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About The evening news. (Roseburg, Douglas County, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1910)
THE WEATHER LOCAL FORECAST Rain Tonight and Saturday Warmer ADVERTISERS Will flmlTlio Kvonluv Newi tho bi't imslliiiit to ri'uoli the IH'oiiloof Itoftohurir, A whlo-a-wnkn iiulilU'itt ion print! nff I) the non 1 lintM fit tu print VOL. I ROSEBURG, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1910. NO. 5(5: tho police arrived nnd arretted the bandit. Bandits Attempt to Hold up Railway Station. MEET WITH RESISTANCE Fierce Iltind to Hand Fight Follows OiM'rutor, Though Mortally Wounded, Captures One of tho Highwaymen. , (Special to' The Evening News.) ' Yuailantl, Jlich., Jan. 7. Two young desperadoes attempted to break luto the railroad station in this city early today, and as a re sult of the battle which followed, i-ienry Erner, the bapgage master, was killed, and the telegraph opoin tor, Morgan Emmett, was futally 'wounded. The bandits started a reign of terror In the vicinity of the depot, holding up people, breaking into stores and generally terrorizing the people on the streets. The two men had things all their own way and met with no resistance from any source until they reached the depot ana attempted to foice their way into the offices. At this point in the game they were met by Erner nr.d Emmett, both of whom were armed with revolvers, and a desperate fight began. Many shots were exchanged with the terrorists, and the affair became a hand to hand fight, in which Erner was shot to death by one of the highwaymen, who then fld, unhurt. Emmett. though mor tally wounded by the other high wayman, had grappled with the man ar.d plucklly held on to him until ISLAND RACKED WITH EARTHQUAKE (Special to The Evening News) Mobile, Ala., Jan. 7. Word has reached this city that terrible earth quake shock has been experienced In the island of Swan, 900 miles from here. The island is situated in tiie Carribean sea, and the news of the tcmbler was brought by Cap tain Olsen. of tho steamer CoMnto Tho Corinto waa in the. Carribean sea on January 1, nt which time the earthquake was felt, and the cap tain and crew of the vesssW witness ed the effx'Cts of the phenomena on the island. In speaking of the nat ter Captain Olson said that the wa ter along the shoYc of the island fairly boiled during the periods of the heaviest shocks, and for more then thirty minutes the island seem ed to fairly rock to and fro. In all five shocks were felt. i ST. LOUIS FIRE MAN LOSES LIFE (Special to The Evening News.) St. Louis, Jan. 7. Tho Cambridge hotel in this city was totally destroy; ed by fire nt an early hour this morning. The flames swept through the corridois so rnnidly that It was with tho greatest difficulty that the sec res of guests escape i from the doomed structure. In the heroic efforts to save the people In the ho tel one fireman was killed and sev eral others were seilously injured. Mr. S. M. Walker has sold his ho tel at Dlllard'to a cenet arrival In this section from the east. A Taft's Suggestions as to Ways of Controlling. INTERSTATE COMMERCE I'rVsidcnt Recommends Establish , iiient of a Court of Commerce to be Composed of Five Judges Salary of 1)110,000. (Special to The Evening News. ; Washington, Jan. 7. On tho sub ject of interstate commerce In a aper iai message sunt to Congress today.. President Taft, after calling atten tion to tho fact that a large number of orders issued by the Interstate commerce commission have been ap pealed from, says: It would not be proper to attempt to deprive any cor poration of the right of review by a court of any order or decree which, if undisturbed, would rob It of a rea sonable return on its investment or would Biibject it to burdens that un justly discriminate against It nnd in favor of other carriers similarly sit uated. What Is of supremo Import ance Is that Lne decision of such a question will be as speedy as the na ture of tho circumstances will admit, and that a conformity of decision can be assured so as to bring about an effective, systematic, scientific en forcement of Hie commerce law rath er than conflicting decisions and un certainty of final result. For this purpose I recommend the establish ment of a court of the United States to be comprised of five judges, de signated for such purpose from Clearance Sale OF Men's Suits and Overcoats All $27.50 Suits and Overcoats $20.65 All $25.00 Suits and Overcoats $18.75 All $22.50 Suits and Overcoats $16.90 All $20.00 Suits and Overcoats $15.00 All $18.00 Suits andOvercoats $13.50 All $15.00 uits and Overcoats $11.25 All $12.00 Suits and Overcoats $9.00 All $10.00 Suits and Overcoats $7.50 Everything Included in this Sale Except $25.00 Plain Black and Blues. Early Buyers Get First PickDon't: Delay. Since 1877 We've Been Treating People Square. among the circuit judges of