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THE MORNING OBEGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1901
THE FRENCH FLEET
Tenth Cargo Clears Under
the New Flag.
EFFECTS OF SHIPPING SUBSIDY
Captain Spencer "Will Balltl a. Bis
Ton-boat "With. Machinery From
the Wrecked Frederick: Bill-
Insa-rThe Lake Commerce.
The Portland Grain Company cleared
another cargo lit wheat yesterday In the
French bark La Rochefoucauld, making
the third cargo for this firm since Feb
ruary 1. The La Rochefoucauld goes to
Aueenstown or Falmouth for orders, and
carries 111.760 bushels of wheat valued at
164,200. ami Is the 10th French vessel to
leave Portland with wheat since the open
ing of the present grain season, July 1.
While of comparatively small net regis
tered tonnage, these vessels all carried
good-sized cargoes, the total for the fleet
amounting to over 1,000,000 bushels of
wheat, while one of them, the Alice, which
went to South Africa, took a mixed car
go, included In which was a lot of lum
ber and canned goods. The names of the
10 French vessels and the amount of car
go carried by each was as follows:
Name Buchels.
Europe 133,437
Amiral Courbet 114,412
Bossuet U3.C53
LaFontaine 112,182
LaRouchefoucauld 111,760
aiarechal Villiers 111,725
C'assard 107.C95
Louis Pastuer 93,003
General Mllllnet 92,329
Alice 62.769
Total 1.052,067
AH of these vessels, with the exception
of the Caseard, came out to Portland in
ballast, and the French Government paid
their owners a bonus of something like
$12,500 each for the round trip, making a
total of $125,000. or something like 12 cents
per bushel for the cargo carried by them.
This fleet supplies an excellent example
of the benefits of a shipping subsidy, and
undoubtedly the French . taxpayers are
leased beyond measure at the opportunity
afforded them to contribute something to
ward freighting the Oregon wheatgrowers'
product to market. Unfortunately, how
ever, as would be the case with the Amer
ican subsidy scheme, the producer would
reap none f the profits, for rates would
remain just the same as before the sub
sidy was levied that Is, they would be
Governed entirely by the law of supply
and demand.
GREAT LAKES COMMERCE.
Bniinett for 1000 Wa the Greatest
on Record. ,
"WASHINGTON, Feb, 12. The commerce
of the Great Lakes in the navigation sea
eon, 1909. has exceeded that of any pre
ceding year. The report of the Treasury
Bureau of Statistics covering the busi
ness of the principal ports, combined with
the reports of the officer In charge of the
Eault Ste. Marie Canal, for the year end
ing December 31, 1900, and comparing those
figures with those of preceding years,
fully justifies this assertion. The work
of the Bureau of Statistics during the
season 1900 was the first attempt to class
ify and study the movements In the great
articles from port to port upon the Great
Lakes, and, while It was not found prac
ticable In this experimental year to In
clude In this work some of the minor
ports, or to obtain data in all cases for
the opening month of the season, the
figures may be accepted as presenting a
fairly accurate view of the port-to-port
commerce of the articles and classes of
articles which form the bulk of the traffic
on this great internal waterway.
According- to the figures secured by the
Bureau of Statistics, there were received
hy vessels at the 37 principal ports on the
Great Lakes, between April 1, 1900. and th0
close of the year, a total of 1,266,234 tons
of flour; 52,834,256 bushels of wheat, 70,
S05.S01 bushels of corn, 33,290,767 bushels
of oats. 11.526.501 bushels of barley, and
1.840.S62 bushels of rye. These figures re
late purely to the movements between
"United States ports, and do not, there
fore include the shipments to or from
ports on the Canadian side of the canals
or through the "SVelland Canal. The great
hulk of the grain traffic originated at
Chioago and Duluth, and had Buffalo as
Its point of destination. So far as can
be Judged from the discrepancy between
the figures representative of shipments
and receipts, respectively, after making
allowance for the grain in storage on ves
sels both at the beginning and close of
the season, and their shipments from
small ports not Included in the season's
compilation, the movement of grain via
the Canadian water routes did not reach
the proportion which had been predicted
for It.
