.". "4"' THE 3IORSISQ OREGOXIAN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1909. - - - f : : I RATE FIGHT WILL BE FAR REACHING Spokane Upsets System and Gain to Coast Cities Is Still -Hazy! EAST IS MAKING DEMAND New York and Chicago Jobbers StriTe for More Favorable Rates. Situation Is More Complicated Now Than It Was Before. BT E- T. WRIGHT. SPOKANE. Wash.. Oct. 4. (Staff cor respondence.) In one of those famous gems whlci made the. works of the late Mr. Aesop one of the best sellers of the day. there is related a story ot a dog with a Juicy steak in hie mouthy cross ing: a placid stream. Gazing Into the , water, this canine hero of the Aesop fable saw his reflection, likewise the steak. Mistaking the reflection fnr another steak 'he. promptly prepared to give battle for jths one held by the other dog. with the I result that the steaks, real and Muslon- , ary. Taniahed. Spokane had a nice juicy steak in the way of a discriminating Jobbing tariff. .but several years ago caught sight of a wlU-of-the-'Wlsp tenderloin and dropped the real article, and at the close of the ! hearing today was floundering around in .the water tryinr to locate the illusionary oe. The latter 1s, of course, impossible, i and mean-while Oie original tangible raor- V eel. dropped to facilitate pursuit of the "iintangllble, has floated beyond her reach and In the dlnectlon of the Middle W"eBt V Jobbers. , Results Are Still Hair. . The exact position of Portland and . other Coast .terminals under the read 1 Justment that will follow is somewhat 'hazy as yet. The Portland contention that water transportation was the base . for distributive rates was proven so com i fjletely by the evidence, introduced by tboth. Spokane and the railroads that Mr. ( Teal, as representative of the Portland Interveners, was relieved of the necessity of going deeply into the subject, and In ' so far as this most Important point Is 'involved, the Coast cities have won a 'distinct victory. The questions 'whtch-wlll arise at the Seattle an Portland hearings present more complications, and not evea the most skilled of the railroad experts can more than guess a the probable results. On one point Spokane, Portland, the rail ' roads and Jobbers from the Atlantic to the Pacifle agree, and that Is that the .present fight has disturbed the equill ' brlum of every .rate between the Atlantic and Pacific, and that the result, no mat ter what the verdict of the Commission may be, will be far reaching In its effect. Before Commissioners Prouty. Cle . ments. Saul. Cktrke and Cockriil the at torney's made their arguments for or against a new tariff which is proposed to take the place of the discriminating schedules under which Spokane has grown great at the expense of other points. Chicago Jobbers Reaching Out. The opening which has been given Chl caso and the Middle West, as has already been pointed ott. Ilea in lower less than carload rates from Chicago to the Middle "West. This may enable the Chicago mail-order houses and other distributers to put goods into terrttory which is now handled from Spokane, and it Is entirely probable that a strong effort will be made by the Middle West to secure rates which will permit the eame concerns to job even farther into Portland tnrrltory than Spo kane has been reaching. The Intervention of Chicago being a new factor In the situation the argument of Barlow was followed wh the closest In terest by the entire Commission as well as by the opposing interests. In clear-cut language, he stated it was not so mtch a matter of interest to Chicago what the ; rate was. but Chicago would protest , against any blanketing of rates by which J the New York Jobber, a thousand miles ' farther from Spokane, was admitted into i this territory on even ' terms with Chl ' cago. In his argument he very skillfully called I the attention of the Commission to the i utter lack of proportion between the car ', load and less than carload rates. Mr. 1 Baxlow has been the skeleton at the feast t for all parties to the controversy, and -his i argument undoubtedly made an lmpres t eion that later may still further com- plicate an adjustment of rates. Spokane Keeps Milwaukee Out, Argument for the Spokane Interests was ' opened by AttorneyStephens, who spoke : for over an- hour, making a careful re ! view of the evidence, which he had sub ! rnitted -last week. He insisted that the 1 ,,MtiitfnTi ftf the nrooosed rate would ruin Ppokane'a Jobbing trade, and would i benefit neither the consumer nor the rall t roads. He expressed a willingness to per i mlt extension of the relative jobbing rates : to other Interior points, and as a last resort was willing to take a lower cora- : modity rate from the Coast in lieu of what wa actually wanted. Mr. Stephens threw an interesting side light on the Milwaukee Road's failure to i enter Spokane. He stated that a fran I chlse would not be granted the new line ' unless it agreed to give Spokane terminal rates. In answer to Mr. Woodworth's contention that the revenues of the ;' roads would be Impaired