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8 AFTER-MERGER. SERVICE IS BETTER Kruttschnitt Says Big Sums Have Been Spent for Improvements. FREIGHT TRAFFIC GROWS Taxes and Cost of Labor Hare Been Greatly Increased, Yet No Ad vance in Rates Has Been Made to Offset This. NEW YORK, Feb. lS.-Costly expen ditures have been made In the road bed and rolling stock of the Union Pa cific and Southern Pacific to improve th "ervice since the merger of the two railroads. explained Vice-President Krutschnitt, of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific systems when he re resumed the witness stand today at the hearing in the Government's suit to dissolve the merger. The witness described the new fa cilities and methods made by the Un ion Pacific and the Southern PocTflc eince 1902 to meet the demands of in creased freight traffic. He thought that the freight service was as good as that provided by any of the other transcontinental lines. "If it weren't we wouldn't get the the business," he said. Mr. Kruttschnitt said all the big lines were working along the same lines to improve the service, and the best service was that which had the most efficient train loading and car loading. Heavier Trains Hauled. Mr. Kruttschnitt explained that since the old schedules had been superseded the company had increased its train load greatly and had taken every pos sible means to expedite the movement of a traffic which had expanded re markably in volume. The maintenance of a fast freight, he added, tended at all times also to affect all other traffic unfavorably. Mr. Kruttschnitt said the railroads had to revise the mail schedules on account of the difficulties of maintain ing them, and the large fines imposed as a consequence by the Government. In one year on two mall routes the fines aggregated $62,330. or 22 per cent of the entire revenue for carry ing the malls. Taxes Greatly Increased. Some figures were given showing that the taxes on the Union Pacific had increased from $225 per mile in 1901 to $424 in 1909, or 89 per cent, and upon the Southern Pacific from $201 per mile in 1901 to $393 per mile in 1909, or 91 per cent. Mr. Kruttschnitt declared that the whole condition of the system was much better than before the merger and the credit of the company greatly Improved. He noted that the Union Pacific earnings per mile had, since 1901, increased, from $7000 to ja2.6fl, and on the Southern Pa cific from $8463 to $111,516. Mr. KruttBchnitt submitted documents to show that the cost of labor had In creased 20 per cent on the Union Pa cific and 25 per cent on the Southern Pacific between 1S97 and 190S. Yet rates had not been raised to offset this in crease. Dividend Not Excessive, He Says. He was asked if the Union Pacific had not been paying a 10 per cent dividend since 1906. He replied that it had, and added : "I don't think that 10 per cent Is an excessive dividend for a railroad com pany, when National banks pay 16 to 24 per cent, farm values 12 and 13 per cent, and commercial businesses eo much that they are ashamed to state them." On the Union Pacific, Mr. Kruttschnitt said. In eight years ending in 1909 there have been provided 552 locomotives, 25S6 passenger cars, 12,494 freight cars, 707 work cars, 2428 miles of new steel rails, 88,256 feet of wooden bridges replaced, and 6109 feet of iron and concrete bridges constructed. On the Southern Pacific, in the same eight years, there were 920 new locomo tives, 888 passenger cars, 26.471 new freight cars, 2489 work cars, 3970 miles of new steel rails, 135,411 feet of wooden bridges replaced and 49.826 feet of iron or concrete bridges constructed. Another item showed that during the period named 17,210,000 feet of new cross ties were laid on the Union Pacific and 24,373.000 feet on the Southern Pacific. ELKS ENJOY JOLLY PARTY Murlark Hall Rendezvous of Lovers of "Light Fantastic." The fifth in a eeries of six Winter dances was held by the Elks at Murlark Hall, Twenty-third and Washington streets, last night. Dancing continued until a late hour, guests continuing to ' arrive and add to the jolly gathering after the theaters let out. Among those present were: Mrs. Kelly, Mrs. Perkins, Mrs. George Williams, Mrs. Haines, Mrs. Gus C. Mosher, Mrs. J. S. Dowllng, Mrs. Barenstecher, Miss Baren, stacher. Miss Stone. Miss Lincoln. Miss Paris, Miss