The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 20, 1899, Page 2

. SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JUL AWFUL ATTEMPT OF A YOLO FARMER | AT WIFE-MURDER |HDUCEMENTS R RECRUITS Men in the Ranks May Get Commissions. LA jal Dispatch to The Call. VELLING- , July 19 .partment is offering extra in- Score of Ugly Wounds ln’flic:tedi With a Butcher ts. rly all th ving be 4 many with him. The little girl | of the 1ted applicants have been to the residence of Thomas | ;qyig e rank in that way i N s liito Lo be possible for them to secure und She tinally | com ns. General Corbin says that | or ind that her | the polic the administration will be e murder her i f which may oceur % -q | Among oned officers from th s for com- man | A number of ened have enlis privates in the d ther regiment ha yeen ap- 1 4 hired man al-| pointed non-commissioned officers when- | e e e Ut hen, | ever possible and consequentiy are next etk rom' loes of blood, buf | in line of promotion to commissioned » speak Iv. They cirried | rank in the event of a vacancy _ ASS uu]l"\ L X'““ SnotHen el ( men r«("l\r}\(lx’\\l‘" onded to y rtake 1’ conscic but too ccount of the tragic forty men who p oldiers and will en- \es_were required . Philippines. There stit = 1 ays in ed such chery of to al bé rolled, making a to- first Regiment Twenty-seventh formation of i th s follow: family came An ter asylum 1 the in army. > the in 1y passag he offer or them v would was ac- Lieutenant Evan M. 1d David walked or ment of | es of this kind dur- | erday show flicers of the new volun- | regime have been app who knows | list being completed to-day. s life in Germ: on of maining colonel @+ o et ev et - @ ie e After columns of smoke, of sand. ing. Aense m SICILIAN COAST. OME, July 19.—There was an eruption of Mount Etna this morn- loud subterranean which A strong earthquake 2:20 o'clock this morning and was followed MOUNT ETNA’S ERUPTION FOLLOWED BY SEVERE SHOCKS At Several Villages in the Vicin- ity of Rome Serious Damage Is Done to Buildings. D e ECE OB SOR SRR SO SEORE SRS SR Sl e o ) rh e e © -0 > e-o the crater vomited forth followed by enormous shock occurred here at during the ensulng noises were T N TR R I CER SO SRS Y ments in th wnounced to: re shoc fifteen minutes by a number of other sev The damage done here by the earthquake shocks was slight, but at the village of Rocca di Papa, fifteen miles southeast of Rome, it was ™ A number of houses in that place fell. part of a church re seriou Louis H. Kassa relieved a ta ving ) delicate For thi 1. s0 that he was in f under til h H R pshire in About rnoon, tk = Long, A + Marion B. Wi 3 n with h night th rth Kentuoky 1 i o the be ants—Benjamin Koss- 1 bellef « sergennt United d di tural causes, ort, private Battery and found that NS ay e vh‘_\‘:;«!\',‘ ndi- ' Crne tollow :n ordered ays, T join their respect s at the - liquet He found als e indicated nation of the stomach, which- 1 Plattsburs § SRR ed the same h heart w Philtp Ao o and the owed signs of ¢ Joumcny o ongestion it One e arted for the = aute pped there, it being 1d Lieutenant Frai > to which he had been rl had dfed from her had .to pass the hough it had been | ty-eight Infantry, Camp Meade, Pa. gh it had be Y, Camp en by, another of \ that the girl e e aited S employ 2d him why he | had taken poison bly lauda- | ge: Thoma: m), the contents of the stomach were yzed to determine this fact, er, the mother and Sig. Bett- nger repl for the Ii ‘Vancouver ant_Clark R Barracks, fifth Inf S E. Mill econd Lieu h Infantry ot -believing that professing themselves satisfied »s M. Liddell. moment to leave the dilation and congestion had| The retirement of Colonel Evan Miles d to_his roem and off the young woman. of the First Infantry was announced to- found: his suspicions - confirmed. . He e girl had taken laudanum,” |day. Licutenant Colonel A. A. Harbach Etie i dn tha dony and toundtit lopi . Caglieri last “there was | becomes colonel, Major Sumner Lincoln L H o s i my 16 dotermine It and that | lieutenant colonél and Captain George L. ed. e.tried to for the door anc > I onts of the | Brown major. could mot, so he ran for hélp and the ;h, ‘]"“‘ nts _of th Colonel Lyman V. Kennon was born in e J 3 Bail S did not do this. For that Rnode Island and graduated from the | door ced a second time, Bail cason I cannot say that there was none | Military Academy in 1881, In 188 he was again being found tched on the bed | in the stomach. If there