by the new rates ' and by the coming competition of the Milwaukee and Union Pacific on Puget Sound, he said that If rates bad to be raised on Spokane every time a new road came Into the country he hoped there would be no more new roads. Mr. Stephens was followed by Turner Oliver, of La Grande. Mr. Oliver filed a statement setting forth the La Grande contention, and supplemented It wltb a rV'a for the recognition of the Impor tance of liis city. He asserted that 200.000 tons of freight per year orig inated in the vicinity of La Grande; that the amount had doubled in five years and would double again In the coming five years. Attorney Bijur made a plea for a hearing at New Tork. for the purpose of showing why the existing blanket rates east of Chicago should remain undisturbed. He made ' an ingenious argument, showing that while Chicago was a thousand miles nearer the Pacific Coast by rail. New York was a thou sand miles nearer by water. On that basis he insisted that Chicago has been enjoying a rate to which New York alone was entitled. His desire to se cure retention of the present blanket pates led him Into the error of stating thaV watar transportation was a po tentiality rather than an actuality. Mr. Barlow, of Chicago, objected-io a reopening of hearings In the East, as he said . It would necessitate a re opening of the entire case. Coast Cities Demand Rights. . Seth Mann, of Pan Francisco, in' a brief argument defined the attitude of the Ccast terminal. He said the Coast cities had never opposed Spokane's plea for lowej rate, as It. would be inconsistent with the Coast demand for lower rates. The Coast ports, said Mr. Mann, will be satisfied with that to which It Is geographically and strategically entitled. He ri'dlculed Mr. Bijur's statement that water transpor tation was an actuality, and showed that it not only included water com petition by vessels between American ports, but also embraced a vast amount of foreign .merchandise traffic which came Into direct competition with American goods. Mr. Mann closed his argument with the emphatic statement that the Coast was not only entitled to seaport rates, but intended to have them. Mr. Donnelly, for the Northern Pa cific, spoke for more than an "hour in defense of the proposed tariff, which he declared was consistent and perfectly defensible. He said the blanket rates DIRI-XTOIl TO WHOM SfVcH ( ItCI)IT IS DI B FOR I'HIL OKKN'S DRILL. liKFOBE . THE PHEMDEXT. ii ! ' 1 - , 7S : " i : : : V J ; V ; I ' ' ' l . : - r-w-i t) J V I " t Y X u i - xV j " , f fcaiisnn iIIiiSii fcliiilili HWmHi it inn ilifriliiiiM I, X. KleUoboer, Chairman Board t of Education. I To I. N. Fleischner. chairman of the Board of Education, is ' largely due the credit for the sue- t 4 cessfui schoolchildren's drill in t Multnomait Field Saturday morn- T 1 ins. with which President Taft I I expressed himself as delighted. I The task of arranging for the fUg drill was especially difficult, ! because there was only one week I for preparation. The drill was I the conception of Mayor Simon, wno went to Mr. Fleischner to find out if It would be possible. The chairman suggested It to the I board and with the assent of the t Board members. Professor Krohn I proceeded at once to drill the I children under Mr. Fleischner's f direction, acting in harmony i vntn tne plans oi wiw recciiuuii 4 I committee. j t. . were not earned beyond Chicago be cause the Commission had named that as the point at which the Commission s reduction ended. He declared It was an utter impossibility byeany possible adjustment of rates again to give Spo kane the same advantages In rates that she had formerly enjoyed. Ha contend ed that the new rates would not materi ally reduce Spokane's Jobbing area. Union Pacific Has Protests. Attorney Dillard. of the Union Pa cific, made an eloquent protest against any reduction in rates, and quoted sta tistics for an hour to show that the Harrlman lines were earning less per ton per 'mile than any of the tastern roads which had escaped the Commis sion's attention. W. W. Cotton, for the O. R. & N., frankly admitting that he did not agree with any of the railroad men who bad preceded him, offered some very strong criticism of the rates which the Hill roads proposed to put into effect. He declared that there was not another place in the united States where the competition was as fierce as It was at Spokane, and Insisted that the present trouble should- be left to work out on a competitive basis. With 20 years' experience in trying to satisfy the Spokane people with a rate. Cotton was enabled to give a very interesting history of the situation and of the continued fight of the sail roads against water rates. He con tended that the fcallroads were earning but 7 per cent, and Insisted that every one else was making more money and that he would like to have rates fixed reasonable without regard' to the de sires of Spokane or any other point. He stated that at Seattle this week, Mr. Teal, in the interest of the Port land' jobbers, would have statistics to Show