| Show NORTHERN SECURITIES CO 00 COi COU U UI i S SI Attorney General Knox kno Is Now Preparing ing lag a Case Against It II Wn a to u 11 Hanker Identified with Jill Hard Lf L gal enl 1 Now New York Feb SO of or this city Identified with the formation of the tha Northern Securities company wore were greatly surprised to learn and anti at nl refused ell to believe that Atty len Gen Knox Is preparing a 11 case cn e against tho ho n They thoy Y that n a de do decision debit on a 1 cognate to case caso from tho the su supreme promo preme court ot at the thc United States Is expected on OR Monday next They were iere unable to why notice of at an nil another another other action should bo ho given pending this thin decision It ft Is 18 stated to be the Intention of both lie tho and Kuhn syndicates to fight lIht tho the case cuse out outto outto outto to the end cud All of ot the bankers who were seen een expressed themselves ns as con confident of ot tho the ultimate result A long loner legal battle Is I promised but hut It Il Is 19 understood that no matter what tho thiO decision may be the dominating Idea which brought the Northern Se Ie cantles company com pall Into life hire will be b sub Hub maintained A contingency such Huch as ns has arisen authorities nd sold was foreseen by the legal talent when the thu last details Vero arranged Homo annie months ago and provision Is made fur tor the tho carrying corr out ou of ot the tho community of ot ownership Idea Charles steele a member of ot the tho firm ot or J P Morman 8 Co Was wan In confer conference conference ence with Mr lIlI Morgan at nt his residence nfl us to 10 the effect affect ot of the action of oC Atty tty Gen Con Knox This ThIH opinion came as nH n a great sur aur surprise I prise prist to all of ol us ho he said No such I notion action wan wall expected and there hns hn been I Inn nn an absolute since Bill the argument of at the lie of ot tho the Mate of at Minnesota before beCote the Supreme Court of ot the tho United After Atler this lila tilt till In equity IM irs suggest suggested ed CI by Atty Att Gen Knox has hns been beell flied Hied d wo we 1 will be prepared to speak of oC our au lino of or defense At present wo vo ni nrc nie wholly In the dark but tut I will viii say that lint thata linta a II long legal battle will ensue en SUI WI 6 cf hail had not nol heard that President had asked for Cor tho the opinion ot ol the attorney general In the matter lIll and nd l although Wo We 0 have heard of ot it It from BOV 1101 oral sources In Iii the last few tew hours hourn 1 I Iani am ani inclined to doubt the tho report Not the slightest tumor rumor of ot this the f ney generals action hud 1111 1111 lh Ih the elos Its 1111 effect on Oil stock prices New Nei York Fob Feb 20 Tho fetes attend lag ing tho the pontifical of uT tho the pope Jollo Will iii begin today soya n it dispatch hoin Home to the Journal J America 11 with n a Ta Ill n um nt ot Ht itt Petars Ho to congratulations tho thi th pope 1101 5 IH Is reported reported to II have said HaitI My Is IH s heightened by lIy tho ho fact that it ti I minister nan ban quit luit the tho of ot his government rather than approve of ot ofa n a 1 divorce ill orce bill hi II which lob tho the church ehu holds hohls cia Is hurtful to 10 family II morality and con COli concord cord The This to 10 Is hI that of ot Count the tho minister lur Of ut public works vork Criminal lond In III letting New York Vork Fob 1011 trial of ot alleged accomplice In the tho lie Liv Liverpool II batik bank lk frauds Is exciting more In III Interest terest than anything going on In 11 public or social lift life says Rays a II I dispatch to tile tho Tribune It Is IH nn no object lesson of cit tho the criminal tendencies prevailing In betting more mOle practical than Ihan evi 01 evidence or dence deuce obtained by h tho ho select of ot the tha house of ot lords during till rinK Us till sea ses sessions Ions The fact t cl Induces the I rIll reformers to 10 believe the lie best method of ot preventing abuses and nd excesses In gambling on horse racing will be he to tomako mako o betting a n valid contract ran call bo ho by legal process only within a n month and to render It a criminal offense for tor bookmakers to tl at lit attempt tempt to 10 obtain money that per pcr period lad iod by of ot exposure or other otherwise otherwise wise Negotiating Sr for fui H f P 1 Hallways San Han Francisco Cal Feb l cb 20 J M of ot New a member of ot the banking linn firm of ot Brown liros Uros U is here In connection with tho the proposed purchase by the Baltimore syndicate of ot tho the prin principal cipal street stroet railroads of ot this his city Ity It ItIs itIs Is lt understood that all nil arrangements II II a have 1110 been mado to turn the thc required money over oel Feb F b 28 25 the amount Involved being The Tue bankers It tL Is 18 stated will wilt finance e the new lIew com coin company pany for tor the syndicate and LIOtI reimburse themselves by a n sale calc of Its II bonds Photographer I olin John Moran head Dead New Now York F I Fb eb b SO John Moran doran 1 o II n a i member of the ramous famous fatally family of ot artists and one of ot the he pioneer photographers hers of this country who did much Important work worl for tor time the United States government In III early days of ot the theo science Is dead tit lit his homo hOlM In this hits city Mr Ir Moran In III charge of at the lie photo work worl of at the coast survey mado tho the first pictures of at the lie original routes of ot the Panama canal lIe He was WIS the tho chief photographer of lit the expedition sent rent out in III n 1871 lIlt to observe the time transit of or Venus With the lie advent of ot the tho dry dr plate he lie abandoned photography und and has hall since chico devoted himself to landscape painting J |