was, that|appointed ald-de-camp to the late Major probably killed her and not the condi- almost 4 tions I found.” yxiated and officer at hea T also as_engin quar: Two pt for this 4 2 ters of the Department of the Platte un ti nc oroner Hill still thinks they did all | j; 1500, During the war with Spain he bilrisg that was necessary in the case. He |gerved with cistinction with his regiment hisines professes to know, aithough Dr. Cag- |in the Cuban campaign and was breveted Ly eri explains why he could not, that the | for llantry in leading the_first com- paintul efforts, and once more Bailey | g 4id not die from laudanum poison- | pany of his reziment up San Juan Hill. was conscicus of the di nt kinds of | B0 “rhe Coroner is evidently trying to | Colonel Willlam E. Birkhimer was born fool he had made of himself. He was | & 1€ LOTRREL B oy Y eport he | in Ohlo, and sery s a private in Com- sorry that his ef had not met with | ! b Sy L Y e pany M of the Fourth Iowa Cavalry from ot Lut said that as he had made |made Tue sday to the Supervisors. He | \arch, 154, to 1865. H tered iohi failiire ofiin b he would not | concludes it by saying: West Point g year and after gradu- A tosaol ACati fring the on- ng inquests at | ation in 1870 served with the Third. Ar-| gl itring (neR Ve st adt had, thet ry on Eastern and Southern stations eat many callers 10, shtiataction to bersaved | He was also Instr 3 t Point a mpathized with his Sor- | refatives and More than one-half of | was for four years acting judge advoc f Miss Parker, could | the inquests held ince January 1, when | of the Department of Columbia. He has c joking with Y in | I took office, have been held at the homes of | been with his regiment in the Philippines the hope ering him up. Ex-Super- | d¢ceased persons. f gince June. 185, where he iz acting in- o i % p = o8 | spector general and judge advocate of the | visor Delany, who fs still Is r'-"i:r- gadine in fhe con of Florence | flighth Army Corps. He was especially sult of a T nt stroke of p: Parker was eminently satisfactory to | recommended for promotion by Major s one of the foremost, Sig. Bettman and the other relatives of | General Lawton for gallantry " he said, “you ought to be | the dead girl. but it does not go down | c e med of yourself for trying to get | with George Bailey. T o e S Y off the earth while I'm spending my | o SR money trying to stay on.” | CENSURE FOR HILL. Bailey admitted this and put in the rest of the evening recuperating, a reg- allar procession of champagne bottle entering the room to add to the festivi- ties incident on his tW0 Darrcw e from death. He never could known in any other way how. well he was thought of, and this knowledge Board of Health Stops Illegal Reports of Deaths. The expose made by The Call vester- | day morning of the peculiar action of | Coroner Hill in suppressing the facts | | of the death of Florence Parker has | TOM PLATTS * DEFENSE 0 probably m: than anything else, re solved him to make nc more attempt roused the Board of Health to action, | on his life. He was ables yes and measures have been taken to ren- | der it impossible for the accommodat- | ing Coroner to again oblige his politi- | cal friends in a llke manner. | terday, looking oniy a little the wo for the wear and tear of his two expe- riences with carbon-monoxide. Mlthough Bailey was told by the girl | In the report which he handed in | e : that she intended to commit suicide; | last evening at the meeting of tha | Continued from First Page. Qespite the fact that she told several | Board of Health Dr. Lawlor embodied : others at the French ball that she was | the following suggestion: back. They want to know why there was taking one last pull at pleasure’s cup | “I also call your especial attention to | Dot.a sufficlent force present in the island befors drimking the dregs of death; | the absolute necessity of having some | Of Luzon to crush out the rebellion upon notwithstanding that Dr. Levison re- | safeguard thrown about the cremation | Nomnr pamcarance and, stirred by sensa- | ported that the girl had killed herself, | of bodies so as to guard against the | cent “round robin” of the offended e Tha in the face of the tact that Coroner | possibility of a person dylng from un. | paper correspondents, they are asking Hill did not order the holding of such | natural causes being cremated. I | Whether the situation’ls even as good as an autopsy as is usual in ca Wwhere | would suggest