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Show ' AGAINST UKICR - PACIFIC Petitions for an accounting involving about $;5,00O,000 were filed In the Federal Fed-eral court this afternoon. JThe papers will be served late in the day. The case Is believed to be a continuation of the Huntington suit, duplicate petitions being filed' in every State tapped by the Union Pacific. ; The petitioner is John It. Kuykendall, administrator of the estate of Charges Durkee, deceased.'v The defendants, in both cases are the Union Pacific Railroad Rail-road company, F. Gordon Dexter, Oliver Oli-ver Ames, second; the Union Pacific Railway company, Utah; E. H. Harrl- man, "VY". D. Cornish, Wlnslow S. Pierce. Chauncey. M. Depew, Marion Hewett, John F. Dillon, George J. Gould, Alva TV. Kreicht, Alex Millar, Jacob Schifl. I T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr., Kuhn, Loeb & Co., J. Plerpont Morgan, Southern Pa-. Pa-. cific company of Kentucky, the Southern South-ern Pacific Railway company, the Mer-r 1 cantile Trust company of New York, .) the Northwestern Trust company of Chicago and the Sioux City and Pacific I Railway company. ' 1 The petitions recite in detail the Is suance of first mortgage bonds by the Union Pacific company on November 1, 1865. amounting to $27,229,000, due thirty years after date, and by the Central Cen-tral Pacific, then known es the Western Pacific railroad bondsamounting to $28,610,000, on January 1, 18C7, due thirty years after date. It is then alleged that Charles Durkee became the owner of these first mortgage mort-gage bonds, which are still unpaid. The defendants are alleged to have knowledge of certain Bchemes, manipulation, manipu-lation, combinations and! incorporation of companies by which these bonds have been diverted from the owner into the hands of W. D. Cornish and D. O. Mills. ' The prayer is that the defendants be brought into court to give a statement and accounting as to the disposal of the bonds, and in case of failure to deliver to petitioner Judgment is asked for. The action is brought by Attorney D. W. Wood of Washington, D. C, and the pleadings were filed here by Zane & Stringfelltfw. Attorneys Zane and StrlngfeUow say they know nothing of the suit and that they have signed a a courtesy for Attorney At-torney Wood, who has not been admitted admit-ted to practice in Utah. - . |