LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1912.
DECISTRATION
CONVENIENT
HOOKS TO II K TAKKJi BOtt.N TOM'S
THIS KVfM. '..
etfoutj- Olrrk Kd Wrlghl- Will Afcwi
module Busy Tuxpnyers.
republicans, says the Baker Herald.
Judge Clifford's friends have request
ed hlin to run and when asked by a
Herald man today he said that he ex
pected to file his nomination papers
soon. He served continuously for 14
years on the circuit bench, which In
the earlier years Included Baker
county, and for four years was us
trlct attorney in the district Including
this county. He will run on the rec
ord made on the bench In the past, he
snys. . . .
RATE HEARING
T
Taxpayers will he given an oppor
, tfmnlty tonight to register for the pri
sma ry and general elections without
rvjoing to the court hous-3 to do so.
'County Clork Kd Wright will bring
the registration books down town this
- evening and from 7 1 ii'ittl 9 o'clock
will afford opportit'i.'iy for all qubll
lled voters to reglt.t?r at the J. R. Oli
ver offices in the la Grande Natlon.il
l;ank building. Eviey voter - must
TeglFtcr. Because voters wero regis
tered prior to other elections does not
excuse them now, it must be done over
. again.' IlcgislraU n before the pri
maries is sufficient to cover the gen
eral election, however. '-.'
County Clerk .Wright Iihs gone to
the trouble .i .bringing Iho books
iown town bec-ni3.i. ho realizes that
many people are uinble to get I) the
court house in the day time and ex
pe?'t8 that the voters will ta"ke advant
age of It. Hownv.ir, there are scores
who have not giveii tho registration,
matter a second thought and bofore
inns It wl'l be too lata , ',
v-STHKKT FORCE' JS KXLAKGEW.' '
1'ive I'liiccd Under Street Suiicrliitcii
dent to Til) Off Flues. I
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'One group of four and one of one
were consigned to. the street depart
ment thlB morning as punishment for
offenses- committed last night. A
group of four boys, Joe Brill, Lester
athodes, B. Rhodes and Roy Dunn wore
rftued $5.00 each raising disturbance
Vn a Depot stroot pool room l'a?t. night
:.nnd it Is probable thallhoy will work
two and a half days on the streets us
tthcy did not produce tho flno money
Yhls morning. Joe Brown was lined
-10 for being drunk and disorderly.
' ;
'Clifford Out for County Judge, j
Judge Morton D. Clifford is expect-(
eil lo enter the race for the nomlna
rtlon for circuit Judge at the demo-
Tatlc pramurles, making three nsplr
' .ants for the democratic favor and no
pi m
DEI.AYED.TRAIX WILL BKIXfi THE
FLAYERS TO CIT.
Interesting flame Bound to Kiimic To
night When Rivals ( lush.
J.VfERSTATE CO.WA1ISSI0XER HAS
'.'-. TAKES EV1DEXCE.
.Ilaii) .Salient Points in Rate Issue
Set Out by Baker,
Baker's quintet of basketball tos
sers will reach La Grande late this
nfternoon to participate in the first
basketball ' game between these two
Sfhools In uiany years. The delayed
Xol7 will bring them here about 4:30
this afternoon and this will afford
ample time for the players to get
rested before the crucial test this eve
ning at 8 o'clock at the high school
gym. Early attendance will bo nocos
sary as the audience will be large, if
Interest buzzing' aroundthe outside
Ik a good criterion. 4 ,.-.,',
KILLED BY STARVED CATS.
Insane Daughter Guard Dead r'uth
cr's Body.
New York, Feb. 1. Guarded by his
maniac daughter who had stuffed his
mouth. lull of. bread crumbs aua sur
rounded by a dozen half starved cats,
tho body of Henry Bonsneld, aged 70
and Worth thousands, was found to
day in his Brooklyn home. Detectives
were forced to use violence to subdue
the insane daughter before they se
cured the corpse. Cuts killed the
inn n.
William A. Brady Is to produce a
play by Bayard Velller, called "The
Miracle." Hi this piny Grace George
will have the role of a feminine crook
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' (Wednesday's Baker Herald.)
The Baker Commercial' club, repre
sented by F. H. McCune and the In
terstate commerce commission met
this morning in the council chamber
of the city hall and argued the case
of rates affecting the local shippers
to ' points east of Huntington and
north of Welser. The examiner of
the commission was F. I. , Vasault
and the reporter, J. C. Lowe. The
O.-W. R. & N. and O. S. L.. railroads
were represented by attorneys Sclen
drett . and Lyle, General Freight
agents Skinner and Reeves'' were
also there in the interests of the
roads. . , - , ,;
The commission simply took the
evidence and It will probably be sev
eral months before they make a de
cision. ,' ',
The commission took the oral testi
mony of Messrs, D. W. French land
J. W. Stuchall. These men , are the
miinngers of the firms most interested
in the decision of the commission.