that the bodies to be | had been reported. whether the Govern- | poison is ted, that official pro- | thus disposed of should be so specified | Tt hiasy 1ot allowed Lself to be misled | as latc as last night | c enlisted will surely be grez Sl ted will surely be great enough for on our burial permits from this office, and the certificate should be received | the task in hand? | to which I purpose to submit an answer. | at least twenty-four hours previous to | It should be borne in mind in the first Parker natu so disposing of bodles. | nown — ainly not an analy In support of this he said: ‘“Cases contents of the girl's stomach, | of unnatural deaths being reported as ould have been made by a | natural are becoming altogether too roner desirous of doing his duty. | frequent. By whose connivance it Is Maybe it was the honey in the words | made possible I do not say, but the uericed him in this belief is | formation concerning what has occurr {1in the Phili eral Otis. he Navy Department has its officers there. The President Is directly | represented by Mr. Denby, who was for of that fifth wheel in the Parker | fact remains that several such.cases |fourteen years our Minister to China, and | gon, State Senator Sig. Bettman. | have been brought to the attention of | {‘,{e Ii;}fiflfss?r )anrre!ster. wtfio resided in o matter what it was, Coroner Hill | this office. One in particular was told | L, GRiLppInes for four or five years and taken pains not’ only to causes” theory seems to have believe the “natural himself, but to have used every effort to deceive the public into the belief that Florence Parker w not a sui- side. He had the autopsy at 9 o’clock at night at the home of the dead girl. He barred out the reporters on the ground that they were not relatives of of in one of this morning’s papers—the | its. The Phili i i n S 2 | fts. ppines campaign is receiv- case f‘\f a girl who took laudunum. ‘ing the President's constant personal at- The Coroper reported that she dled of | tention. He Is in direct cable communica- valvular trouble of the heart. An at- | tlnn[ v;ith Mfinlla and receives daily re- tempt was made to have her body cre- | PIts from all sources. e ted Detore the b cau it e The possibility of his being misled about death was discovered, and it s such | toeginciyin the case Is scarcely worth onsideration. The precise fact, as h - illegal action as t.hat I am endeavoring | tains it, not only from General Oo.lsB t‘z)\?t to put a stop to.” from each of a dozen or more of his of- the deceased, but he admitted Sig.| The members of the board discussed | ficlal informants, is that for a distance of Bettman to the room where the au- | the question at length and unanimous- | fifty miles north of Manila and of twenty topsy was being performed on the | Iy decided that some such rule should | Iiles south of Manila and eastward into be established. When Dr. Lawlops ve. | L/AgUna province our armies hold _the port was taken up for action it was | territory so that the insurgents are scat- & tered beyond our lines in passed without dissent. lflfty to 500, their only considerable force ground that he was. The Coroner was satisflied on this point without docu- mentary evidence. The Coroner did Fort McPherson, Ga. | George Crook and served In that capacity | PRESIOENT These are the inquiries | place that the Government's means of in-. a Ir_pim-s are not confined to Gen- | ands of from was demo bano and fourtee reported. co ing of camped in Northern Pampanga. The southern army of the insurgents possibly 2000 strong, is badly demoralize by recent defeats. The I nt's ad- vices report to him that in a number of cities within the American lines local gov- ments have been formed, which are competently harging thelr functions t Castel-Gandolfo, on the northwest side of Mount Al- s scutheast of His Holiness, the Pope, was gre | about 4000 men, who are en- | for use, whether in the F action of the people; that | the he people desire peace and Americ tection; that they no longer flee on approach of our troops, but heartily welcome them; that the popu- lation within the American lines is de and grows larger all the while, and that fon is going on extensively | “The President is advised, and on this point his information comes unanimou from all the able men whose official ob- ligation is to keep the Government curately informed, that the only hope the insurgents lies in the efforts that are making to convince the people that a | change of government is about to occur |in the United States favorable to the in- surgent cause; that there is general op- position among the American Senplv the prosecution of the war and a fixe purpose on the part of that political part About to come into power fo withdraw he American army and to recognize the land cultl | Government of Aguinaldo. This idea is being assiduously circulated by the in- surgent leaders, and it so far serves their purpose to enable them to maintain ! their forces in fairly strong array. | “There can be no question of the substan- | tial truth and accuracy of this informa- It comes from too many different d from sources high and honor- | able in character to admit of doubt, and hot even the testimony of the newspaper correspondents who resent the interfer- | ence of General Otis’ unimaginative biue ‘noil with their sensational stories can tand against the official representatives of the President’s civil and military ad- vigers Nor is it an especially optimistic view | of the situation. It shows, indeed, that a | great work has yet to be done and leads Eack to the question why more has not been already accomplished, and the que | tion whether the preparations now going | forward will possibly Insure the creation of a force sufficiently powerful for the | work that remains | tion. sourcesan % erfectly easy to explain why | the Government did not have a greal | army at Manila when the Filipinos made | their first attack. It did not because it | could not. It was restrained by two cir- cumstances—good faith with Spain and the laws_ of Congress under which the army had been created. It must be re- membered that the American people were not thinking of the Philippines when they went to war with Spain. They were con- cerned with the affairs of Cuba. The pe- riod of actual warfare, moreover, wa3 short, and the French Embassador had appeared at the White House with a pro- posal to end the war almost before the army had been equipped to take the fiald. Now, at that time, in July, 1898, we had sent to the Phllignlnes nearly 20,000 men. Admiral Dewey had advisad the Govern- ment that 5000 would be sufficient. It was General Miles' opinion that 12,000 were surely enough, but the ‘President acting upon his own wise f\ldgment. has dispatched 20.000. The onl work then expected of them was to fight and de- feat the Spaniards at Manila. Continuing, the statement recalls the negotiation of the peace protocol through the French Embassador, re- calls the subsequent battie at Manila, by which the American forces gained by force what the protocol had peace- fully conceded, and says: | 1f, under the terms of the peace protocol, the Spaniards had quietly marched out of | Manila and we had quiefly marched in, | the two forces in full strength peaceful awaiting the gonclusions of the negotis tions at Paris, we might perhaps have withdrawn from the Philippines with dig- | nity and without the impairment of in- | ternational obligations. But, having de- stroyed their authority over the Philippine people and having forcibly placed our- Ives in thelr stead as a Government, the status quo became impossible of restora- tion, and from that moment the with- drawal of the American army and navy would have meant the abandonment of the island to utter anarchy, misery and misrule. This view compelled the course that was | taken by our commissioners at Paris and | justified the President in having assem | bled so considerable a force at Manila. His ;I!.ower to add to the force was now gone, | The question of the future of the Phili \glnes—whelhcr they should belong {0 | Spain or to the United States—had passed | into the hands of the Peace Commission and, of course, neither country was at liberty to change the conditions intil the Peace Commission had acted and its ac- tion had been approved. Further expedi- tions of men to the Philippines would have been a plain violation of the terms of the protocol, but, if that wholly suff- cient reason had been wanting, theré was another, and this other involved the most !l?;ln and troublesome condition with ré'x{dc the Government has had to con- The men then under arms and avallable Rome. No fatalities have been atly alarmed by the shocks. ippines or the=West Indies, 1 enlisted the period of the the term: their enlstment they weré free obligation to the Government proclamation of peace. The upon its President that peace oidiers—not ¥ to go to the n then there knew better than