that the Spokane distributive rate was on many commodities less than half the rate exacted from Port land. When the bearing adjourned at 5 o'clock all of the defendants except the C. B. & Q. had been heard. Mr. Holdeu, of that road, will appear be fore the Commission at 2 o'clock to morrow, and Attorney Stephens, for Spokane, will then close the case. ALL EAGER TO TRAVEL THOUSANDS SWARM OFFICES OF STEA3ISHIP LIXES. Coast Kates Canse Stampede of Voy agers Front lios Angeles to Xortli. L03 ANGELES, Qal., Oct. 4. (Speciah) Three thousand tickets to San Fran cisco were sold in three hours today, the purchasers beinf) people anxious to take advantage of tiie bargain rates offered by the warring steamship companies. The Pacitlc Coast Steamship Company sold 1000 of these and the rush about its offices became so great that it had to station guards at the doors. At the of fice of the North Pacific Company, book ing agents for the Schubach-Hamilton line, the crowd was just as big and anx ious people waited over an hour before reaching the ticket counter. Accommoda tions have been' booked up to the end of next week. The Santa Rosa sailed this morning filled to capacity, the City of Topeka will go out tomorrow crowded to the guards, and the President, which will sail Thursday, has only a few. steerage berths left. As all the steamship companies are getting more business than they can handle, there Is no prospect of a further cut in rates. The Independent line Is having no trou ble In filling the Hanalel without a further cut and the steam schooners are being patronised to their capacity at the rates made by the West Coast Steamship Company. HILL 'S Hfli UNITED SEEN DEAL? Seattle Writer Figures That Transaction Is, Factor in Reaching South. TERMINALS ARE SECURED Valuable Rights In City of Portland Acquired by Purchase of Standard Gauge System Network of Feeders in State. SEATTLE. Wash.. Oct. 4 (Special.) James J. Hill and other giants of the financial and railroad world.- who are owners of the Oregon Trunk Railway sys tem, are reported to be back of the pur chase of the United Railways Company. of Portland, involving three miles or Portland" riverfront, more than ten miles of inmJern standard gauge railroad with in the limits of the Oregon metropolis end a right of way from Portland to Tillamook. Or., on the Pacific Ocean, ac- -ni-Hlnir to the Seattle Times. That Hill and his associates are back of the rtesl is the Deri.tent rumor which his been In circulation for several days savs the Times, among railroad men of Seattle and the Northwest. The syndi rate of Seattle and Montana capitalists headed by W.D. Hofius and Moritz Thorn sen, of this city, and J. L. Greenough. of Missoula. Mont., are believed to have dis posed of their property to men acting for Hill and his allies, and the whole deal Is slsed un asx part of Hill's announced rtetermlnation to project his transconti. tien t a I line to San Francisco and other California noints. where the Harriman system heretofore has been the dominat ing rauroaa iaeior. Terminals In Heart of City It Is significant that Involved fn the sale of the United Railways are terminals in the heart of Portland of the greatest traretic advantage and value. More over, the right of way for a line of stand ard gauge Voad reaching to Tillamook on the Pacific, where the Harriman system Is now being extended, is a part of the deal and a big part at that. Announcement made several months ago of the award-of the final contract for the construction of the new Harriman road to Tillamook was h,eld to be public notice that the. head of the great Sonthern sys tem had prepared to meet Hill competi tion for deep water traffic and lor an outlet on the coast near the mouth of the Columbia River. Hill now owns a line of railroad to Astoria, at he mouth of the Columbia, but there are well under stood advantages of the harbor of Ttlla- mook on the Pacific. -Two Harbor Outlets. Hill's nlans for covering Oregon with a network of branch lines, it is pointed out. fit In nicely with the absorption of the United Railways system from Port land to Tillamook, which passes through a rich and undeveloped dairy, agricul tural and timber district, with a max! mum grade of less than 2 per cent. If Hi! Is the financial factor back, of the $3,000,000 Portland deal, eventually he will have two distinct outlets from Portland to the coast. 