Kelly, Messrs. Bothwlck, E. Crall. Harris, T. J. Swivel. John Kelly, E. Foote. C. H. Johnson, F. C Thomas, A. I Stone. George Williams, Gus C. Mosher. J. S. Dowllng, Guy Haines, CJourtwrlght, De Bruin Kopps, Foote, Dr. Perkins and Judge McDevitt. COAST GETS LIGHTHOUSES i Senate Passes Bills Appropriating Fully $450,000 for Navigation. OREGOXIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Feb. 18. The Senate today passed the following bills introduced by Senator Plies: ' Appropriating $30,000 for the establish ment of a lighthouse on Kellett's Bluff; a $60,000 lighthouse at Partridge Point; $41,600 for small aids to navigation on Puget Sound; $225,000 for a lighthouse tender for Alaska and $70,000 to construct two revenue cutter launches for Puget Sound. Senator Jones and Representative Mc Credie today introduced a bill appropriat ing $400,000 for the purchase of a site and the erection of an immigration station at Tacoma. PIG BAFFLES STRONG MAN Ohio Hercules Humiliated in Sight of Villagers. COLUMBUS, O.. Feb. 8. Bill Minor, the strong man of Reynoldsburg. stands humiliated -in the sight of villagers to night, and the Minor home Is without meat- He failed miserably today in his effort to carry one of Sam Rickly's 225-pound hogs from Sam's place to his home. But Reynoldsburg was given an. entertainment the like of which had not been enjoyed there since the Bryan barbecue, way back in 1896. Reynolds burg has a proper appreciation of earnest effort, however, as to the $11.63 produced by the passing of the hat for Bill attested. A movement is on foot tonight to purchase the hog and present it to the defeated hero. A thousand people saw the unequal contest, Reynoldsburg poured out her entire 300 population and all the countryside gathered early to gain vantage view points. From Milo, Grogan, Black Lick, Pataskala, Dublin and even distant Gahenna they came In buggies. A light, snow fell all the morning, making the hog slippery. Besides he was fat and his skin was tight. But for this- Bill would no doubt have . car ried off the prize. He lifted the hog easily, but he could not get a firm grip on its fat legs. Again and again it wiggled from him just as he got it on his shoulders. Several times Its sharp hoofs made red marks across Bill's neck, but he was game. When he. showed that he was becoming winded, bystanders helped him catch the hog, that being permitted by the referees. "It ain't that I can't heft the hog." puffed Bill, "but I can't get a hold on him." Cheers urged him to renewed effort, but after 20 minutes of as hard work as he ever did. Bill climbed over the pen rail and "truck for home. There were no jeers from the spec tators; he was a hero even In defeat. There were many bets made on the re sult by visitors, and considerable money changed hands on the result. At the penside the gambling was kept under cover because of the presence of Mayor George Medberry, Marshal King Pick ering and Squire Henry Mullens. DISAPPOINTED GIRL DIES MISS AGNES ELKIXS' SUICIDAL ATTEMPT SUCCEEDS. Bullet Fired Last 'Wednesday After Careful Preparation and Fare well Party Takes Effect. KANSAS CITY. Mo., Feb. 18. Miss Agnes Leslie Elkins, niece of United States Senator Stephen B. Elkins, of West Virginia, died at a hotel here at 6:50 o'clock tonight as a result of a bullet wound inflicted upon herself last Wednes day in attempting suicide. Despondency over the refusal of rela tives to consent to her becoming en actress is given by the young woman's friends as the cause. She hatl studied music and is said to have had a good voice. She obtained a part in a play but Senator Elkins is .said to have in fluenced her to relinquish it. Miss Elkins carefully planned her sui cide. She gave a farewall party to her friends a few hours before she shot herself. She jested with them about a plan she had to kill herself. After dis missing her guests she. wrote a letter to the newspapers explaining that she was tired of life. Miss Elkins was an . orphan and 26 years old. Her parents lived here sev eral years. The girl was not prominent socially, but is said to have been left' a comfortable sum by her father. Sen ator Elkins was executor of her father's estate. George Ivaboth.to Go to Berlin.