the Unit ed States, to be known as the United States court of commerce, which court shall be clother" with original and ex clusive Jurisdiction over the following clauses of cases: "First. All cases for enforcement, otherwise than by adjudication and for the collection of penalty or by the infliction of criminal punishment of any order of the Intestato commerce commission other than for tho pay ment of money. "Second. All cases brought to en join, set aside, annual, or suspend, and order or requirement of the iu tor3tate commerce commisElon. "Third. All such onsea as under section 3 of the act of February 19, 1903, known as the -Elklns act, are authorized to be balntained In a cir cuit court of tho United States. "Fourth. All such mandamus pro-, ceedings as, under tho provisions of; section 20 or section 2',i of the inter-; state commerce Imv, are authorized to I he maintained In tho circuit court of1 tho United States." The president recommends the ap pointment of five circuit judges from tho districts having the largest vol- umo'of business, and nlso would em power the chief justices to reassign judges to districts at times when the business of tho commerce court does not require their services, lie ro- commends the pnyment of such Judges while sitting in tho court of commerce of such an additional amount as to mako the total salary of each $10,000 annually. Keg 1 1 hi r Sessions for Court. The president recommend that regular annual sessions of t ho court he held In Washington, hut that the court bo empowered to meet any whore. Ho says that I he orders should be mode final, and subject, onlv to review by the supremo court of tho United States, with the provi sion that the operation of the decree appealed from shall rot be stayed except by the supreme court of the United States. He recommends giv ing the court power to uspend orders cf tho interstate cemmerce commis sion which sre urder review, pending a final hearing,'hut that no bucIi re- ; straining order he mrdo except on '. notice nnd after hearing, unless in a case where Irreparable damage will ! ensue to the petitioner. He would ; allow i.ho judge of the coi.rt to grant a GO days stay of the commission's order, pending submission to the I court, but only on hearing, and upon j finding on evidence that irreparable j damage would ensue to the petitioner, j providing that this damage must be specified. Condemns Individual Action. Tho president condemns the bring ing of cases by attorneys acting for the Interstate commerce commission and racommends that all prosecutions be brought by the department of Jub I tice. x -"'In view of the complete control j over rate making and other practices i of tho Interstate carriers, estabMshed by acts of congress, and as recom mended by this communication." the president says, "I see no reason why agreements between carriers subject to this act, specifying clasHlf Icat lens of freight, and the rates, fares, and charges for transportation 6r passen gers and freight, which they may agree to establish may not be permit ted provided copies of ouch agree ments be promptly filed with the com- mission but subject to all provisions of the interstate commerce act, and, subject to the rights of any of the parties to such an agreement to can eel It, as to any and all of the agreed rates by notice in writing to tho jth- er parties and to the commission. Itnilronds Must Quote Kate. He suggests that the rallronds he required to quote rates in writing o i the application of any shipper, with a fine of $250 for any misquoting He recommends tho empowering of the Interstate commerce commission to Inquire into the reasonableness of rates, and adds: "The enormous volume of trans portation charges, nnd the great num ber of separate tariffs filed annually with tho interstate commorco com mission, amounting to almost 200, 000, and the impossibility of any commission supervising thorn mak ing or tariffs in advance of their be coming effectlvo on every transpor tation line within the United States, 1 to the extent that woiildbo neces sary If their active concurrence were required In the making of every ta riff, has satisfied me that this power. If granted, should be conferred in a very restricted form." postpone frun-nse of Hates. It Is recommended that the Inter state , commerce commission be em powered to postpone tho operation of any projiosed Increase of rates, either upon Its own Initiative or on the com plaint of an outsider, for a period not exceeding sixty days, if the com mission finds the Increase unreason able. It may forbid tho Increase or fix a maximum beyond which the road may not go. If the commission has not completed the Investigation when the new rate becomes effective, the Investigation nay be ccntlnunl as un der the present law. Shipper Can Clioow limit-. The message recommends definite ly that shippers bo given the rlrht to (elect