1 Because of the magnitude of the sale of the Portland road and the possibility of a further disclosure of Hill's plans in Oregon, much Interest Is manifested In the personality and financial affiliations of the men who have bought the property. They are J. H. Hulbert, a millionaire banker of Fontanelle, la., and C. T. Dun bar, a capitalist of Vancouver, B. C. Nothing locally is known t their East ern financial connections. OPEN SHOP AND OLD SCALE Shingle Mills at Elms Have Re sumed Operations. ELMA. Wash.. Oct. 4. (Special.) Elm a was originally the storm-center of the strike that has been inaugurated in Che halls Couny by the shingle-weavers, which resulted in the closing of every shingle mill in the county. The strike started In E!ma before it was declared on the harbor towns, but the fight is now strongest In the west end of the county. The mill around Hlma have gradually resumed operations and now they ae mostly all running, open shop. The mills now in operation in this vicin ity Include those of Servis & Hillie,' the Rayville Shingle Company, S. J. Ray, C. F. Peterson, Henry McCleary, Moxie Shin gle Company, Elma Shingle C ompany. The Mack 9hingle Company Is makings changes In Its mill from a double block to upright shingle machines, and expect to resume in a week. The wages paid In these mills arethe same as those that were paid prior to the time the strike went, into effect. WIFE DRINKS, MAN BJJRNS Georgetown Pioneer Victim of Fire ' Which Consumes Home. SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 4. (Special.) While Frank Alexander, a pioneer of Georgetown, was burning to death in his home last night, his ' wife was drinking beer at the home of George W. Bradsbury, four or five squares away. Mrs. Alexander did not know of her husband's death until ater 3 o'clock in the morning, when she went home and was placed under arrest. Alex ander had lived in Georgetown 20 years. A year and a half ago, while he and his former wife were planning a trip around the world? she died. Alexander started around the world with the body, but was persuaded to bury It at Balti more. He then returned to Georgetown and married again. Two Accidents in One Day. WHITE SALMON, Wash., Oct. 4. (Spe cial.) Two painful accidents occurred here today. The victim of the first, Jack Perry, was the first white man to set tle In this valley, about 35 years ago. Today his leg was broken by being caught In the wheel of a moving wagon. He was taken this afternoon to the hos pital at The Dalles. John McNeil, while operating a wood sawing machine, lost a finger by the saw. Brick Delivered tor Hotel. (Spec M b first lot of the 500,000 brick t be used in the erection of the Weinhard-Astoria Hotel was delivered today by the Astoria Clay Product Company, and as soon as sufficient material Js on the ground the construction work will be commenced. Piper Heldsieck' champagne flavor chewing tobacco is the height of good taste. 1 Real Accommodations for Surf Bathers The , Oceanside Natatorium at BAYOCEAN 8e th orlfirbial of tills picture, and th architect' plans from which tt wa dntwa. together with thoao of four other freat Bay ocean feature. In the window of the J, K. GiU store, Third and Alder, this week. as.u nmusmiv t n -...-l Lrxt3y.f , svrt' .. ;- - ..3 or .ir t '!, wK--- J THE NATATORIUM ON THE OCEAN BEACH AT BAYOCEAN HOTEL BAYOCEAN ON THE LEFT. This recreation feature will add greatly to the daily pleasure of both cottage dwellers and tourists -at BAYOCEAN. It will provide 300 convenient dressing-rooms for those who wish to dash into the tumbling breakers so close at hand, and will also include provision for the enjoyment of those unable to withstand 'the shock and thrill of the surf. This unique provision is a pool 50 by 100 feet of artificially heated sea water the water piped directly from the ocean and heated toa comfortable temperature. Fresh-water plunges for both men and women and several show ers have been included in the plans. Tub baths of both hot sea water and fresh water have also been included. No charges will be made by the company for the us.e of the plunges. As shown in the picture, the Great Gap, Nature's thoroughfare across the peninsula, extends from the ocean beach at the Natatoriura to the bay side of BAYOCEAN. A moment's walk, therefore, takes -the bather from the surf to the Open-Air Plunge Bath, 500 by 1000 feetL the largest in the world, on the bay 6ide. Thus both the surf and the quieter water of the Plunge Bath await one's attention. Notice in the picture the tunnel-like exit from the Natatorium from which the bather is emerging. Here a little stream has been ingeniously "planned to act as a gateway to the plunge and dreseinfj rooms, for no one in street costume would attempt to wade across. This Natatorium will provide genuine accommodations for surf bathers. It is but one of the reasons why BAYOCEAN will be the only fully improved and perfect beach resort in the Northwest vlij BAYOCEAN will Be the only place you will consider. You'll Enjoy the Natatorium Next Year Potter-Gha realty uompany 514 Corbett Building, Portland, Oregon em at 416 R. A. Long Building, Kansas City, Mo. 210 State Savings Bank Bldg., Butte, Mont. 421 Columbia Bldg., Spokane, Wash. 901 Monadnock Bldg, San Francisco, Cat OUTLAWS BACK IN FOLD CALIFORNIA LEAGUE SIGXS NA TIONAL AGREEMENT. Enters Class B With Six Teams and Ewing Backs San Fran cisco End. SAX FRANCISCO, Oct. 4. The Cali fornla State Baseball League came into the fold of organized baseball today when Frank A. Hermann, representing the dl rectors, signed articles with Cal Ewlng of the Pacific Coast League, whereby the State League becomes affiliated with the National organization with a class u