Show l FAILED TO STEAL A 1IARCH f Northern Pacific Frustrated in a I Scheme by Great Northern I Tacoma Wash Jan 3The North l ern Pacific railway attempted to steal a march on the Great Northern today and tonight The Great Northern has a right of way across the Division street bridge where it approaches to put In a second track The Northern Pacific hud a gang of men at work layIng lay-Ing rails along an old unused grade and attempted to cross the line of the Great Northern at a point where the natural contour permits apace for but one track Officials of the latter road heard of the proceeding and tonight the North I ern Pacific crew was compelled to discontinue I I dis-continue Its work by the police acting II under the Mayors orders They In f I turn were reinforced 1 by forty or fifty Great Northern employees This squad I is encamped on the scene tonight with Instructions to forcibly eject any Northern Pacific workmen who attempt I I at-tempt to lay track Inasmuch as the Great Northerns right of way through the city will hereafter here-after shut out the Northern Pacific from the flour mills and other factories fac-tories the meaning of the movement is apparent I |