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TITE 3IORXIXG OREftOXIAX, WEDNESDAY. XOTE3IBER 10, 1909. :Lr -9 HARRIMAN LINEJO USE MOTOfi GARS Gasoline Train Will' Shorten Time Between Portland and Silverton. HIGHEST SPEED IS OBJECT Xpw Rolling Slock Capable of 75 Miles an Hour Coaches Ac commodate 75 Passengers. One for Washington. Within the nrxt Wffk the Harriman system m b"cin the operation of a pas oline motor between Portland and Silver ton for the acrommorlAtion of the local passenper businetw. The ear with which this service wiil be Inaugurated wan de livered yesterday en route o Portland to the Orecon Short Line and' will arrive In Portland the latter part of the week. It is included in a shipment of three such cars, two of which ure for the Har riman system, while the other was or dered by the Salem. Kails City & West ern and will be operated, between Salem and Falls City. On their arrival In this city the? motor cars will be placed on exhibition on the Fourth-street line of the Southern Pa cific. I'nder the direction of William McMur ray. general pussencer aont of the Har riman system, a demonstration will be Kiven. tiie date for which will be an nounced subsequently. One of the two cars for the Harriman lines will be transferred to the Washing ton division, but it has not been deter mined where" it will be operated. The other will be immediately pressed into service over the Southern Pacific Com pany's Kast Side line between this city and Silverton. This car will leave Sil-. verton daily about 7 A. M.. reaching Portland about 9:30 A. M. Returning it wiU leave the I'nion Depot about 5 P. !.. reaching Silverton two and one-half hours later. One round trip daily will be made. Thene oars are of the very latest model and are capable of a speed of miles an hour. The maximum speed, of course, cannot be adopted, but the present Inten tion of the passenger department of the Harriman road is to provide a schedule which will Insure making the mn be tween Portland and Silverton In about two and one-half hours. Each car has seating accommodations for 75 passen gers. The cars are 55 feet In length, of all steel construction and are mounted on two four-wheel trucks, the total weight being 60.000 pounds. Each car is equipped with a six-cylinder 200-horeepower gaso line, engine, by which 250 horsepower can readily be developed. PASSENGER MEX IX SESSIOX Oregon, Washington and Idaho Kail road Representatives Meet. Routine matters only were considered at yesterday's conference of the passen ger representatives of the different rail way systems operating In Oregon, Wash ington and Idaho, which was held in the Harriman offices in the Wells-Fargo building. The purpose of these meetings is generally to consider such subjects as special excursion rates. In which all roads are interested, but there was no business of this kind to come before the confer ence, which adjourned after a session of two hours. Among the prominent pas senger men attending the meeting were: W. G. Payne, traffic manager of the In land Empire electric line, of Spokane: A. McCarthy, chief clerk of the passenger department of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, of Seattle: A. IX Charlton, as sistant general passenger agent, and E. C. Robbins. chief clerk of the passenger department of the Northern Pacific: Ralph H. Jenkins, assistant general freight and passenger agent of the Spo kane, Portland & Seattle Railway: H. A. Jackson, assistant general freight and passenger agent, and Harry Dickson, city ticket agent of the Great Northern; Will lam McMurray, general passenger agent; John M. Scott, assistant general passen ger agent, and A. C. Martin, chief clerk of the passenger department of the Har riman lines. WINTER TRAVELERS SOUGHT Campaign on to Divert Tourists From Florida to California. Officials of the passenger department of the Harriman system have inaugur ated a campaign by which they hope to divert a considerable part of the Ca nadian Winter tourist travel to Cali fornia, via Portland and the Shasta route. The bulk of this business now goes to Florida and other resorts on the Atlantic seaboard, while those Canadian