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Show MBON fill Rase Ml Magnates if I for Butte, i Whole League to Be Repre- sented, Forfeit Money Is Now Up. V j Jllshel and Shephard Draw Tonight ) Many Say Lucas "Would Boss i ; Coast League. : I Butte, Spol:nne, Boise, Helena, Salt city and Ogden -will be represented f6t the Pacific National leaguo's meeting Un Stittc February 11. President William Bbhol and Harrison O. Shephard of the IjSdt Lake team leave tonight to attend uts! H niccting. Advices from tho Montana $jdila and from Spokane point to the fact fthat unison and harmony will bo main . fcoturtB of tho conference. ' Salt Lake City has deposited Its 51CO0 forfeit with President Rishel. The money ' Was placed In the hands of the president s yreterday. Other forfeit money will soon fellow. ': i Judging from tho Montana and Wash-- Wash-- JngtoA "exchanges, the feeling in the ' league's northern cities is far from warm-! warm-! Ins toward tho plan of I,ucas and Mc-iacskey Mc-iacskey to cllmlnato Salt Lake. Ogden Jini Boise for tho eako of getting the JMormcr cities Into a league with towns of atnlnor slzo along the Pacific coast. This j (effort Is characterized In some quarters f as an attempt of Lucas toward break-; break-; lnp Into the Pacific Coast league next ; year It Is freely stated that the former : presldsnt of tho Pacific National Is far from satisfied, and has been bo ever since I the merging of the old Pacific Coast and : Ptclfic National leagues Into the present 1 Coast league, and that ho has been lay- Ing wlrca toward getting ultimate control of the latter His present alleged plan jo get a Coast-Sagebrush league 13 characterized char-acterized as a first step In that direction a point of U10 entering wedge, so to. creak. ' Meantime work has been done toward : getting things in shape to present tho ose of the Pacific National league to ; tht Eastern officials with a view to play-3 play-3 Ihk protected ball In this territory. If fi this docs no through, outlaw ball will bo ; the only recourse: but It Is pretty well r understood that this recourse will be rc- sorted to. L . |
