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Show I m ma m I FR IS GBSEP A HATE I Official Announcement Made in H New York, and New , Officers Elected. IMUDGB R. I. PRESIDENT, WINCIIELL OF FRISCO i . Hawley Keeps Out of Sight in !,; Deal, and Yoakum Says Road Is Independent, i Official announcement was made in Now York late "Wednesday afternoon that the Rook Island-Frisco railroad al-i al-i lianeo has boon dissolved, that B. li. I AVincholl, for vears president ol the , Rock Island, has left that line to be prosidout of the Frisco, and that II. u. i Aludpo, second vice-president of the i Rock Island, has been elected president in the place of Winohcll. The reason given for tho separation of the two roads is ihat, bciuf parallel in many places, government intervention interven-tion was feared under tho anti-trust act, but this is unofficially denied by the interstate coinmerco commissioners, i It is understood, however, that the ' real reason, as was explained in Tho I Tribune in its issues of November 23 and 2-i, was that when Edwin Ilawley recently boupht the "Katy" that he secured it through Yoakum, who threw the lino to Ilawley instead of to the ' Moores, the owners of tho Rock Island j find tho nominal partners of Yoakum. Behind this, as also reccntl; explained I at length in Tho Tribune, is the for-( for-( mation of the llawloy system, of which , , this break between the Rock Island and ; i tho Frisco is but ono step. The Frisco, although announced as an independent line henceforth, may really bo rated as , ' a Ilawley road, although this is indi-rectl indi-rectl denied. This leaves the Rock Island isolated. Behind all theso moves is said to be ' ' the influence of J. J. Hill seeking to so-: so-: j 'lire the Rock Island, the Frisco and tho llawloy lines ns feeders to his ' crrcat system of roads running from ! tho Mississippi River valley and the I Gulf of Mexico to tho northwest and i to Canada, and reaching to the Orient j by means of the Hill steamers. |