| Show G O 0 O WHITTEMORE RETURNS TO TOWN Rotates His Experiences In the Grade Conflict at Uvada WIRES IN HANDS OF O ENEMY Had No With World 1 en Were Hun lor or Want nut of or r rC C 0 O Whittemore returned this mom Ing In from Uvada he has been for tor forthe the past few te days endeavoring to head off oct tho invasion of ot the Oregon Short Line truck track layers Under General Super su er Calvin on the disputed dl grade rude I I lino over the Nevada Whan Whon Been fl en shortly after Ills his arrival Mr appearance indicated that he hull had been having busy bUllY times In Inthe the tho south so much no that during the press of business Incident to traveling around lound the country In earch of ot a 1 judge to Issue an nn Injunction he hud apparently not hall had time to shave AUK AIm W WI J uro working on the grade down downIn In Nevada he said and have ton ten team and employed and will continue doing so 80 until the tho matter U 18 decided In the courts courtl Then the Ore Oro Oregon gon all I III I will cither a pres present ent of or the otcel and ties that being laid to the Los Angeles rood road or we will donate te our grading to the Line people White While It IB III our Intention not to tofIl retort fIl Ort to uny physical clash clush at the same time uc 0 will tight this matter out outto outto to the tho bitter end In the tM coutta COUtts We urn doing this work now In order to prove that we were first on the Held and start started td ed work upon the tho grade which ac IC according cording to the decision of or the United States land In Caloon mean r be 1 belongs longs to us u 1 have to Salt so that I can ean get into communication tion with Senator Clark and In hU hIs asso associates in Los Angeles and at j Louie Until I hear henl from them the work of ot grading will be bo continued by II the tho force Corce of It men under Adam Paul Mr Ir stated staled that ho had hll two camps of graders sta stationed one three miles and tho other twelve miles from where tho Short steel Line gangs eru laying It was necessary sary he euld suld tor the men to work at lit those points as ns It WitS was Imm for fOl them th m to secure water anywhere else along the line The Short Line force Corce have huv their own water tanks along with them and needless to say the San Pedro men could not obtain a drop front from them Naturally the Invading Is throwing every ob obstacle stacle In the of oC the rival force torce and aud among IlI ong other things Mr Ir more found that It was Impossible to toen Bend en out from Cram Uvada as us the wires were wre In the hands of or the en enemy enemy emy Mr Whittemore stated that by lIy the time he left Uvada yesterday y that tho Short Line had laid a little over three I miles of or steel nna onu nau a 11 u uthe the ground together with the necessary timbers to building n a trestle across Ie 1111 Trains of ot material and supplies he pays are coming In at the rate of from lIe five to seven a n day 1111 STOUT STOnY OF The of at the bloodless battle of tho grade Is ono which will be of at Inter Interest est cst to everyone who has followed the moves made In the southern part of ot the tho State Stute Adam Paul arrived on the K i mi ml with a n party of at men actinic Un Under der dH Instructions from Mr lr road on Oil on n behalf of oC the Clark day last This was waa Immediately after the decision hall had been heen rendered nt Car Carson Carlion son lion City On Saturday he started with witha a II gang ng of oC eight men and six teams to work on th to the tho woid wOld received from SnIt Salt Lake Inke to that effect This move was wired to Suit LaI by lIy the agent at Uvada with the tho result that the Short rustled out outa them Item to tho a n gang and steel pent scene giving the train the right of or WilY way over the passenger train every everything eVIH thing else el e This force arrived at 1 on Sunday morning lg and by daylight they hall had com commenced to 10 lay the tho ties and rails By noon Mr Ir had arrived at al Uvada and acting under his Instructions men cut n trench across the grade nt the he forbade the Short Line to cross It That night tho gap was waR tilled up and some yards ot or track greeted Mr r mores gaze gate when he ht returned to the tho scene rene the next morning Then n II con considerable amount of ot eloquence was In Indulged IndulGed In but the thc superior force torce of ot to tolay tolay complaisantly continued sixty men lay while the tM handful of oC Clark discretely retired before the tho su superior men perlor force to a spot some dozen miles ilow n tho Iho grade where they the are work workIng workIng Ing at the tho present time Mr Whittemore Is silent ns to what step he will take In the direction of off oIT the Invasion lon now that ho he hoi heM M A i I has hns to can 1 11 IHM l m v mates thal when ho does make another move that It will count In the mean meantime I time the Short Line is It putting down don rails and has some men at work 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