tourists who do visit Southern California generally travel via Kansas City. John M. Scott, assistant general pass enger agent of the Harriman roads, left hist night for Winnipeg as a sort of ad vance agent to inaugurate the campaign which will be made to attract a large number of Canadian tourists via Port land and the scenic Shasta route. He was accompanied by W. R. Skey. traveling passenger agent for the O. R. & N-. at Spokane. They will arrange for a scries of illustrated lectures, advertising the Shasta route. For this purpose the serv ices of F. W. Prince have been ensaged as lecturer. By routing these tourists through this city, it is reasonable to expect that these visitors from the North will spend at least one or two days in Portland, either going or returning from Southern Cali fornia. MILWAUKEE TO SEND AGEXT J. R. Veitch to Rrpresent New Line West In Portland. Intention n the Chicago. Milwaukee & Puget Sound to establish an office in this city was disclosed yesterday when the information reached here that J. R. Veitch had been appointed general agent for t.iis road at Portland. Mr. Veitch only recerlly resigned as assistant gen eral freight agent tor the Fere-Marouette Railwav) at Chicago, and his appointment as azent for the Pacific Coast extension of the Chicago. .Milwaukee & St. Paul frOowed a few days' later. Local representatives of the latter road have no: received, official information of the appointment of Mr. Veitch. neither Is it known w!"n tiie newly-appointed general ag.nt wi'.l arrive in Portland, al though it is Busp.-cte.i that he is now en route. Railroad Personals. Carleton O. Crane, general agent for the New Tork Central lines at San Fran cisco, was a Portland visitor yesterday. Archibald Gray, assistant general freight agent for the Great Northern, with offices in Seattle, spent yesterday In Portland. . W. P. Kenney, assistant traffic man ager for the Great Northern, arrived last night from St. Paul on a business i visit to tne local omoes oi tne rim ruau. DALLES YOUTH AT REST Funeral of George William Rich mond Is Held. THE DALLES. Or., Nov. 9. (Special.) The funeral of George William Rich mond, who died November 7 at the home of his grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Thompson, in this city, was held this afternoon. Rev. B. A. Warren, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, officiating. Interment was made In Oddfellows' ceme tery. . George William Richmond was born in The Dalles December 10, 1&X7. and was graduated from the high school In this city in 1W6. lie was the only son of ITAX IS CUT IN HALF Compromise Is Effected in ' Amount 0. R. & N. Pays. ORDER MADE PERPETUAL r- - t . f - v tts . ; ; J t f I ' ' " t The Late G. P. Richmond. . Mr. and Mrs. C. .L. Richmond, formerly of The Dalles, but now residing at Con don. His grandparents were among Wasco County's earliest settlers. Besides his parents he leaves two sisters Ruth, of Portland, and Frankie to mourn his loss. LOCAL WIDE WEST SHOW "Writer Says Teddy Could Find In terest in Oregon Political AVilds. PORTLAND. Nov. fl. (To the Editor.) I aee by the papers that our "Bwano Tom bo." or ex-big-whlte-chlef, is stung by the criticisms of jo me of hi countrymen for hla alleged wholesale slaughter of ani mal In Africa, anil that our "Bwano Tum bo" resents any such carping "tommy rot' for the reason that he. our "Bwano Tumbo." gfles a-gunning only after the pests of hu manity. Now, every man's opinion Is born free and equal in this Republic, whether he's a bull-bawler or a Democrat, and my opinion is that our "Bwano Tumbo's" ex cursion into Africa after the pests of hu manity U entirely gratuitous, inasmuch aa his own native land is lull of humanity's pests. Here we have gam aplenty that will teat his prowess as a nimrod. Political tigers, wild-cat reformers. Senatorial bears and Congressional coyotes browse on our fair land. We have a few linns, too, mostly cay uses. Out West here in Oregon, we have some rare game that would look fine stuffed wild geese from Tennessee, a 'cackling re form and wild asses from Kentucky, dfs loyal to whisky. It would not be necessary also to pack along a library