any one els was ured and that all » who stood re: but the - by law to be mustered out service on the instant when; he made official announcement that ‘the Spanish war was over. Continuing, the atement reviews he legislation of April, 1868, by which 000 regulars were added to the 27,000 who composed the army in times of peace, and says: But after the peace protocol had been | signed not a man of them could be used in the Philippines more than the force then there. And who could then foresee that this force was not sufficient? A con- flict with the Filipinos was not then an- ticipated. Their army, it is true, had been mbled on the outskirts of Manila. But with respect to the Americans it was gen- erally supposed to be a friendly rather than a hostile army. Its leaders had been ardent with the assurance of thelr friend- ship and confidence. They had proclaimed a republic, to be sure, and had asserted a government, but there was nothing in the attitude they then assumed that could justify the belief that their guns were going to be almed at the flag that bad set them free. Even had the Pro under the terms of ident been at liberty, the peace protocol, to increase the Philippine arm had the men available for se: been ready for transportation, no wise counselor would have advised sending them. Indeed, the very thing that brought on the conflict with Aguinaldo was the dispatch of a small force intend- ed to tal the places of those whose terms of enlistment had expired and who had already been brought hom From the hour when Congress assem- bled in December the President endeav- ored to draw its attention to the situa- tion in which the Government would be left upon the proclamation of peace. one message he delivered to ll the peace treat In another he warned Congress that as soon as the treaty was ratifled and the ratification gxchanged he would be compelled to muster out the troops at Manila. An army bill drawn in conformity with the Government'’s view was already prepared and was urgently pressed upon Congress. The country will Femember the bitter opposition It en- countered from the Democratic party. Democratic members who did not dare to assume the responsibility of defeating the peace treaty, who would not even consent to take the respcnsxblmr of opposing the acquisition of the Philippines, arrayed themselves with the rest of the party against the army bill. The Democratic leaders in both House and Senate had the bewildering hardihood to declare that the increased forces asked for were to be employed not in Manila but here in our country. The troops were not needed in Manila, these leaders sald, and they actually argued that the administra- tion was using the unlikely menace o2 war in the Philippines as a means of ex- acting from CONEress an €normous reg- ular army_for the suppression of liberty at home. It may surprise intelligent per- sons to know that this sort of talk could be indulged in upon the floors of Congress but there were weeks and weeks of it, and meanwhile the insurgents were gath- ering an army of 30,000 men, were growing more and more belligerent in their atti- tude and every day brought nearer the time when peace would be prociaimed with Spain and the Government be left without a legal claim to the services of a single soldier in Manila. “It was the 2d of March before Con- gress passed the army bill, and the war in the Philippines had been going on for four weeks. When the country considers this fact and realizes that the 80.000 Amer- ican troops then in Manila had been as- sembled there, not at all in_anticipation of a campalign against the Filipinos, but wholly and solely for the purpose of de- feating the Spariards. and that the Presi- dent had been told by no less authority | than Admiral Dewey that for the purpose 5000 men would be sufficient, surely his foresight and good judgment will be everywhere approved. Mourning in Ukiah. UKIAH, July 19.—W. T. Kirkwood, a civil engineer of this city, dled to-day from the effects of an injury recently re- celved. He was standing by a loaded wagon near a_ tree. The horses became frightened and ran away, crushing him between the tree and the wgaon. He lin- gered in great agony. Kirkwood was n ploneer of this county. He leaves a widow ;&'xd four children. e was a prominent ason. ————— Offenses against Kaiser Wilhelm’s dignit. in the one year 1808 were punished, (gn“.