12 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, APRTL 23, 1907. TACOMA TUNNEL TO SAVE-CLIMB Harriman Line Will Avoid the Steep Grade by 8700 Foot Subway. SURVEY IS NOW COMPLETE Vnderground Rome Will Be Easy to Bore, but Loose Soil Presents Danger of Mtdes Grade to Be 1 1-4 Per Cent. ' SEATTLE, Wash., April-21. (Special.) Harriman has solved the problem of avoiding the ruinous 2.7 per cent (trade at Tacoma and will be able to get a maximum grade of 1U per cent on his PuKet Sound extension. A tunnel STOO feet in length will be bored under Ta coma to cut down the almost prohibitive Krade that was encountered in paral leling the Northern Pacilic's present line into town. Nearly a year ago the Harriman line secured a franchise in Tacoma for a line that paralleled the Northern Pacific trackage from South Tacoma into the city proper. This line involved the use of a grade that averaKed about 2 4-10 per cent and ran as high in one place Ha 2 7-10 per cent. After the franchise ha3 been granted, the Oregon & 'Washington Railroad Com pany allowed its limit for acceptance to pass by without a sign that it had any intention of considering Tacoma serious ly. Then it was announced that a study of grades showed it would be impossible to use the old route and that the en gineering corps . hart been given orders to find a low grade at any cost. Tacoma presents the most serious rnil road proposition on the Coast. The ground rises by a series of benches to a high tableland in the south that any railroad building from Portland must cross, or any extending southward must climb up to in some manner. The North ern Parlllc may have solved the problem by evading the tableland and following the shore line to Olympla. but this route was not open to the Harriman people. Only Route Practicable.' There are three gulches in Tacoma that lead southward and each was thoroughly investigated by the Harriman engineers. No satisfactory grade could be found in any one of them and finally the engineer luff corps was ordered to work out a tun nel scheme. This lias finally been done and a new franchise, providing for such a tunnel, was completed here this week and ordered Introduced In the Tacoma Council tonight. Harriman officials are advised the ordinance was presented. By the new tunnel scheme the ITar liman road will locate Its southern portal on unsurveyed land immediately west of the line of Center street. 'The point is easily recognized by those who have traveled on the Northern Faeific out cf Taooina, for it Is near the spot where the Hill road emerges from the gulch and reaches the prairie that leads to South Tacoma. The tunnel will be driven under Center street for Its entire, length, crossing under . Jefferson avenue between Twenty-seventh and Twenty-fifth streets and coming out of the northern portal near Twenty-fifth-street. The Oregon & Washington has purchased five blocks lying east and south of Jefferson avenue and the new trackage arrangement brings trains Into Tacoma by that route. The proposed Harriman passenger depot will be lo cated at the intersection of Seventeenth nd C streets with Jefferson avenue, two blocks of land having been received for a passenger station that will rival the pro jected station at Seattle. Soil Easy to Bore. This new route Involves a tunnel 8700 feet in length, but It gives a maximum grade of l'i per cent, something that It was decided had to be found to make the Puget Sound extension practicable. The tunnel work will not be so difficult as that in Seattle, for the soil at Ta coma, ag indicated by a cursory examina tion, is gravelly and easy to bore. There will be more danger of slides than in Seattle, where a cement gravel formation and hard blue clay makes a tunnel under the city arch naturally. There Is nothing serious in the tunnel-building problem at Tacoma and the railroad will be under the street deep enough to bo away from municipal improvements. A big Eeries of condemnation suits were filed at Tacoma today that show the Harriman system - will locate Its local freight yards on Puyallup avenue, direct ly opposite the Northern. Pacific's big local freight sheds. The Chicago, Mil waukee & t. Paul right of way along Twenty-fifth street adjoins the Harriman holdings on the south. The compromise with tho Northern Pa ' cific whereby tho Harriman lino will alter Its tideflat line so as to avoid the prop erty Hill wants to develop as Northern Pacific terminals is also reflected in the new Harriman maps and the Tacoma franchise. Route Officially Announced. . "With the completion of tho Tacoma ter minal plans and tho application for a franchise in that city the route of the Oregon & 'Washington from the Columbia Ttlvcr to the Pierce County line has been officially announced. The rumor has been current for a long time that when the Harriman Interests reached this point there would be no difficulty In effecting in agreement with the St. Paul -for Joint trackage between Seattle and Tacoma. That possibility Is reflected at Tacoma and at Seattle, where the entrance to this city has been recently changed so aa to parallel the tracks of the Columbia & I'usct Sound, which tho St. Paul will use between Black River and the city limits. Franchises are now pending in both Seattle and Tacoma. The first Council committee meeting to take up one of these franchises has