for mental re creation. We have the greatest political thesis that ever fed the brain of man: "How to Play Golf With the Constitu tion." and we have the smoothest "caddy" In the t'nlted States Senate. Then again, we have an original one-act opera-bouffe that would amaze even the capacious un derstanding of "Bwano Tumbo." There is but one artist In the cast. He first appears as an Attorney-General, then suddenly is transformed into a District Attorney, next into a Governor and then again Into a Senator wearing a crazy quilt tofra. The grand finale Is reached when the artist sings in a beautiful Mississippi baritone "Who Will Eat the Possum," and when 40.000 Republicans in the background Join In the chorus: "Let George Do It." The whole thing is done so artistically that the audience wonders how It was done. Our "Bwano Tumbo had better come home. His country needs his conquering gun for the morals he has ' bequeathed us are "on the hog." JAMES HENXESST MURPHY. PRUNE CROP IS 350 CARS Clark Count' Product Goes to 31ar kets of World. VANCOUVER, Wash., Nov. 9. (Spe cial.) Approximately 350 cars of Clark County prunes will be shipped out of Vancouver this year by the several prune packing establishments. The price is said to be fairly good. The product Is being shipped to London, Paris. New York. Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City and other points. The A. C. Burdick Prune Packing Company will complete its 'season's run in less than a 'month, and at that time will have shipped 3,000,000 pounds of Clark County's chief fruit product to various parts of the United States. The company is now shipping on an average of one and a half cars of prunes a day. Each car contains on an average of 20 tons of the finest prunes grown in the world. The J. K. Ormsby Packing Plant is shipping one and oneTh;ilf cars of prunes daily, much of the output being con signed to foreign ports. This is the larg est prune packing establishment in the county and when the season closes, about the first of the year, approximately 4.000.000 pounds of prunes will have been packed and shipped. The product will amount to 35 cars, much of which will be shipped to England. The E. L. French Prune Packing Com pany, of Ellsworth, will pack and ship 45 cars of prunes this season. HAMLIN SINGS TOMORROW Foremost American Tenor Will Give Song Recital at Bungalow. George Hamlin, who sings at the Bun galow Theater tomorrow night in the second concert of the Lois Steers-Wynn Coman series, is gifted with an excep tional temperament and a beautiful voice. His rare Insight into the .elusive, hidden meaning of much that has been written by Schubert. Brahms. Handel. Rubenstein and others, puts him into close touch with the loftiest moods of these master composers. Hamlin's programmes are as fascinat ing and profound a study of music as can be found on the concert stage, for he has not only the desire to probe Into the inner mvsterles, but the leisure to puisue his studies. His recitals are fresh, original and sparkling as to selec tions, and inspiring as to voice. The re cital to be given tomorrow night by this gifted singer will be largely attended for the Impression he left at his con cert here two years ago was highly fav orable. Mr. Hamlin has with him Ed win Schneider, the same accompanist who won so many laurel on the last tour. Today ie positively the last day for dis count on West Side gas bills. Read Gas Tips Deposition of . Controller in New York Taken and Payment ot $ 1 1 1,878 Made After Which Court Signs Restraint. The O. R. & N. Co.'s $229,756 tax, which ha3 been the bugbear of the county offi cials for almost two years, was compro mised yesterday morning. Presiding Judge Bronaugh of the Circuit Court signing an order which made this pos sible. A. C. Spencer, the attorney for the railroad company, then paid into court $114,878, and upon receiving the re ceipt of the County Clerk therefor, se cured an order" from Judge Bronaugh making perpetual an order restraining the county from collecting the amount of the original tax, $229,756. The money paid by Attorney Spencer was in the form of a voucher on the O. R. & N. Deputy County