The receipts of Iron ore by water at the
ports embrace In the bureau's compila
tion a total of 16,268.027 tons, and this may
he accepted as about 85 per cent of the
entire movement of iron ore both by
rail and water. All the principal ore-receiving
and shipping ports are covered by
the bureau statement. Of the 16.26S.027
tons handled. 15.S43.6S1 tons are shown to
liavo been shipped from the six ports of
Two Harbors, Duluth, Escanaba, Ashland,
Marquette and "West Superior, and 13,623,
609 tons were received at the six ports of
Ashtabula. Cleveland. Conneaut, South
Chicago. Buffalo and Erie a remarkable
exampliflcation of the extent to which the
Iron ore traffic is concentrated.
Many different classes of commodities,
such as provisions, dry goods and hard
ware are reported under the general head
of unclassified freight. This movement at
the principal lake ports during the past
year reached the aggregate of 3.471.131
tons. In this traffic the City of Chicago
led, with 842,221 tons. The receipts at
other ports were: Buffalo. 66S.S31 tons;
Cleveland, 275.673 tons; Detroit, 234 4S2
tons, and Milwaukee, 323.124 tons.
In view of the effort belne made by the
owners of the lumber carrying vessels on
the Great Lakes to effect a combination
with the purpose of maintaining rates. It
Is perhaps interesting, as Illustrating 'the
scope of this branch of lnand commerce,
to note that lumber shipments were made
during the season from 32 of the 37 ports,
the commerce of which the Bureau of Stal
tlstlcs kept a record, receipts being re
corded at an equal number of ports. The
total receipts aggregated 2,122,403 thousand
feet.
THE BILLIXGS' SUCCESSOR.
Captain Spencer Will Build a Power
ful River TovTDont.
Captain E. W. Spencer, of this city,
who has been more successful with steam
boat property than any man that ever
operated on the Columbia and Willamette
Rivers, has already started work on his
latest purchase, and will soon have the
famous Frederick Billings in the role of
a dividend payer. His purchase of the
wreck of that vessel has put him in pos.
session of about $25,000 worth of first-class
machinery, most of it as good as new, and
he will Immediately place It in a hull
built for the purpose of towing Jogs. When
completed, the new craft will be the most
powerful and best-equipped towboat on
the river. The Immense electric search
lights operated by dynamos specially con
structed for the Billings, will be placed
on the new boat, so that she can handle
rafts at night, as well as In the day.
Soon after the steamer was wrecked she
was stripped of all of the small equip
ment -that could be taken from her, and
a -there was no barge on the upper river.
the heavy machinery has remained aboard
until the present time.
To get the big engines and boiler out
of her. Captain Spencer will build a
barge on the Oregon shore, opposite where
the wreck is lying, and will use It for
moving everything of value from the
wreck. She has about 40 cords of wood
aboard, and this Is worth $4 per cord on
the bank near where she lies. The hull
for the new boat, which will carry the
Blllngs' machinery, will be about 150 feet
long and 30 feet beam, and the craft,
while specially adapted for towing logs,
will be able to tow ships up and down
the river at a much faster gait than the
ordinary towboats In use for that pur
pose. She will be ready for operation
early In th"e Spring.
THE NEWFOUNDLAND WRECK.
Steamer Recently Lot May Be the
Lncerne.
ST. JOHNS, N. F.. Feb. 12. It Is now
feared that the steamer wrecked near
Backalleu, asmall ls'and northeast of the
Avalon Peninsula, on the southeast coast
of Newfoundland, Is the British steamer
Lucerne, Captain Reld, which sailed from
Ardrossan, January 24, for St. Johns, N.
F. coal laden. Beside their own crew of
25 men, the Lucerne had on board seven
members of the crew of the British brig
Emulator, of St. Johns, recently aban
doned In mid-ocean, and two passengers.
The community is still speculating as to
the identity of the steamer, and a com
petent man has been sent to view the
wreck. He can decide whether It belongs
to the Lucerne. If it does, it must be
that she was a total loss. If the wreck
age Is not from the Lucerne, the vessel
was probably a tramp bound for some
American port. There is no hope that any
one was saved, as the weather has been
frightfully stormy for the last fortnight.
Different points along the coast report
that wreckage Is coming ashore.
THE OVERDUE FLEET.
