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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1908. 5 REBATES PI BY LIKES California Merchants Get Con clusive Evidence Against the Railroad. GET RECORDS FROM OFFICE Old Employes Discharged Before Tensions Acerue Turn Against Company diaries Before the Male and National Boards. SAN FRANX'USCO, Feb. 6. tSpecial.) Evidence of rebating on the part of the Southern Pacific Railroad on a scale far greater than that revealed by Interstate Commerce Commissioner Franklin K. lane has been unearthed by the C'aJiforr nia Traffic Association. This evidence consists largely of transcripts made from the hooka of the company and shows that the. corporation continued its rebating without interruption after the exposures made by Mr. Lane. The matter will be placed before the State Railroad Commis sion February-l;i, when the inquiry into the Southern Pacific will be begun. Betrayed by Discharged Men.- The evidence which has come into the hands of the California Traffic Associa tion has been supplied by employes of the Southern Pacific who have recently had differences with the company. The com pany recently released many men who had lieen in its service more than & quarter of a century. These men In a few years would have been eligible for the pension list, and their unexpected discharge haa mado them bitter against their employer. These men have made copies 01 the rec ords in the Southern Pacific offices and turned them over to the Traffic Associa tion. The defense of the Southern Pacific will consist of a general denial that rebating within the confines of the state is a fel ony. The evidence is so positive that the company will not attempt to combat the facts. Protest Against Switching Charge. The California Traffic Association for warded yesterday its first complaint to the Interstate Commerce Commission. It charges that the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe have been collecting without legal right a switching charge of a car. It is stated that San Francisco is the only city in America, as far as is known, that is thus discriminated against. The complaint asks that the companies be prohibited henceforth from charging this switching fee on any consignments that come under interstate trade. The South ern Pacific alone is said to have collected $1,000,000 in the past year from the mer chants of San Francisco in illegal switch ing charges. Now Fraft Since Fire. Another complaint will be lodged by the local Tariff Association against the Southern Pacific in regard to the loading end unloading charge of 20 cents a ton. This is also a feature of discrimination directed especially against San iTancisco. The Southern Pacific introduced this ob jectionable tax shortly after the fire of April. 1:H6. It has remained In force despite the protest of the local merchants. After the complaints have been filed with the Interstate Commerce Commis sion. Franklin K. Lane will come to San Francisco to make an investigation. He is expected here before the end of the present month. T NKVADA LEGISLATORS TRY FI NANCIAL GAME. Buy Mining Stocks on Advance In formation, but Lose $40,000 When Squeezed Out. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6. (Special.) Members of the State Legislature of Ne vada were "stung" to the tune of 40,000 in an attempt to mix politics and finance In the extra session which has just ad journed. Tho facts reached the brokers 5n the stock market this afternoon and a dispatch from Carson, Nev., received late tonight verities the story. When the extra session was called, Goldflcld Consolidated was around the $5 mark. The market was waiting on the session of the Legislature and the passage of the police bill meant a big rise. Be fore the session was called to order, a few of the Legislators got together, can vassed the field and found that the po lice bill "would pass. Then they got to gether, formed a pool and began to buy Uoldfield Consolidated. The sudden heavy buying in the midst of a period of dull ness sent the prices up -with a rush, and the last of the orders were filled at $6.10. Here the stock held. Then the police bill passed. Its effects had been dis counted by the heavy buying and instead of rising the market dropped 20 points. The Nevada Legislators took fright and began to sell. They have been selling ever since and the market has been go ing lower and lower until today it touched Jt.M. The Legislators were caught in the squeeze to the amount of $40,000. For some days the street has been un able to account for the mysterious selling. The secret came out today. FOR COAST' CHAMPIONSHIP Professional Six-Day Race at Oaks Rink Tonight. Kruse finished first last night at the Oaks- Rink In the six-day race, followed cloxely by Card, Copeland. Holt. Swartz, Farrell, Brown, Harrison and Little, The race