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Show I GOULD FAMILY QUARREL AVERTED BY MEMBER ST. LOUIS .Aug. 15. Edwin Gould has averted n conflict in the St. Louis Southwestern South-western railroad according to Information Informa-tion yesterday from New York, by ac-rcdlng ac-rcdlng to a demand from Prank Jay Gould for a stronger representation In the company. It wos stated that Frank Jay Gould and L. Lancaoter Williams of Baltimore, hlg honker, will be elected to tho railroad's directorate. Frank told his brother Edwin that the. Gould family desired to avoid trouble In the St. Louis Southwestern similar to that In the Missouri Pacific and ho. for one, was no longer willing to trust to one-man power. For months It has boon the belief of financiers that the Illinois Central longed to buy the St. Louis Southwestern Southwest-ern and negotiations had one so far that Edwin fixed a price. The probable effect of Frank's move will be tho prevention pre-vention of sale. , |