Ninety Per Cent Paid on Four Port-land-Bonnd
Ships.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12. Of the fleet
of overdue vessels, the Bertha Is now out
111 days from Wei-Hal-Wei for Portland;
the Otto Glldermelster, S9 days from Yo
kohama for Portland: the Cape Wrath,
102 days from Callao for Portland, and the
Andrada, 92 days from Santa Rosalia for
Portland.
On all these vessels the underwriters
are paying 90 per cent to reinsure their
chances, but the gamblers will not touch
any of the fleet. On the Ardnamurchan,
71 days from Fraser River, for Liverpool,
70 per cent is being paid, and on the
Ilala, 92 days out from Montevideo for
British Columbia, 45 per cent.
The schooner Vine, which was almost
given up as lost, has arrived at Mollendo,
Peru, after a very long run of 125 days
from Fort Bragg.
American Ship Bnrned.
SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 12. Advices
from Manila, dated January 5, says: The
American ship Sea Witch was set fire In
the harbor on Thursday night, presum
ably by some members of the crew, 10 of
whom are now under arrest. Launches
from the cruiser Brooklyn and the trans
ports Rosecrans and Meade towed the
burning vessel into 21 fathoms of water
on the west side of the Pasig's mouth,
where she was pumped full of water.
The Sea Witch was built at Boston In
1SS2, and Js now owned by Edward Law
rence. She is of 12S0 tons burden, 197 feet
in length, 37 feet beam and 24. feet depth
of hold. The dissatisfaction among the
crew was caused by five of them being
put In Irons for refusing to obey.
Defective Steam Pipes.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12. The acci
dent on board the stpnmshln Vfntnm
January 23, In which five men were killed
ana nve injured oy the bursting of a
steam pipe, has been Investigated by Cap
tains Bolles and Bulger, United States
Inspectors of vessels.
The chief engineer and his assistants
told about the breaking of the steam
pipe, which they ascribed to imperfect
construction on the nart of the hundpr.
There was 165 pounds of steam pressure
ai tne time or the fracture.
The Inspectors haw not vt i-niiriwi
their decision.
Steamship Ashore.
LONDON. Feb. 12. The British sfumpr
Spartan Prince, from New York. January
m ,ior rtapies, uenoa, etc. is reported
ashore at Ceuta opposite Gibraltar, at
the entrance to the Mpdltflrranpan Son
Assistance has been sent.
The Spartan Prince has had her engine
room penetrated on the starboard side by
her bumping on the shore, and her after
hold Is leaking.
Thirty-Foot Channel.
MONTREAL. Feb. 12. At th weklv
meeting of the harbor board a letter was
reaa irom won. j. l. Tarte, minister of
public works, saying that if he could obtain
the assent of the .government, he Intended
dredging the St Lawrence River chan
nel 30 feet deep and 450 feet wide within
the next two years.
Domestic and Foreign Ports.
ASTORIA, Feb. 12.-Salled at 7:30 A. M.
Steamer George W. Elder, for San Fran
cisco. Arrived, at 12:10 P. M Tup Sam.
son and barge, from San Francisco. Con
dition or the bar at 4 P. M., moderate;
wind, east; weather, cloudy.
San Francisco Sn II pfl nt nnnn Rloamor
Columbia, for Portland.
san Francisco Arrived Steamer Vic
toria, from Oyster Harbor; steamer Pro
greso. from Tacoma: sehnnnpr Anioinno
from Coqullle River. Sailed-Steamer Co-
lumDia, tor Astoria; schooner Laura Mad
sen. fOr GraV's Harbor lirhnnnar mma
Utter, for Coos Bay; schooner North Bend
for Willapa Harbor: schooner W. F. Jew-
en, ior urays .Harbor; ship Isaac Reed,
for Seattle.
Oyster Harbor Arrived. Fnhmnrv in
Ship John Currier, from Honolulu.
rort Townsend Arrived February 12
Ship W. H. Macy, from Honolulu; barken-
une KODert sudden, from Honolulu.
Port Blakeley Arrived February 11
Ship A. J. Fuller, from Kahului.
Port Townsend Arrived February 11
Ship Iroquois, from Honolulu, for Seattle.
Seattle Arrived, February 11 Steamer
Dolphin, from Alaska; steamer Senator,
from Dyea.
