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Show 1 irlpY GAINS S3 M Oot lis ffew C letey System. :ho Cs i t jjSt! lonaire Sidetracked by ? p'riman Seems tq Have Ut I Big Deal in Sight. ?" iS he Frisco and Midland, Which ? ita Te Cast Adrift, New Hw- Sj' ' lc7 System Is Booming. filS P. Sa I the cat, k t ft W- YORK. July 22.-Edwln Haw-he Haw-he id his frlf nds have, says the Hcr-iarrrf Hcr-iarrrf jqcrt put in control of the Dcs & & Fort Dodge railroad, which Minim, friy as dominated by n croup of " ; ey-Stow syndicate. Representatives To 1'ls syndicate, who owned the road to the failure of Edwin S. Hooley irand W. L. Stow & Co., and who ' . ,vj ired it again after Messrs. Hooley -Coll ow Ind settled with their creditors, ocafjj ined and the following new director direct-or J;a vere elected: Edwin S. Hawley, F. Ibin'n; Davis, H. Huntington, George out'jft ker and L. r. Weir. The new board ffeljf5, ed the following officers: President, of. IS In Haw ley; vice-president, I. F. we -treasurer. F. H. Davis; secretary. Y an4i t. Crindall Edwin- Hawley aleo is 3lvt dent 0f tne Minneapolis' & St. Louis evid riowa Central railroads. ' on the termination of the lease of Butlel Dcs Moines & Fort Dodge to the umre, island it is expected that the road be operated in connection with the 1E,tf ai Icy system. e.aoji i who i c Minneapolis & St. Louis and the of-Ki ii'Cenfral total less thai 1000 miles A.Grl are what was formerly the Albert 4 route of the Rock Island. But Haw-urr.M Haw-urr.M ik-cured the roads some live years fajlfci fand has now gotten another link. rhej$ importance cannot be underestl-kei'n underestl-kei'n ed. Hawley Is trying to get into 0 tha, KansaB City and St. Louis, and s, going to accomplish that end. It V 'Significant that three of tho directors r. wfold Southern Pacific men. Crocker. vvAitlngton and Hawley. The line starts A.jfn Minneapolis and St. Paul and has "Vv'mTmiklng of a fine system, one that VsB enter largely into transcontinental fic. As Hawley Is also interested in . '., feral other big roads, his success is T7k far in the future, vfy &ilLb remembered that the Santa ''ditched" Yoakum and his- Midland. Yoakum has the Frisco as an In-1 In-1 part of one of the world's great-ys'.ems. great-ys'.ems. and the Santa Fe would" double the price to get back ,the ind , Possibly Hawley is studying amou? Yoakum "horse laugh" 'rjljh war a feature of railroad new& a .Jfl frears a- At any rate, he is going H iccdmplish something mighty big. |