was fust and furious from start to finish. Harrison took a bad fall and failed to recover lost distance, which -was oile and a quarter laps. Farrell took a bad fall but the plucky little fellow again got on his feet and started out to recover tho lost distance which was a half lap. He soon regained his place amid the cheers of thousands in attendance. The race will continue tonight and the balance of this week, also Sunday. NOT INDORSE CANDIDATES But Mitchell Says Labor Is Inter ested in Good Officials. INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 6.Iohn Mitchell, president of the United Mineworkers. when asked today in regard to the ru mors to the effect that there had been InauEUTated during- the recent Minework ers' convention a movement to Indorse the candidacy of certain aspirants for the Presidency of the United States and for other political offices, stated that so far as he knew there was no foundation for these rumors. He said, however, that the members of the Miners' Union, to gether with all trade unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, were interested actively in the election to all executive, judicial and administrative offices of men who were known to be sympathetic to the reasonable demands of the wage-earners of the country. "It follows, therefore," said Mr. Mitchell, "that they would oppose the candidacy of aspirants for political honors who are known to be unsympa thetic or antagonistic to the labor move ment. 1 "This activity on the part of the or ganized and to a less extent on the part of the unorganized workers of our coun try is not a partisan movement. I think there is little possibility of the labor or ganizations entering the political field from a party standpoint. In common with other citizens, the woTkingmen seek the general welfare of our country and at the same time they ask such special legislation as is necessary for the protec tion of their own lives and the preserva tion of their own health', so far as these ends may be secured by legislative enact ment. In other words, the laboring men believe that officers of the law, whether they be high or whether they be low, should be especially solicitous for the wel fare of the members of society who are least able to serve thpmselves." ASSAIL 17AG0-J ROAD GRANT NINETY-ONE SETTLERS FILE SUIT IN FEDERAL COVRT. Southern Oregon Company and Coos Bay Wagon Road Company Are Defendants in Proceeding. Through a suit in equity filed by 91 plaintiffs in the United States Circuit Court an attempt is being made to force the Southern Oregon Company and the Coos Bay Wagon Road Company to sell 13,000 acres of land in the Coos Bay Wagon Road grant for $2.60 per acre. The suit makes Attorney-General Bona parte and the United States defendants and is based upon a resolution introduced in the Senate recently by Senator Till man seeking to force the holding com panies to abandon their claims on the property or to fulfill the terms of the Government grants by selling the land at the stipulated price of $2.50 per acre. In addition to the many plaintiffs named in the euit, all of who claim to be resi dents of the United States, the document filed contains many John Does and Richard Roes. The various people who filed on the lands did so recently at Em pire City. John R. Herron and others against the Southern Oregon Company is the title of the suit. The papers filed in the case contain over 100 pages of typewritten matter. TAKES LID OF FSCANDAL Landis Says Grafting on Printing Office Was Rich. WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. -Concurring in the recommendation of Acting Public Printer Rosslter, the President today can celled the contract of the Government with the Audit System and ordered its ejection from the Government Printing Office at the end of six days. The Audit System is the corporate name of the method which was installed more than a year ago by Public Printer Stillings.. Un der its operation the Government has paid about $120,000 for the privilege of calcu lating the cost of printing and binding. Representative Landis, of Indiana, chairman of the joint committee which is investigating the office, says that the Audit System as it has been Installed and operated in Washington "is a gold brick thinly plated with the genuine stuff. We have paid for this brick," said Mr. Lan dis, "and before we throw it out we are going to extract and retain the modicum of value it is gilded with. I mean that you can't run the Government Printing Office with all its departments and its 4500 employes without using some method of cost ascertainment. So if there are any good features in the Audit System we are going to keep them, for we have paid for them many times over." Mr. Landis is authority for the state ment that the Joint investigation commit tee purposes to take the lid entirely off