Umpqua Arrived February 9 Schooner
Lucy, from San Pedro,
Seattle Sailed February 12 British
steamer Almond Branch, for PortlanG.
Iqulque Sailed December 2S RHtuii hir.
Scottish Glens, for Oregon.
New lork Arrived Maria Thorosa
from. Naples. '
Seattle Arrived Februarv iiStonmor
Wllhelmina, from Manila.
New York Sailed Steamer Cvmrio fnr
Liverpool.
Gilliam County's Line.
The Columbia & Inland Railroad sur
vey, which commenced last week, had to
be discontinued owing to the "inclemency
of the weather. W. J. Mariner F. W.
Tobey. B. T. Snell and J. H. Downing
comprise the preliminary survey commit,
tee. Mr. Downing informed the Condon
Times that they had surveyed from Ar
lington to Rock Creek and from Blalock
to Rock Creek. He cnneMorc both routes
practicable, but favors that from Arling
ton as being the easier of the two.
Oatlet for San Diego.
SAN DIEGO. Cal., Feb. 12. Ex-Mayor
William H. Carlson, of this city, has re
signed the position of Government Com
missioner of Railroads in Cuba, and will
come to San Diego with sufficient back
ing to build a railroad from here to Yuma
according to a San Diegan who has Just
returned from the island, where he met
Mr. Carlson a number of times. This
stretch of railroad has been the hope
of San Diego citizens for years, and It
will give a direct transcontinental line.
Or. Sanford's Liver Invlcornton.
Th best Liver Medicine, a Vegetable Cure for
Liver Ills, Biliousness. Indigestion, Constipation.
LUNDEEN WENT FREE
JURY BELIEVED SHOOTING "WAS
ACCIDENTAL.
And This Closes a Hallo-ween Epi
sode That Might Have Been a
Tragedy Court Notes.
Charles Lundeen. the old man who shot
a boy, Andrew Matthews, on Halloween
evening, was, yesterday afternoon, acquit
ted of the charge of assault with a dan
gerous weapon. After being out for five
hours, the jury brought In a verdict In
his favor. The case was closed In the
morning, the attorneys for the state and
defense making their closing arguments.
Deputy District Attorney Manning, hav
ing made his opening argument the day
before, yesterday morning was given to
the attorney for the defendant, E. Men-
denhall. He based his case upon the evi
dence tending to support the theory that
the shooting was accidental, and that In
firing the plctol his motive had been o
protect his property by scaring off the
young hoodlums. The latter, he argued,
belonged to the "S. S. S." organization,
and should not be encouraged In their ca
reer of reckless wrong-doing.
Judge Aifred Sears, In Instructing the
jury, informed them of their duty to bring
In a verdict of guilty If they were con
vinced beyond a reasonable doubt that the
shooting was done with Intent, and not
guilty if the evidence showed that It was
the result of an accident.
At the time of the shooting Lundeen's
action was Vegarded as purely uninten
tional, but as the case developed it was
seen that there was great diversity of
opinion in his neighborhood as to whether
he had the provocation claimed, of hav
ing numerous racks and stones thrown at
his house by a gang. This was the de
cisive point In the trial.
FILED PATHETIC COMPLAINT.
Womnn Suing for Divorce Relates n
Tale of Great Crnelty.
Mrs. RosaVesterman has Instituted di
vorce proceedings against her husband,
Henry Westerman, by filing a vivid com
plaint, alleging sorrows endured and suf
ferings undergone. The grounds " urged
for a divorce are as follows:
"Defendant has treated plaintiff in a
cruel and Inhuman manner, and has
heaped upon her personal Indignities; ren
dering her life burdensome.
"That defendant is a cold and sordid
being whose stony heart no tender pity
warms, and during the entire period of
said marriage has caused plaintiff un
measured grief and inexpressible suffering
In his systematic abuse and contemptu
ous conduct.
"He has been false to his every vow; he
has been cruel to the border of savagery.
He has been lazy, shjftless and Improvi
dent. He has been lost to all sense of
shame and self-respect. He has been with
out principle and devoid of honor, and has
outraged all decency In his treatment of
plaintiff.
