Show RAILROAD DECISIONS Legal Price of Railroad Lands Is 250 Per Acre RIGHT OF WAY SETTLED COEUR DAIjEXB RAIIAVAY COMPANY COM-PANY BEATS THE W I Southern Pacific Has Abolished Its Detective Department Freight Train Breaks in Two Near Gliey pnne Atohlsom Directors Selected Iy the Reorganization Committee Increased Earniugs LehigIi Valley Val-ley Road Will Pension AArornout Employees Railway Notes WASHINGTON Dec 2 Justice Har Ian rendered the opinion of the Supreme Su-preme Court today in the case of Benjamin Ben-jamin Healy involving the price of lands on alternate sections within the railroad land grants entered under the desert land laws The court held that the laws providing a price of 250 per acre in such cases had not beep repealed by the timber culture act as was claimed and that 250 was under the law the correct charge on entries within land grants In the several cases between the Washington Idaho Railroad company com-pany vs the Coeur dAlene Navigation Naviga-tion Railroad company involving the question of right of way at Wallace Ida the court decided in favor of the Coeur dAlene company Justice Shi ras delivering the opinion He also incidentally decided that the United States circuit court of Idaho had properly prop-erly taken jurisdiction in the caseIn case-In the case of Stephen 11 Folson who as president of the National bank of New Mexico had been found guilty by the territorial courts of New Mexico Mex-ico of falsifying the books of the bank the chief justice delivering the pinion of the court holding that the federal courts did not possess the right to review re-view the judgment of the territorial courts in such a case The Southern Pacific railroad case involving several hundred acres of the overlap lands in the vicinity of Los Angeles Cal was reassigned for the first Monday in March Detectives Dismissed SAN FRANCISCO Dec 2The Southern Pacific company today abolished abol-ished its detective Department The detectives in the general office II this city and also those at Sacramento Bakersfield and Tucson have all been discharged and the company will hereafter here-after look to the poljce departments of the various towns for the work that has hitherto been performed by the company directly Fourteen clerks in the auditors office have also been discharged dis-charged as well as sI clerks in the general freight office Needed economy is the reason given by the manager for the general dismissals which will effect a saving of over 4000 a month to the company Four Cars Derailed Special to The Herald CHEYENNE Wyo Dec 2A freight train of eighty cars being pulled up the hill between Archer and this place last night parted in the middle and then collided Four cars were derailed and broken up The overland flyer was delayed de-layed two hours by the wreck iuch was not entirely cleared up until this I afternoon Earnings of the Roads The gross earnings of the Burlington system for the month of October were 3423792 an increase of 313000 over the same month last year The net earnings were 1583893 an increase of 19400 The surplus for the month was 1768893 an increase of 1651 From Jan 1 to Oct 31 the net earnings of the system have been 9712400 a decrease of 564500 from the corresponding period pe-riod of the previous fiscal year The net earnings of the Atchison sys for the month of tem proper were October ter 964512 a decrease of 169256 The net earnings of the St Louis As San Francisco were for the month net 290136 a decrease of 27878 The earnings of the Atlantic Pacific were of for the month 62121 a decrease the Atchison 25419 The net earnings of for the system all lines were chison month 1816769 a decrease of 222554 For the four months from July 1 to Oct 31 the net earnings of all lines 3023713 system were of the Atchison s a decrease of 488405 from the same months of the preceding fiscal year Cloudy in the East the east right now Its cloudy in rght Is big lines out of Chicago three of the lnes hundred on are paying 6 cents per callsCor when the agreement cartage all the roads striving among but 3 cents the Central Traffic i ing to live up to association rules assocaton other fellows find that even 1 is enough to divert that little thing enouoh lte prolonged howl is go business and a Ing up Future Stock Movements Stock movements will not be lively and before the holidays now until just befor hoJdays will not have region even then this wi beef much to send out as the prime to market will be sent and mutton wI from muton more eastern points However the latter