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About The Lane County news. (Springfield, Lane County, Or.) 1914-1916 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1915)
UK HE IS TAKEN EAST .tContlnucdfrom Paro 1 tral Pacific-Southern Pacific dta soluttoiv suit, voiced his oulnlon of' the -government's atUtutlo to ward railroads. He said: , "TIiq government is a great . I . A. Ujg man wieiumg a great, uijj stick and the stick Is growing logger and is being used oftencr. "The Interstate Commerce commission is one man choking iinother- man to death.. '''Government management of enterprises is a failure." The ideal condition for the railroads, he asserted, would be "a single private control of all railroads in the United States, not exposed to governmental regulation." These were answers given by Sir. Kruttschnitt to questions ;put by Edward F. McClennan, counsel for the government, in the course of six hburs of rapid fire cross examination. Yester day air. Kruttschnitt, giving di rect testimony, was on the stand five hours. .Underpressure the witness re fused to retract his charges made yesterday, in which he ac cused Atorney-General Wicker sham, of having forced the Southern Pacific company into a. tentative sale of the Central Pacific to the Union Pacific. "1 will admit, however," he said, "that in my heat and exas peration, I overstepped the mark -v?hen I said we were being rob "bed of the Central Pacific. This present suit and all of the un xnerger litigation is unnecessary and the separation of the two roads is so monstrous that I am exasperated when I even think of it The whole suit was con ceived as a good way of helping the- Union Pacific to unload a large block of stock. It seems to he the desire of the government! to rorce us to sell the Central Pacific. ' J "It was evident to me and to any man who followed the un merging attempts of the South ern and Central Pacific roads that the attorney general's (Wickersham) aim in forcing the sale of the Central Pacific wasuto help the, Union Pacific to dispose of its $126,000,000 of Southern Pacific stock." "Then -you believe that the government is behaving badly generally," asked McClennen. ' "I decline to answer. I wont commit lese majeste," was the reply. In the closing hours of the cross examination McClennen, if necfeftMry That Is fel lbVe, isn't it?" "No ; that Isn't real love. That Is softening of tho brain." -Chi cago Kc.cord-llerad.' ' SPRINGFIELD POWER TO LIGHT BROWNSVILLE Tho ordinance authorizing tho Mayor and City Recorder to en ter Into a five year's contract with the Oregon Power Com pany for lighting tho streets of Brownsville, vrns passed by the City Council Monday night, Uc- foro its passage, however, the emergency clause was-attached, which makes the ordmanco in force at once and shuts off any chance of referring the measure to tho voters of tho city under tho referendum. Tho section of the ordinance providing for penalities in case tho lights do not burn continu ally, which caused tho measure to be submitted to the city at tomey at the previous session, was amended. Under the provisions of the or dinance the Oregon Power Com pany shall have tho new lighting system installed and in operation by April 15, 1915. Brownsville Times. PERFECT SPELLING RECORD OF MANY ILL STUDY OF TIMBER PRODUCTS (Continued from Page 1.) han, Verdon May, Floyn Ny strom, Leander Korn, Vera Sen seney, Carmen Harwood, Mar garet Tomseth, Floyd Richard son, Lucian Fegles, Paul Brat tain. Eighth B grade Ester Tib betts,, Clarence Kester, Myrl Ar nold, Sylvia Pratt. Seventh A grade Fern Trav is. Jessie Coe. Seventh B grade Claude Ny strom, Thelma Crouch, Helen Stevenson. Sixth A grade Alice Rey nolds, Will Nickum, Clifford Fandrem. Sixth B grade Dick Nickum, Ora Chase, Borghtld Olson, Wil liam Wright, Sylvia Strubin, Al bert Russell, Carl Bauer, Goldie Walker, Madaline Tibbetts, Hel en Stevens,, Roscoe Perkins, Junanita Reed, Charles Peterson. Fifth A grade Mabel Al dridge, Mildred Miller. Fifth, B grade Phyllis Kester. Ralph Love, Raymond Coe," Genevieve Copcnhaver, Vernita Morrison. Fourth A grade Wilbur Hay den, Lillian Baker, Letha