"That after birth of their child, defend
ant seldom came to the sick room, and
then only for a short time, and on such
occasions sat mute and glum, and with
held from her all the guileness and kind
ness that soothes weary life and softens
human pain, all of which caused plaintifT
deep mental anguish and distress.
"That during marriage defendant has
applied to plaintiff all manner of abusive
and reproachful epithets, and often when
annoyed by some petty or Imaginary
grievance would work himself up Into a
furious passion and vent his anger upon
plaintiff by swearing and raging at her
In a heartiest and distracted manner, and
plaintiff's every appeal and gentle expost
ulation has been answered with profan
ity." The complaint also alleges that the de
fendant's daughter by a previous marriage
was unmanageable and tried to run the
house on the "Dowager Empress plan."
When Mrs. Westerman attempted to pun
ish her for dropping the young baby tin
cold water for amusement, she alleges
that her husband turned against her.
Then It was that "defendant, as merci
lessly cruel as Winter blast from hyper
borean skies, thrust plaintiff destitute
upon the world, a babe nine months old
in her arms', without a dollar In her purse,
and not a place on earth whereon to lay
her head. And since that time plaintiff
has suffered all the pangs of pinching
poverty and endured- all the torments of
penury and distress."
Mrs. Westerman asks alimony of $25 a
month, which she alleges her husband can
pay, as she asserts he has a profitable
dairy business near Oswego. George S.
Shepherd and G. B. Cellars are her attor
neys. Prolate Matters.
The will of Barbara Shenz for an estate
valued at $1200 was admitted in probate
yesterday. Joseph Shenz was appointed
administrator, and Valentine Brown, J.
O. Goltra and E. C Bronaugh appraisers.
Everett G.Starr was appointed admin
istrator In the estate of Eliza J. Starr,
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ceased. Frank C. Miller, R. L. Durham and U.
K. Arnoldi appraisers of the .estate of
J. W". Whalley, have filed an Inventory
of the property, valued at $58,497 76.
For the estate of Eliza Paquet, E. M.
Sargent, Carl filler and H. M. Lambert
were appointed appraisers.-
Declslon In Bankruptcy Case.
Judge Bellinger save an opinion yester
day In the matter of Lars Hansen, a
farmer of Umatilla County, who went
Into bankruptcy In January, 1900. An ap
plication to set aside the discharge of
Hansen's estate from court was denied.
The Judgment creditors, T. D. and R.
L. Oliver, reopened the case, by filing a
petition setting forth that Hansen had a
claim on a certain piece of land in Uma
tilla County worth $1000, and tha since
filing the petition he had cut off the
land 4000 bushels of wheat, worth $2000.
The defense contrnded that Hansen in
1SS9 .had taken possession of land on. a
Northern Pacific grant for the purpose
of establishing a claim to purchase, but
that In 1S9S a man named Hanula had
MARION COUNTY COURTHOUSE.
ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL SIGHTS T O BE SEEN AT OREGON'S CAPITAL.
filed a homestead entry on the land, and
In the contest the 'La Grande land office
had supported the latter's claim.
Consequently, at the time of going Into
bankruptcy Hanesn had no claim on the
property.
Judge Bellinger inclined to that view of
the case. He held that the right of pur
chase In Hansen was a personal right,
and was not transferable, and not prop
erty which his creditors could take. More
over, he held that there had been no
fraud or concealment on Hansen's part,
that the petition came too late, since the
creditors had willingly granted Hansen's
discharge, knowing the facts of Han
sen's claim to the property to which he
came Into possession later by reason of
decisions of tha Commissioner and Secre
tary of the Interior.
Washington Notes.
The Everett Chamber of Commerce has
recommended a raise in the liquor license
of the city.
The Red Cross Society of North Yakima
contemplates erection of a memorial foun
tain In honor of the heroes who fell In
battle at Manila'.
An order has been received at Everett
from Indiana people for ten Snohomish
County farms. -The Hooslers are expected
to arrive March 5.
The Board of Whitman County Com
missioners has appointed S. M. McCros
key, of Tekoa, superintendent of schools,
to replace S. C. Roberts.
Shipments from Milan in January were
large, considering that the larger mills
are closed for the Winter season. A total
of 132 carloads was sent out, consisting
of S4 of wood and 48 of Jumber.