and delve to the bottom of the many charges, some of them definite and dis tinct, others of a public-rumor character. Among the charges which the Joint in vestigation commission will inquire into pursuant to the office of the Public Printer is that his administration has been compassed by remarkable extrava gances. Chairman Landis, who visited the office today to call on Mr. Rossiter, found himself ushered into surroundings which a multi-millionaire might fancy. In the Public .Printer's office, were mas sive furniture, costly pictures, appoint ments of elegance, little in keeping; with a printing and binding plant. The committee, with the help of Mr. Rossiter, will endeavor to find out why, roughly speaking. It has cost the Govern ment $50 to turn out a Job which com mercial houses would do for $1. The committee may inquire into such reports as these: That 45 cents a pound has been paid for quantities of inks worth less than 20 cents a pound; that the store rooms of the Government printing office contain at the present time more paper stock than other administrations used up In half a dozen years; that so great was the pomp with which Public Printer Stillings surrounded himself that persons having business with him were frequently required to make appoint ments a day ahead and never could gain his presence without running the Are of uniformed lackeys and threading a maze of scarlet tape. HINDU KILLED BY TRAIN Attempts to Cross Track at Seven teenth Street. An unidentified Hindu was killed at 1:30 o'clock this morning, by an in cocming freight train on the Northern Pacific Railway at the foot of Seven teenth street. The man, who is about S2 years of age and poorly dressed, was struck while attempting to cross the track In front of the train. Several cars passed over his body before the train could be stopped. His head and one foot were completely severed from the body. Coroner Flnley took charge of the remains. Ribs Broken by Fall. ASTORIA, Feb. 6. (Special.)Charies Heinonen. the 7-year-old son of "V. A. Heinonen, last night fell from the roof of an old building In Union town to the beach. Several of the boy's ribs were broken and he is believed to be otherwise injured. There is little hope of his recovery. Pioneer of Ocean Park Killed. OCEAN PARK. CaL, Feb. 6.-Andrew Mills, 63 years old, who settled on the site of Ocean Park 21 years ago, before any dwelling had been erected anywhere In this neighborhood, was killed this after noon by a fall from a house which he waa painting. The World's Greatest Range The Incomparable "ECLIPSE" BISCUITS, CAKES and COFFEE SERVED Cooking Demonstrations TODAYTOMORROW THE EXHIBIT OF THE PEERLESS ECLIPSE" 66 The two events that now claim the attention of Portland's shrewd and learned store patrons. A great sale offering these two days TODAY AND TOMORROW The Floor-Clearing Sale of Highest Grade Furniture Portland's Finest Stock of Sideboards THROWN ON THE MARKET FOR WHAT THEY'LL BRING We come now to a place in our long merchandising career when for the first time we must fairly shove furniture out at what it will-bring. First, we take the sideboards the largest and best selected stocks ever shown on one store floor. We must clear two-thirds of the floor space occupied by these elegant dining pieces, during the two days TODAY AND TOMORROW. The prices given here as regular are those quoted during the January Clearance Sales and are in reality far under the actual worth. The values are much greater than possibly can appear on paper. Quality In every instance the very best. Prices That sliould iBSSalR! bring to this store a large assemblage of enthusiastic patrons THESE ARE THE PRICES THE GREAT MOVING POWER OF THIS SALE No. 103 No. 623 No, 641 No. 651- -$40.00 Sideboard -$27.00 Sideboard -$30.00 Sideboard -$50.00 Sideboard $24.75 $15.50 51S.OO $29.50 No. No. 659 998- No. 1493 No. 141- -$ 60.00 Sideboard -$ 60.00 Sideboard -$ 85.00 Sideboard -$150.00 Sideboard $39.50 539.SO 356.50 $85.00 A Sale of the Higher-Priced Dining Tables and Chairs at Prices of the Very Common Sort Chairs are in the solid quarter and weathered oak and golden oak finishes, plain and leather upholstered seats. T.oday and Saturday, these great special prices : , No. 209-2 $1.25 Dining Chair 75$ No. 359 $1.75 Dining Chair, cane seat l.Oo N. 886-2 $2.50 Dining Chair $1.50 No. 480-1 $4.00, Dining Chair ..