been called at ?cat tie Thursday ntght. Tho entire Harriman terminal problem will b gone over then. All the differences between the Harriman snd Hill Interests have been settled and there is believed to be a practical ccr tainty that quick action can be had on the Ovccon & v ashington grant. Antici Jutting such action ttie board of public works in Seattle gave the Harriman line permission last week to commence work cn its tunnel under Seattle. This Seattle tunnel, is unlike the one at Tacoma. It U a mile In length and is to be built to do away with congestion of traffic on the water-front streets and not because of any grade complications. Seattle has forbade switching of trains on Railroad avenue between 7 A. M. and T r. M . and both the Kill and Har riman lines must send freight trains under or around the city. The under ground route Is simpler. Snnlic Bites Workman In Face. S1LVERTON". Or.. April 24. (Spe clal.) Jese Kephurt was bitten in the fBt-e by a small snake yesterday while engaged at work in a field near this city. He reached down to the ground to ylck up a stick with which to kill one reptile when another, which he had not noticed. Jumped and bit him on the cheek. The accident did not prove seri HOLDS OPTIONS EV' PORTLAND Booth-Kelly Company Will Purchase Waterfront Property. EUGENE, Or., April 24. (Special.) Members of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, when asked today where their terminal grounds in Portland are located, said that they were not ready to an nounce .which of a number of options along the Portland Water front they will close. In speaking of 'future plans, the management said: "Unless satisfactory rates and arrange ments can be made with the railroads the company will be compelled to purchase vessels and go into the export and coast wise shipping business. Of course this will mean more of an outlay, but it seems i to be the only course open." The Booth-Kelly Company is tne larg est firm of its kind in Oregon and could certainly make a success of Buuh a busi ness, when other smaller concerns are doing so. THROWN HIGH IX AIR BY PRY Workman Falls on Rock in Peculiar Accident. OREGON CITY, Or., April 24. (Spe cial.) Thrown 20 feet in the air and falling on a heap of crushed and broken stone, Leopold Geiger. living on the Brown Schoolhouse road, southeast of Oregon City, was seriously injured this morning, but will probably recover. He suffered contusion of the spine and was bruised about the head and shoulders. Geiger was working with a crew on the county rock crusher and was using a long rail for a pry, when the huge piece of steel was caught under a heavy weight and Geiger was hurled In the air, the rail forcing him up with catapult-like force. He. fell heavily on fragments of rock. He was at once removed to his home and a surgeon called. Geiger Is 60 years of age and has a wife and several children. It is consider ed miraculous that death did not result from his terrible fall. FINDS SIX INDICTMENTS IDAHO GRAND JTRY ENDS ITS INVESTIGATIONS. Two Are Held for Trial for Ship ping Elk Teeth and Heads 1 to California. POCATEUjO, Idaho, April 24. (Spe cial.) Six indictments were returned by the Federal grand Jury here today. William Brinkley and Charles Purdy were separately indicted for shipping elk-teeth and elk-heads from tne Jackson Hole country In Wyoming, through Idaho, to Los Angeles, srnd George Walters was indicted for as sault with Intent to commit muraer in a saloon in this city and on the reser vation. Alfred L. Gustofferson was in dicted for robbing the Postofflce at Preston, and Fred Shepherdson was in dicted for selling liquor to the Indians. All the defendants took the statu tory time to plead, which will expire tomorrow morning. The grand Jury has been discharged for the term. Over 20 witnesses have been sum moned in the Purdy-Brlnkley case. The highest fine possible of imposition on the defendants is $200 for each count, while the rest of the cases will approximate J5000. The indictments are an evidence of the Interest of tho Government in putting a stop to the wanton destruction of elk in this part Of the country. The trial of Luther Bearskin, the Bannock Indian Indicted for murder in the first degree on two counts, has been Bet for next Monday morning. GIVE VP FAITH IN "HEALER" Aberdeen Couple Deserts Colony Founded by Mclnturff. -ABERDEEN. Wash., April 24. (Spe cial.) Mr. and Mrs. Charles Y. Fcn wiek, long-time residents of Aberdeen and converts to the . doctrines pro pounded by Dr. Mclnturff, the alleged divine healer, who held sway here some weeks ago, have returned from Ritzvllle, Idaho, where Mclnturff is try ing to establish a colony. Mr. Fenwlck says that Mclnturff in some way healed his boy of the grip ana then induced him to sell out here and Join the col ony. Fenwick says the colonization scheme is a delusion and a snare, that at present it is a small collection of poor ly-built shacks, with only a few half starved occupants. The advocates of divine healing here have received a severe shock by the return of the Fenwtcks, who are out several hun dred dollars. HERMISTON TO INCORPORATE Commercial Club Takes Initiative in the Movement. HERMISTON. Or., April 24. (Spe cial.) The Hermiston Commercial Club at a meeting tonight decided to in corporate the city of Hermiston. The boundary lines were established and two square miles will be included in tho city limits. Francis Bartlett was employed as attorney to draft the Incorporation pa pers and carry the matter through the courts. Hermiston has a population of BOO people. The Commercial Club also took the first steps toward Eecnring a Government . experimental station for the Umatilla reclamation project. WILL NOT MEET EXCURSION Sumpter Declines Invitation of Port land Commercial Club. SUMPf Ell, Or.. April 24. (Special.)