It Is thought by farmers and gardeners
in the suburbs of Tacoma that the cold
weather of last week did much to kill off
the pupae of the variegated cutworm
which went into the earth last Fall.
The dedication of the new Methodist
Church building at Olympla scheduled for
February 17 has been postponed until
March 3 on account of delays in trans
mission of materials for the windows.
Palouse boasts the only skating pond in
the State that is lighted by natural gas.
It Is not uncommon for skaters to prick
a hole In the Ice and by applying a match
produce a flame that frequently reaches
six feet In height and gives a bright
light.
Arthur Coffin, of North Yakima, will
ship about 10.000 sheep East on the 25th of
this month. James Bingham last week
sold a band of old ewes at 4 cents per
pound. Coffin sold a carload of fat lambs
at 5 cents a few days ago. Vessey &
McRae shipped 3000 head of lambs to Chi
cago last week.
H. J. Rand has purchased the 99-acre
tract of land about half way between
North Yakima and Yakima City, known
as the Inverarlty Place. The price paid
was $4500. Mr. Rand will immediately be
gin the construction of a slaughter-house
and Is contemplating the building of a
cold storage plant In the near future.
The Harris Creamery Company, which
has pleased the creamery plant at the
Washington Agricultural College, Is suc
ceeding In reviving the creamery busi
ness and is now making more than 600
pounds of butter per day and has twenty
two separators in the county. Twenty
seven cents per pound is being paid for
butter fat.
Chinese at Ritzville are considerably
stirred up over a robbery which occurred
In their quarters Saturday. Ung Hong,
who has been employed in the laundry
of Sam Wo, was relieved of $340 in cash
by Chun Go, a queueless Celestial from
Spokane. Chun Go was without money
and his countrymen fed and sheltered
him. In the morning he located his bene
factor's savings, which were hid away in
an old tobacco box, and caught a local
west-bound freight.
Dally Treasury Statement.
WASHINGTON. Feb.12. Today's state
ment of the Treasury halances In the gen
eral fund, exclusive of the $150,000,000
gold reserve in the division of redemp
tion shows:
Available cash balance, $144,515,959; gold.
$75,881,947.
CONSOLIDATION OPPOSED
MORGAN ALLEGED TO HAVE GOT
TOO MUCH FRO ERIE DEAL.
Snlt to Restrain the Directors and
Voting Trustees From Carrying
Ont the Arrangement.
NEW YORK. Feb. 12. Additional briefs
were today submitted to Justice Fitzger
ald In the acton brought by Richard Pine
Coffin against the Erie Company to re
strain the directors of the road and Its
voting trustees from carrying out -an ar
rangement for the purchase of the Penn
sylvana Coal Company, the Erie & Wyom
ing Valley Railroad Company, and the
Delaware Valley & Kingston Railroad
Company for $37,000,000. In an affidavit
Mr. Coffin says that he lives in Portledge.
BIddeford, North Devon," England, and
Tthat he Is a minority stockholder In the
Erie Railroad. He asserts that he bought
100 shares of the stock of the road on
January 20, 1901. The plaintiff alleges
that J. P. Morgan & Co. bought the roads,
which are feeders of the Erie system, for
$27,400,000. Mr. Coffin also aserts that iur.
Morgan had also secured control of the
Erie system. - After getting the three
roads In question, the plaintiff says that
Mr. Morgan resold them to the Eric
Railroad for $37,000,000, thus clearng $9,
400,000. Mr. Coffin says that Mr. Morgan
gets $32,000,000 In bonds of the company
and $5,000,000 In preferred stock. Mr. Cof
fin says that he has been unsuccessful al
though he has made the utmost effort to
secure the affidavits of the officers of
the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad as
to the offer made to them to acquire the
same assets now proposed to be sold to
the Erie Railroad for many millions less.
The plaintiff says that the main facts
In the suit are not-seriously disputed. Mr.
Morgan, he says, buys the assets of the
Pennsylvana Coal Company and then of
fers them to himself as trustee of the
Erie, accepting the offer and thereby
makes a paper profit of over $9,000,000 and
admitted cash profit of over $2,000,000, in
curring not the slightest risk because the
same assets that he turned over arc
pledged again as collateral. Mr. Coffin
quotes a number of authorities on the
proposition that a man who acts as trus
tee cannot sell to himself such property
at a profit.