- SALEM. Or., Feb. IS. (Special.) Gov ernor Benson has- appointed George Kaboth. of Astoria, as Commissioner from Oregon to the American exposition at Berlin. Policeman to Be Farmer. W. A. Burchell, a policeman for the last four years, resigned last night. At his request his duties will terminate March 1. Burchell will take up farming. ........... ................. T T t t t . T . 1 . .......I.............. 1THE PORTLAND Y. M. C. A. BASKETBALL TEAM WILL PLAY THE SILVERTON ATHLETIC CLUB : QUINTET TONIGHT. If -$ -t2s -v t VTX 1" I f t- , ' ' - V I ' !! tt K I ' - , , t3V- jLj3$ ty4 -y - i ' ;ct I : K ' , ; , , a 4 S ! ,, I V i ' : "J , -Tj : " l - f V I ; '' 4 ' - - f x -S ; " . i ' in ILBblMK, litARUl SHEETS, FORWAHD SWEENEY, CEXTER; WALTERS, fil'ARDl SII.L, FORWARD. FROST ROW HOWARD GVYX, COACHt JORDAN, CAPTUN AD. Gl'ARDs .GlTHRIE, MANAGER. ' ' nu,? Pr.f!a?dK?"i Mlr 6' etball team, known as the "Spartans," will play the Sllverton Athletic Club team tonight in the . M. C. A. gymnasium. The only defeat the Y. M. C. A. team has suffered this season was at the hands of the Silverton Club a week ago and tonight the local players expect to re ciprocate. , The Sllverton team is one of the strongest in the state, and has been beaten only once this season, losing to the Mount Angel College team two weeks ago. The record of the Y. M. C. A. Spartans is as follows: Y. M. C A., 64; Hill Military Academy, 7; Y. ai. C. A., 35; Portland Academv, 19; Y. M. C. A.. 54: Lincoln High School, 7; Y. M. C. A.. 67: Washington High Sc-hool. 10; Y. M. C. A., 64: C. Y. M. C.,- 10- Y. M C A., 23: Washougal Athletic Club, 10; Y. M. C. A., 19; Silverton Athletic Club, 33; Y. M. C. A., 60; Hassalo Churca team, 8. The Spartans have as coach Howard Guyn, the baseball player, and as manager Guthrie. The players are:T,.Guards' Divilbllss and Walters; forwards, Sill and Sheets; center, Sweeney. While the young men from the Sllverton club are playing at the Y. M. C. A., the girls' team from the same club will play the girls of the Catholic Young's Men's Club at the C. Y. M. C. gymnasium, on Morris street, near Williams avenue. This will be the first public basketball game that has been pulled off in fortiand Detween strong women's teams for years and the event accordingly Is attracting much -Interest among local followers of the game. Nearly all the seating room in the gymnasium was spoken for a week ago. The regular A. A. V. rules for men's" teams will' be used in the contest. The C. Y. M. C. team is cap tained by Miss Kloretta Velguth, who is prominent in various lines of athletics. XT' t"X" 1t k r I' II TWt It Mtwr -n n-mmr MOM- IS SOUGHT Cross-Examiner Seeks to Show Glavis Malicious.. PLENTY OF AID ADMITTED ' Witness Says Superiors .Had Not Shown Lack of Confidence When He Sought Advice Outside of Own Department. (Continued From First Page.) in seeking the assistance of Gifford Pin chot. Mr. Glavis said that he went to him because he had faith in him and felt that he was absolutely sincere- ' Mr. Vertrees explained several of, "his long questions today by the statement that he was searching out the motives of the witness, to discover whether they were malicious. At the opening of the session Mr. Vertrees asked for a subpoenal for Alolph Behrens, of Seattle, announc ing that he expected to impeach parts of Glavis' story by the testimony of this witness. Glavis testified that Behrens and Land Commissioner Dennett lunched together in Seattle and seemed on very cordial terms the very next day after Dennett had told him he did not know Behrens, one of the Alaskan coal claim ants. Mr. Vertrees said Mr. Behrens al ready had made an affidavit denying all of Glavis' testimony. Mr. Vertrees questioned Glavis at some length regarding his motive for bringing to the attention of the" committee a lot of rules and regulations regarding coal land entries in Alaska, when Mr. Ballin ger had made but one slight change in the rules. Direct Answer Refused. "Was it to leave an unfavorable Infer ence in the minds of the committee?" demanded the attorney. Glavis would not answer directly. He said he thought he had given some testimony favorable to Mr. Ballinger. "Was the change made by Secretary Ballinger a good or bad one?" asked Mr. Vertrees. "I considered it a bad one." Mr., Vertrees asked Gla-is to detail the acts of Mr. Ballinger, while out of the Government service, that he considered improper. Ballinger resigned as Commis sioner of the Land Office March 4, 1908, and did not become Secretary of the In terior