rating. According to the plans of the reor ganized State League, San' Francisco, Stockton, Oakland. Sacramento, Fresno and one other city, yet to be selected will be represented next year. Ewlng. it is said, will finance the San Francisco team. The Coast League grounds on both sides of the bay will be used. The final series of four games for the State League- championship will open In Stockton a week from next Thursday. AVILL COAST DROP PORTLAND? Mac Rae Wishes Ewlng Well and Asks Him to Stay Away. BY WILL, G. ' MAO RAE. Admission of the California State League into organized baseball with a class B rating, as indicated by dispatehes from San Francisco, seems to indicate that the Coast League magnates are abandoning-hopes of having Portland with them next year. Had the dispatch mere ly stated that the outlaws had aflast seen the error of their ways and Joined the organized forces, Portland would not tiave regarded the move as signifi cant. But when it is stated that the team mentioned in the dispatch together with others yet to be name are to have use of the ball parks at Sah Francisco and at Oakland, then all signs indicate that the California moguls have given up hope of keeping Portland in the fold next year and are shaping things for a trlctly state league. If this Isn't true, how will J. Gal. Ewing and the remainder of his brotherly love clique in the south figure they can iave this new class B organization play- ball at San Francisco and Oakland when San Francisco has continuous baseball? IAre these resourceful southern magnates. so satisfied with their manipulation or their umpires, so confident of what they ,.o .Ant nt'ai' that thAi- hone trt have the .. w t . ...! 1 knoahall In ofi ahlrtet i in j (,u li 1 1- f 1 1 ii 1 i.ii ..I ...... ,1, -. . . - - If not, then surely they are figuring Portland as lost to 'the Coasters. How they figure a Coast League schedule with patient Portland still standing for the I stinging end of the stick as it always has, a schedule whereby the reconstructed outlaws can find time to play ball at San Francisco and Oakland; with a con tinuous card In Los Angeles, is a mys-. terv too deep to solve without further j light on the mysterious workings of j. CaL Ewlng s busy brain.. It was a wise move to coax tne outlaws into line. Ewlng deserves much credit for this aceomDlishment. Yet, when it is known that the clique of outlaw mag-. nates" was down to bedrock, the task la not so sumrlsing. after all. Judge W. W. McCredie's pet views of an eight club organization were knocked Into a cocked hat by iresiaent jawing. when he said he was willing to have 1 three of the northern cities Seattle. Spo kane and Vancouver come into the Coast League, provided they would crawl on their knees.- The Northwestern Leajrue owners are not "that kind of girls." and -it's just as well that Ewlng ot into a fight which prevented nis northern visit. Had he come north and U talked such a silly proposition, he would have been sneered out of the country Let's hope he stays away, unless he comes to bid Portland good-bye, with a promise that we have umpires up here who are not out working to cinch the pennant for San Francisco, as it has been openly charged that Los Angeles did on Its last- series 'against the Seals. Let's hope that Ewlng and his merry band of re-constructed outlaws will have enough teams In California to make up a league without Portland. ROLLER ACCUSED OF LIBEL Wrestler Makes Statement Damag ing to Reporter's Character. SEATTLE. Wash., Oct. 4. (Special.) An information was issued today ac cusing Benjamin F. Roller, physician- wrestler, of furnishing libelous infor mation, the publication of which would tend to lead to unpleasantness and so cial ostracism for C. Harrison Green, the man about whom the alleged libel ous statement was made. The complaint against Roller charges: "That the said Roller will fully and unlawfully transmitted to a reporter of an evening newspaper a certain statement concerning C Har rison Green, to the effect: "C. Harrison Green came to the arena, some time be fore the Warner match, and said that he was- reporting for an afternoon sheet and in the presence of Jack Cur ley and Fred Sargent, demanded 25 per cent of the receipts of the arena matches, and when refused said: "J,f you don't give it. the paper I represent will ruin wrestling here, and run Rol ler out of town"; which statement, if published, would expose Green to hatred, contempt, ridicule and obloquy and would deprive him of the benefit of the publio confidence, course.' " and . social Inter- SWARM TO -LAND OPENING Registration on Cheyenne and Stand ing Rocks Land Is Enormous. ABERDEEN, S. D., Oct. 4 Registra tion at all points In the opening of the Cheyenne and Standing Rock Indian reservation for the first 16 hours Indi cates that thia will be one of the greatest events of its kind. More than &00 names were recorded from midnight Sunday until 4 P. M. to day. If this average continues, more than 114,000 will have registered. 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