The voting trustees of the Erie Rail
road Company are J. P. Morgan, General
Louis Fitzgerald and Charles Tennant. of
London. One of the railroads in the pro
posed purcha'se, the Delaware Valley &
Kingston is not yet completed. In its
answer to the suit the officers of the
Eric road contend that the purchase of
the roads in question is necessary to the
Erie to save unto itself the coal trans
portation In Pennsylvania and to Insure 'a
permanent supply of fuel as requred by
law. The officers assert that the road
was without financial resources and there
fore applied to Mr. Morgan's company,
the most Important and Influential friend
of the company. It is contended that Mr.
Morgan cleared only $2,C0O,0CO on the deal
which was only fair arid just, being less
than 9 per ce.nt on the transaction. The
stock of the company, say the defend
ants, has Increased In value since Mr.
Morgan became Interested In the road.
TO PREVENT CONSOLIDATIONS.
Bill to ICeep Pennsylvania Roads
From Killing Competition.
HARRISBURG. Pa.. Feb. 12. Senator
Sproul, of Delaware County, chairman of
the Senate committee on railroads, has
Introduced a bill Into the Senate which
Is of great Importance, considering the
various consolidations 'and projects for
consolidating railroads having lines
through this state.
The constitution of Pennsylvania,
adopted in 1874t expressly forbids railroad
corporations from absorbing or acquiring
parallel or competing lines, and the
Sproul bill looks toward providing In the
statutes of the state the constitutional
provisions and putting them In distinct
form. The bill reiterates the constitu
tional prohibition of railroad or canal
corporations acquiring by lease, purchase
or consolidation similar corporations hav
ing parallel or competing lines within
this state, and the question of a decision
upon these points Is to be decided by a
jury.
It is also provided that such attempted
acquisition may be attacked In proceed
ings at law, upon the Instigation of the
commonwealth, and makes any violation
a misdemeanor for which the officials of
such offending corporations may be In
dicted and punished Individually or col
lectively. MEXICAN ROAD LEFT OUT.
Not Included in Harriman Deal The
Central Pacific.
NEW YORK, Feb. 12. The Commercial
Advertiser says today:
"In .acquiring control of the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company, the Harriman
syndicate also obtained control of the
Morgan Steamship Line and the Pacific
Mall Steamship Line. It did not, however,
secure any control over the Mexican In
ternational Railway, nor of any of the
property of the Pacific Improvement Com
pany. "The Mexican International Company,
which has about 700 miles of complete
road, is th only non-subsldlzed road In
Mexico. This railroad was built practi
cally under the supervision of Collls P.
Huntington, and it now belongs to the old
Pacific Improvement Company, the stock
of which Is owned by the Huntington,
Mark Hopkins, Stanford and Crocker es
tates. It Is generally regarded as the
Mexican division of the Southern Pacific
system, but actually the Southern Pacific
management has no control over the Mex
ican International Company. It is likely
that when the Pacific Improvement Com
pany winds up Its affairs, which will be
done as soon as practicable, the railroad
and mining properties owned by this com
pany will be sold. Whether or not the
Southern Pacific Company will acquire the
Mexican road remains to be determined.
"A belief prevails that after awhile the
Central Pacific line will be taken out of
the Southern Pacific system and made a
part of the Union Pacific system. The
Central Pacific, which extends from Og
den to San Francisco, a distance of 1364
miles, is essential to the Union Pacific's
transcontinental system, and Its separa
tion from the Southern Pacific would still
leave the latter a complete transconti
nental system. Although both of these
great systems are now under the control
of the same group of capitalists, it is safe
to say that each corporation will retain
distinct traffic Interests."
DENVER &. RIO GRANDE SITUATION.
George J. Gonld Has Taken an In
terest and Will Be a Director.