part of this week few train loads of cat will witness a trin wi from Utah and a couple of trains of sheep from Wyoming Xotable Increase in Earnings Chicago Northwestern earnings for October exceeded those of any previous pre-vious October in the roads history amounting to 3774589 The increase over the same month last year was no less thai 869257 which is 8289 more than the remarkable increase of the Milwaukee St Paul oft tile Chicago I I Miwauk Chicgo the latter operating 6196 mime period operatng Same miles while the Northwestern reports whie operations for only 5031 miles of its entire system Thus the Milwaukee e1tr month over gained 140 a mile for the last year while tine Northwesterns I increase averaged 173 Both com incease the through pradtically panies running practcaly panies same territory have made air unexpectedly unex-pectedly terribor fine for October which to equal they can hardly be expected fig in November The Northwesteras ures exceed those of the big year 1893 by about 95000 That Joint Agreement traffic is intended i That joint tafc agreement tended to stick this time as will be I I seen from the main clause wihich is as follows This agreement shall take effect January 1 1896 and continue in existence Jlnuar ex-istence five years subject thereafter there-after to ninety days written notice by any company of its desire to withdraw thereCrom rejrm reading the signatures of the affixed and on being now parties are afxed the 10th of December the appointment of the managers and other officers will of be announced and the machinery the association will be put in readiness to start on the first of the new year Will Pension Employees The directors of the Lehigh Valley road have just hit upon < a plan which will enable them to alt once commence the establishment of a fund that will in time go far spportng war out employees without proving burdensome burden-some to the company as is explained in the following notice posted in ithe Stations and offices At a regular meeting of the board a meetng of directors of the Lehigh Valley rail nJad company held in Philadelphia November 12 1895 a resolution was passed providing that such portion a may be necessary of the revenue derived de-rived from the sale o f employees tickets at cent per mile be set apart and constitute a pension fund for the support of old employees of the company under the rules as to investment and appropriation to be prescribed by the executive committee Experimental Lighting A private car litrhted by the Mos kowftz system left New York on Ithe 23d instant on the Pennsylvania road with a party for the Atlanta exposition exposi-tion This system utilizes the waste power of the axle to generate electricity electri-city for lighting and other purposes and a storage battery is provided which it is said will in a seven hours run store enough electricity to light a car for twelve hours a little less than being half the electricity generated immediately consumed All the machinery ma-chinery rests under the flooring of the car and on the trucks The car referred re-ferred to is unique in appearance and luxuriously fitted up at a cost of about 20000 This system is unique and it remains re-mains to be seen if it will ever be used on other than private crs which can I stand expensive fads Empire State Express I NEW YORK Dec 2Under circumstances circum-stances far from favorable the Empire State express over the New York Central Cen-tral Hudson River railroad started out at 830 oclock this morning to make the worlds record for fast time between New York and Buffalo which also will be the daily schedule of the running time of the train The attempt at-tempt is to make the average speed 5335 miles an hour between New mies York and Buffalo The train consists of six vestibule coaches Rain was falling when the train started and the tracks were wet and slippery ALBAJNY N Y Dec 2The Empire express reached Albany four minutes ahead of schedule time SYRACUSE Dec 2The Empire express ex-press reached Oneida three minutes late The run to Syracuse was made at the rate of a mile a minute and the I train arrived 2 minutes and 40 seconds I ahead of time Atchison Directors NEW YORK Dec 2The following is the list of directors selected by the joint executive reorganization committee commit-tee of the Atchison railroad at the meeting today Aldace F Walker chairman Edward P Ripley Chicago Edward J Berwind New York Benjamin Benja-min P Cheney Boston H Rieman Duval Thomas P Fowler Edward N Gibbs New York Charles S