$2.60 No. 300; $6.00 Dining Chair, leather seat $3.85 No. 19-$7.00 Dining Chair, Jeather seat $4.45 Tables in the solid quartered and golden oak, all of finest grain,"hand-rubbed polish, 6 and 8-foot extension, round pedestal, hand-carved legs, claw feet, etc. These ruling, prices for two days: No. 516-6 $32.50 Dining Table $10.75 No. 4021-8 $35.00 Dining Table.. $21.75 No. 517-cW$42.50 Dining Table $25.75 No. 534-8 $45.00 Dining Table $27.75 No. 380-8 $75.00 Dining Table $48.75 TODAY AND TOMORROW ONLY UNTIL 10 O'CLOCK SATURDAY NIGHT Eclipse Ranges Guaranteed for Fifteen Years OREGON'S LARGEST AND" BEST FURNITURE HOUSE :. GEVURTZ & SONS ON YAMHILL 15,000 Ecli pse Ranges in Portland ATTACKS ITS TITLE Heyburn Wants Inquiry Into Northern Pacific. ASKS CONGRESS TO INQUIRE In operating its railroad under any fran chise derived from the Government of the United States but operates a railroad under the laws of Wisconsin, under which it was incorporated, and the laws of the several states in which the railroad is situated. Canada Reduers PoataKe Hata. OTTAWA. Ont.. Feb. . The following was-given out by the Postoffice Depart ment today: "An amendment has been made to the convention negotiated between Canada and the TTnlted States as regards the post age paid on daily papers. Daily news papers now charged 4 cents a pound will in future be 1 cent a pound. Weekly newspapers and periodicals remain the same, 4 cents a pound." Senator Says Reorganization Was Fraudulent Conspiracy Aga!nst Former Company and Moves to Cancel Federal Charter. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Feb. 6. Senator Heyburn today re introduced his resolution calling upon the President to make Investigation and re port to the Senate all matters connected with the reorganization of the Northern Pacific railroad property; to ascertain what title and estate in said railroad, telegraph line and land grant is held or owned by the corporation created by Congress by the act of July 2, 1S64, and, if said Federal corporation has no title to estate in any property, then to ascer tain and report what reason, if any, exists why the charter'should not be re pealed by Congress. Fraud on Government. In the preamble to his resolution Mr. Heyburn says the Northern Pacific re ceived a grant of more than 40,000,000 acres of public land. Since receiving the grant the company has been twice reorganized, once in 1S75 and again in 1896. The last reorganization was effected by a fraudu lent conspiracy against the organization of 1S75 and to the Injury of the stock holders thereof, and results In fraud upon the Government of the United States by wrongfully making it appear that the ownership of the Northern Pacific rail road is no longer vested in a corporation of congressional creation, over which Congress is possessed of direct and im mediate legislative power. Denies It Got Land Grant. It further appears that the present corporation, in litigation against it in stituted by the United States Govern ment, has undertaken to defend against the enforcement of thn In w rln Mv. t tv, exercise of franchises by railroad com panies suosiaizea Dy the United States, and has averred that it is not subject to the provisions of xaM nc tvnnu i never reoeived any subsidy from the Unit es ota.iea ana eecauM it la not enaajwd , r ara Eaters Should. o u 0 IMC I and iP loi 11 There must be something in all this Pure Food Talk. We hear the term "Pure Food" on every hand Pure Food Shows, Pure Food Laws and Pure Food agitation of all kinds. It simply means that people are awaken ing to the fact that that they cannot be too careful about the purity of their food and the ingredients which enter into its making. One of the most fruitful sources of indigestion in the past has been the use of lard. Nine times out of ten, the lard which you buy is not fit for any human stomach. Its source is suggestive of uncleanliness and unhealthfulness. It makes greasy, indigestible food, and food which is bound eventually to interfere with digestion. COTTOLENE is the only rational frying and shorten ing medium. Wherever exhibited in competition with other cooking fats, it has always been granted highest award. It contains no hog-fat, but is a pure vegeta ble product, made from the choicest cotton seed oil, and is every bit as pure and healthful as the purest olive oil. For frying and shortening, you should use nothing but COTTOLENE. It is more healthful than lard; it will go farther than lard, one-third less being required; and it will make your food more appetizing and digestible. - Buy a pail of COTTOLENE to-day, use it according to directions, and you will never go back to lard. Cottolene is Guaranteed We herebr authorize your grocer to , . . . . refund your money in case you're not pleased after having: given COTTOLENE a fair test. Never Sold in Bulk c.OTTOLENE is packed in pafls with a patent . . , air-tight top, to keep it clean, fresh and whote some; also to prevent it from absorbing the disagreeable odors of the grocery, such as fish, oil, etc. Cook Book Pree We 9haU 1x1 lad to send any housewife, for a two a A cent stamp.rrar new "PURE FOOD COOK BOOK," edited and compiled by Mrs. Mary J. Lincoln, author of the famous "Boston Cook cook. Address THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, CHICAGO Nature's Gift from the Sunny South