NEW YORK, Feb. 12. E. T. Jeffery.
president of the Denver & Rio Grande
Railroad, who is now at the Holland
House, this city, made the following
statement today to a representative of
the Associated Press regarding the re
ports in circulation about his road:
"To set at rest the many rumors relat
ing to the Denver & Rio Grande Railway
that have been current of late, I wish to
state that the controlling Interest in the
property has not been bought by any
other railway company, nor has its inde
pendence as a Colorado railway been In
the slightest degree Impaired by any re
cent changes that have taken place In the
holdings of Its securities. The general
prosperity of the State of Colorado and
Its large Increase In the output of the
precolus metals have attracted the at
tention of Investors and capitalists,
among them George J. Gould, who has
purchased an important interest in Den
ver & Rio Grande, and who will, on
Thursday, enter its directory for the pur
pose of participating in the management
of the property and in the further devel
opment of Colorado, with which he has
long been personally identified. The pol
icy of the management will be to
strengthen and Improve the railroad, fur
nish the latest and best facilities for its
patrons, and to enlarge the system from
time to time by branches and laterals, as
the business Interests of the state may
require. The policy that has heretofore
governed the Denver & Rio Grande man
agement will continue not only In rela
tion to the public and the state at large,
but with all connecting lines with which
It has heretofore had commercial rela
tions." JAPANESE TO GO.
Great Northern Rules Them Oat of
Shops and Off Road.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.. Feb. 12. At the
Great Northern general offices It Is
learned that President J. J. Hill has ac
ceded to the demands of labor unions In
the Northwestern states and will dispense
with Japanese labor in the shops and on
the road. There were about 2000 Orientals
thus employed, and of these about 1500
have been displaced by white men. It Is
said that Mr. Hill did not employ these
men from choice, but because It was
Impossible to find white labor. The Jap
anese performed less work In a day than
their whjte competitor, but they received
less pay, and there was no objection on
this point. They were poor workmen and
great destroyers of raw material.
'Homeseelcem Coming "West.
CHICAGO. Feb. 12. Between 1500 and
1S0O land hunters left Chicago today for
the open sections of the far West. Some
of them had tickets to the Northwest,
many to points In the Middle West, and
some to points in the Southwest, and all
took advantage of the first of a long se
ries of weekly reduced rate applications
recently authorized as a result of J. J.
Hill's determination to boom the country
tributary to the Great Northern line as
It never before has been boomed. It is
estimated that at least two-thirds of the
prospective settlers came from the
crowded parts of the East, the other
third being composed of persons from 111
lnols. Indiana, Wisconsin and adjacent
states. A hundred or more were Chl
cagoans. It Is said that J. J Hill expects
to carry at least 50,000 persons from the
East and Central West to settle In the
Far West.
Sonth American Freight Via Ogden.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12. With the
arrival of the steamship Para from.
South American ports an entirely new
branch of freight business has been es
tablished for the Southern Pacific Rail
road. The steamer had on board 500 tons
of freight, which would have gone In the
usual course of routing to the Eastern
states and Europe via the Panama Rail-
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road, but owing to the trouble between,
the road and the Pacific Mall Steamship
Company It has been brought here.
Freight Traffic Manager Sproule said
that all arrangements have been made
to handle freight from South American
ports. Freight that was consigned to
New York will go via Ogden, and all
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Opposed to Crow's Nest Railroad.
VANCOUVER, B. C. Feb. 12. John
Houston, ex-Mayor of Nelson," B. C, rep
resentative of that city In the British
Columbia Legislature and editor of the
Nelson Tribune. Is reported as saying that
a fight will be made by British Colum
bians against the granting by the Domin
ion Government of a charter to the
Crow's Nest Coal Company to construct a
railway south from the coal fields to tho
International boundary. Mr. Houston
states that James J. Hill, president of the
Great Northern Railway, acting In con
Junction with representatives of the
Standard Oil Company, Is endeavoring to
secure control of the Crow's Nest coal
lands.
Railroad Notes.
The slide on the Southern Pacific In Cow
Creek Canyon, that was cleared up last
week, started again Saturday night, and
blockaded trains for 24 hours. Transfers
of two trains were made Sunday, but yes
terday traffic moved undor normal condi
tions. So much of the mountain has come
down and been shoveled off on the can
yon side that considerable new land has
been made there,, and the track has been
built out far enough to escape a great
deal of the danger.
The Portland City & Oregon Railway
Company Is building a large freight car
at the shops at Mllwaukle, which will
weigh 28 tons. It will have a 300-horse-power
motor, and will haul several flat
cars loaded. The frame to the new addi
tion of the car barn is up, and, with fair
weather, the structure will be completed
in two or three weeks.
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