Geed Topeka Kan George G Havens R Somers Hayes New York Cyrus K Holliday Topeka Victor Mora Wetz New York George A Nickerson Boston Bos-ton Thomas A Osborn Topeka and William Rotch Boston The joint executive reorganization committee adjourned until 3 oclock pm next Wednesday I stated on good authority that the reorganized committee will be chartered under the laws of the state of Kansas Rate War Affecting TransPacific i Rates I SAN FRANCISCO Dec 2The rate i war between the Southern Pacific and the Oregon Railway Navigation company com-pany over coastwise passenger travel I has seriously affected transPacific rates particularly the business of the I Pacific mail steamers The Umatilla started for the Sound last night with a big load of passengers among whom I were thirty Japanese bound for their native land via Victoria and the Canadian Pacific steamers The Japan < se claimed that they had been ills criminated against hitherto by the Pacific Pa-cific Mail company in favor of the Chinese The Pacific mail has been r t i r ht SQ for ohinesp while the Japanese were forced to pay 51 The l om ictoria on tile Canadian Pacific steamers is but 41 andas the fare from San Francisco to Victoria at the present time is but 5 the total cost of passage to Japanese ports via the Sound is only 46 Caldwcll in Luck CHICAGO Dec 2The lines of the Western Passenger association have decided to increase the salary of Chairman Chair-man Caldwell to 10000 per annum The increase was decided upon without consulting the chairman in any way and was voluntarily on the part of the roads Railway Notes General Agent Nevins of the D R G was billed out for Nevada last night Traveling Freight Agent Hawkes of the D R G is guarding cattle down south General Agen McMillan of the Burlington is in Wyoming getting businEss Traffic Manager Babcock and General Gen-eral Passenger Agent Wadleigh of the Rio Grande Western were doing Ogden yesterday General Agent Gray of the Southern Pacific and E A Steifel the new agent for the S P at Helena went out last evening for that point The report of the Wagner Palace Car company for the quarter ended September Sep-tember 30 shows gross earnings 1 241323 and expenses paid 495765 It is stated that of the 24336 cars of all classes operated by railroads of the state of Texas only 1770 are provided pro-vided with automatic couplers and 6713 with airbrakes Mr A B Ritchie has been appointed traveling passenger agent of the Pennsylvania lines with headquarters at El Paso Tex He has heretofore been connected with the ticket office at Cleveland O Hon C B Stuart exjudge of the United States court of the Indian tpr ritory has been appointed general counsel of the Choctaw Oklahoma Gulf railroad with headquarters at South McAlester 1 T The Lehigh Valley railroad has I placed an order with the Hall Signal company for the equipment of 46 miles of its double track line between Easton and Mauch Chunk Pa with the Hall block signal system Mr J W Karner has been appointed general manager of the SJt Louis Belleville Southern with headquarters headquar-ters at St Louis Mo He is also general gen-eral manager and treasurer of the Crown Coal and Tow company of St Louis Railway postal clerks do their work in positions of danger as is shown by the fact that during the last fiscal year 497 accidents occurred to railway post offices in which 7 clerks were killed and 178 injured The record is worse than that of the previous year when the accidents numbered 360 and the number of killed and injured was 158 Locomotive and Car Shops I is understood that the Monon road is in the market for 250 freight cars The Haskell Barker Car company has an order from Jhe Illinois Central railroad for 200 furniture cars The Barney Smith Car company of Dayton 0 has received an order from the Summers Coal company for 100 coal cars At the shops of the Lake Erie Western at Peru Ind there have recently re-cently been completed 50 refrigerator S It WindischMuhlhauser Brewing company com-pany of Cincinnati O The Duluth Missabe Northern has just placed an order with the Pullman company for 400 ore cars which are to be delivered about May 1 next The Ensign Manufacturing company has received an order from the Norfolk Nor-folk Western railroad for 500 standard stand-ard 60000 pounds capacity box cars for early delivery The Detroit River St Claire road which is under construction for 33 miles in Michigan from r Clemens to Marine City is in the market for equipment L B French the general gen-eral manager lives in Detroit |