routes over which their ship ments are to he handled. It Is pro posed that after passage of the aug-i gested bill, no railroad shall be per-! mltted to acquire any Interest of an'i kind, directly or Indirectly, In the! capital stock or purchase or lease any railroad, or any other corporation! which competes with It, with the prrt- vIbo that the law shall not operate to I prevent any corporation, whlrh, at the date of the passage of the act, owm half of the entire stock of a com pany, from securing the rest of It nor prohibit any railroad company Secretary Ballinger and Presi ' dent ,Taft Closeted PINCHOT LETTER CAUSE 'Shall the Presidential Axe Chop Off Ofi'iYiul Head of (iiflonl Pin ehot?" Is the Qm'sllmi Now lleing Discussed (Special to Tho Evening News.) Washington, Jan. 7. Secretary of the Interior Hallinger Is closeted with President Taft today. Other conferences have been held at which meetings tho participants are sup posed to have dlscusbcd the ques tion, "Shall tho prosfdenti.il nxo chop off tho official head of Glfford Ptn cho, chief forester of tho United States?" Many are Inclined to be lieve that the reading in the senate by Senator Dnlliver the letter that wes wrlttn lijPPInrhot In which the chief forester defended his subordi nates for the nld they gavo U It. Glr.vls in pressing the cases in Wiltch the charges wore brought against Secretary Ballinger, must eventually mean Plnchot's dismissal. A special meeting, of the cabinet was called this afternoon for furth er consideration of tho so-called Pnl-linger-Pinchot controversy, whieh has suddenly become tho all-absorbing question hero today. Tho matter was thoroughly discussed at the reg ular meeting of the cabinet this aft nrnoon and Secretary Ballinger was recalled lo the White House by tel ephone to further delve Into tho nf fair. The House also adopted a special ruling allowing immediate consider ation of the resolution ratling for the Investigation of tho Hnlllnger-Pln-chot controversy. Representative KIrzgorald opposed the resolution, declaring that Its object was to al low President Tnft. to get on the "hand wagon." Fitzgerald declared that Taft had sit on the lid as long is he dared and demanded that the Investigation bo narrowed to Secre tary Hallinger alone and proposed that that portion which brings the forest service Into the scope of In vestigation be stricken out. Washington, Jan. 7. The roadlng In tho Senate today of tho letter from G'lford Plnchot, chief forester, to Seralor Uomver. of tho aenato com mittee on agriculture, in which a di rect slap at President Tatt takes the form of a positive indorsement of U It. Glavls and an Intimation .that the president did not knew what ho was doing when he ordered tho re moval of thespecial agent, put a new fnce on fhe Balllnger-Pinchor contra- versy. It was followed by a hurried meeting of the cabinet,, and It is said In Washington tonight that 'some action as to Mr. Plnchot's course Is not unexpected." Early Itemoval Kxpeeted. This s taken to mean that the president will remove Pluchot at an early date. The president Issued eome time ago an order that no sub ordinate in any government depart ment should disclofto nny Informa tion to congress except through the head of his department The letter of Plnchot addressed to Dot liver clearly Is a violation of this order. It !s said that the president lira felt for some time that Pir.chot lias been "d( Tying tho lightning" The mcmhera of the cabinet who attended the session today were Sec retary Knox, Secretary MacVough, attorney General Wlrkprshnm and Secretary Wilson, tho last named tho secretary over whoso head Plnchot went when he addressed his commu nication to the chairman of t o com mittee cf agriculture r.f ! senate.' It was said that Plnchot's conduct was discussed f reel v. although nono of those who participate! would tell what went on at th.t e .inference. MONOPLANE AS CENDS 3300 FEE? Mourmelon, France, Jan. 7. La tham, the French aviator, today es tablished a new height record In hia monoplane when he soared 31100 feet above the earth, carrying with htm his barometer and the feat Is unquestioned. WHAT IS Till? CHEAPEST PHOTO 1HAHK? Til K HEHT. The same applies to. en larging, copying, framo mak ing, kodak finishing. Clark's Studio for the best. Roseburg National Bank building. t Dressmaking; And. Hand Embroidery Work On next Monday, Jan. 1 0, I will open a dressmaking pailor at the residence, 1 44 S. Jackson St. Am recently from the East and am thoroughly schooled in the dressmaking art. Will also accept hand embroidery work. Miss Camilla Ollson California Seedless RAISINS Alton S. Frey, the Grocer, is giving the public the advantage of a cut price on SEEDLESS RAISINS for THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY ONLY. 6 Pounds for 50c 14 Pounds for $1.00 Limited Stock Come Early and Secure the Goods. (Continued on page three.)