The case is No. 4156 . brought . In
June, 1011, by the Baker Commercial
club against the O. W. R. & N. com
apny, the 0. S. L. R. R. and the P & 1.
N. Ry., in complaint against making
the through rates' from Baker to
points east of Huntington and ,north
of . Welser the combination of the lo
cal rates to and from these points.
The prayer is for a reasonable sched
ule of rates based on continuous mile
age. Examples were shown In the evi
dence wdiere other rates were made on
Huntington and west of HunUngton
this basis both from points east of
' eastward.
A serious complaint was made
against the high local rates Jn use by
jail the lines parties to the suit.
I The rates now In use by the rail
! roads were compared with the pre
vailing wagon haul rates. Typical of
I this comparison was a haul of 105
i mile3 in Oregon for wool for which
the', teamsters' rate was 88 cents per
100 ponds, the first class rate on the
,0.-W. R. & N. for this distance is 86
' cents, the combined rate of the O.-W.
IR. & N. company nnd the O. S. L. is
$1.00. and the combined rate for the
threo roads for the snme distance is
From this 'illustration It was
shown that the rail rates are consid
erably higher than the wagon haul
'rates.-' V' ..
Then in Indicate' the difference in
I the capacity of a horse compared
with a railroad it was shown that one
horse would require $3.32 per day to
maintain nnd It could haul on a dirt
road 25,000 pounds' one mile in ten
hours,;' the first steam locomotive
could haul 8,610.000 pounds, one mile
in ten hours, the modem locomotlev
can haul S50.OOO.OOO pounds one mile
in ten hours, or equal to 34,000 horses.
The cost to haul by horses would be
about $112,000, while the cost by rail
. . . i.. iftin.n A. ..1 Mm vail
I would ue ouiy $-uu. "'
rates are higher man uy wagon nam
today.
A grevious complaint was made
against the present classification of
freight where the less than carload
shipment of 100 pounds was given a
fourth class rating and a shipment
in a car of 36.000 pounds was given
a fifth class rating, the difference be
tween these rates for a haul of 3G0
miles whs only 10 cents the hundred
whereas It was shown that the dif
ference in the cost to produce the lesa
carload shipment was on an average
of about 7 to 1, or where It would cost
for the less carload it would cost
only $1 for the carload.
It was thus shown to 'bo unecono
mlcal to Job freight long distances as
a waste of transportation. It was
shown that the first class rate from
Bolsa to Welser, a distance of 79
miles, was 38 cents per 100 pounds
and from Bakor to Welser, a distance
of 71 miles, It was 65 cents, or nearly
double.
Graphic Illustrations were given
how the ton mile cost differed be'-
tweon different commodities because'
of the difference In the terminal ex
pense and in the loading ot the cars.
load shipments move In average car
lots of 4.5 tons which compared with
a carload of .100,000 pounds, many of
such cars being In. use, that it would
require 10 cars to , move the same
amount of 1. c. 1. business as one car
load. In this connection It was shown
that the clerical expense was no more
for the 100,000 carload shipment thanj
for a 100 pound I: e. 1. shipment. That
while the clerical cost for the carload
would be only 20 cents, the 1. c. 1. cost
would be 1.00. Other 'Items of ex
pense were' shown to,' -be on varying
ratios greater for the 1. c. 1. than car
loads and the variation! ' between the
different weights of the carload as re
lated to each other .was Illustrated
which effectually disposes of the con
tention of the railroads' that the ton
measure for computing rates as be
tween commodities. ' . , .' . . '
Cost figures' were shown to the ef
fect that it does not cost any more to
operate railroads. In Oregon than In
Illinois and that the tonnage Is practi
cally as heavy, but the. freight, rates
are more than double for the same
length of haul In Oregon as for Illi
nois. '
It was shown that the O. S. L. paid
since 1906 dividends to the amount of
$72,5666,875 on a capital stock of $27,
460,100, and during the same period
the O.-W. R. N. company paid $38v
228,006 on a capital stock of $35,000,
000, both roads paying dividends In
excess of their capitalization. . ..
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MUSIC BATHS.
Holmes Says They Are to the Soul ao
. ' Water Is to the Body.'. ''
One must be educated no doubt to
understand the more complex and dlffl.
cult kinds of musical composition. Go
to the concerts where you know that
the music Is good nnd that you ought
to like it, whether you do of not.
Take a music bath once or twice a
week for a few seasons nnd you will
find that It is to the soul what the wa
ter lvUh is to the body.v I wouldn't
trouble myself about the affectations
of people who go to this or that series
of concerts chiefly becnuao It is fash
ionable.
Some of these people whom we tumic
so silly will perhaps 11 ml sooner or
later that they have a dormant facul
ty which is ut last waking up and
that they who - came becnuso others
fame nnd began by staring at the nu
dlcnce are listening with a newly
found delight.
Every one of ns has a harp under
the bodice or waistcoat, nnd if It can
only once got properly strung ana
tuned It will respond ,to nil outsiue
harmonies Oliver Wendell Holmes la
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