-At a meeting tonight of an appointed com mittee of the citizens of Sumpter It was decided to make a formal declination of the invitation of the Portland Commer cial Club to meet them in Baker City on May T. The occasion for the declination Is recited in the resolutions, which set forth that the arrangement of the pro gramme is not to the interest of 8umpter and its contiguous mineral territory. Initiative for Tax Reform. SILVERTON. Or.. April 24. (Spe cial.) A meeting of the farmers and business men of this vicinity has been called for Saturday, May 4, in the opera house for the purpose of organizing a taxpayers' league. The object of the meeting is to take advantage of the initiative and formulate laws to be submitted to the next legislative body for reform in the system of taxation. Form Company of O. N. G. SILVERTON. Or., April 24. (Spe cial.) That Silverton will soon have a company of the Oregon National Guard seems to be a settled fact. Mayor Adams has had the .matter in hand for several days and 72 name are alrcady cnrolled. STATE HAS THREE " MORE WITNESSES McManus Defense Will Strive to Prove Estes Was Moral Pervert. HAND SHOWN BY QUESTION Chief Remaining Witness of Prose cution Threatened With Pneu monia, but Is Expected to Be Able to Testify Today. PENDLETON. Or., April 24.-(Speeial.) Owing to the illness of the only remain ing important witness for the state, the McManus murder trial was unexpectedly adjourned at 1 o'clock this afternoon until tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. Dike Mumford, the witness. U serious ly threatened with pneumonia, but his physician thinks it will be possible for him to be in court in the morning. Dis trict Attorney Phelps said that it ought not to require more than an hour to complete the Introduction of the state's testimony and therefore It Is probable that the defense will take its inning j about 10 o'clock and will begin by placing McManus on the stand in his own behalf. It is understood that the state will undertake to prove by the testimony of Mumford and C. S. McGinnis, two "bar tenders, and Ed Boynton, a carpenter, the only remaining witnesses, that a few days before the tragedy McManus mis took Estea for McCarty and apologized to him at -that time for so doing. Also that about half- an hour before the tragedy McManus and Boynton were standing In a saloon drinking and that McCarty came in and was leaning against the wall behind the drinkers when Mc Manus saw him by means of the large mirror behind the bar: that the defendant then suddenly formed the determination to kill McCarty and that he went direct ly from the saloon to the hardware store to get the gun. It is expected that the defense will in troduce witnesses In an effort to prove that Estes was a gambler, pickpocket, dope fiend and in every way a moral degenerate. The attorneys for McManus have endeavored to bring out testimony to this effect in the cross-examination of nearly every witness that the state has placed on thestand, but the objections of the attorneys for the prosecution, have kept this out. Witnesses were introduced tills morning to show that McManus had McCajrty ar rested for the larceny of his watch and some money about a week before the shooting: that McManus purchased a drink for McCarty during the afternoon of the homicide, and that the defendant said immediately after the killing that ho had shot the man who had robbed him before, the man for whom 'he had pur chased a drink that afternoon, and who had been following him around and was trying to rob him when the bullet was fired. Some of the evidence brought out on cross-examination tended strongly to sub stantiate the contentions of the defense. Bert Wilson, a bartender, who as sisted in taking McManus from the sa loon to the 'police station immediate ly following the shooting, was the first witness on the stand this morning and the first to testify that he heard tho defendant apply the name of Bob Estes to the man he had shot- Wilson said the conversation took place while they were going from the saloon to tha police station and that the defend ant repeated three or four times that he purchased the gun to kill the man because the latter had robbed him twice before. He also said that his victim was trying to rob him when the shot was - fired, declared Wilson. All other witnesses so far have tes tified that in conversations following the tragedy the defendant referred to the man he had killed only as the man who had robbed him before and was trying to rob him again. WANT BETTER FREIGHT DEPOT New Oregon City Passenger Station Is Satisfactory. OREGON CITY. Or.. April 24. (Spe cial.) Agent El T. Fields, of the South ern. Pacific Company, desires to correct a paragraph that appeared in this morn ing's Oregonian relative to the condition of the company's depot at this point. Thf Southern Pacific Company several