until March 4, 1909. "His first act," replied Glavis, "was when he returned from Washington to Seattle, where I conferred with him and told him of the evidence. I was securing in the Alaska cases, and hav ing had as Commissioner all the in formation concerning these cases, he deliberately represented the coal claim ants themselves. This was contrary to an act of Congress, although there had been a decision favorable and another unfavorable on that point. I thought the act of Congress entirely clear, and that it prohibited his acting. He repre sented claimants in the Cunningham and other groups." Affidavit Objected To. "What did he do with respect to the Cunningham group?" "He prepared an affidavit for Cun ningham which he took to Mr. Gar field with a view to securing patents." "Is it not a fact that it was not so much the character of the work as the fact that he has been in the office that you objected to?" "Mr. Chairman," complained Glavis, "that question Is another that re quires an explanation. He had prev iously told me that he did not see how the Cunningham group could get w . - . . T7N Z3H Winner of Every Giidden Tour COVEY MOTOR CAR CO. Seventh and Couch St. PIERCE CADILLAC patents. Yet he was - doing this act toward securing title for fraudulent claimants." "Now, Mr. Glavis, isn't it a fact that the Cunningham journal which you say contained the evidence that there had been an agreement among the claim ants in that group, was not found and was not sent to the Land Office until Mr. Ballinger had ceased to be Com missioner?" "Yes. sir." "And the only affidavits you had se cured In these cases at the time were the affidavits of the claimants themselves?" "Yes, sir." "And there had been no adverse report on these claims while Mr. Ballinger was Commissioner?" "The only reports on the Alaska claims when Mr. Ballinger retired had been ren dered by Special Agents Love and Jones. It was on the Love report that the claims were ordered to clear listing." "But there was my letter of February 27 to Mr. Schwartz," added Glavis. "That was written in Portland, Or., February 27, and mailed. Could .it have reached Washington before Mr. Ballinger retired from office?" Records Against Clear Listing. "It could just have about arrived in Washington the chances are that Mr. Ballinger would not have seen it. But I don't see how Mr. Ballinger could have acted in these cases and ordered these claims to clear listing on the rec ord before him. He wouldn't have act ed as he did on such evidence if the property had belonged to him instead of to the Government." "Didn't Schwartz, Chief of Field Serv ice, approve the clear listing of these claims, and haven't you absolved him of any wrongdoing?" "I said I felt Schwartj was acting under direct orders of Mr. Ballinger." The cross-examination of the witness turned next upon the Wilson coal land cases In which Mr. Glavis testified that Mr. Ballinger, before entering the Gov ernment service, acted as attorney and drew up an escrow agreement for the delivery of claims that had not been proved up. Mr. Glavis sald'ln his original testimony that Secretary Balllnger's name was left out of the records in this case by stip ulation. Questioned by Mr. Vertrees, Mr. Glavis said that his testimony on this point had been hearsay, that he 'had been told of it by P. C. Richardson. Mr. Vertrees said that much of his In formation as to the Wilson case had come from Henry M. Hoyt, Attorney General of Porto Rico, who was the counsel in the case. - This was regarded with some significance, as Mr. Hoyt had been summoned as a witness for the "pro secution," to corroborate Mr. Glavis. The latter testified today that he, too, had talked with Mr. Hoyt since his arrival from Porto Rico and that he had said" as to leaving Mr. Balllnger's name out TABLE OUEEN The Loaf iSiS ' - - -J - i Bi ii iTfitrli'' "Y Koval 6 The Royal The Great Happy Mike "I of the record that It was not essential to the Government's- case. Sheridan lieport "Surprising. At the afternoon session Mr. Vertrees called attention to the fact that, in his original testimony Mr. Glavis expressed surprise that Special Agent Sheridan, who succeeded him in charge of the Alaska casep, should have reached the same con clusion he had. "Why are you surprised?" demanded Mr. Vertrees. "Well, he had a letter of instructions, and I think they expected