\(ex all together, with 2600 vears of imprison- ment, according to the Nurnberger Zei- tung, a Soclal-Democratic news paper. In | he Senate | EXPECT RELEASE OF ALL PRISDNERS Spanish Commissioners Are Hopeful. et g Special Dispatch to The Call. MANILA, July 19.—The Spa h com- mission charged th negotiating for ‘the release of Spanish prisoners held by the Filipinos expect to return to | Tarlac soon with full authority to se- cure the release of all the prisoners. The commissioners hope to be able to make arrangements under which the sum they are to pay for the nsom of the Spanis in the bank, to be drawn by the Fili- pinos at a’future e, so that the money cannot be used to carry on the war against the United States. The Filipinos have refused to civilian prisoners to embark on board any ship leaving Aparr, although they had passports signed by Aguinaldo. allow There have been terrific rains here during the last few days. In conse- | quence it has been necessary to use | boats in moving. about the streets of ! Manila and the whole country i {ed. The total precipitation thus | July has been 35 inches and in the last | thirty-one hours 12 inches of rain has | fallen. i Insurgents encamped on the bank of | the Rio Grande to-day fired.on the | boat Laguna de Bai, killing one soldier |and ~wounding two. The gunboat | trained a Gatling gun upon the shore |and quickly dispersed the insurgents. | | ANDERSON DENIES ‘ ZIALCITA'S STATEMENT FORT THOMAS, Ky., July 19.—Gen- eral Thomas M. Anderson, commander | of the Department of the Lakes, was seen here to-day by a representative of | the Associated Press and was asked for a statemgt concerning the Minneapolis Times’ report from its Manila corre- spondent in which the Filipino peace !v(vmm!sslonpr, Zialcita, was quoted as | saying that General Anderson at a din- ner given in his honor atCavite had said that the Americans had not come to the Philippines for the purpese of tak- ing a foot of territory permanent possession, but for the pur- pose of giving the Filipinos their inde pendence. General Anderson promptly and decidedly said he had never used | any such language. He stated that { when he reached | transportation, fo | applied to Aguinaldo for these things. | This drew him into a correspondence | with Aguinaldo, from which the gen- | eral soon saw that Aguinaldo’s purpose was to put every obstacle in the way of furnishing the things needed by United States army, and at the | time lead the United States, through | General Anderson, into some recognition of the Filipino gove ment. In-that correspondence the gen- enral says he made it plain to Aguin- aldo that he was there in a purely military capacity, with no authority | whatever to bind the United States b: any act of recognition; that his inte course with Aguinaldo was purely mili- age and fuel, and he enemy. nation had governme recognized the anything of the kind “T want it distinct General, “that I at no time made suc’ statement as is attributed to Zialcita, right. even been said that I was recalled on that account. There was no clash be- tween me and General Ot It is true I made a suggestion with regard to dt- tacking she Filipinos were intrenching in our front and that General Otis did not act upon it, but this made no clash. General Otis may have been acting under direct orders from Washington. As for my recall, that was dated in January and hostil- ities did not begin until February it could have had no connection | the active campaign, as suggested. | e |0TIS OFFERS BRIBES TO THE FILIPINOS NEW YORK, July 19.—The World Major General Otis is pursuing panish policy of bribery to weaken the Filipinc He has offered a reward of $60, Mexican silver (about $30 in American “currency), to every native who shall surrender to the United States a firearm of any description. | This information came in a private let- ter received in this city from an officer on duty in the island MEXICANS KIDNAPED, TRIED AND EXECUTED Smuggled Across the Boundary With | the Connivance of Ameri- | can Officials. | TUCSON, Ariz., July 19.—A Nogales | special to the Star says that the Grand Jury discovered that four Mexicans had been recently kidnaped at Nogales with the connivance of two officlals of Santa Cruz County and handed over to the Mexican authorities without due process of law. The four men were summarily tried and shot by Mexican authorities. An effort to indict District Attorney Harlow on account of the outrage failed. It is alleged the kidnaped Mexicans were rough characters. Th means was used to dispose of th | with the understanding that the kid- | naping and execution should be sup- | pressed or the relations between Amer- jcans and Mexicans on both sides of the line, which are now very cordial, might be disturbed if official action were taken by the American authori- ties. - |SEEKING DEWEY AS A STANDARD BEARER i ey W. C. Whitney Said to Have Gone to Europe to Ask the Admiral to Run for President. NEW YORK, July 19.