months ago constructed a new depot at Oregon City, and the structure is modern and entirely adequate for the business that is transacted here. The visit of the Railroad Commission to Oregon City this week pertained to the lack of facilities of the company for unloading and load ing lumber freights, and was made at the request of local shippers. Mr. Fields says that Oregon City now has one of the best depots on the Oregon line of the Southern Pacific. SIRS. BULGER WANTS DIVORCE Alleges Desertion Against Husband at Oregon City. OREGON CITY. Or., April 24. (Spe cial.) Mollle I Bulger has filed a suit in the Circuit Court against Thomas H. Bulger for a .decree of divorce. They were married August L 1SS9, in Portland, Or., and the plaintiff alleges desertion January 26, 1906. She wishes to resume her maiden name of Mollie L. Huott. A decree of divorce was handed down this afternoon in the suit of May Shea vs. Daniel Shea, and the custody of Fred G. Child, a minor child, was awarded to the plaintiff. YOUTH MAY DIE FROM AYOUND Justin Reed, Shot by Marshal, In Serious Condition. WESTON, Or., April 24. (Special.) Justin Read, the young man who was shot several weeks ago by Marshal D. F. Lavender while attempting an arrest, was taken yesterday to Spok ane, accompalned by his physician. Dr. J. L, Rogers. Until the last few days it was thought the patient was out of danger, but another operation is now considered imperative. This will be performed by Dr. Thomas of Spokane. Weston Council appropriated $300 to meet the expense. When he left. Read's pulse was high and his condi tion very serious. High Wages In Brickyard. WESTON. Or., April 24. (Special.) A hew wage schedule took effect yes terday at the Weston brickyard, which employes 28 men. The average in crease of pay is 10 per cent- The mini mum wage is $2.25 per day, while brick3etters will make $5.00 or more, and moulders will average $3.60. Every woman 'who this week, selecting a delighted -with the which has. been laid so as to give the greatest possible variety of desir able location and frontage. East fronts, west I J whatever the preference of tho housewife, she can children. The lots are largo enough to provido de still make selection according to her wish, from tho hghtful lawns tor each home, and there will be nu- large variety of choice locations remaining ill this merous beautiful residential t I V. I I The pioneer has power to shape the future. Choose pleasure ground, and the abundance of well-placed jour place of living where there is opportunity to trees will make this a permanent characteristic. ! I 4p '''fu . lire X 1' ?4 ' 4 Car tracks are daily leaping along Sandy Koad, toward Rose City Park; streets are being graded, curbings outlined, water-mains are being placed and all improve ments are progressing like magic. Pioneering has no hardships but many advantages for those who build early in this favorite suburb. Our Autos will call at your home, or you may join parties leaving our office almost hourly. Come in, or make an appointment by telephone. v HARTMAN'ScTHOIVIPSON Chamber of PLAN FIGHTS iff BARGES SEATTLE SPORTS fTUli EVADE SUNDAY REGULATIONS. Syndicate Organized to Conduct Weekly Excursions on Water Be yond Grasp of Obnoxious Law. SEATTLE, Wash.. April 24. (Special.) A syndicate is beins organized by the sporting fraternity for the "building and equipment of a number of barges to han dle Sunday excursion parties and to take collections of sports who are wllUng to pay liberally for the privilege across the King County line to see boxing matches. The Sunday closing movement in Seat, tie has spread to most of the suburbs, and the seaside resorts that will be open for the Summer months will have to be conducted along moderately -temperate lines, owing to orders from the Sheriff's office. The sporting fraternity was for bidden two years ago to pull off any more fights In tills county and the game was stopped In Kitsap after the Gans-Holly go. It is believed by the promoters of the barge scheme that Seattle is hungry for a reopening of the fighting game and would pay well for barge excursions across the county line. A wet Sunday on the water Is also believed to be a big winner. New Bank at Centralla. CENTRALIA. Vash., April 24. (Spe cial.) The United States National Bank: of Centralia has recently been organized with a capital of 100,000 by C. S. Gilchrist, Charles Gilchrist, F. B. Hnbbard, George E. Birge and J. A. Veness. This bank will take over the business now held by the State Bank of Centralia, of which Institution C S. and Charles Gilchrist, are respectively cashier and president. In connection there will be organized the Centralia Loan & Trust Company, with a paid up capital of $50,000. To accommodate the latter company, a three-story ce ment building will be built on one of the most desirable locations on Tower avenue. Bullet Lodges In Hand. SILVERTOK, Or., April 24. (Spe cial.) Harley Rogers, a young man living on Waldo Hills, was accidentally shot yesterday while trying to extract a loaded cartridge from a 22 rifle. The bullet penetrated his left hand Inflict ing a painful wound and lodging In the palm of the hand. Dr. Brooks ex tracted the lead shortly after the ac cident occurred. Abandon Street Improvement. WESTON". Or.. April 24-. (Special.) 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