a different re port; otherwise they would not have sent him out there." "Whom do you mean by "they'?" "Whoever wrote the letter Mr". Schwartz." "In all the time you were In the serv ice and in charge of the Alaska cases, did you feel that you had the confidence of your superiors, and did they not so ex press themselves to you In communications- from time to time?" asked Mr. Ver trees. "Yea, sir," he said, hesitatingly. Plenty ot Help Given. "And you say there was no harm done to the Government by the delay in 1908. when vou were temporarily assigned to the Oregon cases?" "No, sir, there was no narm. "And you always had plenty of help?" "Yep, .sir." "What was there to be gained In pre senting the case to Mr. Pinchot? The Forestry Department had already Inter vened and your requests had already been granted." "I thought, in view of all the facts and the difficulties I had had In getting a postponement of the case and in view of the letters written by Dennett and his actions throughout he proceedings, it would be only a little while until these cases were brought up again to be de cided before either Mr. Dennett or Mr. Ballinger. and I did not think they were fit people to render a decision." "You believed the remedy was removal from office of these two men, and you wanted Mr. Pinehot to help you in that?" asked Senator Root. "It was not quite that," said Glavis. "I did not know exactly what to do. I want ed to get some good advice." Adournment here was taken until to morrow morning at 10 o'clock. Seattle Witnesses lave Monday. SEATTLE, Feb. 18. Andrew Chrlsten se. chief of the field division of the General Land Office, and the other Seat tle persons subpoenaed to testify before the Ballinger-Pinchot committee, will leave for Washington next Monday. . EAST SIDE NOW REJOICES Broadway Bridge Court Victories Celebrated at Meeting. Members of the East Side Improve ment Association met at the Rodney street .Woodmen's Hall last night and devoted most of their time to rejoicing over the court victories in the two suits relating to the Broadway bridge. Resolutions were also adopted urg ing all members to be present at the Council meeting, when plasa for the bridge would be presented for ap proval. No reference was made to the vacation of East Side streets in behalf of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company. ANNOUNCEMENTS. For Shur-On Eye Glasses, Kryptok In visible Bifocals and Deep Curve Lenses, see Thompson, eye specialist, second floor Corbett bldg.. 5th and Morrison. QWAMP 18 not recommended for JVVrimi everything; but If you DnnT have kidney., liver or WU 1 bladder trouble it will be found Just the remedy you need. At druggists in fifty cent and dollar sizes. 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Young Charles Vander gould had just made the statement that his wife would not provide Table Queen Bread, and the jury was much impressed. Mrs. Evelyn Vandergould was recalled to the stand, however, and. produced the bottom crust of a loaf of Table Queen, with the word "Royal" plainly stamped across its crisp surface. It would have been labeled "Exhibit A," but one of the jurors ate it, after a sharp struggle with his neighbors. Without leaving the box, the jury granted the fair plaintiff free dom from the brute, after it was proven beyond cavil that he was so low, degraded and unappreciative that he would leave even a crumb of Table Queen. Bakery & Confectionery, Portland Bakery That Always Invites Inspection rairPl iTO'Wl 0rr r, V!1:?ftiSS?J wiMBWiJiiMtttiJ WwMsrfiawl hiKismutiZiM love my wife, but, O, CRUISERS IN BAD SHAPE WEST VIRGINIA AND MAHTXAXD FOUND TTXSEA WORTHY. Engines and Boilers Need Over hauling New Orleans Also Has Leaky Boilers. VALLEJO, Cal., Feb. 18. 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Special interest attaches to the in vestigation, owing to the friction ex isting between the construction and engineering corps of the Navy. China Gathers Railroad Data. SALEM. Or.. Feb. IS. (Special.) The Chinese government, in planning a com plete reorganization of its railroad sys tem, is gathering data from various au thorities in the United States. The Rail road Commission received a letter today from T. T. Tsur, Madison, Wis., who is collecting material for the Chinese, re questing that two copies of the railroad laws of this slate be sent to Peking. China.