Show UNION PACIFIC BUYS ROAD ST T JOSEPH Mo March 13 The The St. St Joseph Grand Island railroad link between this city and the Union Pacific overland route has hs been een absorbed by the latter later r road ad There Ther has ha been marked activity activity in the St St. Joseph Grand Island stocks i in New York lork St for the past month and at a late hour last night it w was s l learned arned that a majority aj of the stock of f the road rd had l' l passed into the hands of the Harriman interests I The The Te road was formerly a a part of the Union Pacific but upon the tie to tion of the latter later the the Grand Grand' Grand Island became a an al independent p nd system and has has sin since ince e remained so The absorption of the Grand Island by the Harriman Interests in In- In will wl give the Union Pacific a direct en entrance ance into St. St Joseph ph over its own owr tracks there thereby y giving this city another direct rou route e to the Pacific coast is Up to within a short time irne ago it was tho thought that the Burlington had acquired ac- ac possession of the road or |