Clerk Smith banked it a.9 soon as it was receipted for. An effort to bring about a compromise of the' O. R. & N. Co.'s unpaid 1907 tax was begun as long ago as last February, when the same voucher which was ac cepted yesterday was presented to the County Clerk, bearing the Indorsement on Its back that it had been approved by the Circuit Court. It was refused by the clerk in the absence of an order from the court. Controller's Deposition Taken. Yesterday morning S. B. Huston, rep resenting the county, appeared in court, and Informed Judge Bronaugh that he had been to New York, and had taken the deposition of" William Mahl, con troller of the O. R. & N. Co. Mr. Hus ton said he found the $16,180,000 assessed by County Assessor Sigler as money notes and accounts, to be largely debt of the Union Pacific to the O. R. & N., and under the Oregon statutes not taxable. He said he considered It best to com promise the assessment at $8,090,000, and the tax at $114,878. Controller Hahl's deposition, filed yes terday, shows the money of the O. R. & N. Co.. and the accounts due from solvent debtors on March 1, 1907, to have been $26,971,597.12, against which there were outstanding debts ol $2,166,771.22. Of this great sum, Mahl swore that only $S56.069.15 fas payable in Portland, the rest being due in New York City. Of the $24,000,000 net, in money and accounts, $310,302.50 was cash, $108,088.80 being In Portland and $102,213.70 In New York. This New York money was deposited with the Union Pacific Company, subject to the checks and drafts of the O. R. & N. The assets and liabilities of the O. R. & N. In March, 1907, were as follows: Assets and Liabilities in March. Assets in New York City Cost of property and franchises. .$59,604,318.06 Stocks and bonds I.l'fi0,jf7.8:; Current assets 24.379, l;i2.J7 Preferred aseets 322.4ft0.54 Contingent assets 1.091. 78 Total $85,657,129.37 In Portland 2.729.377.19 Total . $88,386,506.56 Liabilities In New York Citv Common stock $24.000f00.O0 Preferred stock ll.OOO.OOO.tlO Consolidated mortgage. 4 per cent bonde . . 22 022 Ofln no For solid . comfort and as a chill preventative, we recommend our All Wool Coat Sweaters at $3.. Roomy and well made, they fill a long felt want. LION CLOTHIERS 166-170 Third St. Current liabilities 308.375.16 Preferred liabilities 122.030.36 Contingent liabilities 1,730.849.89 Total .. - $39.1S3':!56.41 In Portland 1.935.200.05 Total 118.455.46 Surplus : 27,268.051.10 The sum of $114,878 will be distributed as follows, with the exception that the state and state school taxes have already been paid by the county on its levy of 1.4 mills on the total assessable property of the county; consequently the county will receive the amounts of $12,944 and $11,326 as reimbursement for amounts already paid to the state: Mills. Yield. State l. "-'J State School 1 County 1-4 H'lZ County roads 89 Library U 890 Port of Portland 1.2 9. i08 City of Portland 4.6 37,214 School DIM. No. 1 3.0 34,270 Total 14 2 $114,878 WORD OF OFFICER AIDS Testimony Shows Mrs. Kvalshaug Did Not Shoot Husband. TACOMA, Nov. 9. In the trial of Mrs. Kvalshaug, the defense in the cross-examination of the state's witnesses, Charles J. Ellis and Patrolman Darnell, drew out the fact that the time between the first three shots and the two shots fired later was between five and 15 sec onds, and that it would have been im possible for Mrs. Kvalshaug to have got there and fired the last two phots, as Newcombe. who was convicted of the murder alleges she did. Evidence was brought out to show she was about 50 feet from Newcombe and her husband when the shooting occurred. Detective Geary testified that in his belief the woman was not over 20 feet away. Judge Easterday this afternoon ruled out all testimony by Newcombe direct or indirect, including any statements he may have made. Royal Wedding Gazetted. , WERNIGERODE. Prusssian Saxony. Nov o.The engagement of Duke Jo hann Albrecht, of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Regent of Brunswick, to Princess Eliza beth of Stolberg-Rossla, was gazetted to oav. The wedding is set for December 15. 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