Goble, Alene I-arimer, Gladys Nystrom. Fourth B grade Blanche Thorpe, Crystal Bryan, Charles Kirk, Alfred Townsend, Ona Mulligan. Third B grade Bertha Fer- pressed Mr. Kruttschnitt for an guson, Inga Soleim. admission that at present mere js iiu i;uiiijt;uuuii ucin ecu iuc Central and Southern Pacific roads, and that keen strife for Jjusiness would ensue if the lines are unmerged. Witness and counsel matched wits for nearly alialf hour but the witness re fused to answer yes or no. "If th.e Union Pacific is given the Central Pacific," Mr; Krutt schnitt said, "the Union Pacific will exercise the most monumen tal control of transcontinental trajfic in the history of railroad ing'in Armerica." 'Mr: Kruttschnitt reiterated re peatedly that an unmerglng of the' two rbads would not affect transrcontlnental rates. "The railroads once had some thing to say about rate-making ljut they no longer have any lib erty left them. The control of the Interstate, and the state commerce commission has be come absolute. Our only way of getting business now is showing a sweet temper to the public," he said. . i-'Did you ever know of any other way," asked McClennen. , "I have heard of other ways," -was the reply. Mr. Kruttschnitt, in his morn ing testimony, told the govern ment's counsel that the idea of railroads of what constituted Competition had changed radi cally with the decision of the United. States supreme court in tho Union Pacific unmerger in 1913. "The supreme court wouldn't adopt our views, so we adopted .theirs," he said. It was during bis early testi mony that he characterized the government as unsuccessful as ail entrepreneur, and said that a Single control of all roads, unex posed tpt government regulation, would save millions to the coun try at large. Defining the Disease. , "I've cared for several per sons," she exclaimed, "but I never loved anyone so that I would have been willing to give vi) ;ny homo and work for him 4 , News From Springfield Higli, School, j i . ' . The Oregon Trail composed 1 glrla and boys lied nmdo up their 01 Illgll 8CI1001 gtris was prgnU- ,llun,H i win uuu mu ruuiuro in ked by Miss Goldsmith of tho I S8,d.?lmt ,muBt d? Ut wJtl . . . mint imtornilnutlnn iind onnolir- U. or O. last week. Tho organl- agcmunt tho victory wuh gained, station stands for health and) Through the notion of tho good times. It ia divided Into i Student Body Monday, ' tho various circles, namely: Indoor bosoball, out door basket' ball, walking, hill climbing, and folk dancing. Tho following officers were elected: Cnmp leader, Mls3 Rhodes; Keopor-of-tho-coln, Kate Lansberry; Pathfind ers, Miss Walling, Miss Nowton and Mao Lyon. Tho high school basket ball Springfield high school is now a mcmbor of tho Oregon High School Atholctle Association. Grace Emory ami Maud Moore entored school last week and will graduate with tho-class of '15. Miss Vcnm Tagg of tho Ore gon Agricultural College Is, vis ltlug the Commercial depart teams wero very successful at j meat of tho high school today, Pleasant Hill Friday even uk. (Monday.) Tho boys won by a score of 19, Tho high school Is tho ownor to IS and tho girls by a score of of throe now dictionaries of 11 to S. Quito a number of root- which It was greatly In need. ers joined In with tho teams to Mr. lurk's division of the Llt- brlng honor to tho school. Both crnry society will meet this games wero characterized by a ' ovcnlng to pjalco preparation for hard fight on both sides. Our the noxt literary program. highest valuo the figures shquld be complete. Thero are nearly four thousand firms In Wash ington and Oregon utilizing for est products, directly or indirect ly, in connection with their In dustries. Hence, thero will' bo a large volume of correspond ence to handle, and much work to be done in classifying and summarizing the individual schedules that will go to make up the completed report. It is hoped that tho results will bo available for general use some time next fall. Portland, March 9. The Dis trict Forester at Portland, Ore gon, has just Inaugurated an ex haustive study of the production and consumption of forest pro ducts in Oregon and Washing