of the floating debt and partly for the reconstruction of the French navy. SLEW TWO NOTORIOUS BENDERS Father and Daughter Shot Down by a Citi- zens’ Posse. REVEALED BY DYING CONFESSION. Clearing of the Mystery Con- nected With the Kansas Murderers. THIRTY PERSONS KILLED IN THEIR DEN. When the Pursuers Overtook the Fleelng Family They Spared Only Mrs. Bender. WICHITA, Kans, Aug. 27.—Another chapter has just been added to the grew- some story of the Bender family, whose home in Montgomery County, over twenty years ago, was the scene of upward of thirty marders, by the deathbed contes- sion of Captain Carroll, who declares that he was a member of a citizens’ posse that followed the Bender family after their flight and killed two of them. The fate of tue Benders has beretofore been veiled in mysiery. Captain Carroll made the confession two years ago to W. H. Coon of Denver, and vesterday Mr. Coon communicated the facts for tbe first time to Judge Webb of Atchison. The home of the Benders was in Montgomery County, not far from Independence, and travelers passing through that new country frequently put up there. The house was small and an addltion was built, Between the two downstairs rooms was a partition made of thick cloth tacked to the studding. Along this parti- «on a rude bench was constructed, and unwary travelers would sit there and rest their heads against the cloth partition. Kate Bender, the daughter, in the adjoin- ing room, would then take a large ax and strike the stranger a terrible blow on the head. The victim would then be thrown throuzh a trapdoor into a deep hole dug for the purpose and his pockets rifled. After taking all the money and valuables from the pockets the stranger would be buried 1n the garden. The whole family, William Bender, the father, Mrs. Bender, Kate, the daughter, and John, the son, were engaged in the horrible bnsiness of robbery and murder, and on account of their quiet inoffensive appearance the cunning with which they covered up their tracks and the newness of the country, they managed to escape de- tection or even suspicion for several years. The murder of Dr. York in 1873 was the crime that led to their undoing. Dr. York stopped there over night while en route to the home of his brother, and that was the last time he was ever seen alive. Owing to nis prominence and the nearness of his relatives a thorough sesrch was made. The Benders did not deny that hestopped there, but claimed that re had traveled on. Suspicion was directed toward them, however, and they fled the country the following night. Jokn Bender was after- ward arrested in Texas, but cheated the gailows by committing suicide. The citizens of Montgomery County be- gan to search the Bender premises, and they found that the yard was full of bodies in various stages of decomposition, all with skulls crushed by blows from an ax and with their throats cut. The whole county was startled with the revelation, and the best detectives in the land ex- hausted every possible means of finding the fugitives, but only John Bender was ever cnptur:'-d. Captain Carroll confessed that a band of citizens, sworn to eternal secrecy, followed the Benders and filled the old man and Kate full of lead, but let Mrs. Bender go, with a warning never (o return on pain of death. He said that Kate and her mother stood by and stoically watched the men riddle the body of William Bender with bullets, and then, when Kate’s tern came, she stepped out like a tragedy queen and said: “‘Blaze away.” She was shot down like a dog, but when it came to shooting the mother, the hearts of the posse men failed them and they allowed her to zo. The bodies were carefully buried and the graves concealed. The township in which the Benders lived seems to have inherited a curse, for in aadition to ihe Bender murders the following are among the violent deaths that have since occurred: John Hallifer, shot and Kkilled his wife and himself; Wesley Ratliff, committed suicide; John Geary killed by James Parks. The Bender farm is tenantless and covered with weeds, and the house is believed to be haunted by the ghosts of the Bender victims, ~+ DERSTANDING, SEEEKI\G AN L2 Union Pacific Reorqanizes Before tie itorney-Genoral. - WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 27.— Chauncey M. Depew, General Fitzgerald, W. 8. Price, J. H. Schiff of New York and Marvin Hughett of Chicago, members of the Union Pacitic reorganization com- mittee, had a consultation to-day with Attorney - General McKenna relative to the decrees recently entered in the U nited States courts for the foreclosure sale of the Union Pacific to satisfy the first mortgage and the Government’s second mortgages. Some portions of the decrees were not satisfactory to the Government, and the Treorganization committee came before the Attorney= General in their desire to reach a satis~ factory understanding with Govern- ment and thercby obviate further delay.