—A special to the Sun from Chicago says: There is talk here of trying to place the name of George Dewey at the head of the Democratic national ticket in the next campaign. Dewey Is declared to be the hope of the Democrats of the East, who forfeited their leadership by opposing | the silver issue. O. H. P. Belmont of New York is au- thority for the statement that Eastern Democrats are trying to induce Dew to become a candidate for the Pres dency. He says they have sent Wil- liam C. Whitney to Europe, ostensibly to invite Dewey to a dinner in New York, but in reality to invite him to become the standard-bearer of re- united Democracy. ‘Will of H. F. Johnson. REDDING, July 19.—The will of H. F. Johnson, late president of the Bank of ghasm County, was filed for probate {o- ay. The estate is of a probable val of $25,000, bequeathed shflpre and shall{te‘ alike to the three children—Mrs. J. 1. Tibbits, Mel G. Johnson and Frank W. Johnson. The estate is principally cash. Mel G. Johnson's sister and brother have etitioned for his appointment as execu- or, to serve without bonds. h prisoners will be deposited | with a view of | Manila he had no| sort of | rn- | tary, both being opposed by a common | He also pointed out that as no Filipino t, or had given it belligerent | rights, it was impossible for him to do | stated,” said the | from paris me by | Another matter I wish to_set It has been charged that I had | clashed with General Otis, and it has because they | em | COMBIATION 0F RALAOA Trunk Line From Atlan- tic to Pacific. e Special Dispatch to The Ca W YORK, July 19.—The Herald While Wall street-has been fig- Van- u -n;: out new acquisitions for th derbilts and concocting alliances be- tween the New York Central and Penn- sylvania and Morgan lines, there has been qujétly under way one-of the biz- gest deals that has been brought out Poriay rilinoe It will involve the bination of at least four prominent railroads, and perhaps include two ot more, making a complete trunk m the Atlantic to the Pacific. If . pians are carried out, a few months me will . the establishment ot first transcontinental system to bs undertaken in the United States, the combination being on the basis of the shortest route between terminals. It is not possible at this time to give all of the details, but it is now known that the scheme involves a merging of | 1l properties in which E. H riman, Kuhn, Loeb & a & Co. arc interested with and friends t a controlling influence. | Among these properties are the Union Pacific, Iliinois Central, Chicago and Alton, Chicago rminal Transf Company, Oregon Short Line, Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, and Baltimore and_Ohio. It is asserted in some quarters that the Great Northern will come in, but it is nsidered doubtful, although James J. Hill is closely associated with sral of the gentlemen who are prom the rzilroads mentioned. This combine will give a compact ystem and bring about a revolution in traffic alliances. The Union Pac is | the keystone. Its closest connect t | present is the Chicago and Northw | q for a long time it has been the | ng opinion in Wall street that | the Vanderbilts would attach both t | Northwestern and Union Pacific to t growing New York Central system The Northwestern directol have | hurriedly considered the advisability of | extending their Fremont branch to Og- | den to connect with® the Central Pa- fie, which is controlled hy the South- ern Pacific. Cut off from the Union Pacific, the Northwestern will find no | road to turn to for Pacific Coast busi- ne that does not parallel it for a con- siderable distance. Thu with the | Northwestern extending its Fremont, { Elkhorn and Mi uri River railroasi | from Fort Casper to Ogden in order to | fight the Union Pacific, and the North- lern Pacific forced to protect itself | against the Oregon lines, which have recently been acquired by the Union Pacific, there is likely to be a lively | time among the great transcontinental | rivals in the near future. 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