ton. , Specially prepared schedules are being mailed to all producers of and dealers in lumber, shing les, piles, poles, ties, pulp, fuel wood, boxes, baskets, trunks and other similar wooden pro ducts, with a view to determin ing the quality and value of these products made and used annually In these two states. The last similar survey of the wood-using industries of this re gion was made five years ago. It is believed that since then surprising changes have taken place in the various industries. Old plants have been enlarged, new plants have been built, and many entirely new industries have sprung up, Because these facts have not been generally known, It has frequently hap pened that eastern products have been purchased or speci fied In contracts; whereas the purchaser could have 'obtained the product locally. The general assembling and publishing, v by the Government, of Information along these lines tends to pro mote the use of home products. Furthermore, it is felt that those Interested in developing the re sources of the region will find the statistics resulting from this study of.great valuo. It is expected that the Forest Service will receiye the co-oper ation aim. support or an nrm called upon to furnish, reports in connection with this study, for it Is obvious that to be of the Salem, Mar. 15. State has ordered GOO bushels seed to es tablish flax industry at State Prison. LaGrande Mar. 5. Made-in- Unlon County banquet attended by 500. East side, Portland, Masonic lodges will erect temple. Baker County placer mining resuming earlier than usual, Marshfield black sand tests $3 a ton in gold and 32 cents plnt- num. Portland good roads boosters would initiate $1,000,000 bond ssue. Astoria Mar. 1G, excursions meet steamer Great Northern at Flavel. Portland J. H. Henry will erect $30,000 residence on Cor nell road. ,, O. W. R. & N. Co. will spend $700,000 on tracks and viaducts at Portland. Crown Point, 22 miles from Portland on Columbia highway to have $10,000 Chalet inn. Stayton John Thoma has built a $1800 bungalow. Albina public market, Port land, to be enlarged. Jennie Strong and Mrs. R. L. Hart conducting sawmill at Peoria. Contracts for expending $600,000 on Teal irrigation tracts in Umatilla county have been let to Porter Bros. ,j Grinding silica at Terrobonjic Is a new Industry, Legislature evidently thought Oregon needs more roads and less scenic highways. On Portland city contracts Osweco Iron Works get S12S.r 115 cast iron ptpo and Smith & Watson $2750 for fittings. Rains and snow enauro good crops for contrni Oregon. Organized labor has establish ed a national union-labor man order house. Ship building plants on the coast arc rushed with orders for new vessels. Fox sawmill at Noli has sumed operations. Frank Schmltt planing mill will orect largo now plant at Portland. Thlrty-slx lawyers want new office of public defender created at Portland and other cities are to follow suit. re- W.C. T. U. COLUMN. In The Stato Legislatures Tho stato lawmakers are do ing themselves proud this year. in quick succession the legisla tures are taking up the questions of prohibition nnd woman suf frage. Arkansas, by a big ma jority, passed a statutory law, making Itself the sixteenth state to, outlaw the liquor -traffic. Under the Going law tills state has enjoyed temporary dry per iods; after January 1, 1D1G, its saloons will bo -banished under the Going law. The men and women of Idaho will vote upon the question of state-wide prohibition in Novem ber, 1916. Only one voteJn the legislature was cast against sub mission this by a member who slipped into his seat by a major ity of one. Inasmuch as all threo political parties are pledged to support the 'amendment, easy 'victory Is conceded, even by the Iwets. State-wide prohibition Is pending In many other state leg islatures, and tho signs are por tentous for the "trade." The legislatures of New York, West Virginia and Arkansas have all voted to submit a wo man suffrage amendment. Mas sachusetts and Tenesseo have done the same, but these two states require Ha passage by a second legislature. 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