Show HUSH TO KLONDIKE Passenger Hen Predict Ap Overwhelming p Over-whelming Number It is the opinion of local passenger men that the rush to the Klondike country in the spring will be such as to prevent the transportation companies handling all those who come It is confidently con-fidently stated that at least 100000 people peo-ple will go to the coast in the spring en route for the gold diggings This number will swamp the transportation transporta-tion companies completely It takes 13 days to make the trip to St Michaels by water and six to Dyea making the round trip of 12 and 26 days Boats can carry 500 passengers with ease and partial comfort but at that rate it would take 200 steamers to transport the people and this the local men say cannot be done during the short season sea-son It is the opinion that a great many of those who start for the Klondike will get to Seattle and finding they have no show of going farther will try prospecting in Washington Oregon Idaho Montana and Utah where the cost of living is not so expensive Heinte Returns Assistant Passenger Agent G W Heintz returned yesterday from But L where he has been for several days on a trip strictly for pleasure and which had no connection whatever with the business of the road He states that when he arrived in Butte the mercury Q was ten below but as all Rio Grande J Western attaches are hot stuff it immediately rose to 70 above and was comfortable From the rear end of the observation car about half way between be-tween Butte and Silver Bow he noted another cold wave coming having been apprised of his departure Declared a Dividend Boston Mass Dee 2A dividend of 310 has been declared by the Calumet railroad payable Jan 1 to stock offered of-fered Dec 4 This makes SO for the current fiscal year which begins May 1 and 50 from the current calendar year of operation Baxters Coupler Bob Baxter of the Union Pacific force ct Porljand is OQOW treasurer of a company com-pany which has for sale a new patent J car coupler of new and original design I de-sign which is on sale on the market It is the invention of a Portland man and is said to eclipse all others on the I market KANSAS PACIFIC Government Has Decided to Qualify As a Bidder Washington Dec 2The government govern-ment has fully decided to qualify as a bidder at the sale of the Kansas Pa cific railroad on Dec 1C in case of the failure of the reorganization committee commit-tee to guarantee what is regarded asa as-a fair and just figure for its interest Vhether the president and attorney general will expect the full amount of the governments claim of approximately approxi-mately 13000000 is not known It is learned that some days ago the reorganization reor-ganization committee submitted a proposition position which was positively declined What the proposition was has not been made public With this exception no communications bearing upon the subject have been made by either party nor does the government know that the purposes or plans of the reorganization reor-ganization committee are with reference refer-ence to the sale If not other offers which would be regarded as reasonable is received prior to next Tuesday or Wednesday the government will qual ify as a bidder by depositing with the court a certified check for about 900000 and so be in a position to protect its interests Inter-ests The sale under the consolidated mortgage takes place on Dec 15 and on the following day the sale under the governments lien THE ATCHIS03ST A Syndicate of Financiers Invest 825OOO In That Road New York Dec 2It was announced in Wall street that the Atchison Topeka To-peka Santa Fe railroad has sold to a syndicate of financiers a sufficient number of Atchison general mortgage fours to take up the entire outstanding amount of 825000 guarantee fund 6 per cent notes due Nov 1 1898 The bonds have been held in the treasury where they were reserved for the purpose under the plan of reorganization reorgan-ization The Atchison road it was known in this city today has completed negotiations negotia-tions for the purchase of the Silver City Northern railroad a siding running run-ning from White Water N M to mining min-ing Camps about 15 miles distant The Atchison road has been operating the siding under an option for almost a year THE CONSOLIDATION Attempt of Silver Smelters to Combine Com-bine Falls Through New York Dec 2At the office of the Kansas City Consolidated Smelting Smelt-ing and Refining company in this city it was stated today that the attempt of the silver smelters to combine for the I I better management of their business interests had failed and that on Monday Mon-day last the 15 representatives of the half dozen smelting houses who had been conferring for a week in this city I left without affecting any consolidation The purpose of the smelters was to form a combination by which prices of refined ores could be regulated by an executive committee in which each of the smelting houses was to be represented repre-sented Hubbard Succeeds Crocker San Francisco Dec 2At a meeting of the board of directors of the Southern South-ern Pacific Railroad company held here today General Thomas H Hubbard second vice president was unanimously elected to the first vice presidency recently I re-cently vacated by the death of Colonel Charles F Crocker and George Crocker brother of the deceased was I elected to fill the vacancy created by General Hubbards advancement Carnegie In Corea Birmingham Eng Dec 2The Post of this city says it hears that an American Amer-ican syndicate in which Andrew Carnegie Car-negie is interested has applied to the Corean government for three important railroad concessions which the syndicate syndi-cate proposes to develop in connection with the SeoulChemulpo line which James R Morse the American engineer engi-neer is now building The Post adds that the answer of Co rea is expected in two or three weeks 1 Corns Denies New York Dec 2ColIis P Huntington Hunting-ton today denied the report that he was laying plans to secure the Toledo St Louis Kansas City Clover Leaf road as an outlet for the Southern Pacific line There is nothing in it absolutely nothing he said |