Show BULLET RIDULED I I I I Arrest of the Perpetrators of I a Cowardly and Brutal Outrage The Bald Kuobbers Christina County in a fever of Excitement I Excite-ment Orer the Murder War the Remedy for Russias Woes The Perils of Fishery The Chicago Boodle Criminals Northern Pacific Ext ulolt NEW YOBK March 16A metingof the Northern Pacific directors On Thursday the proposition will be submitted to them to build a line of railroad from Ainsworth to Portland a distance of 214 miles paralleling the Oregon Railway Navigation thereby giving the Northern Pacific Railway two western termini at Portland for the Oregon trade and the other at Tacoma for the through business The Northern Pacific has a right to build a line through Columbia River Valley and it has a land grant of 26000 acres per mile in Washington Territory and 20000 per mile in Oregon This land grant includes in-cludes over 500000 acres It is stated that a syndicate of Chicago capitalists have offered of-fered to grade tho road bed build the masonery and bridges and lay the ties for the land grant A motion will be made at the directors meeting that a committee be appointed with authority to confer with the Chicago people If this line is constructed it will not interfere with the completion of a Cascade Division through to Tacoma The directors will probably authorize the construction of four small roads in Idaho and Montana running to the mining districts dis-tricts |